#lostbrain

como me siento

te IMPORTARÍA

pero NO TE IMPORTA....

This is the song that started it all really. Canvas was working on material he produced in his room that mixed his indie punk roots with alternative hip hop. Citizen X was working on self produced hip hop and a project where he rapped and his brother made all the beats (we’re still gonna release that project one day, we promise). But owing to the fact that we were all still learning our craft, there was always production or mixing issues with the beats that would stop us from having something we truly felt was ‘release worthy’. Then one day Citizen X was driving through the hills around Byron at the start of summer and listening to his i-Pod on shuffle. As he drove and the sun streamed down ‘Pure’ by Blackbird Blackbird came on and he felt inspired to freestyle to it. For some reason certain bars of that freestyle bounced around in his head for the rest of the drive and when he got home he wrote them out as best as he could remember them, refined them, added to them and finalized a 40-bar freestyle-esque rant describing his life as it was at that time. It was a form of creative catharsis. That evening as CX chilled out with Canvas smoking herb and working on music. They tracked some Canvas vocals to one of his original beats. Then when they were done Canvas asked Citizen X if he had anything he wanted to record and CX was like ‘Well, I do have this one thing..’ and that’s pretty much how our first ‘bootleg-mixtape’ style track came to be. We didn’t think much of it, but over the next couple of months we kept working on our original music but also kept writing bootleg style tracks as well - especially when we were drunk and just wanted to write something for fun cause we were bored. We built up a pretty big catalog of unreleased recordings that summer (more than 40). We didn’t really plan to release them though - it was more just for fun - but then when we started showing people some of our music they were like ‘you guys HAVE to put something out so we can show people!’ Being the biggest critics of our own work, we were always like ‘its not ready’ - but somewhere along the line we came around to the idea that maybe a releasing a free bootleg mixtape could be a cool way to pay homage to some of our favourite artists and producers while simultaneously introducing our selves to the world and buying us more time to perfect our original material... That was back in 2013... now its 2015 and we’ve just released our third free mixtape ‘Early Days’ ( http://lostbrain.bandcamp.com/album/early-days ) and Citizen X is working hard to release his debut original EP in the second half of this year. We’ve come so far and grown so much. You can download all three of our mixtapes for FREE from http://lostbrain.bandcamp.com and see for yourself. Or stream selected tracks off of them from https://soundcloud.com/lostbrainentertainment Enjoy!!!