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When they decided to give MPC’s and distortion boxes to inmates.... Crime Wave was born.

Sam from Get Dead’s graffiti crew were giving tattoos and making flash art to raise money to help rapper Ceschi Ramos when he was in prison. Months later they met at the Gilman Street Project in Berkely, California. They bonded talking about their love of hip-hop and punk rock over a bottle of Jameson. They didn’t know it yet, but they had just started the Codefendants.

They started recording songs two years later in Los Angeles with Fat Mike from NOFX as producer. Soon after Fatty joined the band, they decided to make an album that sounded like nothing else - a completely genre-fluid album - a cross between hip hop, new-wave, flamenco, and the Beatles. What if Killing Joke played reggae but with minor chords and Tom Waits was singing and playing piano? Well, that would probably be terrible. The Codefendants are not.

You can’t hear the band on streaming services yet, but you CAN listen to their 6 song demo cassette tape if you send $7 to a PO BOX in Brooklyn. Videos can be seen on You Tube... at least the ones that weren’t banned. They just finished filming a five-song pentalogy that will probably not be seen on YouTube but will be available at https://www.thisiscrimewave.com/ . The short movie features legendary rappers DOC, N8NOFACE, 2Mex, and Stacey Dee from Bad Cop / Bad Cop.

All that the band has to say about their new album is, ”Get ready for the best aural sex of your life.”

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