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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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The Sodium Girl Ep reaches 29 on CMJ !!!
Current mood:  rejuvenated
Category: Music
Oh it's been a good year, I moved in with my brother, my good home boy from my birth place moved in with us, our house is clean and smells good, I've been making a lot of honest music, I've been meeting a lot of talented people who want to be part of the rock n roll, I have a very nice lady who only gets mad when I talk toooo nice to other girls haha, and my Sodium Girl EP hit 29 on CMJ!!!!!!!!! which is huge because I have no record label... that means I smashed a self release that hit the TOP 30!!! So, if you like the sound of the record pick up a copy here.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/18652
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www.1865hiphop.com
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
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Could you kill your own mom?
Current mood:  nauseated
So where I come from, to this day, I believe had something in the water. Kids in my neck of the woods (literally) were always much more aggressive than any of the surrounding areas kids. Kids were doing hard drugs early in life due to us watching their parents doing hard drugs in the kitchen and laundry room. Even with this visual abuse, and at times, physical abuse coming to us like water in a stomach never did we think, "lets kill Ryan's mom" never did we say "Fuck Brenda lets chop her up" but then again, everyone is created different and each circumstance is different...Below is a story of a little girl my Dad and I coached in basketball...and the woman interviewed is my Mom (who I wouldn't kill)
Tess Damm may be guilty, but who's really to blame?
By Bill Johnson, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
So it looks like Tess Damm is about to spend the next 25 years of her life in prison for conspiring to kill her mother. Let us agree that she deserves every day of it for doing such a horrible thing.
Where we are likely to part company is when I say the chief reason that the 16-year-old girl is going to prison, and her 52-year-old mother, Linda, is dead, is because society and its systems completely failed both of them.
I refer here to police officers, social workers, relatives, friends and neighbors. They all allowed the woman's murder to happen. Any of them at any point could have interceded and headed off this tragedy.
How?
They all knew.
Yes, it is true that Bryan Grove, 18, is now doing 40 years in prison for the actual stabbing death of Linda Damm and that he was partly put up to it by Tess.
It is true that Tess Damm, who'd grown to detest her mother, traveled with Grove and two friends as they variously attempted to bury and dismember the dead woman's body and that she later played house with Grove in her mother's Lafayette home while the woman's decaying corpse lay in the trunk of her car.
What no one is saying today in the aftermath of the skinny little girl's softly pleading guilty Monday to various charges that will put her away until she is in her 40s is that they all knew.
Lafayette police are saying nothing of the multiple times they delivered a panicked and sobbing Tess Damm back to her highly intoxicated mother.
They are not talking about how an officer, on that last occasion when they shoved the crying girl inside the home, threatened to arrest a falling-down Linda Damm but did nothing, or of how he even screwed up faxing over a request for county social services to intervene.
A lot of people in Lafayette knew. And today, some of them are grieving their decision not to intervene.
Eddie and Sandy Anderson live not far from me in Lafayette. They knew.
"Tess made her own choices, which she will have to pay for now," Sandy Anderson said. "But everybody knew. Looking back, I feel bad I that I didn't say something."
She and Eddie coached Tess almost four years ago in a recreational basketball league. What they did not know until police a year ago told them was that Tess and Bryan Grove were living in the house next to them in the months and days just prior to Linda Damm's murder.
"We remember them well," Sandy Anderson said of Tess and Linda Damm.
Tess, then an eighth-grader, was "a quiet, frail and insecure little girl, totally lacking in self-confidence, who I always thought was overcompensating for being in such a dysfunctional family.
"And the first time I met her mother, I knew something was awry," she said.
She remembers that Linda Damm would attend almost every practice but would always sit by herself, away from the other parents, or stand in a far-off corner. "It was so no one could smell the booze," she said.
All of the parents knew of Linda Damm's alcoholism, Sandy Anderson, 50, said, recalling how she made it a personal point to make sure the woman did not drive the girl home from games and practices.
Mostly she remembers how attached Tess was to her mother, of how she would use Eddie to get attention from her mother.
"Coach is hard on me," she would complain to her mother. "He makes me run more than the other girls."
Linda Damm would then approach Sandy and Eddie Anderson with her complaint.
"It really was just an attempt to get attention from her mother," Sandy Anderson said. "Eddie and I could tell Tess really loved her mother, that she could not make a move without her."
Two years later, they did not recognize the young girl who had one day in late summer 2006 moved in next door. The police would later tell them that it was Tess.
"I never recognized her," Sandy Anderson said. "The Tess I knew was this scrawny little blonde girl, who was always whining and weepy - not a happy kid. The girl I always saw never spoke to us, but I would not imagine to this day that it was Tess."
Did she ever see tendencies that such a horrific thing would happen? Never, she said.
"Tess, with us, could be a manipulator and a liar," Sandy Anderson said, "but only because it got her the one thing I could see she craved: her mother's attention and love."
And then she said the one thing that is the best and truly instructive lesson that can be drawn from the saga and tragedy of Tess and Linda Damm:
"When I heard on the news of her sentence, I wished that Eddie and I had made trouble for her mother back then. This is a woman who would show up for a 10 a.m. game completely drunk.
"Maybe if we had done that, Linda, maybe, might have lost her daughter," Sandy Anderson said. "But she'd still be alive. And maybe Tess would have gotten the appropriate help and love she so clearly needed."
johnsonw@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-954-2763
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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1865 on PANDORA.COM
Current mood:  busy
We have some good news for all of you online music seekers out there who continue the ever lasting quest for brain buzzin hip hop! Pandora.com just picked up Dark Matter from your mellow-your-man 1865 and you can now visit the site and create your own 1865 radio station. This will allow you to listen to some of the freshest tracks off of Dark Matter while also checking out other underground acts who share similar styles as 1865. Pandora is in the minds of many, to be hands down the best way to experience new underground hip hop acts which you would normally have to be lucky to catch on tour. So please do visit them at www.Pandora.com and create your FREE 1865 radio station to stay in the loop of not only what we are doin over here, but also what heads are doing all over there. Thank you for the continued support, let your friends know about the news and have a wonderful evening!
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
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College Students Final Paper on 1865 music..pretty cool
Current mood:  productive
Underground hip hop is not just a style of music, if you ask any performer they will tell you that underground hip hop is more of a culture, a way of life for most of the people involved. The underground hip hop culture also includes break dancing, fast pace hip hop dancing, and artwork such as graffiti. Many underground hip hop artist do their own recordings and beats to backup their songs. 1865 is a local artist from Lafayette, Colorado who started playing various instruments when he was a young boy. Every time I see 1865 on the stage or put his CD in I can not help but bop my head and, looking around, nobody else in the room can help it either. When I went to his show earlier in the semester, at The Fox Theatre on the Hill (Broadway) in Boulder 1865 was generous enough to put my guest and me on the list, so my sister and I did not have to pay the eight dollars to get in. When we walked in, there was someone on the stage performing and 1865 in the crowd watching the other artist perform. The Fox on The Hill has so many different types of people performing almost every night of the week so you never know who you are going to run in to. The night of 1865's show, The Fox was filled with young people who obviously loved underground hip hop. The fans were all hollering when 1865 finally got on the stage for the main event at about 10:30p.m. 1865 was extremely happy to be on the stage and seemed completely comfortable and at home performing. 1865's show lasted about 45 minutes with about seven songs. He was not alone on the stage, he had his DJ in the middle of the stage to help him out with the turn tables for music and beats throughout his show. In the middle of his show 1865 let his DJ do his own thing while he took a water break. The DJ was very talented, showing the audience what he does best. When 1865 came back, he performed his next song then started talking about how broke people were and started throwing Ramen Noodles out to the audience. When 1865 started throwing an instant lunch at his fans, I thought it to be very strange yet very unique, I even found myself trying to catch a bag. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time to ask him any questions at The Fox, but since we are childhood friends we have been able to keep in touch via e-mail and was able to send him some questions I had for him. The first question I had was how he started his musical career, and the first instruments he played, this was his response: "I started my music career, in terms of me getting paid to do what I do by just getting out in the scene, selling Cds on Pearl Street in Boulder and 16th Street in Denver and various spots in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. Once people heard the jams, they started to catch on, and that's pretty much how I got started. My first instruments I played were the saxophone, clarinet, steel drums, xylaphone, and various types of flutes…I started playing these around the ages of nine to eleven years old." 1865 has been determined to get his name out to the public and making sure people know who he is. 1865 has been writing, recording, marketing, and selling his album for years now. His latest self title CD has sold over 1,000 copies and still going strong. He has also designed and sells "1865 hip hop" t-shirts that have his picture on the back. I was curious to see how he came up with the name "1865" so I asked him how he came up with the very unique name, he responded: "It comes from some unknown being that I have no control over. It's such a wild idea that came to me and now it seems to be really becoming something that I see everyday. 1865 is the balance of everything; even odd, good bad, black white, up down, earth stars, etc…and its wild because now my DJ is a female, thus my "group" 1865 consist of man and woman…wild." 1865 has many musical talents, but the one that stands out the most to me is the lyrics. There is 21 tracks on his current album, my favorite is a song called "Summertime." This song has a long instrumental beginning, which adds more instruments and melodies as it goes along, then his lyrics start, which are written very well. "Summertime" talks about summer skies and other summer memories, among many other things, it also has a catchy chorus. Another one of his songs on his self titled album is called "Black Hole." This song has a smooth voice in the background on top a subtle beat, but the strongest part is the intense lyrics. In a couple of songs he even gives "shout outs" to his family (1865 is very close to his older brother and his parents). I was very curious to see where 1865 got his musical inspirations that helped him create such a unique style. My next question was who were/are his musical inspirations, his response was: "Nirvana first off, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Curtis Mayfield, Sly and the Family Stone, The Doobie Brothers." 1865 has many styles that he incorporates into his music, so my next question was about style. I asked him what type of styles are in is songs, his response was: "I bring up a style that consists of melodic beats mixed with grimmy drums, my lyrics are on the 'I don't give a s***' tip…so they are just about what I know, what I feel comfortable with. My style is my style though…it may remind people of early 90s hip hop, but for sure I'm rockin' my own s*** because I've focused my music on sounding how I feel and no one in the world feels as I do." Throughout his musical career, 1865 has made about 55-65 songs so far, and about 300 beats. 1865 also includes different sounds in his music that most artists do not even think about putting in their songs such as sneezes and unique voice morphing. Underground hip hop is a sub-genre of music, stemming from regular hip hop, my next question for 1865 was to explain the differences between underground and regular hip hop that most people are used to. His response to this question was: "Well underground hip hop is, I guess the less known stuff out there, but that stuff is becoming so annoying because people are like 'I'm underground dude, I have to be dope 'cause I'm against the mainstream!' and that's annoying to me. 'Underground' hip hop usually has more to say on the non-money tip and usually incorporate elements of graffiti, break dancing along with the obvious DJ and MC." Many of his songs have a lot of different types of musical instruments and sounds, which makes every song unique. I was curious to see what kinds and how many instruments went into his songs, I also wanted to know which instruments were his favorite so I asked him this in the last question of the interview his response was: "The instruments I use [in his music] are trumpet, piano, guitar, flute, obo, triangle, (no cow bell unfortunately), harp, organ, synth, and instruments I make up by manipulating the s*** out of frequencies. My favorites are all of the above, but the saxophone holds dear to my heart." Out of all the types of music out there, underground hip hop has some of the most unique songs as well as unique artists. I have never heard anything like 1865's songs, his unique and creative songwriting skills is just one of the many reasons why his album has hit the 1,000 copies sold mark. As for future plans, 1865 is planning on releasing an album called "Dark Matter" by the end of the year, meanwhile he is always busy writing and working on beats and performing shows.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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Campus Press
Current mood:  confused
hip-hop artist connects with the universe Lori Olson 1865, has a raw talent for hip-hop and was born a universal soul so he rocks a universal name.
"Heads in Asia can say the name and have it mean the same exact thing as a British fella sayin' it, or a Martian. Numbers are the universal language and so is music," 1865 said. "1865 is something that covers all ground of any thought, it's even and odd, young and old, close and far, earth and stars, me and you and up and down."
1865 said he definitely does not want to stay local because he has something to say lyrically and musically to everyone and anything.
"I know my music has the ability to affect a majority in a positive way and that is just the coolest thing to me," 1865 said. "I wanna be rockin' in Japan connectin' with heads!"
Most of his influence comes from astronomy, and it just so happens that his favorite thing about CU is the science courses.
"I love astronomy. That's really what I pull from. I pull energy from the cosmos and put it into music. It's not like I only bust lyrical content based on stars n mars I like thinking about being a light beam in an absolute vacuum and how it must be to live that type of existence," 1865 said.
His love for science influenced an experiment he started when he was 12.
"It was a promise to myself to focus in on my talents that I feel within myself and have trust in them and just let them grow from my most honest, uninfluenced self," 1865 said.
He realized at an early age that in order to pursue his talents he would have to sacrifice his time, habits, and ways of thinking about himself and the universe.
"I live my life by: be yourself and by trusting in your existence and if you can truly do that then you can begin to make a positive impact in whatever you were meant to do," 1865 said.
If you want to hear more about 1865, check out www.myspace.com/one865. His studio album, Dark Matter, will be released Dec. 20.
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Monday, November 20, 2006
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1865 Insomniac Magazine review
by CyPhEr777
When many think of Colorado, they think of buffalo roaming the wide open lush plains to the crisp cool air of winter, the champion Avalanche hockey team and purple mountains majesty; not Hip Hop. Well that's about to change. Representing the Boulder State is a cat strictly known as 1865 who turns out an entirely self-produced album. This is sort of a throwback album, a return of the "Boom Bap" so to speak.
To start things off "Past Life" introduces a humorous skit where a "supposed" producer throws up an ugly, amateurish type beat until, 1865 decides to take over and drops an audio gem. A tight bass line with a down tempo drum in the back get things going until it all comes together. Lyrically he demands your attention right from the start, with style, substance and clever wordplay. His flow is beyond the normal braggadocio as he controls the beat like a seasoned vet. His rhyme patterns are sort of reminiscent of Common and remind me of the lyrical talents of Ras Kass in his multi-syllabic rhyme structure.1865's production skills are dope, but not too varied. His formula seems to change from upbeat to lazy/grinding type beats. He pretty much keeps it simple enough for the beat to compliment his rhyme style. He would benefit in the future by being a little more experimental. Case in point, "First Step Life Form", while being a good track, doesn't hold your attention the whole time. Lyrically, it's great stuff and not some braggadocio either, but some real pondering on some real issues.
"Summertime" is pretty much a track that's self explanatory and shifts to the upbeat bubbly vibe again. But, what album would be complete without a summer based song. Next we glide to the realm of contemplation in the track "Light vs. Gravity." 18's rhetoric is "what is faster: light or gravity?" A very interesting and compelling topic that combines a varied mix of clever couplets, honest reflections and battle rhymes. To sum up this track in few words will not do it justice, listen to it for yourself.
"Heaven" slows things down a bit but, introduces a cameo from an emcee named A.L.. Handing the mic back and forth and the flow of the two makes them sound like a true duo. While the concept seems simple enough, it is still flipped brilliantly. The production to the track "Johnny Too Good" is average but, the rhymes are far from that. "Black Hole" is one of those tracks where you nod in agreement with every word said. Other tracks to peep are "What I Look At," "One Day" again featuring A.L., and the hard sounding, and socially conscious "Social Brains."
This is an excellent debut for an artist who handled the duties of emceeing and production. Not many artists can accomplish this and keep things crisp. For me this album put a smile on my face because it created an aural environment that not only got my head nodding but, pulled me into the essence of the music. This type of music barely exists anymore and has me eagerly waiting for what 1865 has to offer next; 21 tracks of pure dopeness! -->
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
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My PRODUCER...
Current mood:  peaceful
Category: Music
I've gotten an astronomical amount of questions about who makes my beats. I (1865) make all my own beats. After I drop DARK MATTER in July 2006 I hope to link with only honestly talented emcees to push their styles, and the creation of raw music to further event horizons (this doesn't mean I'm gonna start pushin nonsense make believe "abstract" shit like them {BLANK} boys haha)<---------happy now ?
Thanks to all the people that are beginning to catch on to what I'm doin...I'm a normal human so the love and support really is appreciated. Stay in contact because I do my best to keep shit honest with yall!
www.1865hiphop.com
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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1865 The Name
A lot of people ask if the name 1865 is a date or what...but trust me it's not supposed to represent when the slaves were set free and all that....so here it is...1865 is a number (please remember that numbers and music are both universal languages) so with a number as the name and music as my message I'm able to communicate with anything in the known universe you see. But also if you really listen to my music you will find that I do a lot of "opposite" raps, I say things like "birth and death make my kind"..and.."I flip styles in a middle of a track like G.O.D to Gothic" stuff like that. So, 18 is the birth 65 is the death...18 is the novice 65 is the knowing...18 is the black 65 is the white (I'm half black half white)...18 is the in 65 is the out...18 is the even 65 is the odd...so you get the point...my name is supposed to cover all areas from the beginning to the end and everything inbetween...I'm a thinker..and that's why I rock the name I do...1865.
www.1865hiphop.com
ps- picture me explaining that to a drunk college girl...hahah ya... "I," end up looking like the dumb one hahaha.
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
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For everyone who bought EighteenSixtyFive
Current mood:  working
First of all thanks for pickin it up.
Here is the tracks listing to my tape.
1) intros
2) past life
3) first step life form
4) summer time
5) light vs. gravity
6) heaven (feat. A.L.)
7) we maintain
8) titans football
9) midtros
10) chi lady
11) irony
12) the earth inside
13) airplane
14) johnny too good
15) black hole
16) what i look at
17) one day (feat. A.L.)
18) social brains
19) TRIP (feat. BC)
20) porns
21) outros (feat. BC)
www.1865hiphop.com
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