Music Style Alternative Funk Hip Hop Rock Blues Jazz

Artist History Hashbrown, a funk-core unit for the new millennium, a sonic wake up call, an artistic collective, whatever the label, it's got to be funky. Formed in the summer of 91' by two college friends,Duncan Cameron and Clarence Spencer, looking to forge a new sound that combined their diverse influences. Cameron, a classically trained guitarist and Spencer, a hardcore front man and bass player were interested in merging the raw power of hardcore/punk with the vintage jazz-funk of yester year to create a high-energy music that the crowd could still get down to. With a blueprint set, the two friends were on their way.Along the way, Cameron and Spencer found many artists that at onetime or another shared their musical gifts with the band. Things finally clicked for the group when they signed with the independent music label Noiz Boiz records. In 1995 they released their debut CD entitled 50 ft. Double Door Boxcar Coupler. The CD received excellent reviews from local press, such as The Sun Sentinel, and the Miami New Times. The generated buzz, combined with their intense live shows landed the group a spot as the opening act for G. Love and the Special Sauce, Method Man, and the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. To this day, this incident is the one the band is most proud of. "Keep funkin'" was the advice that the Godfather gave, and the band has not looked back since. The current lineup consists of Duncan Cameron (guitar, vocals) Clarence Spencer (bass, lead vocals), DJ Boogie Waters (turntablist) and Rick Kaner (drums). The addition of DJ Boogie, a veteran of the South Florida hip-hop club scene, reinforced their hip-hop infused aesthetic. In the words of the band themselves, "We all grew up listening to many different styles, however, hip hop is the core that unites us all musically. They bring that boom bap that shakes the club, but with live instrumentation." If an image of the current rap-rock lineup comes to mind, you can dismiss it. This is not the run of the mill mixture. The vocals are soulful and wailing, the guitar jazzy with teeth, the rhythm section throbs and pulsates like a living animal, and when the turntables are added, you’re transported to new worlds of sound. Funky, soulful, aggressive, and coming to a town near you. Hashbrown is blazing a trail all their own in a new age where everything is possible, as long as it's funky!

Group Members Duncan Cameron, Jay Spencer, Rick Kanner, Boogie Waters

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums, 2 Turntables and a Mixer

Albums 50 Double Door Boxcar Coupler

Press Reviews Best Hard Rock Band Hashbrown South Florida is clogged with bands trying to pass off anger, volume, and beefy muscles as some kind of artistic statement. This path-of-least-resistance approach works part of the time, covering up weak spots with a sheen of shouts and bar chords. Enter Hashbrown, a Fort Lauderdale group that's not exactly subtle itself, but there's some real innovation in the band's decibel-heavy onslaught. Starting at slab level, drummer Rick Kanner and bassist-singer Clarence Spencer form a perfectly symbiotic rhythm section, laying down guillotine-sharp grooves for guitarist Duncan Cameron to stretch his effects across. Adding turntable master Boogie Waters to the mix last year may have been Hashbrown's smartest move, with the smorgasbord of sound effects adding a new dimension to the rock-solid funk. Hashbrown may be grounded in the old-school machinery of Parliament/ Funkadelic and the like, but the group has obviously spent time plotting the future of the genre, too: Modernizing the sound puts Hashbrown in the same league as industrial-funk powerhouses like Tackhead and Little Axe. The band members are serious, too -- silly stage patter and self-congratulatory back-patting are kept to a minimum. Call it thinking man's hard rock

Additional Info Fuzzy Logic

Location Fort Lauderdale, Florida - USA

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