Epidemic

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Epidemic is a Hip-Hop group comprised of two MC's: Hex One and Tek-nition. The two MC's, then teenagers, met during their early years of high-school. Immediately after learning of each other's ability to rap and love of Hip-hop music, they kicked it off and grew to become very close friends. Hex One (Christian Ortega) was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. At a very early age he and his family relocated to Elmhurst Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Epidemic is a Hip-Hop group comprised of two MC's: Hex One and Tek-nition. The two MC's, then teenagers, met during their early years of high-school. Immediately after learning of each other's ability to rap and love of Hip-hop music, they kicked it off and grew to become very close friends. Hex One (Christian Ortega) was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. At a very early age he and his family relocated to Elmhurst, Queens in New York City, where he first became exposed to and inevitably fell in love with the Hip-Hop culture. Around the age of 13, His family moved again, this time to Miami, Florida. Tek-nition (Edwin Canela), on the other hand, was born and raised in South-Florida having lived most of his life in Homestead. Both MC's were born in the month of April in 1989 and oddly enough, transferred to the same high-school within a few days of each other. Although both were already fairly skilled, neither Hex nor Tek had fully developed their specific styles of rhyming upon initially meeting one another. However, when they began writing rhymes together they eventually formed similar sounding styles that complemented each other very well. Often during class, they would pass each other a sheet of paper and have contests to see who can keep the same rhyme scheme going the longest. Tek-nition was always an incredible freestyler and as a result, he and Hex became favorites at the cafeteria of their school. Both would simultaneously amaze crowds with complex rhymes and clever punchlines. Eventually they began recording music, and in 2006, under the name of Epidemic, they put together a mixtape (was then released in 2008 titled "The Mixtape..."), in which they recorded their rhymes over classic Hip-hop beats. The project however, went unreleased (until 2008 as previously said). Displeased with the quality of both the recordings and the beats, Hex moved to Arizona to pursue a degree in audio engineering in 2010. After graduating and moving to Los Angeles for a short time that same year, Hex decided it was time to finally make things happen. The first thing he set out to do was remake and release the mixtape as an actual album. Hex immediately thought of and contacted a beat maker with whom Epidemic had collaborated with in the past, Las Vegas producer 5th Element. Only he could supply the gritty hard-hitting production needed to back Epidemic's aggressive lyrics. 5th Element agreed, and after a few months of work, they had crafted what some call a modern-day Hip-hop classic. In the end of 2011, a friend of Luxembourg producer Jesse James stumbled upon Epidemic and immediately introduced them to each other through a social media platform. Shortly thereafter, they began collaborating on songs without any serious plans of making a complete project. After months of working together they had accumulated a substantial amount of music together an decided that a full-length would be a good idea. Epidemic's sophomore album Monochrome Skies was born. ______________ 2) Epidemic was a Hard-Rock Band Based in Los Angeles with vocalist and chief lyricist Boris B., guitarist Bruce Allan drummer Tim Ganard and bassist Jimmy McDaniel. The band had a minor hit on rock radio with "Walk Away" in 2002. ______________ 3) Epidemic was a metal band formed in early 1987 by Mark Bodine (bass), Guy Higbey (guitar), Erik Moggridge (guitar) and a friend on drums to play the senior night talent show at their high school in Palo Alto, CA. After playing a set of two songs (a cover of Metallica's Creeping Death and an original song penned by Moggridge called No Mans Land) and enjoying the experience the guys decided to continue and pursue the band full time taking the Epidemic name from the Slayer song of the same name. Recruiting drummer Geoff Bruce and vocalist Carl Fulli to complete the lineup the band entered a battle of the bands contest held at the Mountain View Theater in September of 1987. Having only recruited Carl Fulli a couple of weeks prior, and he having no previous experience, the band had no real expectations of winning the contest. After the first night of competition the band had reached the finals and subsequently won the competition the next night winning an opening slot for Death Angel the following month. The band was on their way now and recorded their first demo in December of 1987 called "Immortal Minority". Achieving minor success in the Bay Area and playing almost every thrash show at the Mountain View Theater (with the likes of Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Death Angel, DRI, etc) the band started to branch out further, playing shows at the Stone in San Francisco and the Omni Oakland. In the fall of 1988 the band came to the conclusion that they needed an improvement in the drum area and asked Geoff Bruce to leave the band. They recruited Bobby Cochran longtime friend and former Punisher drummer to take over duties behind the kit. With this line-up Epidemic went into Telluride Studios in Palo Alto to record their now classic demo "Demo '89". The band initially gave out 300 free demos after a Vio-lence show at the Omni and the buzz among the metal heads of the Bay was growing tremendously. The band sent out the demo to any and all magazines, radio stations, and labels and created a name for themselves globally. The band estimates they sold roughly 5,000-7,000 demos on their own over the course of the next two years. During this time the bands popularity grew and they were able to headline venues on their own. Epidemics first headline show at the Stone was at 90% capacity. During this time they also reached agreement with Marco Barbieri (current label head of Century Media Records) to become their manager. Also, a deal was reached with Metalcore Records in Europe for the release of "Demo '89" on CD and vinyl. This would be the first official CD released by the band under the title "The Truth of What Will Be...". It was released in Europe only. In January of 1991, the band recorded their "Extremities '91" demo, which lead to their signing a record contract with Metal Blade Records. The band recorded their debut album at HOS studios in Palo Alto and in the summer of 1992 "Decameron" was released. The band went on a two week East Coast tour with Malevolent Creation and Suffocation in December of 1992 and eight weeks later headed out on a nationwide tour with Cannibal Corpse and Unleashed in early 1993. The band gained a lot exposure as well as experience as this was what they thought was the beginning of their touring years. After coming home from the tours the band focused on writing new material but asked guitarist Higbey to leave the band. This was a difficult decision for the band but they moved forward as a four piece and continued to write and prepare for their next album. Entering Razor's Edge studios in San Francisco in the fall of 1993 the band recorded what they feel was their best recording in the album "Exit Paradise". Unfortunately the band decided to break up a couple months after the release of this album (October 1994) due to differences in the band and the labels lack of support. ________________ 4) Epidemic is a metal band from Israel formed in 2001, with members Jonathan Segal (guitar), Asaf Averjil (guitar), Wolf Kashirin (bass), and Erez Simon (drums). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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