DropOuts Inc

TEDDY FALEY: Vocals / Post-Production
JOE SCHAEFER: Music Production
Bio:
In the (almost) year since they formed, DropOuts Inc. music producer, Joe Schaefer, asks, “Where's the album Teddy?” To vocalist Teddy Faley's defense, he performed numerous live shows to rave reviews as well as produced and recorded a solo album during the making of DropOuts' “You Can't UnChop Trees.”
The mere fact that Faley is writing his parts of the album based on real events has been a labor of love and difficulty. Getting the years of camaraderie, moments of guilt, and introspection into each song has prompted Faley to be a perfectionist with good reason. There's no turning back the hands of time, instead, the album is an opportunity to release the buried and sometimes hidden feelings that have brought both joyful memories and pain. As Teddy Faley describes it, it's “Stand By Me” to a 4/4 beat.
As it used to be an East Coast versus West Coast thing, the styles of New York meet the styles of the often proclaimed 'new Seattle', Baltimore Maryland, and the DropOuts collaboration have made it an artistic thing with the goal to make music that they'd like to hear. The alternative slam of vocal and lyrical hip-hop escaping Baltimore-by-way-of-Teddy-Faley meshes with upstate New York producer Joe Schaefer who refuses to listen to music in order to make it.
The mere fact that Maryland native Faley and New York native Schaefer have been able to create an album with such depth and respective connection by email is a story within itself. And, any segment of the bar scene would be able to find solace in these tracks as there is no question of related experiences that make for that all important connection to the music.
Teddy Faley has hit hard times as many times as has producer Joe Schaefer. Their mutual respect for each other's style met by fate on MySpace. From there, a musical and somewhat personal relationship blossomed into the album “You Can't UnChop Trees.”
26-year-old Faley has been making his own splash-cum-tidle-wave on the Baltimore live circuit while perfecting his rich style. The much older Schaefer has been trying his hand at many different styles throughout an on-again, off-again career as as producer and DJ. The two meet up online through email, send their materials back and forth, live their separate lives offline and come back together, digitally, to share with each other new ideas and art.
Few emcees speak with the exposed raw nerve or diseased mindset of today's youth gone emotional, delivered in the elixir of the hip-hop medium, like Maryland's own rhyme spitter, Teddy Faley. Truth and myth collide with empathy and self-concern in Faley's lyrics. Teddy's adventurous approach to word combinations, delivery and metaphor almost make him an outlaw storyteller in the land of hip-hop. That is to say, in a musical genre that tries to be more pop than truly hip, Teddy Faley takes the high-road and makes the music his own rather than borrowed.
Beat Chemist. Audiophile. All around beat geek. Former DJ. Pisces. Schaefer takes cues from art, books, film and too many cigarettes to come up with a style unto his own. Faley's very personal true-to-life stories of a hard life lived through the fog of recreational drug use and alcohol-fueled experiences in his not-so-long-ago youth make for a fresh take on hip hop and new and exiting direction for the genre. Yes, hip-hop. Not hip-Pop.
Adding Faley's dented spirit to a uniquely progressive, if not unheard of, production style to their collaboration acknowledges both a hip-hop perspective and fragility of the American human experience. The newly introduced crossover between accessible experimentalism with emotional jabs and laments at Faley's past make for an album that is both extremely meaningful to the real characters and events brought back to life and those who can relate in a self-cathartic way.
“This is an album I've been wanting to make” says Faley who reaches deep into his memory banks of love, loss and friends he hasn't spoken to, as he laments on the album, “in a moment.” Clearly that moment seems like a lifetime ago, but sounds as fresh as yesterday on the hard-hitting and emotionally charged album.
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