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giovanni marks.

white-out your nite out...

About Me

to avoid having to ask somebody, I rap, make beats, play keyboard and bass tones, sometimes sing and use the laptop and mixing console along with outboard gear. here's what I used to do, meaning that I've already done it. go here to see an inaccurate annex to that last list. I also write for this blog (and this one ) and it is a fine read. Great Adventures!!

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/11/2004
Band Website: briefcaserockers.com
Band Members: "I'm married to the life and my wife don't play."-Giovanni Marks/Subtitle
Influences: king tubby and lee scratch, sonic youth, dinosaur jr., slum village and all of dilla's other work, company flow and the later individual work, sun ra, alan braxe, slave, gangstarr foundation, project blowed, the mars volta, the locust, vss, eric's trip, daedelus, quannum, adlib, GPAC, daddy kev, hive, dntel, sixtoo, jel, ta'raach, waajeed, para one, nobody, dDamage, crunc tesla, tes, TTC, tacteel, CVE, CDP, workforce, the library, erase errata, chromatics, the rapture, switch, kill me tomorrow, khynky rhead, yaggfu front, giorgio moroder, glass candy, the stress, pride, autechre, t-spoon iodine, JMD, legowelt, ellen alien, berlin (the group and the city), rob sonic, saul williams, chad vangaalen, sebastiAn, AIDS WOLF, the entire countries of France, Finland, Switzerland and Canada along with Southeast Asia, DJ Quik, ride, peter gabriel, chubb rock, labtekwon, shock-g, PSC, murs, eligh, rob sonic, doseone, freestyle fellowship, anti-pop consortium, beck, hum, modeselektor, dopplereffekt, der zyklus, isolee, dark party, van she technologic, daft punk, dr. dre, prince, eurythmics, the cars, missing persons, ramellzee, polow da don, audio two, de la soul, hieroglyphics, hobo junction, visionaries, mums the word, dialated peoples, ATCQ, black sheep, grand puba, the nonce, timbaland, autechre, boards of canada, stereolab, crash course in science, RZA, pylon, shapeshifters, volume 10, k.stockhausen, martin gore, deftones, mike watt, dwindle dist. from 90 to 97, h-street, girl skateboards, mark gonzales, kareem campbell, jovontae turner, eric koston, matt hensley, natas kaupas, kris markovich, steve berra, ray barbee, pat duffy, keenan milton (R.I.P.) mike carroll, chad muska, steve albini, helium, mcdonald and giles, everyone on b.e.a.r., wolf parade, roll deep/pay as you go, broadcast, kleenex/liliput, free kitten, dj spooky, dalek, darkleaf, mf doom, count bass d., socalled, t.i.e., kofie, grant morisson, thoth, hermes t., p.j. harvey, aesop rock, ellen alien, vincent gallo's lifestyle, david axelrod, teo macero, brian eno, flood, alan moulder, JMD, creed taylor.....
Sounds Like: spontaneous lyric over contemporary electronic music.
Record Label: B.E.A.R./Briefcase Rockers LTD.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

retirement home

next move, someone asked.....since my two week retirement in feburary 2007, I can only tour europe and put out records that no one knows about with non-rap labels like anything's changed. ever. Since ...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:35:00 PST

how crev can you go? way crev.

I don't even know but that last tour was fucking nuts. Broken bones, long debt, five-0, immigration, the weak ass dollar, self-destructing equipment and sabotuers besides, it went down. I'm sorry to t...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Fri, 30 May 2008 04:20:00 PST

bonus round

so I'm out in france and the labwaste tour/first briefcase rockers tour wasa success. wow. thanks to everyone who made it go down and no thanks if you were a hater or cockblocker of money.here is...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:03:00 PST

for the mode....

so...back on the road again and I’ve never seen so much drama in such a short amount of time. I need my own reality show like a muh. Anyway, if you catch me in your european hood or if you are o...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:47:00 PST

jeez....

I want to go back to old school subtitle and start venting my brain on the blog,but you know where that gets you.......Instead, here’s some songs about stuff. The gramerrrr song is from the 2 ho...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

plot heavier

so those 2 shows went pretty much as expected to a T, see my last blog if confused. the only difference was that I didn’t see Jason Forrest. the tour dates are posted below, if you have such mag...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:18:00 PST

last minute ish....

if you aren’t at paid dues or something equally engaging like CHECK YO, stop by one of these two completely different events and get wild with your boy. I’m doing a mysterious solo set fir...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:59:00 PST

SXSW parts 2 thru whatever.....

I’m legally blind now due to alcohol and malnutrition, so I won’t get all chronological on the week’s events...bullet point time!1.I ate no BBQ while in TX....2.FADER/levi’s ha...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:38:00 PST

TRUNK BOMB for free!

now that everyone is on some "Scrooge before/Scrooge after" shit (meaning giving everything away) because the record industry is in the gutter (or underground, you decide) these days, I’ve decid...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:50:00 PST

SXSW or on 90000 part one

I have no idea how I can type this.Currently, I’m loaded to death in the RCRD LBL lounge off southern comfort and tea, smelling really toxic. I basically:(3/12)1.got detained from boarding 2 fli...
Posted by giovanni marks. on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:16:00 PST