The latest Business Deal Records Project!!! The goal is to promote the formation of new sounds, songs, friends and bands. Here’s how it worked: We gathered a group of friends, acquaintances and strangers and putting all of their names in a hat. We drew those names out of the hat. The first four will be assigned to be Band 1. The second four will be Band 2. The third four, oddly enough, will be Band 3. This exercise will continue until everyone had been assigned to a band. Next, we will spin a large “prize wheel” type of device to determine what instruments everyone will be required to play in their bands. The wedges of this wheel will have words such as guitar, drums, bass, etc written on them. You must play the designated instrument even if your band members have all been assigned the same one. That will make your song even more interesting. We will then put another handful of paper into a hat. These slips of paper will have many random topics written on them such as Canada, Dogs, Sadness, Temperature, Cube, Purple, etch. Those aren’t the actual topics I just made those up. We will then draw one slip of paper out of the hat and every group must write a song about that topic. They will also be required to write an additional song that does not have to be about the topic. Once everyone has written and recorded their two songs we shall distribute them to everyone to be voted on and then we shall release a CD featuring all of the songs in the order from favorite to least favorite.
The songs are finished and the cd is complete, stay tuned on how you can get one!!!!
The first review!!
Phases & Stages
Texas Platters
Business Deal Band Lotto
(Business Deal)
Business Deal’s 2005 compilation followed a Top 40 format. Now, the local label’s Lotto goes to the next level with the luck of the draw. Thirty-three names were placed in a hat, along with random instruments, out of which nine bands were formed. Each act wrote two songs based on topics also placed in a hat. The result is a diverse collection of weirdo pop culled from members of River City scenesters Cavedweller, Finally Punk, Shapes Have Fangs, Total Abuse, Pataphysics, Belaire, and more. Mystic Chainsaw serves up a lo-fi chunk of booty bass about baby fat, P.O.T.’s “Service the Eagle” is a delirious mash of dreamy pop, and Glowstick Mountain’s “Grandma” is a sweet, kazoo-filled ode to the sexual preference of a member of the greatest generation. Closer “Suicide, the Band” proves the most unlistenable track here, but once again, Business Deal proves thinking outside the box can win the Lotto.
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