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Running On Empty: Groove Embassy Records and the Quest to Release

vieuxcmaq, Saturday, March 24, 2001 - 12:00
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Jason Crane (jason@grooveembassy.com)

Two years ago, my friend Spee*D and I stuck a set of vintage samples over a synthcore hip hop beat, laid down three of Spee*D’s best verses, and created the activist hip hop single “Freedom of Speech,

IN THE BEGINNING

Working as a sax player in a funk band in South Carolina is not the most fertile ground for activist songwriting. As if my situation wasn’t bad enough, Spee*D was working as the environmental reporter for a tiny paper on an island that has very little non-resort environment left.

We’d known each other only a couple of months, but I was impressed with his rapping, and decided to sink the little money my wife and I had into buying a digital recorder, a synth, a drum machine and a sampler. All this equipment was set up on two overturned plastic tubs in our otherwise bare spare bedroom.

Spee*D came over one afternoon. We pulled the shades to help get in the writing mood, and within 20 minutes we had the foundation for “Freedom of Speech

Buddha Mind's site at Groove Embassy Records.
www.grooveembassy.com/buddha.html

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