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LA Symphony is a Christian hip-hop group from Los Angeles, California. Current members of L.A. Symphony are FLYNN (also known as Flynn Adam), UNO Mas, CookBook, Joey the Jerk, and Sharlok Poems. Past members include Pigeon John and BTwice, J-Beits a.k.a. Great Jason and Trendi MC (who compose Halieyoos Fishermen with Sharlok Poems), Coy (Paul "Coy" Allen), Xpress, Gaja and Beond of Acid Reign.

Formed in 1997, the band released their first album, 1999s Composition No. 1 on independent record label Eartube Empire. They then recorded an album entitled Call It What You Want for Squint Entertainment, containing tracks produced by the band and by Mario C, will.i.am and Prince Paul. The album was sold as a bootleg copy at live shows and online until officially released on Squint as CIWYW, in addition to a release a promotional EP titled Big Broke L.A. that contained tracks from Call It What You Want.

LA Symphony independently released the Baloney EP in 2002. Originally, 1000 limited edition copies were pressed, hand-numbered and shipped in resealable sandwich bags. Baloney was later re-pressed.

Following the Baloney EP, LA Symphony was signed to Gotee Records. They then released The End Is Now in 2003, Less Than Zero in 2005 and Disappear Here in 2005.

In 2007, the group released a mixtape entitled Unleashed. Guests on the album include Posdnuos and Awol One.

1999 Composition No.1 Earthtube Empire
2001 Call It What You Want Squint Entertainment
2001 Big Broke L.A. (Promo EP) Squint Entertainment
2002 Baloney (EP) Independent
2003 The End Is Now Gotee Records
2005 Less Than Zero Gotee Records
2007 Unleashed Syntax Records

http://www.myspace.com/lasymphony

Brainwash Projects is a hip hop group formed by LA Symphony members Pigeon John and BTwice. The duo released their first album The Rise And Fall Of (Brainwash Projects) on Jackson Rubio.

Member Pigeon John has announced they would be releasing a new album in 2007 entitled "Willy Walnuts & The Chocolate Man".

1998 The Rise And Fall Of BP Jackson Rubio

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Pigeon John is a Los Angeles area rapper who has recorded four studio albums as a solo artist, as well as several others as a member of the groups like L.A. Symphony and Brainwash Projects. Pigeon John has been featured as a collaborator on numerous other recordings with various artists. He is currently signed to Quannum Projects and has performed on several U.S. tours including Cali Comm Tour and has been featured in publications including Entertainment Weekly, VIBE, SPIN Magazine and LA Weekly. In 2006, Pigeon John was featured in an interview on National Public Radio.

In 2007, Pigeon John made his way to The Breakdown, an internet show on ItsHipHop.Tvwhere he conducted part of the interview on the toilet.

2001 PJ Is Clueless Syntax Records
2003 PJ Is Dating Your Sister Basement Records
2004 Featuring PJ I The Telephone Company
2005 PJ Sings The Blues Basement Records
2006 PJ And The Summertime Pool Party Quannum
2007 Featuring PJ II The Telephone Company

http://www.pigeonjohn.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pigeonjohn

As one of the founding members of the highly renowned L.A. Symphony crew, and also as an accomplished solo artist and producer Flynn Adam has worked with the Black Eyed Peas, Will I Am, Mario C. (Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson), Prince Paul (De La Soul, Handsome Boy Modeling School), Posdnuos (De La Soul), Madlib (Madvillain, Jaylib), Evidence (Dilated Peoples), LA Jay (the Pharcyde), Fatlip (The Pharcyde), Benny Cassette (Island/Def Jam), The Grits (Gotee), Pigeon John (Quannum), KJ52 (BEC), John Reuben(Gotee), Mars Ill (Gotee), Soup The Chemist, Royal Ruckus(Flicker), Sharlok Poems (Gotee), DJ Maj (Gotee), Phonetic Composition, The Tunnelrats (Uprok), Joey the Jerk, Out of Eden (Gotee), Blake Knight (Ill Harmonics), Tonex (Verity/SonyBmg), Rod Laver (Tooth & Nail), Cookbook & Uno Mas (Illect), Deux Process (Avatar), The Procussions (Rawkus) and Murs (Def Jux)

With L.A. Symphony Flynn Adam has shared stages all over the world with the likes of the Clipse, P.O.D., The Black Eyed Peas, Dilated Peoples, Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli, Xzibit, Public Enemy, EPMD, Pax 217, Stavesacre, the Visionaries, Busdriver, Relient K, Suicidal Tendancies, Good Charlotte, Murs, the Living Legends, Zion I, Atmosphere, Dr. Oop, Sage Francis, John Rueben, Out of Eden, and Kj52.

Flynn is also a prolific producer ,songwriter and mix engineer having collaborated with The Grits, John Rueben, Kj52, D.J. Maj, Rod Laver, Pigeon John, Soup the Chemist, Sharlok Poems, Joey the Jerk, The Procussions, Deux Process, Cookbook and Uno Mas, Homestyle, Pax 217, Peter Daily, and Eternal Soul.

In addition, Flynn founded his own record label, Eartube Empire in 1996 under which he successfully released his first two albums "Louder" and "Burntout", as well as L.A. Symphony's highly sought-after marquee independent album "Composition No. 1" and partnering with Illect on his third release "In Like Flynn".

With this latest solo effort he’s currently workin on, Flynn Adam offers the listener more of what the fans have come to expect from him over the years (and then some): innovative, intricate, neck jerkin’ beats, seasoned with just the right amount of honest, insightful and plainly innovative lyricism.

2000 Louder Basement Records
2004 In Like Flynn Illect Recordings

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Hailing from the super crew LA Symphony Sharlok Poems often gets shoved to the side and labeled as either simply the hook writer or most recently, the "low end" of LA Symphony. Neither give the man the credit he deserves and are more in the vein of insults rather than compliments. Sharlok makes more than just hip hop; he makes art. It is very emotional and poetic, even abstract at times, but always brilliant. Art is meant to be experienced, and this is no exception.

2002 Left Robot Records
2004 The Movement Gotee Records
2007 Blooming Sounds Hip Hop Is Music

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Best friends since the age of 13, CookBook & UNO Mas started making music shortly after graduating high school. As students at Santa Monica College, you would have often found them passing time in the lunch area with other aspiring emcees, freestyling between classes, or skipping them all together to go to the local record shops. Highly influenced by the production styles of Prince Paul, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock, it was a given that their first piece of equipment was the legendary SP1200 sampler/drum machine. “We were young and excited back then. All we did was go to school and buy records… and sometimes work. I’m not sure how many records we’ve collected, but it’s somewhere in the thousands,” says CookBook.

Combining both of their resources, they quickly built an extensive garage studio. “We had all this equipment and we always wanted to help our friends, so we had a lot of people coming and going,” says CookBook. Their home production studio would eventually help produce some of the early works of Pigeon John, FLYNN ADAM, Log Cabin (which included young high school up and comers Murs, Eligh, and Scarub of the Living Legends) and eventually L.A.Symphony.

In 1997 Cook & UNO helped form the legendary L.A.Symphony collective, which released their first full-length album “Composition no.1" in 1999. The album is considered a bonafide underground classic in many circles. Since then L.A.Symphony has gone on to record and release four more highly acclaimed full-length albums, three EP’s and numerous pieces of vinyl. All of which Cook & UNO played a huge roll in creating. “We’re definitely proud of what our crew has accomplished, and the doors it has opened for us as individual artists,” UNO says.

With L.A.Symphony, CookBook & UNO Mas have extensively toured in the U.S. as well as abroad. They’ve gotten the opportunity to share the stage with some of the biggest artists from hip-hop, rock, and pop. CookBook & UNO Mas have also recorded with such artists and producers as will.i.am, Black Eyed Peas, Posdnous (De La Soul), Prince Paul (Handsome Boy Modeling School), Mario C (Beastie Boys), Fatlip (Pharcyde), Murs, DJ Rhettmatic, and Evidence (Dilated Peoples) (just to name a few).

While their involvement in L.A. Symphony has kept them plenty busy over the years, CookBook & UNO Mas have always made it a priority to write and record as a group. They released their first proper full-length as a duo in 2001, entitled “StereoTypes”. In March of 2006, almost five years after releasing their first album, CookBook and UNO Mas released the EP "Robertson Bullies", shortly followed by their highly anticipated second full-length album "While They Slept" through ILLECT Recordings. Both releases definitively showcased how a great hip-hop group becomes even greater. In fact, “While They Slept” is as much about perseverance and passion as it is about bomb production and the kind of microphone mastery that only comes with time and experience!

CookBook & UNO Mas along with their crew L.A.Symphony continually strive to create innovative, original, and honest head knodding hip-hop for the world...stay tuned...the best is yet to come!

2003 Stereotypes Basement Records
2006 Robertson Bullies EP Illect Recordings
2006 While They Slept Illect Recordings
2008 The Overflow Unreleased

http://www.myspace.com/cookanduno
http://artists.illect.com/cbuno/ecard/

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