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2 | [[caption-width-right:330:[-You can't see with the picture shrunk down this much, but the headlines on the wall behind them read: "Terror!" "Gov't Consiracy" "Evil Robots Will Makes Slaves of Us All!" "Did NASA Probe Find an Airplane on Mars?" and "Global Scorching".-] ]] |
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4 | The Dingees are a {{Reggae}}[=/=]PunkRock[=/=]{{Ska}} band from Long Beach, California. They were initially formed in 1996 as a side project of The OCSupertones (and traded band members with the 'Tones more than a few times), but soon grew into a distinct identity. Unlike nearly all of their [[SkaPunk 3rd wave ska]] contemporaries, they played [[Music/TheClash Clash]]-inspired GenreRoulette rather than [[GenreMashup mix and match musical genres]]: their repertoire included punk songs, and reggae songs, and ska songs (but mostly punk songs), yet but precious little ska-punk or punk-reggae or what have you. |
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6 | They recorded three albums in this varying manner for Tooth & Nail Records. Afterwards, they disappeared into the southern California underground music scene. In 2006, they put up a page on Myspace to let the outside world know that they still existed, and that they were working on a new album. |
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8 | [[DevelopmentHell Four years later]], ''The Rebel Soul Sound System'' was released ([[http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/75806 for free]]), and it was... [[NewSoundAlbum different]]. Punk, ska, and reggae were still present, but this time they were mashed into a thick stew (with reggae predominating), and for the first time the Dingees added ragga jungle, hip-hop, sound collages, extensive sampling, and thoroughly grimy production to the mix. |
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10 | The lyrics were the same as they always were: rallying cries for global unity and the overthrow of the establishment, songs of alienation from modern society, celebrations of street culture, and ruminations on God and the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] apocalypse. |
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12 | [[AC:Discography]] |
13 | * ''Armageddon Massive'' (1998) |
14 | * ''Sundown to Midnight'' (1999) |
15 | * ''The Crucial Conspiracy'' (2001) |
16 | * ''The Rebel Soul Sound System'' (2010, [[http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/75806 free, here]]) |
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18 | [[folder:Roster]] |
19 | [[AC:Current]] |
20 | * Matt "Pegleg" Roberts: vocals, guitar, keys, sax |
21 | * Matt "Bean" Hernandez: bass |
22 | * Dave Chevalier: sax, keys, guitar, vocals (left just before the first album, then returned just after) |
23 | * Aaron Landers: guitar, keys (joined before ''Sundown to Midnight'') |
24 | * Scott C. Rodgers: drums (joined before ''The Crucial Conspiracy'') |
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26 | [[AC:Former]] |
27 | * Tony Terusa: Drums |
28 | * Jon Bon: Trombone |
29 | * Jeff Holmes: Guitar |
30 | * Ethan Luck: Drums |
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32 | All of these guys departed prior to the first album, with the exception of Ethan, who departed soon after the first album. |
33 | [[/folder]] |
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35 | ---- |
36 | !!Provides examples of: |
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38 | * AdultsAreUseless: "Conspiracy Against the Youth". |
39 | -->It's a big conspiracy! \ |
40 | They hate youth and they hate me! |
41 | * ConspiracyKitchenSink: ''The Crucial Conspiracy'', natch. |
42 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: A common theme in the lyrics. |
43 | * EpicRocking: "Smoke Signals'', a nine-minute reggae-funk jam. |
44 | * GenreMashup: ''The Rebel Soul Sound System''. |
45 | * GenreRoulette: Their first three albums. |
46 | * GraffitiOfTheResistance: The cover art of the album ''The Crucial Conspiracy'' features a propaganda poster in the Soviet style. Inside the liner notes, the poster is shown again defaced by anti-government slogans, and with a skull painted over the worker's face. |
47 | * HiddenTrack: ''Armageddon Massive'' has a dub remix of "Could be Worse" at the end. ''The Crucial Conspiracy'' has "Conspiracy Against the Youth" hidden in the ''middle'' of the album. |
48 | * IndecipherableLyrics: On their forays into hardcore--"Ronnie Raygun", "Conspiracy Against the Youth", and "Capital Imperial". |
49 | * {{Sampling}}: All over the place in ''Rebel Soul Sound System''. For example, "Who Stole the Soul in Rock N Roll" combines samples from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Music/TheBeatles, and Music/PublicEnemy, and somehow makes them all fit seamlessly. |
50 | * SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy: In the "Street vs State" sound collage. |
51 | * SongStyleShift: "Blackout!", "Smoke Signals". |
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