Reversal Of The Norm

ROTN also known as Reversal Of The Norm consisting of AkeOne "The Psychotic Genius" of Thornton Colorado providing moral bending lyricism along with hooks and choruses your mama might not approve of and IzodOne "The Rap Ritchie Valens" from Commerce City Colorado on the beats with his flying MPC they have a "do it all ourselves" approach that's been working pretty well for the indy label so far.

With classics circulating the underground like the 2007 paranormal phenom track "The Goatman" the 2005 Steely Dan quoted "Scotch Whiskey" to their most recent Full Length LP "Futuristic Grime" in 2010 these guys are definitely in a class of their own. Two very unique artists who have basically known each other their whole lives with the HUGE dream of making it big in the entertainment biz.

Whether it be from their childhood camcorder produced comedy show "The Necessities Of Life Show" they made mad episodes of in the late 80's early 90's that they now bring fresh episodes to you on youtube. Or possibly the rhymes they began writing together at the young age of 10 when Izod would spend weekends, summers, and eventually living with Ake and his family in the early 90's as brothers in the same neighborhood where they met in the early 80's when one of Izod's older sisters would babysit Ake and his sis.

Izod and Ake have had a passion and respect for music in general for a very long time.

Ake's father and mother played all the classics and the newest stuff in the house and car and they played it loud! Providing knowledge names and dates all the way while partyin' and dancin' but nothing sunk in deeper to the brothers than the fact that music seemed to be their calling...like movies for the mind. But theres more because Ake's dad had a co-worker turned best friend named Kenney Williams and Kenney Williams was a drummer but not just any old drummer he was a drummer that could and did produce some of the most top notch sonic sandwiches for your earmouths you could ever gulp down through both sides of your head! And Kenney took ROTN under his wing inviting them to his studio to record like the big boys do.All the while providing priceless information and experience with professional audio production/engineering. Unfortunately Kenney passed on early but the boys still hear his words of wisdom echo with the twist of every knob in their audio ventures.

While Izod's father played the guitar with his own father and even sometimes for the family on holidays with an uncle Izod's passion for music was never completely concealed. From two stereos and head in between recording to using headphones for a microphone. Or making pause tapes as their called by looping sections of whatever old tapes his mom said were left by his dad or even his own rap cassettes of those days to doing his best to find a rare intrumental in the tape store for his stacks upon stacks of rhymes written on a compulsive level he couldn't stop if he tried. Izod was mad poor and living with his grandmother off 56th when he somehow found a Tascam four track portastudio in a pawn shop it didn't quite work and introduced alot of noise. But he tried anyway.

Borrowing keyboards from every and any where wasn't enough and eventually he saved up for a Yamaha DMX keyboard that you could actually sequence six tracks with around 98'. Borrowed a homies karaoke and began recording the weed resined drunken freestyles of his young siblings like Blurry D, Russ-L-Mania and himself an addiction to exploring the world of audio recording is born. They were bustin rhymes at full blast with Izod's freshman beats like no tomorrow until J-Duble needed the karaoke back.

Eventually Izod Upgrades his studio to a Yamaha Motif 6 for beats,a Behringer mixer with FX sends and Phantom Power, an M-audio Nova Condenser Microphone, a Fostex MR8 SIAB and a CD Burner around the year 2000. This is when they go on to record their two underground albums.

Since then the boys and their studio have grown. Set to release another professional Full Length LP "Herb and Legends" in 2012 and more and more shows under their belt from The House Of Rock to Summit Music Hall and then some. To sum it all up two guys from Colorado with this level of exposure and professionalism from a 98% in house produced independant label truly is a Reversal Of The Norm.

We been plannin' on makin' music and entertainment all together since pretty young. Alotta people knew but not sure if they really knew ya know? AkeOne and IzodOne are brothers raised together to be the original Rap group Hip Hop needs.

Yes. Everywhere we're allowed. We've rocked everything from your small bars to the big boy Venues in Denver Metro. There ain't too many you can name that we haven't done.

Special moments would be becoming Semi-Finalists in The Colorado Music Buzz Bandwagon 2 Battle of the bands style competition where we played The Marquis and Summit Music Hall with the top 20 Bands of all genres in Denver.

Theres alot in every genre cause we respect music all together but in Hip Hop we go by the old school rules with a true school open mind set. So Every one from Kool Herc to Esham, everyone from N.W.A. to the Wu-tang.

MPC 2500,Pro Tools,Yamaha Motif 6,Reason,Cubase,Fostex MR8,Electric Bass and Six String Guitar,TurnTables,Vestax Mixer, and Our Own brains.

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