FmGT - We Can Be Happy Underground [Stayin' Alive remix]

[underground: not buried]

FeedmeGoodTunes has been around for a while. Initially started one evening in Brooklyn, March 2005 during a session of drunken audio sharing and Peruvian chicken feasting. From there, your digital word of mouth made us stronger and stronger. We shared Funk, Rock, Underground Hip-hop and a multitude of Eclectic Electronic soundscapes. The FmGTeam grew with the additions and contributions of The Oatmeal Bandit, Codec and the additional special guests (Hi Moka!). Together, the four of us wrote about and shared tunes driven by our pure passion - to the point where FmGT began to receive over 400,000 hits per month - and we never added advertising. Our original file-serving service had to inform us that we were using too much of the "infinite bandwidth package" that we had purchased and we began to receive our first of many 'Cease and Desist' letters: the true indication that you've got at least a little exposure. Breaking music news and sharing obscure gems was our specialty.

Then something happened, the posts became less frequent and some of our fans began to wonder where the hell we had gone. To this date I still wonder where the hell we went. What I can tell you however is that each of us has gone through some life changing shit within the last year or so - so much that FmGT simply fell to the back burner - because as we can all agree, sometimes you simply have to get back to basics in order to sort it all out.

...so where are we now?

Oatmeal Bandit [bottom left] shapes the minds of America's youth, while rearranging our shoes when he comes to visit and still yearns for more Bon Chon chicken. Codec [top right] has become a successful video game producer, one of his mobile games was recently written about in XLR8R magazine and he's brought the delightful Lois-the-cat into our lives and onto my couch. JT [top left], not once having removed his headphones, continues to celebrate a clean bill of health after that early scare that our readers might recall - also, his work has really paid off as he's found his way to his dream job working with one of the most successful publishing houses in the world. As for me [Silent K, bottom right], I've found a new job that I enjoy, I'm madly in love, I still don't have enough time to play Wii and I'm running my first full Marathon this October. But this isn't supposed to be a "and they lived happily ever after" post...

THE EVEN BETTER NEWS: We're still doing it - we've just changed the distribution method. The FeedmeGoodTunes [FmGT] collective has transmogrified into One Track Mind [OTM]: a once-a-week-day-@-10am email/music newsletter with an .mp3 attachment. The distribution method and presence has been altered but the passion still resides. All you need in order to participate is an email in-box that can handle attachments - so email us at aonetrackmind[at]gmail[dot]com, we'll add you to the distribution list and the tunes can continue to flow.

On behalf of Oatmeal Bandit, Codec, JT and myself - we'd like to thank you for reading, listening and commenting over the past three years.

See you in another medium... and stay tuned,
-- Silent K & the FmGTeam