MC Xtreme A (international celebrity, cynic, patron of the trendy and 5-star, extreme type-A personality; favorite word: "psychopathology") and DJ No Money Down (master of the seven deadly arts, sarcastic cynic, hermit, patron of dives, type-B personality), escaped from a maximum security think tank and mutually lost themselves in music and funky footwear.
After losing contact with each other in the diaspora, their lives took very different directions. DJ NMD moved to the City of Angels in a fully-packed and lowered ‘79 RX-7 to find his fortune, and MC XA began his gypsy quest for musical salvation and higher education, which led him from the dark alleys of NYC to the streets of San Francisco. Along the way he studied anatomy, rocked hard and became a lover of good cannolis. Later moving out to L.A., he went on to tend to top-seeded professional women tennis players and smacked-down WWE wrestlers on live television.
DJ NMD tried hiding out in the conservative world of corporate America for a few years, lost his mind, dropped out of society and went to film school, where he specialized in audio production and psychological warfare. Violently thrust back into music to compose and produce for games, commercials, other artists and such, he once again started hearing the voices. After years of painful separation, the extreme type-A MC XA, through daft detective work and the persistence of a myopic pitbull on crank, tracked down the long-missing DJ to a tearful reunion in a dark Studio City alley. They took up where they left off and decided to put together their misplaced talent, fragile egos, desire to entertain and need for approval to form this exorcism of their creative (and other) demons.
The result: Public Jones was born into this insane world. The first taste is their self-released, self-titled debut EP, now available here at Beatpick. Their first live show was in February 07 at the Confidential in San Diego, and they are currently creating a new live show with bookings soon to involve the L.A. area. More songs are currently in the works and a follow-up full-length CD will be finished in late 2008.
