THE TRUTH ABOUT BEING DISCO

Its all about the music above everything else...

The Bajuyo's Shrubs was the roots of it all. Coming from different musical backgrounds the members of the Disco Assassins were brought together to eventually transcend their musical boundaries. There's a big irony that too many people have been familiar with the different individual works of its members but only few really had gotten to hear them as a band. It all started in the USC-TC Fine Arts hallways way right back before the end of the Talamban everybody used to romanticize about. USC-TC then was synonymous to ruggediness, alcoholism & tardiness. Students coming to school late, that is if they still come to school! Some, mostly male students, come to school in tattered jeans that has been left unwashed for weeks, months or even semesters and spend most of the time emptying bottles of Red Horse. It was much more easier to come to school in slippers, though it wasn't really allowed but somehow it was still tolerated. Champoy, who was then playing percussions for the Shrubs decided to perform some of the songs he and Gumer, who was also the Shrubs' guitarist made while hanging out in the 4th Floor Fine Arts Department. John, who was also the Shrubs guitarist, played bass for the songs and on drums was Kitboy (another Shrubs percussionist and also the drummer of the Senators, Gumer's band). The gigs weren't really quite many and there wasn't really too much happening but what's important was that they were having fun with what they were doing. The gigs were minimal but even then they've always kept creating songs that were plain foolish yet still utterly sensible. It's kinda confusing, right? Well, but this has come to be a big part of how the Assassins came to be. Later on after having been busy with the Shrubs, their other bands (John plays guitar for Who's Next? & just recently, Urban Dub, Gumer is with Happy days, Champoy does sound experiments as the DJ Brainwash) and with their studies, the Disco Assassins went on hiatus but resurfaced just recently, this time with Yanex, (another Shrubs percussionist and also drummer of Powerspoonz and Spliff) on drums and Patrick ( from Spliff and also sessioned for the Shrub's) on second guitars. One thing that keeps the mystery of the Disco Assassins is this one mysterious dude that is always present with them during live performances. Others claim he is a clone of the Who's Next vocalist Dindo but according to the Assassins themselves he is the weirdo alien, Ocsids Nissassa ( although others might misinterpret his appearance because in our world we have identified his image with the devil but he's really a good guy!).

This time around the band has grown up from all their previous musical inhibitions and are more satirical. Satirical in a way that it really connects to you and really hits you that all you could do is laugh. But its not the kind of laugh you have when you win the lottery but rather kinda like the one you feel when you're looking for your watch and find out that you have been wearing it all the time.
Their songs reflect an inner struggle of not necessarily the artist but probably more of the struggle that is present in everyone of us as a whole. At first, it may seem that nothing makes sense in the world of the Disco Assassins but each song becomes like a piece of a satirical puzzle that is taking its form as it goes along. Other bands tend to place themselves in the pedestal by screaming out prophetic truths and supposedly true wisdom but The Assassins tend to take us with them in their never-ending exploration of the different conditions we live in -a world of contradictions, of ironies, and of aphorisms. Others who have heard said that what makes the Disco Assassins different is their diverse background on different musical styles and awareness- just like everybody else. But something we have to understand is that the idea behind the band is not new. Stupidity is one element that the universe is overflowing on, they are just making use of it to somehow try to connect in a world that has blinded itself. And if you really listen closely and really try to tune in and connect you will realize that they aren't really that different at all. They are not really different in any sense of the word. They are just like all of us and they also probably go through the same conditioned processes we have been through. If there is one thing they ought to be as a band -it is all of us. They never really gave a damn if you got what they are saying or not, whether you think they are just stupid or plain arrogant, that doesn't matter. Artists? Performers? Musicians? -deep inside they are just like all of YOU. As the lines of the song Trabaho go "Kinsa may gasulti nga kinahanglan gyung ing-ani? Kinsa may basolon sa imong sitwasyon?." (Whoever said it had to be this way? Who's to blame for our situation?)