1-O.A.K.

Area of the Bay Area’s Honor Move Team, vocalist, songwriter, and maker Brandon McFarland, aka 1-O.A.K. (Original), discovered to sing and play drums and keyboards in chapel, and grew up on traditional gospel and spirit. The Oakland indigenous attempt to stay purely to beatmaking — he designed to save his performing for the chapel — but he eased into performing both simultaneously. After he was presented on songs by famous brands J. Stalin (“My Brain,” “When the Golf club Over”), Philthy Wealthy (“That is the Like”), and Teedra Moses (“Therefore Unique”), he released Unique Request. Among the finest R&B albums of 2012, McFarland published, produced, and organized the whole lot with some help from professional producers DJ Touch.10 and WhizWard, aswell as Trackademics, amongst others. Close to the end of this yr, he and Trackademics collaborated as 2 Participant Co-Op and released an imaginative EP offering covers of tunes originally recorded from the Smiths, LCD Soundsystem, Wham!, Proceed West, as well as the Treatment. In early 2013, McFarland released a deluxe release of Special Demand with a small number of bonus slashes. That May, he was presented on Zo!’s ManMade recording.