Bang Data Releases New Video for Single 'Galactica'; New Album Out This Summer

Bay Area based duo, Bang Data combines many different musical textures into their songwriting to cultivate a sound unlike anyone else making music today. It is a veritable assortment of sound, with elements of cumbia, reggae, dance and hip-hop mixed with a heap of rock n' roll energy and exposes you to a fusion of contagious electro acoustic rhythms, melodies and rhymes. Leading up to the release of their third album, LOCO (coming this summer), Bang Data releases the lead single video "Galáctica," the track is available everywhere including iTunes.

Bang Data is comprised of singer/rapper/songwriter, Deuce Eclipse and producer/multi-instrumentalist Juan Manuel Caipo, who came together in 2008 as a songwriting team after being introduced by a mutual friend. Within a few months of working together, they were readying their first EP, Maldito Carnaval. Knowing that they shared the same attitude toward experimentation and mixing different genres together, Bang Data quickly built up speed. In 2011, a track from their debut album,La Sopa, was featured on the 4th season of Breaking Bad. They became the house band for two seasons on El Rey Network's wrestling show, Lucha Undergroud, and had songs in the feature film Spare Parts and TV series Criminal Minds Beyond Borders. In 2016, Bang Data collaborated and contributed the song "Fortunate Son" to the critically acclaimed Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute album, Quiero Creedence. Bang Data recently released a viral video hit for the track "Fortunate Son" that focused on a young girl dragging a Trump look-a-like piñata through the streets of predominantly Latino barrios in Los Angeles.

"Bay Area band Bang Data's rap-enhanced bilingual version of "Fortunate Son" is a stand out that accentuates the current resonance of the messages in CCR's songs." - Billboard

Conceptualized by Caipo, the Quiero Creedence album came about when a friend who recommended that Bang Data cover Creedence Clearwater Revival. The idea soon became a collaborative effort with Criteria Entertainment and Concord Music Group. The album features such artists as Juan Gabriel, Andrés Calamaro, Bunbury, Enjambre, Los Enanitos Verdes, Juanes, Los Lonely Boys, Ozomatli, Billy Gibbons & La Marisoul from La Santa Cecilia, Bang Data and Diamante Eléctrico. The album topped the iTunes US Latino and Mexico chart.

Bang Data's single (from the new album LOCO), "Galáctica" is their first piece of new music since the Quiero Creedence collaboration. It is about something we can all relate to - the unattainable object of your affection. For Deuce Eclipse, 'Galáctica' is about someone who doesn't give you the time of day after you try and try. In the end, you have to move on because the other person just doesn't see it. "Concurs Caipo, "Galáctica is this girl, completely out of this world in every way, who is somewhat of a wild card. At the same time, she's kind of breaking our heart." The track received it's world premiere on PopMatters, who said, "Under the moniker Bang Data, Caipo and vocalist Deuce Eclipse (joined live by guitarist Michael Cavaseno) have made a distinctive splash across many forms of media with their genre-bending style. The group's songs have been featured on everything from Lucha Underground to Breaking Bad, and star-studded 2014 album Mucho Poco featured Chico Trujillo, Hector Guerra, and members of Santana and Ozomatli. 'Galáctica' shows this fusion at its most organic, as steel drums and handclaps weave tightly through layers of sharp guitar. Deuce Eclipse's voice, meanwhile, soars straight into outer space with undeniable pathos."

The new video premiered with Sounds and Colours, who said of the song, "starts off with almost a dancehall vibe before transforming into a fusion of reggae, ska, hip hop and rock. The song is about a man who's in love with a woman that he can't ever have, Eclipse told Sounds and Colours. "She is in love with everything else in the world except him," he said. "She's Galáctica - out of reach."

The new album LOCO was recorded and mixed at Caipo's studio, Rockolito Music in Oakland, which brought the guys back to the place where they first started recording songs. Writing the lead single came naturally, testing the song out with just a guitar and vocals the guys knew they had something. "I feel that we captured an immediate vibe from Deuce's vocal. 90% of the vocal takes are from the original writing session. Love how he brought tons of vibe and it's mostly him singing and barely rapping which changed things up as well," says Caipo. Added Deuce, "Once Caipo came up with calling the girl "Galáctica," it all just rolled from there. The best part of creating the song was at the end of the day we stopped, listened to it, then looked at each other and both thought, Woah, what did we just create here? "

Reflecting Deuce and Caipo's heritage LOCO is a bilingual album, with songs in both Spanish and English. The new album has a universal appeal and is about love, politics, and life. For Deuce and Caipo, they explain, "with LOCO, more than ever, we feel we want to share our music, stories and culture in a time that many call "Trumps America". We are Latinos born in the USA, we're from here and our music is a reflection of that as well as a contribution to American culture. Hopefully this album will open the mind of those people who feel that people that speak another language do not belong here."

Bang Data lives for the live performance and promises audiences a different experience with each and every show. Bang Data performs with a full band, and at times as a duo, that shakes the stage and dance floors alike. They will be performing select west coast dates this summer in support of the album.

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