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DJ VoiceCrack Composer For his time at Def Mute Records, DJ VoiceCrack is credited with having produced over 200 tracks (and growing). Long ago, he had set out to create an original Buffalo Grove Style - a suburban take on music that the artists could wear as a badge of creative pride and fans from all over could recognize and would respect. That style consisted of three components: orchestral ambience, thrash metal overlay, and devastating bass. DJ VoiceCrack is the well-respected backbone of the label earning him the right to drop the moniker of producer and take up the title of composer.

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E Luv Executive Producer, Vicious Lyricist E Luv is the "Platoon" of rap. His music features all of this masterful killing set to the backdrop of a beautiful soundtrack. Sitting at the helm of Def Mute Records as Executive Producer, E Luv used his business acumen and took a different approach to the old adage that is the music industry - both from logistical and heuristic points of view. He is truly the glue that holds the label together. When not attending to the backend business processes, E Luv can be found in the studio putting down tracks - epic tracks that are set to leave a listener emotionally drained.

Earl Solow Tight Lyricist Earl Solow has a big, high-pitched mouth, and it has, in the past, gotten him into a considerable amount of trouble - more times than not. Today, his words tend to be profound, and the concepts of "The 2nd Greatest Record Label" and "The Fifth Major Record Label" were actually descriptors that originated from one of his most legendary raps. Still, Earl Solow's words are draped in a major attitude, doused by scathing conviction, and enveloped in a soothing confidence that just won't change. He is also credited with ending the career of the Maryland nuisance named HTML.

GMNT Hard Lyricist GMNT is the muscle of the label. During his tenure, he was credited with the reformation of The Mac-X Crew supergroup. A lyrical beast, GMNT leaves no topic untouched - nothing is taboo. He brought hardcore storytelling to the suburbs utilizing epithets of a shady, guarded past. GMNT continues to rap about topics that people don't normally talk about in order to do just that - get people talking. He seems to be in search of or motivated by the ulitmate expression of free speech.

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The Mac-X Crew Gang One member was about that nonsense. One member wanted to take the label to the next level. One member had a big mouth that, more times than not, got him into some serious trouble.... One member just wanted to make beatz. This powderkeg of artists combines to form the latest iteration of The Mac-X Crew. Three MC's and one DJ make up Buffalo Grove's finest assortment of musicians. On a whim, GMNT, E Luv, Earl Solow, and DJ VoiceCrack united to put together a supergroup with as much aural firepower as they had ideology - which to this day, still seems insurmountable.

Psycho Deuce Motherfu--ers Berserkers GMNT had brought his longtime best friend, Earl Solow, to the label some time ago. The G had been rapping with the CHAOtic Syndrome (ChaoS), and, at the time, Solow was a part of the Original Mac-X Crew. Teaming up for features across various different albums, the light bulb one day clicked, and Psycho Deuce Motherfu--ers was formed. The hard storytelling of GMNT and the tight trashtalking of Earl Solow make for a crazed atmosphere that winds up being a battle of creative wills. Neither bending, neither breaking - both taut, the inflexibility brings about a visceral imaginativeness that not only returns Rap to its rawer, more blatant roots but pushes the genre even further past all of that solidifying an energy which could be the power source for a large nation had not Def Mute Records harnassed it first.