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Animate Objects is a United States-based live hip hop band originally formed in Champaign, Illinois in 2003. The founding members of the band, then students at the University of Illinois, were MC CZAR Absolute, drummer Farsheed Hamidi-Toosi, DJ Spinnerty, keyboardist Artur Wnorowski, guitarist Steven Dobias and bassist Prashant Vallury. In July 2004 DJ Spinnerty and Hamidi-Toosi left the band and were replaced by Michael "DJ Mabbo" Mabborang and Brian Derstine. During October 2007 the band completed their first international tour performing at US Military Installations in Honduras and Cuba (including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base) with Armed Forces Entertainment.〔Harding, C: "Base Gratitude", ''Billboard'', December 1, 2007.〕〔http://www.armedforcesentertainment.com/Documents/Billboard12-07.pdf〕〔http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003676652〕 The band has been featured in major newspapers in the Midwest as well as in as featured in Billboard Magazine. Their debut album "Riding In Fast Cars With Your Momma,"〔(allmusic ((( Riding in Fast Cars with Your Momma > Overview ))) )〕 debuted on the CMJ Hip-Hop Adds radio chart at #2 on November 14, 2007.〔http://www.tinderboxmusic.com/RunScript.asp?Page=43&Poll_ID=3&p=ASP\Pg43.asp〕 ==History== In 2003 CZAR, Hamidi-Toosi, Spinnerty, Wnorowski and Vallury were amongst the charter members of the Urbana-Champaign chapter of the Hip-Hop Congress. The current members Vallury, Steven Dobias, drummer Brian Derstine and DJ Mabbo were all members of the now defunct Chicago-based hip-hop band Peoples of Paradox. Animate Objects was born out of a performance request. CZAR Absolute was asked to participate in the 2003 Triangle Fraternity Battle of the Bands at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since CZAR was a solo artist at the time he needed to put together a band in order to compete. CZAR approached Larry Gates, of the defunct Urbana-based rock band ''Lorenzo Goetz'', in order to find a guitar player. Gates, who knew of Peoples of Paradox, suggested Vallury who was then a clerk at the independent music store Record Service. Vallury in turn referred Dobias and both were asked to come to an impromptu practice session later that night. On September 13, 2003, after only two practices and two weeks of preparation time Animate Objects took the stage for the first time and won the Battle of the Bands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Animate Objects」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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