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OAKLAND, California - Following an extended vacation to accommodate the expanding solo recording and performance schedules of its members, Deep Dickollective (D/DC) has returned in classic form with "On Some Other", (on Sugartruck Recordings). The CD is the group s fifth overall release and first studio recording since 2004 s "The Famous Outlaw League Of Proto Negroes", a 2005 Outmusic Award double nominee and Out Magazine Top Ten Gay Albums of 2004 selection. Since the release of their groundbreaking debut "BourgieBohoPostPomoAfroHomo" in 2001, D/DC has been a creative and cultural force driving popular and academic discourse around race, class, queerness and masculinity as reflected in the burgeoning homohop subculture. Appearing in countless features, essays, and articles in LGBT and mainstream media, D/DC has toured colleges and festivals around the U.S. and Canada since mid 2001, winning the Best Hip Hop Group award in the 2003 San Francisco Bay Guardian readers poll, and came to more recent mainstream attention through their central presence in Alex Hinton s documentary "Pick Up The Mic". Premiering at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, "Pick Up The Mic" has since screened in 50+ film festivals internationally,broadcast recurrently on the LOGO network and will be released to DVD in fall 2007. The resultant exposure created more tour and lecture opportunities for the groups co-founders, Juba Kalamka (Pointfivefag) and Tim m West (25Percenter). West released his solo debut Songs From Red Dirt and the accompanying poetic memoir Red Dirt Revival, while Sugartruck Recordings founder Kalamka received the 2005 Creating Change Award from the National Gay And Lesbian Task Force, toured the U.S. with Sex Workers Art Show and continued his promotion of independent queer hip hop artists through Sugartruck and direction of the PeaceOUT World Homohop Festival, which celebrates its seventh year in 2007. We never really expected to become so busy, says Kalamka, who finished an MFA in Poetics during the gap between albums and began his second solo recording project as well. Deep Dic has always been more a collaborative space than a traditional hip hop group, and as such we ve been adamant about not stifling our individual creativity. We ve continued doing spot dates at colleges though we live in different cities. Still, it was a challenge to get back into the group s groove. It s a testament to how hard everyone worked that On Some Other is so cohesive. Featuring performances by new members Leslie Buttaflysoul Taylor (Def Poetry Jam) emerging producer/emcee Baraka Noel and vocalist /songwriter Solis B. Lalgee, On Some Other's sound is reflective of the variety of experiences the groups members have had over the past few years and their resultant growth . Recorded primarily at Oakland s Killer Banshee Studios (Tribe 8, Sister Spit, By Hook Or By Crook) Kalamka produced the bulk of the CD, which includes major contributions from New York based poet/producer baron. and homohop vet Tori Fixx (Johnny Dangerous, Rainbow Flava, Deadlee).