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group.
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, September 18, 2003. based in
Hamilton, Ontario
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. The band's music fuses
hip hop
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,
jazz
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and
rock
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'', September 2003. The band's songs contained mostly politically charged lyrics that critiqued Western
consumerism
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and
neo-colonialism
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.
History
Warsawpack was formed in 1999 by Lee Raback, Scott Rankin, Jaroslav Wassman and Matt Cormier. Rankin later left the band and was replaced by guitarist Ajit Rao, and later members added to the band included tenor saxophonist and flautist Simon Oczkowski, baritone saxophonist Adam Bryant, and turntablist Aaron Sakala, aka DJ Realistic.
Following their debut EP ''Due to Long Foreseen Events'', the band signed to
G7 Welcoming Committee Records
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, which released both of the band's full-length albums. The band released ''Gross Domestic Product'' in 2003. Their second full-length album, ''Stocks and Bombs'',.
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, January 30, 2009. appeared on the !earshot National Top 50 Chart in late 2003.
Warsawpack performed as part of Canada Music Week in 2004. In spite of some commercial success, the band broke up later that year.
Raback released his solo debut album ''Introductory Offer'' in 2009 under the stage name Lee Reed. He has since followed up with the albums ''Emergency Broadcast'' (2011) and ''The Butcher, the Banker, the Bitumen Tanker'' (2015), and the EPs ''Written Large'' (2013) and ''The Steal City EP'' (2018). In June 2019, ''The Steal City EP'' was named to the initial longlist for the
CBC Music
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, June 20, 2019.
In 2015, the Warsawpack song "Poorboy Blues" was voted one of the top four songs by a Hamilton band in a
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song contest.
Discography
* ''Due to Long Foreseen Events'' (2000)
* ''Gross Domestic Product'' (2002)
* ''Stocks and Bombs'' (2003)"Review: Warsawpack" ''Modern Fix''.