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Born in Jacksonville, NC, Cesar Comanche was introduced to hiphop by his sister in 1979, and immediately fell in love with it. In 1996, while a student at NC State, Comanche met classmate Pat Douthit, who would later be known as producer 9th Wonder, and soon began working with him. In 1999 the two founded the Justus League Crew, an association of other rappers and producers from NC State and neighboring North Carolina Central University who often collaborated on each other's projects. Comanche left school during his senior year to concentrate more fully on his music, issuing 2000's Wooden Nickels...

There are at least six bands known as 'Comanche' at the moment. 1. An electronic duo from Bemidji, Minnesota. 2. An indie pop duo from Malmö, Sweden. 3. A Post Hardcore band from Athens, Georgia 4. A death/thrash metal band from Lieto, Finland 5. An Argentinian cumbia villera group. 6. A sludge metal band from Boston, MA. .

The lights go down in the club as familiar legendary Western theme music fills the air. The crowd swells in anticipation as Comanchero steps onto the stage. What follows next is definable only in terms invented by the band themselves: country funk punk; sexy hick music; badland brain tablet gospel; jungle boogie on the farm. And so we are introduced to Comanchero's utterly unique sound, with influences as idiosyncratic as it's choice of name. From Merle Haggard and Frank Zappa, to Little Feat and Widespread Panic, elements of country, funk, hip-hop, rock, and roots can be heard in the Comanchero...