Da Gryptions is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 hip-hop band from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, formed in 2009. The band consists of Future Shark (aka Trevor Barnes) (vocals), Dark Science (aka Patrick Guay) (vocals), Apsobibi (aka Evan Cranley

Evan Cranley

Evan Cranley is a Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec. He records with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene, although he considered joining the band Metric before finally joining Stars. His partner is currently Stars bandmate Amy Millan....

 of Stars) (R&B Vocals), and Ripples (aka Stephen Ramsay of Young Galaxy

Young Galaxy

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 (production and hype-man) and features the studio skills of Liam O’Neil

Liam O'Neil

Liam O'Neil is a Canadian musician who was the keyboardist and percussionist for Montreal-based band The Stills. He met the group's lead songwriter, Dave Hamelin, at school through a mutual friend. In 1996, the pair formed a ska band, in which O'Neil played saxophone...

formally a member of The Stills

The Stills

The Stills were a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. The band consists of Tim Fletcher , Dave Hamelin , Olivier Corbeil , and Liam O'Neil , Gregory Paquet .-History:The band members have known each other since the age of...

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History

The group had the idea to form the group while car pooling to ball hockey. While initially it was just going to be a faux hip-hop act, they started doing DJ sets around Montreal, eventually putting together a live show.

After doing a few shows “freestyling”, someone had videotaped one of these shows, with Apsobibi doing a chorus about Montreal’s public bike system the Bixi

BIXI

Bixi is a public bicycle sharing system developed by the Public Bike System Company , which itself was set up by the parking authority of Montréal to create a modular bicycle sharing system for Montréal....

. A producer at CJAD in Montreal came across this video and asked if the band could do a studio version that they could play on the air. After shooting a video for the track, it went viral hitting 7,000 plays in two days and 38,000 to date. The song was seen as a local hit and was recognized nationally. The band played the Osheaga Festival

Osheaga Festival

The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival is a multi-day rock festival in Montreal, Quebec, that is held annually at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène every summer. The 2006 festival attracted a crowd of around 25,000 people. The second edition was held on September 8 and 9, 2007...

 that summer and were played on CBC Radio

CBC Radio

CBC Radio generally refers to the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which are outlined below.-English:CBC Radio operates three English language...

 and MusiquePlus

MusiquePlus

MusiquePlus is a Canadian French language Category A specialty channel owned by Astral Media operating from Montreal, Quebec.MusiquePlus is devoted to music and music related programming from various genres including pop, rock, RnB and focuses on a younger demographic than its sister station, MusiMax...

 as well. It was touted as Montreal’s “Song of the summer” as well.

The Bixi Anthem was named the #4 song of the year by the Montreal Gazette in their year-end wrapup.

The band have made mention of recording new Montreal themed songs. “We have a song called ‘J’imagine,’ about the golden era, if you will, of Montreal, from ’67 to ’76.” Future Shark said to the Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror is a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a circulation of 70,000, and reaches a quarter of a million readers per week. It is published by Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée....

 "You know, Nadja Comaneci scoring seven perfect 10s, the metro system, the Expos.”
The group would make “It’s BBQ Time” it’s next single, releasing it just in time for Saint-Jean-Baptiste on June 24, 2011. Despite it’s numerous references to Quebec culture, such as Labatt 50, Rock et Belles Oreilles

Rock et Belles Oreilles

Rock et Belles Oreilles, often referred to as R.B.O., was a Québécois radio and television comedy group that was very popular in the essentially French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec during the 1980s. Its name was a pun on the name of the famous Hanna-Barbera blue dog character Huckleberry...

 and wearing Montreal Alouettes

Montreal Alouettes

The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.The current franchise named the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions...

merchandise in the video, the track was deemed a commercial failure, not being able to live up to the Bixi Anthem standard.

Members

• Dark Science – Vocals
• Future Shark – Vocals
• Apsobibi - R&B Vocals
• Ripples - Production & Hype-Man

Music videos

• The Bixi Anthem (June 8, 2010)
  • Directed by Darren Curtis

• It’s BBQ Time (June 24, 2011)
  • Directed by Darren Curtis