Kill the Vulture

Oddjobs was a white hip-hop group from Minnesota (producers Stephen "Anatomy" Lewis and Devon "DJ Deetalx" Callahan with rappers Alexei "Crescent Moon" Casselle, Adam "Advizer" Waytz and Mario "Nomi" Demira), an emanation of the collective CMI (Cases Of Mistaken Identity) that included graffiti writers and break dancers. In 1999 Advizer and Deetalx moved to New York to attend school. Nonetheless the group released the albums Conflict and Compromise (1999), Drums (2001), which contains their underground hit Blue Collar Holler, and Expose Negative (2005), produced by Deetalx without Anatomy.

After the group broke up, Advizer pursued an academic career at the University of Chicago, Nomi and DJ Deetalx formed Power Struggle that released Arson At The Petting Factory (2005), while Anatomy (a buff of jazz music) and Crescent Moon formed Kill the Vulture that debuted with the albums Kill the Vulture (2005), in a vein that wed punk, jazz and hip-hop, and The Careless Flame (2006). The jazz influence was stronger on the six-song EP Midnight Pine (2007). They were still a duo on Ecce Beast (2009) and Carnelian (2015).