Interview with Ceschi Ramos by Rajbot for Ugsmag.com. Peace to La2TheBay, Link
What was the publishing company you planned to start originally and how did it transform into the label?
Well, when They Hate Francisco False came out it was my first time getting some serious college radio play, plus Toca was coming out and i got licensed for some Paintball videos (??) and B-Movies so I figured I should take advantage of the new exposure and start a publishing company which would pay me meager amounts anytime that shit was played. It’s rather hard to come up with a name that’s acceptable – ASCAP asked for like 5 different names and they chose Fake Four Music. The name is a reference to Fake Flowers and Four Fingers (I have 4 fingers on my right hand) – and “Fake For Music” was like a little joke about the industry. For a couple of years it was just my publishing company – but in early 2008 Tony from Squids Eye Records in Dayton, Ohio presented me with a p+d deal of sorts in which he would manufacture and distribute any album my brother and I wanted to put out under Fake Four. Around that same time our friends at Grimm Image Records in San Bernardino, CA were setting up shop and were already funding some of my brother David’s This Up Here project but they didn’t have any distribution or anything official set up so we thought it would be best to collaborate on the release and put it out as Fake Four/Grimm Image. This was the official beginning of our label. Since that release we’ve become a completely self sufficient label, we are exclusively distributed in Canada by Sonic Unyon and this past summer we signed an exclusive distribution deal with Redeye Distribution for the US/World.