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= BRAIN A = Will Currier (born August 17, 1984) known professionally as BRAIN A, is an American artist, music producer and singer-songwriter based in New Mexico. He has worked with Awol One, Mr. Dibbs, Myka 9, Sadat X, N8NOFACE & more

Early Life
Currier was born the youngest of three sibling in 1984, in “a little geodesic dome” his father built in Southern Illinois. By the time Currier turned three, his father had taken his own life, prompting his mother to secure public housing. “My earliest memories are by the train tracks, then the trailer park,” he says. In 1993, his family moved to Chandler, Arizona to be as close as possible to his ailing grandfather in Southern New Mexico—and the neighboring state was the closest she could find work. Currier considers his grandfather on mythic terms, “He grew up in the Great Depression and hopped trains, singing for his super playing folk and blues before he started serving in the military and went MIA as a POW in Korea” he says, noting that his grandfather and uncle taught him his first songs on the guitar, instructing him how to play a 12-bar blues when he was 10. It failed to keep Currier out of trouble though, and in his teenage years he fell in with bad crowds. “Our house burned down my first year of high school, setting us back to zero again,” he says, noting struggles with mental illness in the aftermath.

But it was in these years that Currier found his salvation. “My biggest outlet was always art and more specifically, music. I got my first drum machine towards the end of high school and piece by piece also started learning basic scratches on turntables and sampling based bedroom production styles.” Inspired by records like The Cramps’ Bad Music For Bad People, the self-titled Bad Brains, Brand Nubian’s One For All, Freestyle Fellowship’s “To Whom It May Concern” and eclectic sides by Roland Kirk, Leadbelly, Tangerine Dream, and Bob Dylan, Currier began reverse engineering what he heard, and applying his skills in the Phoenix hip-hop scene, where Currier found like-minded people and began working with artists he admired.

Career
For the last decade plus, Will “BRAIN A” Currier has cooked up a curiously genre-defiant blend of electronic music and post-punk drive, delivered with lo-fi hip-hop ease. Known for his work with cyberpunk artist N8NOFACE and now defunct instrumental outfit The Analog Sweat, Currier is currently holed up in his desert lab fine tuning work on a forthcoming project named BRAINFIEND, a collaboration with rapper Mykr Fiend X of the longest running hip-hop collective in Phoenix, The Avenue of the Arts Crew, which features collabs with Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship and Sadat X of Brand Nubian.

Discography
https://n8noface.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-songs-about-a-girl

https://n8noface.bandcamp.com/track/you-are-on-my-mind-2

https://n8noface.bandcamp.com/track/last-night

https://n8noface.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-get-your-car-door-2

https://ohmaota.bandcamp.com/track/verbal-latte-feat-ohm-blesd1

https://mrdibbs.bandcamp.com/track/all-thats-left-is-the-knife-brainabiding-x-n8noface-x-dibbs