Big Quarters

"Medium Zach" Bagaason | medium@bigquarters.com
Medium Zach is a Minneapolis‐based hip‐hop producer, performer and educator ‐ as well as
co‐founder of the Mexican‐American rap‐duo Big Quarters. Big Quarters' self‐produced debut album "Cost of Living" earned recognition as Best Hip‐Hop of 2007 by Star Tribune and Popmatters.com. Big Quarters' follow‐up "From the Home of Brown Babies & White Mothers" received acknowledgement as one of the Best Albums of 2009 by Star Tribune.
Medium Zach is a co‐founder of the Twin Cities only monthly hip‐hop production event "Last
of the Record Buyers" and former‐organizer of the TCCHH production battle from 2004 ‐
2007. Individual accolades include 3‐time Run Ya Jewelz Beat Battle Champion and Minneapolis' Big Tune semi‐finalist. Medium Zach, alongside Brandon Allday, developed a hip‐hop songwriting and production curriculum currently used with
young people in the Minneapolis YMCA. Past workshop and program sites include: La Oportunidad, Hope Community, Inter
District Downtown School, Minneapolis YMCA, Pillsbury United Communities and McNally Smith College of Music. As a producer, he's worked with Brother Ali, I Self Devine, Toki Wright, P.O.S, Sims, Musab, Power Struggle, Mankwe Ndosi and
Mux Mool. Medium Zach is currently teaching Hip‐Hop Music Production @ McNally Smith College of Music ‐ within the first fully accredited Hip‐Hop Studies Diploma program in the country. And prepping Big Quarters' 3rd studio album Party Like A Young Commie for a 2011 release.
"Brandon Allday" Bagaason | brandon@bigquarters.com
Brandon Allday is a Minneapolis‐based hip‐hop producer, performer and educator ‐ as well as co‐founder of the Mexican‐American rap‐duo Big Quarters. Big Quarters' self‐produced debut album "Cost of Living" earned recognition as Best Hip‐Hop of 2007 by Star Tribune and Popmatters.com. Big Quarters' follow‐up "From the Home of Brown Babies & White Mothers" received acknowledgement as one of the Best Albums of 2009 by Star Tribune. Brandon Allday is a co‐founder of the Twin Cities only monthly hip‐hop production event "Last of the Record Buyers".
Brandon Allday, alongside Medium Zach, developed a hip‐hop songwriting and production curriculum currently used with young people in the Minneapolis YMCA. Past workshop and program sites include: La Oportunidad, Hope Community, Inter District Downtown School, Minneapolis YMCA, Pillsbury United Communities and McNally Smith College of Music. Brandon Allday is currently teaching Hip‐Hop Music Production @ McNally Smith College of Music ‐ within the first fully accredited Hip‐Hop Studies Diploma program in the country. And prepping Big Quarters' 3rd studio album Party Like A Young Commie for a 2011 release.