anticon.
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| anticon. | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Brendon Whitney Adam Drucker Jeff Logan David Madson James Brandon Best Tim Holland Yoni Wolf Baillie Parker |
| Genre | Hip Hop Indie Rock Electronic |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Location | Oakland, California, USA |
| Official website | anticon.com |
anticon. is a San Francisco Bay Area independent record label[1] founded in 1997.[2] It is collectively owned among seven founding artists and one manager.[3] The musicians signed to anticon are referred to as the anticon collective.
The label's roster of artists has been described as "the hip-hop equivalent of post-rock," and "avant-garde hip-hop, also called avanthop."[2] Releases feature material created by its members, affiliates, and extended musical family. Although anticon cohered originally within abstract hip hop circles, anticon's founders have become only tangentially related to hip-hop music, and the label has in recent years begun releasing music in the indie rock and electronica genres. Artists signed to anticon are based on the west coast, the east coast, the midwest, and Canada, and the label has recently signed artists in the UK.
The artists within the collective have been known to perform and release music in solo and group form. Artists on the label are known for frequent collaboration, both within and outside of their own collective. However, the anticon collective has over time evolved into a group of separate artists who, despite sharing a similar progressive and often challenging[4] indie quality, explore different styles of music including electronica and rock. Many of the artists on anticon are signed to multiple labels, and some have their own small, independent labels through which they have self-released material.
Anticon has also organized art exhibitions featuring visual art by several of the artists on the label.[5]
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[edit] Artists linked to anticon
Anticon records is owned by the following artists and one manager:
- Sole (Tim Holland)
- Alias (Brendon Whitney)
- Doseone (Adam Drucker)
- Jel (Jeff Logan)
- Odd Nosdam (David Madson)
- Pedestrian (James Brandon Best)
- Why? (Yoni Wolf)
- Baillie Parker
Anticon record's current roster of active artists and groups:
- Passage (David Bryant)
- Restiform Bodies (Passage, The Bomarr Monk & Telephone Jim Jesus)
- Bracken (Chris Adams)
- Dosh (Martin Dosh)
- Alias & Tarsier (Brendon Whitney and Rona Rapadas)
- Telephone Jim Jesus (George Chadwick)
- 13 & God (Project between The Notwist and Themselves)
- SJ Esau
- Thee More Shallows
- DJ Mayonnaise (Chris Greer)
- Odd Nosdam (David Madson)
- Sole and the Skyrider Band
- Alias
- Son Lux (Ryan Lott)
Artists that have contributed in the past but are no longer active on the label are Buck 65, Sage Francis and Slug (of Atmosphere).
[edit] Collaborators
Several other artists are currently, or have been, closely associated with anticon: Dax Pierson, Slug and Ant (members of Minneapolis-based Atmosphere), Darc Mind, Mr Dibbs, DJ Signify, Eyedea, DJ Abilities, J. Rawls, Moodswing9, Circus, Controller7, Boom Bip, JD Walker, Josh Martinez, Sixtoo, Matth, Fog (Andrew Broder), Hood, Hrvatski, Electric Birds, John Herndon (Grapedope/Tortoise), Stefanie Bohm (Ms. John Soda), Jessica Bailiff, Tarsier, Mike Patton Beyond Space Entertainment Beyond Space Presents Vol. 1 and Boards of Canada.
[edit] Projects
The anticon collective is known for its many musical projects. Interestingly, not all of these projects are released through the anticon label; artists within the anticon collective have released collaborative and/or concept albums through different labels or through their own independent labels, and the group Subtle has enjoyed success on the Lex records label.
Some notable projects of the anticon collective include the following:
- cLOUDDEAD (Why?, Doseone & Odd Nosdam)
- Deep Puddle Dynamics (Sole, Doseone & Alias, with Slug of Atmosphere)
- Restiform Bodies (Passage, Telephone Jim Jesus & The Bomarr Monk)
- Themselves (Doseone, Jel and when performing live, Dax Pierson)
- 13 & God (Doseone, Jel & Dax Pierson of Themselves, with Markus Acher, Micha Acher & Martin Gretschmann of The Notwist)
- Greenthink (Doseone & Why?)
- Subtle (Doseone, Jel, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort & Marty Dowers)
- Beyond Space Presents Vol. 1 (Sole, Odd Nosdam, Passage, Alias, Telephone Jim Jesus & The Bomarr Monk)
- Hymie's Basement (Why? & Andrew Broder of Fog)
- Reaching Quiet (Why? & Odd Nosdam)
- Sole and the Skyrider Band (Sole)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] Anticon
- Anticon.—Official Web site
- unofficial anticon lyrics website
- Anticon's official online store
- anticon at Discogs
- Anticon at MySpace
- Anticon profile at Stylus Magazine
- Profile of Baillie Parker
- Anticon interview at Drowned in Sound
