Anticon

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anticon is a collective of musicians, based in Oakland, California as well as an independent record label owned equally among seven founding artists and one manager, and releases material created by its members, affiliates, and extended musical family. anticon cohered originally within experimental rap circles based on both coasts, the midwest, and Canada, though many of the artists on anticon--Why?, 13 & God, and Dosh, most significantly--are, by now, only tangentially related to hip-hop. They are known for frequent collaboration within and without their own collective and have, over time, evolved into a group of separate artists that, despite exploring various different styles of music including electronica and rock, all share a similar progressive, and often challenging, indie quality. The artists within the collective have been known to perform and release music in solo and group form.

Members

Formally, anticon consists of the following eight members: (listed with pseudonym first, real name in parenthesis)

Alias (Brendan Whitney)
Doseone (Adam Drucker)
Jel (Jeff Logan)
Odd Nosdam (David Madson)
Passage (David Bryant)
Pedestrian (James Brandon Best)
Sole (Tim Holland)
Why? (Yoni Wolf, whose band of the same name also includes Matt Meldon, Josiah Wolf, and Doug McDiarmid)

However, several other artists, including Buck 65, Sage Francis, Slug (member of Minneapolis based Atmosphere), Dibbs, Dj Signify, Ant (member of Minneapolis based Atmosphere,) Eyedea, DJ Abilities, J.Rawls, Dj Mayonnaise, Moodswing9, Circus, Controller7, Boom Bip, JD Walker, Josh Marinez, Sixtoo, Matth, Fog (Andrew Broder), Hood, Hrvatski, Electric Birds, John Herndon (Grapedope/Tortoise), Stefanie Bohm (Ms. John Soda), Jessica Bailiff, Tarsier, Mike Patton, and Boards of Canada are or have been closely associated with anticon in the past, and have collaborated with anticon.

Some notable projects of anticon include cLOUDDEAD (Why?, Doseone, and Odd Nosdam), Deep Puddle Dynamics (Sole, Slug, Doseone, and Alias), Restiform Bodies (Passage, Telephone Jim Jesus, The Bomarr Monk), Themselves (Dose One, Jel and when performing live, Dax Pierson), 13 & God (Dose One, Jel, and Dax of Themselves, with Markus Acher, Micha Acher and Martin Gretschmann of The Notwist), Greenthink (Dose One & Why?), Subtle (Dose One, Jel, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort and Marty Dowers) and Hymie's Basement (Why? and Fog).

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Anticon

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