Alias (artist)

For the hard rock band, see Alias (band).

Alias
Birth name	Brendon Whitney
Genres	Hip hop, Indie hip hop, Underground hip hop, Alternative hip hop
Years active	1996 – present
Labels	Anticon Strange Famous Records
Associated acts	Sole, Doseone, Sage Francis, Odd Nosdam, Jel, Why?, Pedestrian, Passage, Sixtoo, Buck 65, B. Dolan, Slug, Ehren Whitney, Tarsier, DJ Mayonaisse
Website	[www.anticon.com]

Brendon Whitney, known as Alias, is an abstract hip hop musician and producer. He is mainly affiliated with the anticon. label/collective.

Biography

Alias is originally from Portland, Maine. He moved to the West Coast in 1999 to work on building the Anticon label, as well as to focus on his music. He returned home to Portland, Maine in August 2007.

Style

Alias originally performed as a rapper alongside Sole in the group Live Poets. He also produced songs, but would still rap over another producer's work.

Later on, as Alias began working with Anticon, he produced tracks for most of the major artists on the label. In 2002, he released The Other Side Of The Looking Glass, a record he produced and rapped on. After that, Alias moved away from rapping to focus solely on production, releasing the instrumental albums Muted and All Things Fixable. His production work also moved away from sampling and began to involve more synthesizers and self-played instrumentation such as guitar.

In 2008, Alias released the album "Resurgam", after the Portland city motto, which is Latin for "I shall rise again". "Well Water Black", which features Yoni Wolf of WHY?, was a popular song from the album but was never officially released as a single.

Discography

Albums

• The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? (1999)
  • w/ Sole, Doseone & Slug, as Deep Puddle Dynamics
• Three Phase Irony (2001)
• Paint by Number Songs (2001)
  • w/ Sole & DJ Mayonnaise, as So-Called Artists
• We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes) (2002)
  • w/ Sole, Doseone & Slug, as Deep Puddle Dynamics
• The Other Side of the Looking Glass (2002)
• Eyes Closed EP (2003)
• Muted (2003)
• All Things Fixable (2005)
• Lillian (2005)
  • w/ Ehren Whitney, as Alias & Ehren
• Brookland/Oaklyn (2006)
  • w/ Tarsier
• Plane That Draws a White Line (2006)
  • w/ Tarsier
• Resurgam (2008)
• Resurgam Residual EP (2008)
• Fever Dream (2011)
• All Things Fixable 2.0 (2011)

Compilations

• Collected Remixes (2007)

Production credits

• Fallen House, Sunken City (2010)

External links

• Biography on Southern.net
• Alias at MySpace
• Interview with The Skinny, September 2007