Anticon
| Anticon | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Brendon Whitney Adam Drucker Jeff Logan David Madson James Brandon Best Tim Holland Yoni Wolf Baillie Parker Shaun Koplow |
| Genre | Hip hop Indie rock Electronic |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Official Website | anticon.com |
Anticon (styled as anticon.) is a Los Angeles-based independent record label[1] founded in 1997.[2] It is collectively owned among six (of an original seven) founding artists and two managers.[3] The original musicians signed to Anticon were once 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 "trip-hop."[2] Releases feature material created by its members, affiliates, and extended musical family. Although Anticon cohered originally within alternative 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 also 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]
On February 9, 2010, founder and fellow rapper Tim "Sole" Holland left Anticon exclaiming that it is time to try to push forward and find new opportunities. Holland does leave assurance that this is a progressive decision and has nothing to do with his love for Anticon. "There are no ill feelings between myself and members of anticon. I will continue to work with many of the artists and will always love them as brothers and consider them allies." [1]
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[edit] Artists linked to Anticon
Anticon records is owned by the following artists and two managers:
- Alias (Brendon Whitney)
- Doseone (Adam Drucker)
- Jel (Jeff Logan)
- Odd Nosdam (David Madson)
- Pedestrian (James Brandon Best)
- Why?
- Baillie Parker
- Shaun Koplow
(Co-founder and former manager Sole (Tim Holland) officially renounced his 1/8 of ownership and formal affiliations on February 9, 2010.)[6]
Anticon's current roster of active artists and groups include:
- 13 & God (Project between The Notwist and Themselves)
- Alias & Tarsier (Brendon Whitney and Rona Rapadas)
- Alias
- Anathallo
- Baths
- Bike for Three (a collaboration including Buck 65 and Greetings from Tuskan)
- Bracken (Chris Adams)
- DJ Mayonnaise (Chris Greer)
- Dosh (Martin Dosh)
- Odd Nosdam
- Passage (David Bryant)
- Restiform Bodies (Passage, Bomarr & Telephone Jim Jesus)
- Serengeti
- SJ Esau
- Son Lux (Ryan Lott)
- Telephone Jim Jesus (George Chadwick)
- Thee More Shallows
- Tobacco
- Why? (Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf, Doug McDiarmid [plus Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson in live performances])
Artists that have contributed in the past but are no longer active on the label are Buck 65, Sixtoo, Sage Francis, Slug (of Atmosphere) and Sole and the Skyrider Band.
[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, Rusty Trombone, Tarsier, Mike Patton, Beyond Space Entertainment on 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 and Odd Nosdam)
- Deep Puddle Dynamics (Sole, Doseone & Alias, with Slug of Atmosphere)
- Restiform Bodies (Passage, Telephone Jim Jesus and The Bomarr Monk)
- Themselves (Doseone, Jel and when performing live, Dax Pierson)
- 13 & God (Doseone, Jel and Dax Pierson of Themselves, with Markus Acher, Micha Acher and Martin Gretschmann of The Notwist)
- Greenthink (Doseone and Why?)
- Subtle (Doseone, Jel, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort and Marty Dowers)
- Hymie's Basement (Why? and Andrew Broder of Fog)
- Reaching Quiet (Why? and Odd Nosdam)
- Sole and the Skyrider Band (Sole)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] Anticon
- Anticon—Official Web site
- 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
- Anticon label playlist at Spotify
[edit] Individual artists
- Official Web site of Dosh
- Official Web site of Sole
- Doseone Gigastore
- Subtle
- Official Web site of Dj Mayonnaise
- Restiform Bodies
- Official Web site of TOBACCO
