Anticon.

Infobox record label
name = anticon.


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founded = 1997
founder = Brendon Whitney Adam Drucker Jeff Logan David Madson James Brandon Best Tim Holland Yoni Wolf Baillie Parker
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genre = Hip hop Indie rock Electronic
country = USA
location = Oakland, California, USA
url = [http://www.anticon.com/ anticon.com]

anticon. is a San Francisco Bay Area independent record label [ [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=129 Stylus magazine feature] ] founded in 1997. [http://wm04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jcfoxqr0ldke~T1 Allmusic profile of anticon.] ] It is collectively owned among seven founding artists and one manager. [ [http://discorder.citr.ca/features/05febdoseone.html Discorder Doseone article] ] 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." 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 [ [http://wc.arizona.edu/papers/98/218/04_8.html Arizona Daily Wildcat - Indie plus rap equals Why? - Tuesday, November 10, 2005 ] ] 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. [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42722-anticon-artists-exhibit-art-release-records-tour Pitchfork Media news article] ]

Artists linked to anticon.

anticon. records is owned by the following artists and one manager:
* Alias (Brendon Whitney)
* Doseone (Adam Drucker)
* Jel (Jeff Logan)
* Odd Nosdam (David Madson)
* Pedestrian (James Brandon Best)
* Sole (Tim Holland)
* Why? (Yoni Wolf)
* Baillie Parker

anticon. record's current roster of active artists and groups:
* 13 & God (Project between The Notwist and Themselves)
* Alias & Tarsier (Brendon Whitney and Rona Rapadas)
* Alias
* Anathallo
* Bracken (Chris Adams)
* DJ Mayonnaise (Chris Greer)
* Dosh (Martin Dosh)
* Odd Nosdam
* Passage (David Bryant)
* Restiform Bodies (Passage, Bomarr & Telephone Jim Jesus)
* SJ Esau
* Sole and the Skyrider Band
* Son Lux (Ryan Lott)
* Telephone Jim Jesus (George Chadwick)
* Thee More Shallows
* Why? (Yoni Wolf)

Artists that have contributed in the past but are no longer active on the label are Buck 65, Sage Francis and Slug (of Atmosphere).

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.

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)

See also

* Abstract hip hop
* Alternative hip hop
* Indie rock
* List of record labels

External links

anticon.

* [http://www.anticon.com/ Anticon.—Official Web site]
* [http://www.store.anticon.com Anticon's official online store]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Anticon anticon] at Discogs
* [http://www.myspace.com/anticon Anticon] at MySpace
* [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=129 Anticon profile] at Stylus Magazine
* [http://www.bandwidthconference.com/parker.html Profile of Baillie Parker]
* [http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2550500 Anticon interview] at Drowned in Sound

Individual artists

* [http://www.doshfamily.com/ Official Web site] of Dosh
* [http://www.soleone.org/ Official Web site] of Sole
* [http://www.astropitch.com/doseone Doseone Gigastore]
* [http://www.subtle6.com/ Subtle]
* [http://www.djmayonnaise.com/ Official Web site] of Dj Mayonnaise
* [http://www.restiformbodies.com/ Restiform Bodies]

References