themselves are
Dose One and
Jel, from California.
Jel became familiar with dose through his good friend and radio partner, Kevin Beacham. But it wasn’t until early 1998 when some tapes were exchanged through mutual friend,
Mr. Dibbs, that the two realized their potential together. Soon after a few phone conversations, jel started making frequent sojourns from Chicago to Cincinnati to record with dose. The duo’s first couple of tracks ended up on dose’s first, self-released record
Hemispheres (1998). Then from April of 1998 to January of 1999 they solidified their chemistry, putting the tracks together that would end up on themselves’
Them. That same Spring dose and jel, along with
Slug of
Atmosphere and
Sole and
Alias of
Live Poets began recording
Deep Puddle Dynamics’s
The Taste Of Rain… Why Kneel. Out of that record, the concept of
Anticon was somewhere born — whose founding dose and jel would become an integral part of, later bringing them both to the
Bay Area.
Since then, both artists have continued to push boundaries, producing and collaborating on a range of work far outside the constructs of traditional genre forms. They’ve expanded their use and understanding of their equipment, as well as perfected their live performances. Their record,
the no music. (2002), involved the use of: an SP-1200, an MPC-2000, a Korg Poly 64 keyboard, some other shit, a Roland VS 880, Digital Performer, a Dr. Sample, various microphones, numerous household items and found objects and sounds. Recently the two of them have also expanded their roles in the group, both contributing vocals and production to
the no music.. They also added
Dax Pierson on keyboards, Dr. Sample, Theremin and back up vocals on many of their tracks, and to all of their live performances. Dax is essential in adding syncopation and a real time quality to the tracks.
Genre:
hip-hop,
anticon,
experimental,
hip hop,
electronic намериtorrent
