Alias ​​(musician)

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Alias , real name Brendon Whitney , (born April 5, 1976 in Hollis , Maine , † March 30, 2018 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American rapper and producer in the fields of hip-hop and electronica . He was a founding member of the Anticon collective.

Life

Brendon Whitney was born in 1976 to an organist and a jazz musician. He was interested in music of all kinds from an early age, but there were few opportunities to pursue his interests in Hollis. His love for hip-hop was aroused by a television show on the US TV station NBC , which featured a few short rap video clips. Enthusiastic about this type of music, he started reading hip-hop magazines and received his first drum computer for Christmas 1992 .

From the age of seventeen Whitney began actively to rap and produce himself. He met several like-minded musicians and founded the group Deep Puddle Dynamics in 1998 together with Slug , Sole and DoseOne . A year after the group was founded, the group released their debut album, The Taste of Rain ... Why Kneel? via the Anticon label co-founded by Alias .

He died of a heart attack on March 30, 2018 at the age of 41 .

Musical creation

Own albums

In 2002 Alias' first and so far only rap album, The Other Side of the Looking Glass, was released via Anticon. Like most of the other Anticon releases, The Other Side of the Looking Glass is characterized by very abstract song structures and lyrics. The only feature guest is label colleague DoseOne from Themselves . The album can be assigned to alternative hip-hop .

In 2003 his second album Muted was released , also through Anticon. It is his first instrumental album. Keyboarder Dax Pierson, rapper The Pedestrian and singer Markus Acher from The Notwist provide guest contributions . The song Sixes Last is released as a single .

His third album Resurgam will be released in 2008. This is also an instrumental album. Guest posts come from Why? and The One AM Radio.

In 2011 his fourth album Fever Dream will be released via Anticon.

Projects with other musicians

Since the founding of Anticon, Alias ​​has made contributions to label samplers and studio albums from label colleagues. For example for the label sampler Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop 1998 or as a member of Deep Puddle Dynamics 1999.

Together with Sole and DJ Mayonnaise, the album Paint by Number Songs was released on Mush Records in 2001 under the project name So-Called Artists .

In 2005, an album by Alias ​​was released under the title Lillian in collaboration with his brother Ehren under the name Alias ​​& Ehren.

A year later, Alias ​​released the album Brookland / Oaklyn , created in collaboration with singer Tarsier, under the name Alias ​​& Tarsier.

In 2007 the album Collected Remixes was released , which is a compilation of remixes by Alias ​​for other artists.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 2002: The Other Side of the Looking Glass ( Anticon )
  • 2003: Muted (Anticon)
  • 2008: Resurgam (Anticon)
  • 2011: Fever Dream (Anticon)
  • 2014: Pitch Black Prism (Anticon)

EPs

  • 2002: Three Phase Irony Double EP (6months)
  • 2003: Eyes Closed EP (Anticon)
  • 2008: Resurgam Residual EP (Anticon)
  • 2014: Indiiggo EP (Anticon)

Remix albums and mix tapes

  • 2005: All Things Fixable (Goodwithmoney Recordings)
  • 2007: Collected Remixes (Anticon)
  • 2011: All Things Fixable 2.0 (Goodwithmoney Recordings)

Alias ​​& Honor

  • 2005: Lillian (Anticon)

Alias ​​& Tarsier

  • 2006: Brookland / Oaklyn (Anticon)

Deep Puddle Dynamics

  • 1999: The Taste of Rain ... Why Kneel? (Anticon)
  • 2002: We Ain't Fessin '(Double Quotes) (EP; Anticon)

So-called artists

  • 2001: Paint by Number Songs (Mush Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alias ​​on the Anticon website (English)
  2. ↑ Anticon founder Alias ​​is dead , accessed April 4, 2018
  3. ↑ "Muted" on discogs.com (English)
  4. ↑ Alias ​​on discogs.com (English)
  5. ^ "Alias ​​announces new LP" ( Memento from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Alias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whitney, Brendon (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rapper and producer specializing in hip-hop and electronica
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollis , Maine
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2018
Place of death Portland , Oregon