Anticon

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Anticon ( spelling anticon. ) Is an independent label from the coastal region of San Francisco and was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and today's manager Baillie Parker. The name Anticon stands for "anti-conventional", or "anti-conformity" or "ant-icon", which is to be understood as a play on words in relation to the Anticons logo, a silhouette of an ant .

The artists within the Anticon collective perform both in groups and as soloists, and often collaborate with other artists inside and outside the collective. Many members belong to multiple labels , some even have their own small independent label through which they publish their own works. Not least because of this great influence of different musicians and styles to anticon has a group of artists, most of which originated in the hip-hop - Genre , have widely diversified with music style and strong influences from electronica , folk and indie rock developed. Although Anticon's musical spectrum can no longer be described in terms of a genre, they are still considered the founders of avant-garde hip-hop .

history

The individual members come from all over the USA and met over the Internet in the mid-1990s. They shared an interest in a very specific form of hip-hop music. By e-mail and chat , they exchanged among themselves and gathered in this way over the years a lot of material on.

In 1998, Sole, Doseone , Alias and Slug met in person for the first time and recorded their first album together in just two days, for which they called themselves " Deep Puddle Dynamics " and which was released in 1999 on the label Anticon founded in-house. The first solo albums appeared shortly afterwards. Hemispheres by Doseone was the first to appear on Funksion / 1200 Hobos in 1998.

Some of them, Sole, Jel , Alias ​​and DJ Mayonnaise moved to East Oakland in the Bay Area together . A very experimental and innovative hip-hop scene already existed there at the end of the 90s. Numerous albums have been released since then. Most are considered to be trend-setting for independent hip-hop.

Members

Anticon Records was founded by the following musicians:

Other artists currently releasing through Anticon are:

Artists who used to work but are no longer active at Anticon: Buck 65 , Sage Francis , Eyedea and Atmosphere .

Collaborators

Many other musicians are either currently or have previously contributed to the work of Anticon artists: Dax Pierson, Slug and Ant (members of Atmosphere), 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 and Boards of Canada .

Projects

The Anticon collective is also known for its many musical projects, which, interestingly, do not appear on their own labels, but on friendly labels or even on the small labels of the respective artists. An example of this is the Subtle group, which is celebrating great success on the Lex Records label .

Some of these projects are

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stylus magazine
  2. ↑ a b http://www.anticon.com/
  3. ↑ Martin Büsser: internet: All power to computers . In: The time . No. 51/2003 ( online ).