I don't have shit to say and I haven't for a while. We're spread out in unfamiliar territory. The partially read stack of books grows higher; the things I have to learn is much longer list than the songs I'm listening to. To add that I'm underwhelmed with what I'm hearing; the signal to noise ratio in music is at an all time high. djnodj at conception was a irreverent and perhaps cynical voice of Tunawax which for a brief moment had the momentum... and then dissolved. Even the name djnodj was a jab at the imaginary coolness of music, [...]
Todos los caminos llevan a 13 & God . Basta con buscar en la compleja ruta creadora de Markus Acher (The Notwist) y Adam "Doseone" Drucker (Themselves, Subtle), para reconocer múltiples objetivos en el grupo, que acostumbra reunir en un solo volumen rock indie, rap y electrónica. Reconociendo a este combo como algo más que la simple suma de los proyectos que los entrecruzan y evitando los facilismos comparativos, 13 & God son una maravilla híbrida llena de sorpresas. Own your ghost es un retorno necesario, el eslabón perdido entre el pop melancólico de [...]
Ya les habíamos contado que Markus Acher (The Notwist), Doseone (Subtle) y compañía estaban tramando un nuevo álbum. Own Your Ghost , primer disco de la banda en seis años, ya está listo y saldrá oficialmente a la venta el 17 de mayo bajo el sello Alien Transistor . Para aminorar la espera, las diez canciones que componen el nuevo trabajo de 13 & God ya pueden escucharse en línea aquí . Haz click acá para ver el video
Photo by G. Art by 2wenty and Subtle, respectively. 2wenty (top), Subtle (bottom) Happy birthday to artist 2wenty who celebrates his birthday on the holiest of days - 420! 2wenty is an amazing Los Angeles based artist who is the talk of the streets after his "Facebook Social Cigarettes" street art was written up from LAist to Forbes Magazine! His art has been spotted across the country and I'm sure 365 days from now, 2wenty will have a lot more great news to celebrate. Congratulations and [...]
13th & God - "Old Age" MP3/download Ahhhh 13th & God, featuring members of Subtle, Themselves and Notwist ... kind of a disappointing project so far if you ask me, and this latest CUT isn't any different. Take it for ... Continue reading
17 de Mayo es la fecha tentativa para que salga a la venta Own Your Ghost (Anticon, 2011), el disco que traerá de regreso, luego de 6 años, a 13 & God , la superbanda formada por miembros Themselves, Subtle y The Notwist. Grabado por partes iguales en Alemania y Oakland, el tracklist de Own Your Ghost, según lo ventilado por el tenedor , sería el siguiente: 01 Its Own Sun 02 Death Major 03 Armored Scarves 04 Janu Are [...]
Subtle ExitingARM (Lex/Astralwerks, 2008) I find it quite tragic that ExitingARM seemed to be glazed over by so many, including Subtle fans. For me, the album represents the group’s smartest and best work; however, unfortunately, that also means that initial listens can be slightly difficult to penetrate. ExitingARM ’s cluster pop explosions can be a bit much for the uninitiated, but for those who give the songs time and attention, ExitingARM ’s spoils are virtually limitless. Experimental pop has never been so sprawling and chameleon, so multi-coloured and [...]
Subtle Wishingbone (Lex, 2006) One of the weird embarrassments of these kinds of lists is when you have multiple listings from one artist. I don’t know why it is embarrassing exactly. Maybe I think that by including so many albums from one artist that I’ve become some close minded fanboy, or that I just didn’t listen to that many albums from other artists (heaven knows that’s not true). I’m not sure what it is, but let this mark the first of multiple notches in this [...]
Hey, this came up when I typed "Top 10" into a search, honest ... The Album of the Week this time around is the Dark Was the Night comp, a fantastic addition to any discog and 3 slabs of wax, at that. My Top-10, as usual, stuck a "rock" base but bounded all over the place. Ginger Baker , The Traveling Wilburys , Subtle , [...]
Themselves –Dose One and Jel–are set to tour in support of CrownsDown , the group's new full-length out October 20 via Anticon. Currently touring Europe, starting November 19 the duo will hit venues across the U.S. with another hip-hop pair, Minneapolis' Eyedea & Abilities . CrownsDown features the helping hands of D-Styles, Dax Pierson and Jordan Dalrymple of Subtle and The Notwist's Markus Archer. It also marks a return to the basics; each track is modeled after classic rap themes such as the beloved diss track. The third full-length [...]
Themselves is producer Jel and rapper Doseone, who detach themselves from the Anticon hive mind to release their own ultra-fractalized riffs on hip-hop and experimental music. Their newest CrownsDown is built on the same frame as Nas and Gang Starr and to fit alongside Doseone’s side gig teaching kids how to rap. This interview by Matt Dupree.
Sometimes victory does taste sweet, and other times it tastes like $18.3 million. Subtle’s Dax Pierson was severely injured three years ago in a car accident, when his seat dislocated from the rest of the band’s E-350 van. Subtle was starting a tour to support A New White that was to take them through the States and Europe, when their vehicle hit a patch of black ice and flipped over twice in rural Iowa in February 2005. While the rest of his band mates escaped relatively unscathed [...]
Prolific hip hopsters Doseone and Jel have dusted off their Themselves project and created a new mixtape, entitled theFREEhoudini . As the title sort of suggests, it’s a free download (although there is a CD version, too. More on that in a sec). But what would a mixtape be without guests? Nothing, that’s what. So it’s lucky theFREEhoudini is packed full of them. Pretty much anyone you could name from the Anticon family is in there, including a very briefly reformed cLOUDEAD, as well as Buck 65, Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Lionesque, Slug Of Atmosphere, D-Styles, DJ Baku, [...]
Themselves (the project from doseone and Jeff "Jel" Logan ) released another Conan & Friends promo video. Pretty hilarious... Part III... ------------------------------ -------------------------- Official Site | MySpace | More MP3s | eMusic | Subscribe To RSS Feed | Follow MOKB on Twitter
Foto por danieluis. Este año bajé varios discos... y debo decir que, por desgracia, perdí mucho tiempo escuchando discos que no valieron la pena. Lo digo sinceramente: hubiese preferido escuchar menos discos, pero más contundentes, discos que descubrí demasiado tarde este año y que son trabajos maravillosos, adelantados a su tiempo y arriesgados. De todas maneras, creo que lo que elegí para
Foto por danieluis.Este año bajé varios discos... y debo decir que, por desgracia, perdí mucho tiempo escuchando discos que no valieron la pena. Lo digo sinceramente: hubiese preferido escuchar menos discos, pero más contundentes, discos que descubrí demasiado tarde este año y que son trabajos maravillosos, adelantados a su tiempo y arriesgados.De todas maneras, creo que lo que elegí para esta
I'm kind of picky about what I'll be attending this week. It looks as though Subtle at the Independent has my attention so far. However seeing Audrye Sessions and Cold War Kids would be nice. Too bad I have this full time job I have to keep up with. Anyway, if you're going to the KITS LIVE 105's NSSN 08 or the Pre-Party show (click the picture for tickets), try to make the local band showcase and check out Picture Atlantic and Dizzy Balloon at the ol' Cafe du Nord. [...]
There is a fantastic local lineup at The Independent next Friday, December 11, and The Bay Bridged wants you and a friend to go! Oakland's Subtle is headlining, and will be joined by Yoni Wolf (of Why? ) and Forrest Day . Download audio file (subtle_-_the_long_vein_of_the _law.mp3) Subtle - "The Long Vein of the Law" Subtle's unique brand of rap/rock, fronted by the amazing doseone, includes appearances by lots of [...]
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