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Most impressively, this collection of import-only, lost or limited release tracks plays like an album, each song the proud new owner of the Alias trademark: that alternately searing and frostbitten production, reverberating and crunchy, built of considered keystrokes, finely cut click ini pop, guitar pickings, and drum machine ballistics. With yet another accomplishment in his weighty profile, Alias returns to the studio in 2007 to craft a new solo instrumental LP.

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go to iTunes to browse downloads for Alias "Collected Remixes"

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A former member of Deep Puddle Dynamics and The Live Poets, alias has collaborated with every member of the anticon roster, Slug of Atmosphere, Sage Francis, DJ Krush, and The Notwist. He has toured the world, performing with such acts as The Roots, Dalek, Freestyle Fellowship, and Kid 606. Composing music from his deepest shades, alias is a jack of all trades wringing out his heart in song.

• Follows on the heels of his successful full length other side of the looking glass; teaser to upcoming electronic/hip hop instrumental full length featuring Markus Acher of The Notwist (among other guests)
  
• Producer behind the majority of sole's selling live water, including popular banger "Plutonium," other sole "classics" such as "Bottle of Humans," and the Sage Francis favorite "Message Sent"
  
• Former member in Deep Puddle Dynamics with Slug of Atmosphere, sole and doseone of anticon
  

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Eyes Closed
  What Used to Be
  Must Consume
  Dec. 26th, 2002
  Things Got a Little Ugly

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  alias "eyes closed ep" (anticon)
  

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Part Brian Eno and part Kraftwerk, muted is akin to Boards of Canada or early Aphex Twin while maintaining some of the boom bap roots of hiphop. alias uses muted to explore (and at times parody) the "boundaries" between what is considered hiphop and what is considered electronica. Tracks exaggerate and underline these distinctions, but the approaches are so closely fused, it's not clear where one begins and the other ends.

Sonically, muted is a departure from early, sample-heavy, loop-based alias productions, instead relying more on his multi-instrumental talents on guitar and keyboard. The album's soundscapes are driven by chopped drums and laden with washy keyboards, eerie guitar chords, gritty fuzz and droney synths. muted demonstrates alias's compositional talent and his flexibility. He sounds equally at home providing the melancholy backing for Markus Acher's (The Notwist) plaintive, crooning on "unseen sights," as he does supporting the staccato raps of the pedestrian (anticon) on "the physical voice." The result is a moody, intimate and, at times, dark record that is both rainy-day contemplative and rhythmically menacing, all the while maintaining its cohesiveness.

• Producer behind most of sole's selling live water, "plutonium," and "bottle of humans," and the Sage Francis favorite "Message Sent"
  
• The instrumental follow up to the well received other side of the looking glass
  
• Former member of deep puddle dynamics
  
• Guest vocalists Markus Acher of The Notwist and the pedestrian of anticon
  
• World tour planned for late fall 2003
  
• File under hiphop 'A' and electronic 'A'

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Beginagain
  Sixes Last
  Again for the First Time
  Unseen Sights (w/Markus Acher)
  Shoes, Cars, and Soft Drinks
  Caged In, Wasting Away
  Full Circle Blues
  I Would Like to Write a Song that....
  Am I Cool Now?
  Chew the Fat
  The Physical Voice (w/Pedestrian)
  One Obvious Rule
  Lost Friend Advice
  [Hidden Mystery Bonus Track]

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  Alias "Muted"

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Perhaps owing to his recent experience crafting collaborative LPs (in 2006 with electro-pop chanteuse Tarsier; in 2005 with his multi-instrumentalist brother Ehren), this is Alias' most melodic work yet. Static, keys, and his own oohs create loads of mellifluous depth. There are also three one-minute-plus explorations into the purely ambient-- new territory for Alias-- that play more as miniature opuses than interludes.

But Resurgam is also an album of heavy, intricate rhythms, as evidenced by introductory banger "New To A Few," and "M.G. Jack," which begins with the cool asceticism of Boards Of Canada, but peaks with an Avalanches-like exuberance, interweaving patterns of distorted beat-boxing, live percussion, Casio-styled effects, and burbling synth. For all its melodic breadth, Resurgam is imbued with a hip-hop bent that has Alias exploring complex beat-fuckery a la Prefuse 73 even as he's howling notes like Tunde Adibempe, or dicing a Re-Up Gang sample to sprinkle over pensive piano.

Resurgam is also notable for its two collaborative tracks. "Well Water Black" features the falsettos croons and low-toned poems of Why?'s Yoni Wolf-- a perfect bit of upbeat downer music that somehow unites The Cure and Burial before crashing into a propulsive, programmed drum solo from Alias. And toward the album's end, The One AM Radio guests on "The Weathering," which paints a wistful dream-scene via icy lyrics and frost-melting fuzz. Though Resurgam was recorded at home, in a six-month burst straddling a blustery winter, its songs feel worldly, considered, and warm, like gentle hands pushing the listener ever onward. By Alias' final wordless statement-- titled "Oakland In The Rearview"-- it's easy to believe that we too have arrived at more comforting climes.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

New To A Few
I Heart Drum Machines
Well Water Black (Featuring WHY?)
Oakland Morning
M.G. Jack
Prelude To A Death Watch
Death Watch
Place Of No More Choices
Resurgam
Autumnal Ego
Weathering (Featuring The One AM Radio)
Justamachine
Oakland In The Rearview

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Go to iTunes to browse downloads for ALIAS "Resurgam"

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• The heavily anticipated debut by the producer responsible for numerous anticon classics such as sole's Bottle of Humans and "Divine Disappointment" on Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop
  
• Features doseone of anticon & cLOUDDEAD
  
• alias has performed with The Roots, Freestyle Fellowship, DJ Krush, DJ Spooky, Mr. Dibbs, Living Legends, Sage Francis, Dälek, Blechdom From Blectom

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Begin
  Jovial Costume
  Angel of Solitude
  Dying to Stay
  Getting By (version 2)
  Arrival
  Watching Water
  Opus Ashamed feat. Dose
  Black Tea
  Inspirations Passing
  Pill Hiding
  Slow Motion People
  Final Act

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  Sole "Bottle of Humans"

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One hears stylistic traces in Muted of drum-and-bass, dub, and jazz but, of course, the primary allegiances are to electronica and hip hop. The aural evidence suggests that Alias's listening regimen includes Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, although many tracks sound closer in spirit and approach to that of Amon Tobin, the primary difference being the greater hip hop dimension of Alias's music. Both Tobin and Alias are distinguished by the exceptional construction skills they exhibit in building their compositionally rich tracks from a vast array of samples and loops. The tracks on Muted encompass an impressively range of styles, all of which Alias expertly handles with versatility and aplomb. --Ron Schepper, absorb.org

TRACK LISTING:

1. Unseen Sights (w/ Markus Acher)
2. Unseen Sights (instrumental)
3. Autumn Afternoons
4. The Physical Voice (w/ pedestrian)
5. The Physical Voice (instrumental)
6. Something Borrowed

• Features Markus Acher of The Notwist and pedestrian of anticon (producer behind most of sole's selling live water, including the hit "plutonium")
  
• Two brand new exclusive instrumental tracks

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