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Artist: ALIAS Title: Collected Remixes
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 ABR0071LP
Price: $16.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 5/7/07
Artist: ALIAS Title: Collected Remixes
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ABR0071CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 5/7/07
***Tripping back through Aliasi discography, one canit deny that Brendon Whitney is a man on a mission. Over six full-length albums, several EPs and numerous collaborations, Alias has been, well, for lack of a more artful term, diversifying. With the release of Collected Remixesoa hand-picked compilation of Aliasis greatest work as a remix artistothere need be no question: Alias owns a damn respectable portfolio. Collected Remixes features tracks from a diverse group of successful artists: One AM Radio, John Vanderslice, Lucky Pierre, Giardini Di Miro, Sixtoo, Lali Puna, Christ., Lunz, and Boy in Static, with Anticonis own Yoni Wolf (Why?) dropping by to perform on a lost jam session from 13 & God.

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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Artist: ALIAS Title: Eyes Closed
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 ABR0033
Price: $6.75 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 7/21/03
Artist: ALIAS Title: Eyes Closed
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ABR0033CD
Price: $6.75 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 7/21/03
***The eyes closed EP is five beautifully arranged instrumental songs of filtered polyrhythmic percussion, fat chopped drums, droney synths, pretty string samples and some TV and radio overdubs with anti-imperialist / anti-consumer sentiments. Each of the five tracks stands alone, a four-minute electronic pocket symphony with movements and themes, while smoothly transitioning into the next. A departure from early sample-heavy, loop-based alias productions, tracks laden with washy keyboards and eerie guitar rely more on alias's multi-instrumental talents. Lying somewhere between ambient Brian Eno and Kraftwerk, eyes closed seems akin to Boards of Canada or early Aphex Twin while maintaining some of the boom bap of roots hiphop-- at the same time rainy day contemplative and rhythmically menacing.

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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Artist: ALIAS Title: Muted
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 ABR0036
Price: $13.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 10/20/03
Artist: ALIAS Title: Muted
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ABR0036CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 10/20/03
***alias is the humble and once unsung, seminal iron man of anticon-- an avenger of the producer/rapper type, whose music sounds his own at the turn of every instant. Former Live Poet and sole's oldest partner in rhyme, alias left Portland, Maine, to shed skin for his California wingspan. Composing music for his deepest shades, he drops his anchor as an irrefutable jack of all trades.

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.

Artist: ALIAS Title: The Other Side Of The Looking Glass
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 ABR022
Price: $13.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 5/20/02
Artist: ALIAS Title: The Other Side Of The Looking Glass
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ABR022CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 5/20/02
***The humble godfather of goth-hop and once-unsung seminal ironman of anticon, alias avenges the downtrodden and abused producer-rapper. Composing music from his deepest shades, this irrefutable jack of all trades drops anchor with a debut solo full length intended to serve as hiphop's response to a Stevie Wonder record, with virtually all writing, composition, and production created by the artist himself. This collection of introspective lyrics rapped over ethereal, minor-chord drones, dark samples, and aggressive, dubbed-out drum beats was recorded in home studios between December 1998 and October 2001. The production is rainy-day contemplative and rhythmically menacing, and the mixes sound simultaneously calculated and spontaneous. As a complete record, the other side of the looking glass is serious and consistent, leaving the listener on the see-through side of a two-way-mirror with a clear sense of what it is to be alias.
Artist: ALIAS Title: Unseen Sights
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 ABR0037
Price: $6.75 Label: Anticon
Release
Date:		 3/8/04
***alias's follow-up 12-inch to his critically acclaimed Muted record features Markus Acher of The Notwist and pedestrian. Both tracks demonstrate alias's compositional talent and flexibility as he blurs the lines between several music genres. In a addition to the title track and "The Physical Voice," the single also features two new exclusive instrumental tracks by alias: "Autumn Afternoons" and "Something Borrowed," as well as exclusive instrumentals of both "Unseen Sights" and "The Physical Voice."

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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