Themselves / Aiff's - The No Music Of Aiff's

Anticon

themselves are doseone and jel. doseone is the nowhere man out to make the world small and something lovely of his neurosis, who skipped Cincinnati town for somewhere more dreamt in the dust of a marketing degree. He's an artist who is free of form and slave to his own scatterbrained genius. jel is the drum-machine's premiere musician, whose distinct few-bit sound and rhythmic sensibility render him coveted by vocalists far and wide. His frequent Chicago-to-Cincinnati sojourns to collaborate with doseone took a final turn when they removed themselves to California.  the no music of aiff's is the companion piece to the duo's September 2002 release, the no music, which was picked as a New York Times Top Ten record by Neil Strauss. The original has been remixed down to its smallest intestine and back toward the light until only the order of its tracks remains intact. The record features a new themselves song along with guest remixers Controller7 and matth, Hrvatski, why?, Hood, alias, A Grape Dope (John Herndon), Fog, odd nosdam, The Notwist and Electric Birds. The listening experience that follows is a personality-heavy splay of the thousand threads in every of sort of human music. Twelve diverse guest artists were selected in a real life lottery from an entire globe's worth of eligible home recordists. Each original track is reborn - re-contextualized and translated, through a new lens, unique to each of the guest artist's sensibilities - from Hood's noisy-fuzz madness, to the bright colors of A Grape Dope's (John Herndon's) extremely tweaked source sounds, to The Notwist's relentless melodic pop organism. Heard from a new perspective, the coloring, shading and textures added and/or removed by each guest forces a marriage of obscure pallets and eccentric tastes into an entirely new, several-second-long adventure. Elements that were previously nascent are now vibrant and pulsing and vice versa. If you've heard the no music, listening to the no music of aiff's is like remembering a song you might have heard somewhere, but this time you're on the other side of the world and in a kitchen instead of the basement, depending on the song and the remixer. The CD is enhanced with two music videos - visual remixes of "poison pit" and "you devil you," directed by Ravi Zupa. the no music of aiff's offers an eerie and pleasantly eccentric intimacy that permeates this collage of a collage of a collage. The end result of the record is the gladdening of aging and the erosion of the everyday genres the artists involved are generally filed under, all the while maintaining a consistent bedroom-  sometimes… good music can lead to good people, or music is what friends are for… or something like that.  * Features guest artists Controller7 and matth, Hrvatski, why?, Hood, alias, A Grape Dope / John Herndon, Fog, odd nosdam, The Notwist, and Electric Birds  * The no music is critically acclaimed, a "Best of the Year Top Ten" pick in the New York Times  * Full press and college radio servicing  * Enhanced CD with two music videos by Ravi Zupa  * Full fall tour planned for the fall

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