Anticon

Why?: Mumps, Etc.

CD / Anticon / 2012-10-30

Tracks: Jonathan's Hope; Strawberries; Waterlines; Thirteen On High; White English; Danny; Sod In the Seed; Distance; Thirst; Kevin's Cancer; Bitter Thoughts; Paper Hearts; As a Card
Artists: Why?

Personnel: Elizabeth Knight, Nathan Goodrich, Liz Wolf, Andrew Brodler (vocals); Laura Max (harp); Stephan Ball (violin, viola); Buffi Jacobs (cello); Kelsey Pickford (woodwinds); James Korr (flugelho...continue...

Serengeti: C.A.R. [Digipak] *

CD / Anticon / 2012-07-31

Tracks: Greyhound; Talk to Me; Nice; Amnesia; Geti Life - (featuring Yoni Wolf); Peekaboo; Go Dancin; Cold; Say What?; Chill; Uncle Traum
Artists: Serengeti

Personnel: Serengeti (rap vocals).

Audio Mixer: Odd Nosdam.

Recording information: Burnco, Berkeley, CA (2009-2011).

Photographer: Chloe Aftel....continue...

Doseone: G Is For Deep [Digipak]

CD / Anticon / 2012-05-29

Tracks: Dancing X; LastLife; I Fell; Thy Pattern; Therapist This; End & Egg; Owlshark; See Answer; Arm & Armageddon; Bends, The
Artists: Doseone

Audio Mixer: Mike Cresswell....continue...

Raleigh Moncrief: Watered Lawn [Digipak]

CD / Anticon / 2011-11-08

Tracks: Air, The; A Day To Die; I Just Saw; In This Grass; Cast Out For Days; Lament For Morning; Right Idea, The; Don't Shoot; Time Passed By; Waiting For My Brothers Here; [Untitled]
Artists: Raleigh Moncrief

Alias: Fever Dream [Digipak] *

CD / Anticon / 2011-09-20

Tracks: Goinswimmin; Wanna Let It Go; Revl Is Divad; No Choice; Dahorses; Lady Lambin'; Talk in Technicolor; Feverdreamin; Boom Boom Boom; Tagine; Sugarpeeeee; Wrap
Artists: Alias

Audio Mixer: Alias.

Recording information: Resurgam Compound, South Portland, ME.

Arranger: Alias.

Aptly titled, Fever Dream builds on the welcoming and positive vibrations left-f...continue...

Serengeti: Family & Friends [Digipak]

CD / Anticon / 2011-08-02

Tracks: Tracks; PMDD; Long Ears; Ha-Ha; A.R.P.; Godammit; Flutes; California; Whip, The; Family & Friends; Dwight
Artists: Serengeti

Recording information: Advance Base, Chicago, IL....continue...

13 & God: Own Your Ghost [Digipak] *

CD / Anticon / 2011-06-28

Tracks: It's Own Sun; Death Major; Armored Scarves; Janu Are; Oldage; Et Tu; Death Minor; Sure As Debt; Beat On Us; Unyoung
Artists: 13 & God

Lyricists: Adam Drucker; Markus Acher.

Personnel: Jorg Widmoser (violin); Andreas Höricht (viola); Stefan Schreiber (bass clarinet, saxophone); Mathias Götz (trombone); Jeffrey "Jel" ...continue...

Son Lux: We Are Rising [Digipak]

CD / Anticon / 2011-06-14

Tracks: Flickers; All the Right Things; Rising; Leave the Riches; Flowers; Chase; Claws; Let Go; Rebuild
Artists: Son Lux

Personnel: Rob Moose (acoustic guitar, violin); Nadia Sirota (viola); Clarice Jensen (cello); Alex Sopp (flute, piccolo); Hideaki Aomori (clarinet); Steven Temme (saxophone); C.J. Camereiri (trumpet)....continue...

Antonionian: Antonionian [Digipak]

CD / Anticon / 2011-03-29

Tracks: Desert, The; Antoher Mistral; My Mind's I; Vanquished; Ride, The; Into the Night; Fate's Not Particular; Desert, Pt. 2, The; Pull True
Artists: Antonionian

Audio Mixer: Mike Cresswell....continue...

Why?: Early Whitney [EP]

1 CD / Anticon / 2011-02-22

Tracks: Early Whitney; Lady Fingerz; Point Blank; Darla; Me on Beer; Crest, The
Artists: Why?

Beans: End It All [Digipak] *

CD / Anticon / 2011-02-15

Tracks: Superstar Destroyer; Deathsweater; Gluetraps; Electric Eliminator; Electric Bitch; Glass Coffins; Blue Movie; Mellow You Out; Air Is Free; Forever Living Fresh; Anvil Falling; Hardliner; Hunter
Artists: Beans

Recording information: Mercy Sound Studios; Savya Studios; Stay Gold; TME Studios, Bronx.

Photographer: Beowulf Sheehan.

While his previous effort, Thorns, offered "I'm the Ornette Colem...continue...

Saroos: See Me Not [Digipak] *

CD / Anticon / 2010-11-09

Tracks: Lobster Claw; Daylight Chant; Fog People; See Me Not; Scott; Yukoma; Tyden Divu; Outrigger
Artists: Saroos

Recording information: Alien Research Studios, Weilheim (2009); Studio Burnco, Berkeley (2009); Alien Research Studios, Weilheim (2010); Studio Burnco, Berkeley (2010)....continue...

Themselves: Crowns Down and Company [Digipak] *

CD / Anticon / 2010-09-21

Tracks: BackIIBurn - (remix); Oversleeping - (remix); TheMark - (remix); Gangster of Disbelief - (remix); Daxstrong - (remix); You Ain't It - (remix); Roman is as Roman Does - (remix); Skinng the Drum - (rem...
Artists: Themselves

Baths: Cerulean [Digipak]

CD / Anticon / 2010-07-06

Tracks: Apologetic Shoulder Blades; Lovely Bloodflow; Maximalist; Heart; Aminals; Rafting Starlit Everglades; Hall; You're My Excuse to Travel; Rain Smell; Indoorsy; Plea; Departure
Artists: Baths

It's fitting that Baths' debut album Cerulean is on Anticon, as Will Wiesenfeld's music blends glitchy, hip-hop-tinged beats with delicate atmospheres. Cerulean sounds like the missing link between Bi...continue...

Tobacco (Black Moth Super Rainbow): Maniac Meat [PA]

CD / Anticon / 2010-05-25

Tracks: Constellation Dirtbike Head; Fresh Hex; Mexican Icecream; Lick the Witch; Sweatmother; Motorlicker; Unholy Demon Rhythms; Heavy Makeup; Grape Aerosmith; New Juices From the Hot Tub Freaks; Six Royal ...
Artists: Tobacco (Black Moth Super Rainbow)

One of several Black Moth Super Rainbow side projects to emerge in 2010, Maniac Meat finds that band's more or less main figure, Tobacco, tackling a second solo album that often sounds like his core g...continue...

Dosh: Tommy [Digipak] *

CD / Anticon / 2010-04-13

Tracks: Subtractions; Yer Face; Number 41; Town Mouse; Loud; Airlift; County Road X; Call the Kettle; Nevermet; Gare De Lyon
Artists: Dosh

2010 release from singer/songwriter (and frequent Andrew Bird collaborator) Martin Dosh. For his fifth album, Martin Dosh had two goals. First: Get loose. 2008's Wolves...continue...
Audio Mixers: Ben Durrant; Martin Dosh.

Recording information: Bubble Room, Austin (07/2008-10/2009); Crazy Beast Studio, Minneapolis, MN (07/2008-10/2009); Martin's Basement (07/2008-10/2009);...continue...

Josiah Wolf: Jet Lag [Digipak]

1 CD / Anticon / 2010-03-16

Tracks: Trailer and the Truck, The; Master Cleanse (California); Opposite of Breathing, The; New Car, The; Skull in the Ice; Apart Meant, The; That Kind of Man; Ohioho; Is the Body Hung; In the Seam; Gravity...
Artists: Josiah Wolf

2010 debut album from Why? multi-instrumentalist Josiah Wolf. Jet Lag offers up a rare achievement--a solo work with true legs of its own. Wolf's visual...continue...
Audio Mixer: Yoni Wolf.

Josiah Wolf is in a bad way. The drummer/multi-instrumentalist for indie pop-hop, odd-jobs Why? -- and brother of head Why? guy Yoni Wolf -- penned this debut album in t...continue...

Themselves: Crownsdown

1 CD / Anticon / 2009-11-03

Tracks: Back II Burn; Oversleeping; Mark, The; Gangster of Disbelief; Daxstrong - (featuring Jordan Dalrymple); You Ain't It; Roman Is as Roman Does; Skinning the Drum; Deadcatclear II; Gold Teeth Will Roll
Artists: Themselves

2009 release from the Alt-Rap duo. On Crowns Down, Themselves weld brute skill to a concrete set of tracks that represents an essential ten commandments...continue...
Audio Mixer: Yoni Wolf.

Photographer: Matthew Scott .

Seven months after the release of a mixtape titled The Free Houdini, Themselves emerged from the studio with a program of completely...continue...

Why?: Eskimo Snow

1 CD / Anticon / 2009-09-22

Tracks: These Hands; January Twenty Something; Against Me; Even The Good Wood Gone; Into The Shadows Of My Embrace; One Rose; On Rose Walk, Insomniac; Berkeley By Hearseback; This Blackest Purse; Eskimo Snow
Artists: Why?

2009 release from the genre-bending Bay Area band, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed album Alopecia. Leader Yoni Wolf and the gang actually recorded Eskimo...continue...
Audio Mixers: Mark Nevers; Eli Crews.

Unknown Contributor Roles: Mark Erickson; Andrew Broder; Josiah Wolf; Yoni Wolf; Doug McDiarmid.

Anticon trio Why? recorded Eskimo Snow, their fourt...continue...

Serengeti & Polyphonic: Terradactyl [Digipak]

1 CD / Anticon / 2009-07-14

Tracks: Bon Voyage; Playing in Subway Stations; Move!; My Negativity; Cleveland; Steroids; Patiently; Call the Law; La Lala, La; My Patriotism; Dawn Under the Bridge; Calliope
Artists: Serengeti & Polyphonic

2009 album from the Chicago-based duo. Serengeti and Polyphonic's Terradactyl is about place--losing place, mostly, struggling to find it again, and succumbing to the fact...continue...
Personnel: Serengeti, Buck 65 (vocals).

At this point in time, MC/producer combinations are a dime a dozen. Still, every once in a while, there's one that sticks out, one that reminds you why t...continue...

Bike for Three!: More Heart Than Brains

1 CD / Anticon / 2009-05-26

Tracks: Beginning; All There Is to Say About Love; Lazarus Phenomenon; Nightdriving; There Is Only One of Us; No Idea How; Always I Will Miss You. Always You.; Departure, The; First Embrace; Can Feel Love (A...
Artists: Bike for Three!

2009 release from this transatlantic duo featuring Buck 65. More Heart Than Brains is an impressive debut of smart Pop, Downtempo, and introspective Rap that...continue...
Personnel: Buck 65 (rap vocals).

Bike For Three! is a cross-continental, long-distance collaboration between veteran underground MC Buck 65 and Belgian electronica producer Joëlle Phuong M...continue...

Themselves: The Free Houdini

1 CD / Anticon / 2009-04-28

Tracks: Pay That Piper; Oversleeping; Know That To Know This - (featuring Aesop Rock); Kick the Ball - (featuring Buck 65); 1 For No Money - (featuring Sole); Rappers is Interns (Freestyle); Party Rap Sucks;...
Artists: Themselves

Ten years after the release of their seminal debut, six years since their last LP, Themselves return in 2009 with not one, but two full-length...continue...

Odd Nosdam: T.I.M.E. Soundtrack [Slipcase]

1 CD / Anticon / 2009-02-17

Tracks: Zone Coaster; T.I.M.E. In; Cop Crush; We Bad Apples; Trunk Bomb; Top Rank; Fly Mode; Ethereal Slap; Root Bark; One for Dallas; Root Loop; Wig Smasher; T.I.M.E. Out
Artists: Odd Nosdam

2009's T.I.M.E. Soundtrack is the first of its kind: an original, artist-composed score crafted to the beat of polyurethane pounding pavement. Anticon veteran producer and...continue...
Recording information: Burnco Berkeley (01/2007-06/2007).

Acclaimed production madman Odd Nosdam (aka David P. Madson) lends his talents to the Element Skateboards DVD THIS IS MY ELEMENT, compo...continue...

Anathallo: Canopy Glow *

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-11-18

Tracks: Noni's Field; Italo; Northern Lights; River, The; Cafetorium; Sleeping Torpor; All the First Pages; John J. Audubon; Bells; Tower of Babel
Artists: Anathallo

Canopy Glow's opening salvo, Noni's Field, introduces straight away the topic of death. Among lush pile-ups of Pet Sounds harmonyand Sung Tongs texture, Anathallo's Matt...continue...
Anathallo: Seth Walker, Jamie Macleod, Erica Froman, Danny Bracken, Bret Wallin, Matt Joynt, Jeremiah Johnson.

Personnel: Peter Brant, Ethan Adelsman, Ben Brandt, Andrew Dost, Nathan Sandberg, ...continue...

Tobacco (Black Moth Super Rainbow): Fucked Up Friends

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-10-14

Tracks: Street Trash; Truck Sweat; Hairy Candy; Hawker Boat; Side 8; Yum Yum Cult; Berries That Burn; Get My Nails Did; Dirt - (featuring Aesop Rock); Gross Magik; Little Pink Riding Hood; Backwoods Altar; [...
Artists: Tobacco (Black Moth Super Rainbow)

Solo debut from the main constituent behind Black Moth Super Rainbow. Features vocals from Aesop Rock. Early version of Fucked Up Friends' audio was featured...continue...
Personnel: Aesop Rock (vocals).

Recording information: 2007-2008.

Tobacco is a mysterious group that embodies electro's new and surprising legacy, that of possessing the mystique once so...continue...

Restiform Bodies: TV Loves You Back *

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-09-30

Tracks: Black Friday; Foul; Pimp-Like God, A; Panic Shopper; Consumer Culture Wave; Bobby Trendy Addendum; Pick It Up, Drop It; Interactive Halloween Bear; Opulent Soul; Ameriscan
Artists: Restiform Bodies

The three-headed post-mod monster called Restiform Bodies is whole once again, dropping their official Anticon debut like a sack of analog televisions onto the fractured...continue...
Restiform Bodies: The Bomarr Monk, The Passage, Telephone Jim Jesus.

Audio Mixer: Eli Crews....continue...

Alias: Resurgam

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-08-26

Tracks: New to a Few; I Heart Drum Machines; Well Water Black - (featuring Why?/Yoni Wolf); Oakland Morning; M.G. Jack; Prelude to a Death Watch; Death Watch; Place of No More Choices; Resurgam; Autumnal Ego...
Artists: Alias

In August 2007, after eight years of innovating in Oakland, Alias went home to Portland, Maine, a city which, despite plenty of inclement weather, has...continue...
Personnel: Hrishikesh Hirway (vocals, guitar, guitars, trumpet, bells); Yoni Wolf (vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, bass instrument).

Audio Mixer: Alias.

Recording information: The Resurgam ...continue...

Odd Nosdam: Pretty Swell Explode

2 CD / Anticon / 2008-06-24

Tracks: Untitled Three [JB's OG Mix]; Don't Come Down Here [Blasted Remix] - (remix); Freshman Remix - (remix); DC (Bit); Hollow Me; No Good [Nosdams Dub]; (Growin Up In The Hood) Four Thousand Style; Wreck ...
Artists: Odd Nosdam

Two CD set. Inimitable producer Odd Nosdam returns with Pretty Swell Explode, an enhanced two-disc collection (one album, one EP) of remixes, B-sides, videos, and...continue...
Personnel: Jessica Bailiff (vocals, guitar, percussion); Liz Hodson, Spencer Williams (vocals); Jesse Edwards (guitar, flute); Dax Pierson (melodica, keyboards, xylophone); Antonio Díaz (tapes)....continue...

SJ Esau: Small Vessel [Digipak] *

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-06-24

Tracks: [Untitled]; Frustrating; Small Vessel; Bastard Eyes; I Threw a Wobbly; Under Certain Things; Bubblehead; [Untitled]; Ruddy Spark; Small Percent, The; Slate; Depth Perception Lack; Human, Annoyed; [Un...
Artists: SJ Esau

On his second album for Anticon, Bristolian rock collagist SJ Esau, or Sam Wisternoff, tightens his playful, genre-bounding compositions even as a cast of collaborators...continue...
Personnel: Team Brick, Rose Kemp (vocals); Max Milton (viola); Jenny Williams (piano); Sean Talbot (drums).

Audio Mixer: Sam Wisternoff.

Recording information: Ill Spectre Studios.
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Dosh: Wolves and Wishes [Digipak]

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-05-13

Tracks: Don't Wait for the Needle to Drop; Bury the Ghost; If You Want to, You Have To; First Impossible; Kit and Pearle; Wolves; Food Cycles; Keep Up Appearance; Magic Stick, The; Capture the Flag
Artists: Dosh

Wolves and Wishes, Martin Dosh's fourth official album, arrives after its architect spent nearly a year on the road--touring solo and as a member of...continue...
Dosh: Martin Dosh (various instruments, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, drums); Mike Lewis (clarinet, saxophone, keyboards, bass instrument).

Personnel: Marshall LaCount (vocals, banjo); Andrew Bir...continue...

Why?: Alopecia

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-03-11

Tracks: Vowels, Pt. 2, The; Good Friday; These Few Presidents; Hollows, The; Song of the Sad Assassin; Gnashville; Fatalist Palmistry; Fall of Mr Fifths, The; Brook & Waxing; Sky for Shoeing Horses Under, A;...
Artists: Why?

Why? the band--Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf, Doug McDiarmid--continues their calculated blitzkrieg on the self-made Jangle-Rap, Indie Pop'n'Roll genre, but the stakes are raised. The boys...continue...
Audio Mixers: Wolf Bros.; Eli Crews.

Recording information: MegaSonic, Oakland (02/2007-07/2007); Third Ear, Minneapolis, MN (02/2007-07/2007).

Author: Marilyn Hacker.

The difficu...continue...

Son Lux: At War with Walls & Mazes [Digipak]

1 CD / Anticon / 2008-03-11

Tracks: Prologue; Break; Weapons; Betray; Stay; Raise; Tell; Wither; Stand; War; Epilogue
Artists: Son Lux

At War With Walls and Mazes is a stunning debut wrung from classical precision and good old human gut-wrench. Son Lux's first is a heady...continue...
Personnel: Erica Stephenson (cello); Katie Kikel (flute); Steven Temme (saxophone).

Audio Mixers: Doc Harrill; Ryan Lott.

Son Lux basks in a landscape of contradictions. The NYC act mixe...continue...

Sole and the Skyrider Band (Anticon)/Sole (Anticon): Sole and the Skyrider Band

1 CD / Anticon / 2007-10-23

Artists: Sole and the Skyrider Band (Anticon)/Sole (Anticon)

In some ways, Sole & Skyrider is a record of return - return to rhyming, for one, particularly the complicated rhyme schemes that marked Sole's...continue...
Personnel: Tim Holland (vocals); William Ryan Fritch (guitar, 12-string guitar, slide guitar, violin, cello, melodica, saxophone, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, vibraphone, glockenspiel); John Wagner ...continue...

Telephone Jim Jesus: Anywhere out of the Everything [Digipak] *

1 CD / Anticon / 2007-09-25

Tracks: Did You Hear?; Birdstatic; Ugly Knees; Featherfall; Leather & Glue; Mouth of Fingers, A; Suicide Wings - (Birdstatic Remix, Birdstatic Remix); Dice Raw; Hit by Numbers; Faces All Melted; Castle by th...
Artists: Telephone Jim Jesus

Somewhere beyond atmosphere but within gravity's pull - nearly freeform yet defined by its unerring direction - you'll find Anywhere Out of Everything, the latest...continue...
In the follow-up to his 2004 debut A POINT TOO FAR TO ASTRONAUT, the artist known as Telephone Jim Jesus presents another collection of heavily-layered, down-tempo hypno-hop. More low-key and moody th...continue...

Odd Nosdam: Level Live Wires [Limited]

2 CD / Anticon / 2007-08-28

Tracks: On; Kill Tone; We Dead; Freakout 3; Fat Hooks; Blast; Kill Tone, Pt. 2, The; Burner; Up in Flames; Slight Return; Off
Artists: Odd Nosdam

An Odd Nosdam record is more than music. More and more, David P. Madson's albums are collections of wordless short stories and scenes, intricately woven...continue...
Lyricists: Tunde Adebimpe; C. Hood Adams; Pony Wolf.

Personnel: Sir Lanlaude D. Kesler (guitar, autoharp, keyboards); C. Hood Adams (guitar, violin, keyboards); Cosmos Lee (violin); Hilde Biala...continue...

DJ Mayonnaise: Still Alive

1 CD / Anticon / 2007-07-17

Tracks: Post Reformat; Easily Distracted; May Days; Windham Song, The; 15 AMP Circuit; Strateegery; Dawson's Anthem 2005; Munjoy Moments; Quiet on the Set; End of the Beginning, The
Artists: DJ Mayonnaise

The rumors are true. DJ Mayonnaise is, indeed, Still Alive. Eight years after the release of his debut - Anticon's inaugural instrumental LP, 55 Stories...continue...
DJ Mayonnaise: Chris Greer.

Additional personnel: K-the-I???.

Eight years after his debut album, 55 STORIES, DJ Mayonnaise returns with his sophomore release on Anticon, STILL ALIVE. Onc...continue...

Alias: Collected Remixes

1 CD / Anticon / 2007-05-15

Tracks: What You Gave Away - (Remix for the One Am Radio, Remix For the One AM Radio); Into the Trees - (Remix for 13 & God, Remix For 13 & God); Exodus Damage - (Remix for John Vanderslice, Remix For John V...
Artists: Alias

Personnel: Why? (vocals).

Photographer: Matthew McCullough.

Anticon records presents a collection of 15 tracks from a diverse group of artists, all remixed by Brendon Whitney, AKA Alias....continue...

Thee More Shallows: Book of Bad Breaks [PA] [Digipak]

1 CD / Anticon / 2007-04-24

Tracks: D. Shallow; Eagle Rock; Dutch Fist, The; Night at the Knight School; Int 1; Proud Turkeys; Int 2; Fly Paper; Int 3; Oh Yes, Another Mother; White Mask, The; Chrome Caps; Mo Deeper
Artists: Thee More Shallows

Thee More Shallows: D Kesler, Chavo Eraser, J. Gonzales.

Personnel: Cosmos Lee, Grahm Kinsbury, Odd Nosdam.

Audio Mixer: Eli Crews.

The Santa Clara indie band known as Thee More S...continue...

SJ Esau: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse

1 CD / Anticon / 2007-03-13

Tracks: Cat Track (He Has No Balls); Wrong Order, The; Geography; Wears the Control; I Got a Bad; All Agog; Queezy Beliefs; Halfway Up the Pathway; Lazy Eye
Artists: SJ Esau

Personnel: Sam Wisternoff (vocals, guitar, melodica, piano, glockenspiel, drums, drum machine, loops, Theremin); Charlotte Nicholls "Chipper" (vocals); Max Milton (electric guitar, violin, clarinet, t...continue...

Alias & Tarsier: Plane That Draws a White Line *

1 CD / Anticon / 2006-09-19

Tracks: Plane That Draws a White Line; Nocturnal Eye; 9:24 Cigarette - (Version 1); Sleepy; Plane That Draws a White Line - (Boom-Bip Remix, Boom-Bip remix); Rising Sun - (Christ, Red Shift Remix, Christ rem...
Artists: Alias & Tarsier

Includes remixed versions of tracks from the BROOKLAND/OAKLYN (2006) album.

Personnel: Alias (various instruments, programming); Tarsier (keyboards).

Brendon "Alias" Whitney and Rona "Ta...continue...

Darc Mind: Symptomatic of a Greater Ill

1 CD / Anticon / 2006-08-29

Tracks: Visions of a Blur; U Da One; Seize the Phenom; Knight of the Roundtable; I'm Ill; Covert Op; Give Me Time; BMOC; Fever Pitch; Rhyme Zone; Outside Looking In
Artists: Darc Mind

Audio Mixer: X-Ray.

Liner Note Author: Emcee Kev Roc.

Recording information: D&D Recording Studios, NY (1995-1997); Island Digital (1995-1997); Such A Sound (1995-1997).

It's not ...continue...

Alias & Tarsier: Brookland/Oaklyn

1 CD / Anticon / 2006-05-23

Tracks: Cub; Rising Sun; Last Nail; Dr. C; Anon; 5 Year Eve; Plane That Draws a White Line; Luck and Fear; Picking the Same Lock; Ligaya
Artists: Alias & Tarsier

Personnel: Matthew McCullough (guitar); Kirsten McCord (cello); Dax Pierson (organ).

Additional personnel: Doseone, Kirsten Mccord, Telephone Jim Jesus.

It's really hardly a surprise tha...continue...

Jel: Soft Money *

1 CD / Anticon / 2006-02-28

Tracks: To Buy a Car; All Day Breakfast; No Solution; All Around; Thrashin; Sweet Cream in It; Soft Money, Dry Bones; Know You Don't; WMD; Mislead; Nice Last; Chipmunk Technique
Artists: Jel

Additional personnel: Steffi Bohm (vocals); Wise Intelligent (rap vocals); Andrew Broder (guitar); Dosh (Fender Rhodes piano); Hervé "RV" Salters (synthesizer); Odd Nosdam, Pedestrian.

Aud...continue...

Why?: Rubber Traits [EP] [EP]

1 CD / Anticon / 2006-02-28

Tracks: Rubber Traits - (video edit); Dumb Hummer; Pick Flights; Deceived
Artists: Why?

The sometimes-solo, sometimes-group project Why? brought all four members together for a third EP, Rubber Traits, the title song taken from the 2005 full-length record Elephant Eyelash. Songwriter and...continue...

Bracken: We Know About the Need

1 CD / Anticon / 2006-01-30

Tracks: Of Athroll Slains; Heathens; (Int); Fight or Flight; Safe Safe Safe; Music for Adverts; Evil Teeth; Four Thousand Style; Monte Lament, La; Many Horses; Back on the Calder Line
Artists: Bracken

Personnel: Chris Cole (drums).

Audio Mixer: Choque Hosein.

Recording information: Ears Hoping.

Illustrator: Beccy Owen.

Initially created as a vehicle for his forays into e...continue...

Why?: Elephant Eyelash

1 CD / Anticon / 2005-10-04

Tracks: Crushed Bones; Yo Yo Bye Bye; Rubber Traits; Hoofs, The; Fall Saddles; Gemini (Birthday Song); Waterfalls; Sand Dollars; Speech Bubbles; Whispers into the Other; Act Five; Light Leaves
Artists: Why?

Why?: Yoni Wolf.

Personnel: John Ringhofer (trombone); Doseone (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Tony Espinoza.

Recording information: At Home, Berkeley, CA (01/2004-02/2005); Exp...continue...

Alias: Lillian

1 CD / Anticon / 2005-08-30

Tracks: Eman Ruosis Iht; Back and Forth; Lillian; Sunfuzz; Miso Stomp; Ladders; Blurry Edges; 52nd & West; Most Important Things; Moonfuzz; Narrowed Iris; Cobblestoned Waltz; Netting Applause
Artists: Alias

Alias: Brendan Whitney (guitar, keyboards, drum programming); Ehren Whitney (flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, keyboards, drum programming).

Personnel: Alias (guitar, keyboard...continue...

Odd Nosdam: Burner

1 CD / Anticon / 2005-06-14

Tracks: Untitled One; Refreshing Beverege; Choke; Small Mr Man Pants; Untitled Two; 11th Ave Freakout, Pt. 1; 11th Ave Freakout, Pt. 2; Clouded; Untitled Three; Gun; Upsetter; Flying Saucer Attack
Artists: Odd Nosdam

Burner is a work that undeniably declares the presence of an artist in his prime. A radical departure from odd nosdam's past productions, Burner is...continue...
Lyricists: Jessica Bailiff; Mike Patton.

Odd Nosdam: D. Philip Madson (various instruments).

Personnel: Jessica Bailiff (vocals, guitar, percussion); Mike Patton (vocals, keyboards); Jes...continue...

Why?: Sanddollars EP [EP]

1 CD / Anticon / 2005-05-17

Tracks: Miss Ohio's Nameless; 500 Fingernails; Sick 2 Think; Sanddollars; Vice Principal; Next Atlanta; Pantone Cyan; Mutant John
Artists: Why?

Why?: Josiah Wolf (various instruments, drums); Yoni Wolf, Doug McDiarmid (various instruments); Matt Meldon (guitar).

Personnel: John Ringhofer (trombone).

Additional personnel: Anna St...continue...

The Apes: Baba's Mountain

2 CD / Anticon / 2005-05-03

Tracks: V.Y. March; Baba's Mount; Green Bus, The; Night-Time Reaper, The; Ornaments and Windchimes; Imp Ahh; Can U Handle This; Organ Syrup; Zookeeper's Night Out, The; What We Do Best; No One Can Eat U; Min...
Artists: The Apes

The power of The Apes is unleashed on the new classic blitz Baba's Mountain. The merging of the rage and energy of their live shows...continue...
The Apes: Amanda Kleinman (vocals, piano, Clavinet, organ, keyboards); Paul Weil (vocals); Erick Jackson (keyboards, bass guitar, sampler); Jeff Schmid (drums).

When you think of Washington, D....continue...