Our Young Fathers – “WayDownInTheHole”
Shlohmo – “The Way U Do”
Raleigh Moncrief – “singon 01.31.12”
doseone – (unreleasedness)
Shabazz Palaces – “Blast it”
Mount Erie – ”No Inside, No Out”
Lali Puna – “6-0-3”
This Heat – “Horizontal Hold”
Baths – “Hall”
Tv On The Radio – “A Method”
Department of Eagles – “Sailing By Night”
The Notwist – “Boneless”
Le Fly Pan Am – “tres tres retro”
ESG – “Erase You”
Thee More Shallows – “Night School”
Jel – “Yer Bells”
Fela – “Sorrow Tears and Blood”
Freestyle Fellowship – “7th Seal”
Liars – “Broken Witch”
Isiah ToothTaker – “BassFace”
Project Blowed – “Enter the Kaos”
Kraftwerk – “Von Himmel Hock”
D33J – “PARK(Tape Version)”
Kill the Vultures – “14th St. Ritual”
Time Wharp – “Mdat (feat.Divine Interface)”
RAJA – “Rituals”
Ms.PacMan – “song2”

Dose One – Last Life

“…c’mon, c’mon cousins, we’re gonna build a whole village right here. poom! and get married to supermodels. pbam! and have kids. bow! who star in movies. pwadadada!”

music and beats by Dose One and Jel

via Flavor$

Recent impromptu freestyling from Dose and PEACE.

via ugsmag

SB Da Bully, Cadalack Ron, and Existereo were the judges

link

Veteran freestyler Doseone has plenty of wisdom to dole out on cyphers, crutches, “getting open” and the world beyond Lil Wayne, but as we observed, the schooling is hardly one way. Dose, Jel and fellow instructor Kev seem to be getting just as much from this circle of budding Oakland MCs (aged 12-18) as they’re giving out. Be sure to watch out for 13-year-old Tyrone—he spits fire!

peace to Tony Trimm

Themselves [ft. Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Why?/cLOUDDEAD - FREEHoudini / excerpt

"Oversleeping"
"Know That to Know This" [ft. Aesop Rock]
“Party Rap Sucks” [ft. Busdriver]
“Rappers Is Retired” freestyle
“theMark”
“rapping4money” [ft. WHY?, Odd Nosdam, and cLOUDDEAD]

“I’m writing you out of my blog”. lol.

Part 1 of 7. Peace to ka5p. And if you’re so inclined here is part of cLOUDEAD’s performance.

The whole Anticon crew celebrating their 10 year anniversary for the third straight time. I guess they couldn’t wait till the next rounded number. This is only one of several great shows coming up at the Knitting Factory in December. buy tickets

Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 // DOORS 7:00 PM
ADV $20 // DOS $25

Knitting Factory – New York
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013

Saturday, Sep 13, 2008 // DOORS 8:00 PM
ADV $15 // DOS $17

Knitting Factory – New York
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013

Apparently, Dose-One of Subtle/Anticon served Bisc-1 and Broke MC in an impromptu freestyle battle on WFMU’s remote broadcast last week live from the Knitting Factory. C’mon Anticon, wouldn’t a new solo rap album from Dose-One be swell? via WFMU blog

Stream audio of battle + interview

All involved were good sports, and DoseOne (left) (whose battling days date back to the mid-nineties when he would take on the likes of a then unknown Eminem at the Scribble Jam in Ohio) was the clear winner as he served both NYC emcees (my opinion). In fact, DoseOne was so superior that he took on both opponents at once. And not only that, but he remained seated the entire time he (lyrically) demolished both Bisc-1 and Broke MC.

Wow, has it really been almost ten years since Anticon started out? Looking back, I probably own every release until about 2002. The Centaur 12inch with 15 Minutes To Live on the flip-side. The dope Controller 7 remix of Rain Men. Man Overboard with the great cover art. Joyful Toy of 1001 Faces. Bottle Of Humans. Deep Puddle Dynamics. The list goes on and on. And the live performances were just as impressive. One of my all-time favorite shows was Sole, Alias, Josh Martinez and Sage Francis performing on a Brooklyn rooftop.

Anyway, good interview here. The collective of Why, Odd Nosdam, Dose-One, Jel, Sole and Alias sound off on a number of topics such as their past and current role at the label, the legacy of Anticon and a possible documentary in the works. Link

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the label about to turn ten? That seems a significant benchmark for an independent to reach, especially these days. Looking back on your achievements – both personally and collectively – are you pleased with how far you’ve travelled as a creative force?

Why: I’m quite pleased with the progress of the label. We went from an artist-run mess of a posse / collective / label who released basically only our own music in the late ‘90s to a real-deal label capable of releasing albums by anybody we find fit and willing, with a dedicated label manager and a decent sized base of listeners.

Jel: From working off of 4-track tape machines and recording on DAT and ADAT with minimal instrumentation in the music, to most of us forming live bands and focusing our careers on that aspect of music making. I think we all have really refined our skills as musicians and cracked the shell of ‘beat maker’, ‘rapper’ and ‘DJ’.

On record and in previous interviews I’ve read, you seem like a fairly headstrong collective; to what extent do you feel as though the label has succeeded in the music industry on its own terms?

Jel: Largely, and that reflects on the creative output very positively. But on the financial side it’s not so positive… sustainable.

Dose-One: Being DIY can become a bit of a barbed wire fence and being unique musically can be a bit of a glass ceiling. As a record label we want to not have any ‘keep out’ signs on our property or ‘stay put’ signs in our future. By and large, we have secured a way for our music to always see daylight and its way to headphones.

Sole: The machine dictates how the business is run: we’re slaves to release dates and the need for forms of marketing; it’s a constant uphill battle against the constraints the music industry places on anyone who wishes to run that gauntlet.

Alias: For the most part, anticon isn’t a business that is set up to take care of the artists 100 per cent of the time. You have to do a bit of your own hustling as well, which is absolutely fine by me. It has taught me a lot about the business, and that you have to give to get. You can’t just sit back and expect the label to handle everything for you. This has allowed me to have 100 per cent creative control with every aspect of my career. I don’t have a manager taking a percentage of money when I would be telling them what I want to do in the first place. I like handling my own business.