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Alias
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There is more than one artist with this name:
1) Alias, born in Portland, Maine to a jazz drummer and a church organist, grew up in a suburb called Hollis and played drums in his high school band. Isolated in a small town, alias found no music that captivated him until at age 13 when he saw “Yo MTV Raps.” Alone in his interest in hiphop, alias sought to immerse himself in this foreign counter-culture. He bought The Source monthly at the one shop in Maine that carried it, and by age 14 he was writing his own raps. In support of his new found passion, his parents bought him a drum machine for Christmas, and alias rapped over his own beats in the privacy of his bedroom, too shy to share his rhymes with anyone.
However, in 1993, upon meeting Sole, who was already recording and doing shows, alias began rapping in ciphers at parties. He moved his “studio” from his bedroom to a friend’s basement where he taught himself to use an MPC 3000 and an ADAT machine. In ‘96 he started doing shows with The Live Poets (sole’s group) around New England.
In ‘98 during the deep puddle dynamics sessions in Minneapolis with Slug, dose and sole, alias realized that music would be his life’s work. Now taking himself seriously as a rapper and producer, he moved with the first wave of the anticon West Coast migration into a warehouse in East Oakland with his wife Jen and sole. Within a year he had recorded the other side of the looking glass, his first solo release, a rap-heavy introspective opus.
1) Alias, born in Portland, Maine to a jazz drummer and a church organist, grew up in a suburb called Hollis and played drums in his high school band. Isolated in a small town, alias found no music that captivated him until at age 13 when he saw “Yo MTV Raps.” Alone in his interest in hiphop, alias sought to immerse himself in this foreign counter-culture. He bought The Source monthly at the one shop in Maine that carried it, and by age 14 he was writing his own raps. In support of his new found passion, his parents bought him a drum machine for Christmas, and alias rapped over his own beats in the privacy of his bedroom, too shy to share his rhymes with anyone.
However, in 1993, upon meeting Sole, who was already recording and doing shows, alias began rapping in ciphers at parties. He moved his “studio” from his bedroom to a friend’s basement where he taught himself to use an MPC 3000 and an ADAT machine. In ‘96 he started doing shows with The Live Poets (sole’s group) around New England.
In ‘98 during the deep puddle dynamics sessions in Minneapolis with Slug, dose and sole, alias realized that music would be his life’s work. Now taking himself seriously as a rapper and producer, he moved with the first wave of the anticon West Coast migration into a warehouse in East Oakland with his wife Jen and sole. Within a year he had recorded the other side of the looking glass, his first solo release, a rap-heavy introspective opus.
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More Than Words Can Say
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Death Watch
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I Heart Drum Machines
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New to a Few
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Prelude to a Death Watch
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resurgam
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Oakland Morning
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Autumnal Ego
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Watching Water
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M.G. Jack
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Justamachine
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Place of No More Choices
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Oakland in the Rearview
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Sixes Last
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Shoutbox
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silkyburgundy wrote:
Alias stuff has be a great influence over the years! Thanks mate!
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Oz_Alchemist wrote:
Abstract Artist to check out : http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Oz+Alchemist
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riigo wrote:
shit beats
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Kreo24 wrote:
Alias – Well Water Black // шикарный трек. Йони Вулф шикарен, Элиас шикарен!
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afrodita881128 wrote:
Excelente!!
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ChainChompMan wrote:
I bought Resurgam today, and I'm 10 tracks into my first listen, and so far it's all been so so so so SO unbelievably dope. I've been truly fucking blown away.
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Xan-Thalion wrote:
I have no fucking idea whos'e songs are uploaded here, but they're AWESOME. Its sounds more like a grime and dark garage garage stuff then actual folktronica dude heh.
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Gooch_ wrote:
resurgam is great.better than muted,i think so...
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jman24 wrote:
Why is the TV series in the description haha
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Sor_Piero wrote:
muted is a great album!!!Alias rocks
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Ruderalis wrote:
me too))
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killscene wrote:
love it.
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ldexterldesign wrote:
GRIME.
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unreal_be wrote:
there is love for the us metal band. We are just a minority.
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ideogon wrote:
People who lack a sense of humor can be childish and ignorant...(looking at akroydhanks). I'm a fan of almost every type of music, as you can tell from my library :)
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angel1thing wrote:
love. and peace.
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akroydhanks wrote:
pretentious music fans can be childish and ignorant... (looking at ideogon) im a fan of both metal and hiphop, amongst many other music styles. alias is indeed a great artist, along with amon tobin, cujo, angelcrack, jel and many more. resurgam is a kickass album, but i prefer the one he did with his brother instead. peace
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Taharu wrote:
lol@ both previous comments.
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ideogon wrote:
Yeah, that's probably because metal sucks Idk? Alias is a great hip-hop artist.
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"One Breath Left"- B.Dolan track I produced...free download!
20 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/alias
This summer B. Dolan is playing at Soundset and he's on the Rock the Bells tour. In case people aren't aware of his music, Strange Famous Records is leaking a free track from his upcoming album Fallen. …
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14 Aug 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/alias
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