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Toronto, Canada (1988 – 1991)

There is more than one artist with this name, notably a Canadian rock band and an American Hip Hop artist.

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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edgar_allan_poe wrote:
last week

I hate lastfm for not separating different artists with the same name! GUESS WHAT... I'M HERE FOR THE AOR BAND!!! [4]

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edgar_allan_poe wrote:
last week

la wea de foto

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vandervelde wrote:
last month

I hate lastfm for not separating different artists with the same name! GUESS WHAT... I'M HERE FOR THE AOR BAND!!! [3]

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Wizz21 wrote:
last month

I hate lastfm for not separating different artists with the same name! GUESS WHAT... I'M HERE FOR THE AOR BAND!!! [2]

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IrishN00B wrote:
last month

I hate lastfm for not separating different artists with the same name! GUESS WHAT... I'M HERE FOR THE AOR BAND!!!

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nekz662 wrote:
last month

real hip hop is not on the radio

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Toad_Nation wrote:
September 2009

Hip Hop/rap sucks...rock is much better

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adrianglammetal wrote:
September 2009

Alias is AOR Band

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DMZS wrote:
September 2009

My ALIAS is Hard rock.

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Oz_Alchemist wrote:
September 2009

ABSTRACT AND TRIP-HOP ARTIST, COME CHECK THIS PAGE : http://www.last.fm/music/Oz+Alchemist

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Kingsnake77 wrote:
August 2009

AOR stands for Album Oriented Rock. Alias is southern rock though. Featuring members from Lynyrd Skynyrd after the fucking accident. BTW I hate clowns and pirates.

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SeriousMoon wrote:
August 2009

Can't clowns and pirates just TRY to get along? Free your mind.

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sailfake wrote:
August 2009

good musics lableless.....just shut up'n listen

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jdek09 wrote:
August 2009

but seriously, what does aor stand for???? i've been a metal head since the 80's proper, and i've never heard of this tag. too much focus on genre not enough on good music.

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jdek09 wrote:
August 2009

serious. i like underground hip-hop and hair metal... why can't we all just get along? ;o)

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underpangs wrote:
August 2009

Given that the tags are predominately for the hip-hop artist, as are the majority of the chart tracks, it would make sense for them to be listed first in the wiki. If people keep squabbling and deleting bits of wiki it'll just get locked and no one will be fucking happy. Alright? Play nice.

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krippe89 wrote:
August 2009

good point :)

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fangirl47 wrote:
August 2009

Artists need to be original and get their own name the artist who came first should get the page.

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krippe89 wrote:
August 2009

iiiicon if u havent noticed "More Than Words Can Say" is the most played track

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fangirl47 wrote:
August 2009

Is there a page for the group anywhere? Really last fm needs to do something about this crap.

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