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Alias
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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.
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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Oakland Morning
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I Heart Drum Machines
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Prelude to a Death Watch
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New to a Few
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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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Watching Water
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ebisu wrote:
ShenLong: Those links next to the albums on the "Buy" tab are a good start.
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ShenLong wrote:
where can i download his music?
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Tygers_Pan_Tang wrote:
hip-hop? It's hard rock
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Oz_Alchemist wrote:
ABSTRACT AND TRIP-HOP ARTIST, COME CHECK THIS PAGE : http://www.last.fm/music/Oz+Alchemist
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NOOBSTERpots wrote:
edgar_allan_poe +1, listening Alias with Artimus Pyle - Contraband - 1979, but I cant find such album. Damn...
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crosbow wrote:
do you really think someone cares what you "are here for"? anyways, anticon alias is very good..
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edgar_allan_poe wrote:
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:
la wea de foto
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vandervelde wrote:
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:
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:
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:
real hip hop is not on the radio
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Toad_Nation wrote:
Hip Hop/rap sucks...rock is much better
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adrianglammetal wrote:
Alias is AOR Band
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DMZS wrote:
My ALIAS is Hard rock.
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Kingsnake77 wrote:
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:
Can't clowns and pirates just TRY to get along? Free your mind.
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sailfake wrote:
good musics lableless.....just shut up'n listen
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jdek09 wrote:
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:
serious. i like underground hip-hop and hair metal... why can't we all just get along? ;o)
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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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