On CrownDown Themselves weld brute skill to a concrete set of tracks that represent an essential ten commandments of rap. In preparation, Doseone and Jel revisited their beloved hip-hop collections (e.g. Gang Starr, Ultramagnetic MCs, Public Enemy, Saafir) and whittled down the recurring themes that made their favorite records so sturdy. Each song on CrownsDown represents one of these archetypes - there's the 'don't bite' song, the diss-track, the story rap, the 'bootleggers beware' song, an   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. On CrownDown Themselves weld brute skill to a concrete set of tracks that represent an essential ten commandments of rap. In preparation, Doseone and Jel revisited their beloved hip-hop collections (e.g. Gang Starr, Ultramagnetic MCs, Public Enemy, Saafir) and whittled down the recurring themes that made their favorite records so sturdy. Each song on CrownsDown represents one of these archetypes - there's the "don't bite" song, the diss-track, the story rap, the "bootleggers bewa   [ read more ]

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On CrownDown Themselves weld brute skill to a concrete set of tracks that represent an essential ten commandments of rap. In preparation, Doseone and Jel revisited their beloved hip-hop collections (e.g. Gang Starr, Ultramagnetic MCs, Public Enemy, Saafir) and whittled down the recurring themes that made their favorite records so sturdy. Each song on CrownsDown represents one of these archetypes - there's the "don't bite" song, the diss-track, the story rap, the "bootleggers beware" song, and    [ read more ]

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Ten years after the release of their seminal debut, six years since their last album, Themselves return in 2009 with not one, but two full-length albums. The first is theFREEhoudini: one part aggressive rap mixtape, one part posse reunion record that wrangles all seven original members of the Anticon collective and several distinguished guests' to reaffirm the crew's uncontestable place in hip-hop history. Herein, you'll find the finest prose from today's most venerable wordsmiths, slung over a perpetually    [ read more ]

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themselves, formerly them, are doseone and jel- the former a nowhere man out to make the world small and his neuroses something lovely, an artist who is free of form and slave to his own scatterbrained genius; the latter the drum machine's premier musician, whose distinct few-bit sound and rhythmic sensibility get him coveted by vocalists far and wide. the no music. is dose and jel's second full length, an American ode to the exposed nerve. At times the soundscape is layered to the point of opacity, only    [ read more ]

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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 albums. The first is theFREEhoudini: one part aggressive rap mixtape, one part posse reunion record that wrangles all seven original members of the Anticon collective - and several distinguished guests - to reaffirm the crew's place in hip-hop history. Herein is the finest prose from today's most venerable wordsmiths, slung over a perpetually shifti   [ read more ]

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themselves, formerly them, are doseone and jel-- the former a nowhere man out to make the world small and his neuroses something lovely, an artist free of form and slave to his own scatterbrained genius; the latter the drum machine's premier musician, whose distinct few-bit sound and rhythmic sensibilities get him coveted by vocalists and MCs far and wide. them was originally released as a self-titled album by them in May of 2000 when little about anticon was known or understood; the record went out of prin   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. A companion piece to DOSEONE and JEL's stellar The No Music album, featuring remixes by a lottery-picked selection of the world's greatest home recorders. Features completely reworked, recontextualized, and translated tracks, birthed anew by CONTROLLER 7 & MATTH, HRVATSKI, WHY?, HOOD, ALIAS, A GRAPE DOPE (aka JOHN HERNDON of TORTOISE), FOG, ODD NOSDAM, THE NOTWIST, and ELECTRIC BIRDS.

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A companion piece to DOSEONE and JEL's stellar The No Music album, featuring remixes by a lottery-picked selection of the world's greatest home recorders. Features completely reworked, recontextualized, and translated tracks, birthed anew by CONTROLLER 7 & MATTH, HRVATSKI, WHY?, HOOD, ALIAS, A GRAPE DOPE (aka JOHN HERNDON of TORTOISE), FOG, ODD NOSDAM, THE NOTWIST, and ELECTRIC BIRDS.

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Themselves, part of the Anticon crew, play underground hip hop with the confounding lyrical poetry of Doseone's other group, Clouddead, but without the same approach to ambient sound textures. Vocalist Doseone and producer Jel teamed up originally as Them and released a self-titled full-length in 2000. Reincarnated as Themselves, in September of 2002 the California duo put out The No Music, an ambitious record set to undermine the conventions of hip hop. The This About the City Too 12' followe   [ read more ]

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The second crunk-curdling collection of quintessential live performance recordings from Anticon mainstays Themselves--Doseone, Jel, and Dax. Eight tracks recorded in Paris, Berlin, Austin, Chicago, Denton, Holland, and London. Packaged in card sleeves.

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