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Jel

Even though the first instrument young Jel (given birth to Jeffrey Logan) played — very much to his chagrin — was the cornet, when he previously saved up more than enough money he bought his first (in support of) drum machine/sampler, the SP 1200, when he is at senior high …

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Anticon

Thinking that rap requires a healthy alternative underground to counter mainstream hip-hop, Anticon is really a collective loosely modeled following the American indie rock and roll movement. Comprised of eight MCs and manufacturers — Alias, Doseone, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Passing, Exclusive, the Pedestrian, and just why? — the collective pioneered …

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Odd Nosdam

Anticon co-founder Odd Nosdam is really a prolific beatmaker known for his atmospheric, pastoral productions that pull from shoegaze and ambient in addition to hip-hop and dub. Given birth to David Madson in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1976, he 1st began tinkering with looping as an adolescent, which eventually resulted in …

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Doseone

Created in Napa, Identification, Adam Drucker, or Doseone, among the founders of the group Themselves (Jel was the additional) and a primary participant in Subtle and cLOUDDEAD, spent a lot of his youngsters in Philadelphia and NJ perfecting his fight raps. Nevertheless, after he transferred to Cincinnati to wait college, …

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Sole

The man who later be referred to as Sole, among the founders from the avant-garde indie rap label/collective Anticon, was created in 1977 in Portland, Maine, as Tim Holland. By 1992 he previously produced his first demonstration, attracting curiosity from EMI, whose offer Single dropped when he was informed he …

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Pedestrian

James Brandon Ideal, aka Pedestrian, who also grew up both in southern Virginia and southern California, initial began composing raps at age group 15, though he didn’t begin actually executing them until a couple of years later, after he previously dropped from senior high school. In 1998 he relocated to …

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Alias

If he used the antenna a sufficient amount of, young Brendon Whitney could grab the late-night music tv program Friday Evening Videos completely out in his rural, small-town hometown of Hollis, Maine. Viewing Cosby child Malcolm-Jamal Warner web host this program and present a cross-section of hip-hop movies blew the …

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