Browse by Artist: THEMSELVES

Artist:	THEMSELVES
Title:	Them
Label:	ANTICON
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	ABR 010CD

"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 print about a year after its release. For many, this album introduced the ground-breaking, genre-defying madness of the duo. Jel's distinct sound naturally facilitates Doseone's surreal vocals, evoking another world entirely. The record is a funhouse ride turned ugly -- through childlike daydreams and social rants, to hip hop bravado and just outright strangeness."

Artist:	THEMSELVES
Title:	The No Music.
Label:	ANTICON
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	ABR 025CD

"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 to peel away and reveal the sometimes buried drum bone and sick sung skeleton beneath. The no music. sounds like the polyphony of all the machines in the factory that turn fetus heads into skulls. The project is dark, maybe morose in parts, but it never takes itself too seriously for too long. Although the words are sometimes cloaked beneath layers of noise, they are consistent, confidently self-aware, and deliberately interrelated. The no music. is part composition, part organized chaos."

Artist:	THEMSELVES
Title:	The No Music of AIFFs
Label:	ANTICON
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ABR 034CD

"Themselves are Doseone and Jel. The No Music of AIFF's is the companion piece to the duo's September 2002 release, The No Music. The original has been remixed down to its smallest intestine and back toward the light until only the order of its tracks remains intact. The record features a new themselves song along with guest remixers Controller7 and matth, Hrvatski, why?, Hood, alias, A Grape Dope (John Herndon), Fog, odd nosdam, The Notwist and Electric Birds. The listening experience that follows is a personality-heavy splay of the thousand threads in every of sort of human music. Twelve diverse guest artists were selected in a real life lottery from an entire globe's worth of eligible home recordists. Each original track is reborn - re-contextualized and translated, through a new lens, unique to each of the guest artist's sensibilities."

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