Interview: Doseone (Part Two) As one the founders of the influential indie hip-hop label anticon., Adam “Doseone” Drucker has been one of the underground’s most interesting and creative figures. Doseone’s career now spans three decades and a countless number of projects. Outside of a solo career that continue to grow strong with the release of his excellent new album G is for Deep, Dose … Read More
Interview: Doseone (Part One) As one the founders of the influential indie hip-hop label anticon., Adam “Doseone” Drucker has been one of the underground’s most interesting and creative figures. Doseone’s career now spans three decades and a countless number of projects. Outside of a solo career that continue to grow strong with the release of his excellent new album G Is For Deep, Dose … Read More
Doseone: G is for Deep [xrr rating=4.5/5]Being a music fanatic often means devoting yourself to pet causes. Many of us let individual artists fill a gap in our lives that may otherwise have been the home to spirituality of some persuasion. We worship at the altar of Elvis Costello, we confess to the forgiving god Bruce Springsteen, we ask Patti Smith for forgiveness, we drink … Read More
13 & God: Own Your Ghost 13 & God Own Your Ghost Rating: 4.1/5.0 Label: Anticon Recently, Doseone and Jel have been all about their past. After devoting themselves to the groundbreaking Subtle for half a decade, the twosome have been returning to the other projects they’ve been tied to. First was Themselves’ triumphant return with theFREEhoudini mixtape and now we’re seeing the long anticipated follow-up … Read More
Themselves: Crownsdown Themselves Crownsdown Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Anticon We are now five years on from the dissolution of cLOUDDEAD, which makes it as good a time as any to reflect and take stock of the group. Like hip hop’s own Velvet Underground, cLOUDDEAD didn’t exactly take over the airwaves during their existence, and similarly, though its individual artists have had better commercial … Read More
Themselves: theFREEhoudini Mixtape Themselves theFREEhoudini Mixtape Rating: 4.0 Label: Anticon Is there anyone working in music today that is as exciting and vital as Adam “Doseone” Drucker? Between his day job fronting the TV on the Radio-on-steroids indie outfit Subtle and his collaborations over the years with the likes of Boom Bip (of Neon Neon and Super Furry Animals fame), Mike Patton (yes, … Read More
