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Themselves Are Doseone And Jel From California. Jel Became Familiar With Dose Through His Good Friend And Radio Partner Kevin Beacham. But It Wasn't Until Early 1998 When Some Tapes Were Exchanged Through Mutual Friend Mr. Dibbs That The Two Realized Their Potential Together. Soon After A Few Phone Conversations Jel Started Making Frequent Sojourns From Chicago To Cincinnati To Record With Dose. The Duo's First Couple Of Tracks Ended Up On Dose's First Self-Released Record Hemispheres 1998 . Then From April Of 1998 To January Of 1999 They Solidified Their Chemistry Putting The Tracks Together That Would End Up On Themselves' Them. That Same Spring Dose And Jel Along With Slug Of Atmosphere And Sole And Alias Of Live Poets Began Recording Deep Puddle Dynamics's The Taste Of Rain... Why Kneel. Out Of That Record The Concept Of Anticon Was Somewhere Born -- Whose Founding Dose And Jel Would Become An Integral Part Of Later Bringing Them Both To The Bay Area. Since Then Both Artists Have Continued To Push Boundaries Producing And Collaborating On A Range Of Work Far Outside The Constructs Of Traditional Genre Forms. They've Expanded Their Use And Understanding Of Their Equipment As Well As Perfected Their Live Performances. Their Record The No Music. 2002 Involved The Use Of An SP-1200 An MPC-2000 A Korg Poly 64 Keyboard Some Other Shit A Roland VS 880 Digital Performer A Dr. Sample Various Microphones Numerous Household Items And Found Objects And Sounds. Recently The Two Of Them Have Also Expanded Their Roles In The Group Both Contributing Vocals And Production To The No Music.. They Also Added Dax Pierson On Keyboards Dr. Sample Theremin And Back Up Vocals On Many Of Their Tracks And To All Of Their Live Performances. Dax Is Essential In Adding Syncopation And A Real Time Quality To The Tracks.
After A Six-Year Hiatus Themselves Return On A Rampage Of Heady Rap Wrung From Hardworking Hands. Of Course The Duo Of Jeffrey “Jel” Logan And Adam “Doseone” Drucker Are Never Too Far From The Frontlines Of Good Art And Honest Music. Last Year Their Subtle Sextet Released Its Third Album The Critically Acclaimed And Wildly Adventurous ExitingARM And A 2005 Collaboration With Germany’s The Notwist Yielded The Cult Gem 13 & God. There Have Been Solo Offerings Guest Appearances And Ceaseless Touring But Not Peep From The Name Behind 2002’s Left-Field Classic The No Music. That Blessed Interim Has Seen Doseone And Jel Become The Fearless Musicians And Exacting Artists They’d Always Meant To Be. Now Hungrier Than Ever Themselves Are Here To Scrawl A Bold New Chapter Across Rap’s Too-Stale Tome. Furthermore They Set Out To Accomplish This Feat Unadorned Returning To Hip-Hop’s Most Cardinal And Carnal Form The Number Two The DJ And The MC—neck-Snapping Beats And Precision Prose—accompanied By A Little Righteous Indignation Of Course. Such Things Do Have Roots Naturally And Themselves’ Are As Colorful As One Would Expect. Drucker Was Born In Napa Idaho To A Hippie Pair Whose Relationship Wouldn’t Outlast Its Ideals. Logan Was Raised In Chicago By Pentecostal Parents. While The Former Spent His Preteen Years Bouncing Between Philadelphia And New Jersey Surviving By His Mile-A-Minute Wit And Ceaseless Imagination Logan Nursed An Early Love For The Decidedly Safe Sounds Of Chuck Berry Into Raging Crush On The Unhinged Backbone Of Rap Music Beats. He’d Pump Gas In Order To Save Up For The Hallowed SP-1200 Drum Machine Of Which He’s Now A Renowned Master Drucker Would Hone His Unmatched Rap Styles In Street Battles Before Moving To Cincinnati In His Late Teens. In That City’s Annual “Scribble Jam” Competition As “Doseone ” He Famously Battled Eminem In A Final-Round Showdown—as Well As One Of His Idols Freestyle Fellowship’s P.E.A.C.E.—and The Experience Left Him Hollow. Meanwhile Jel Had Forged A Sound Unto Himself But Couldn’t Find A Voice Able To Keep Pace. In 1998 Tapes Were Exchanged Through The Venerable DJ Mr. Dibbs And History Came To Be Made. Of That Initial Meeting Much Would Be Born Doseone’s Ambitious Self-Released Debut Hemispheres 1998 Themselves’ Seminal Unveiling Them 1999 The Landmark Collaborative Project Deep Puddle Dynamics Also Featuring Sole Alias And Atmosphere’s Slug And The Anticon Label Itself. Soon Dose And Jel Moved To Oakland In Order To Spark A Movement With Anticon’s Other Co-Founders Two Of Which Odd Nosdam And Yoni Wolf Of WHY? Were In Yet Another Celebrated Group With Drucker The Eternally Lauded CLOUDDEAD. Since Doseone And Jel Have Continued To Challenge Rap—and Our Conception Of Music Itself—every Step Of The Way. Through Their Joint Projects And An Impressive Body Of Solo Work See 2006’s Soft Money By Jel Or Doseone’s Self-Released Spoken-Word Album Soft Skulls These Two Have Been Nurturing The Kind Of Legacy That Only Gets Better With Age. In 2009 Themselves Return To A Core That’s Been Warming Strengthening And Expanding All The While. read less