Born in Idaho, raised in New Jersey, Alumni to a midwestern U. Cali-transplant Vancouver resident. A true jack of all nerves, art cutter, freezer of voice, sampler, banger of keyboards, pill burner, hermetic independent music making, friend maker, part-time propmaster, good learner, catman, and ref-poet for life. Tools: Synth, sampler, treatments, voice and words. Group affiliations: Subtle, Themselves, cLOUDDEAD, Greenthink, 13&God
Illinois native, Cali resident. Sample based, drum machine lover or pick-apart/put back together record thief. In the wild you may see him triggering drums and sounds live with other musicians in rhythm. On any hi-fi stereo system you may hear his sequencing of these very same drums and sounds in a fashion he is usually pleased with. Tools: Drum machine and many a sampled sound. Group affiliations: Subtle, Themselves, 13&God, JEL
Born in San Diego on New Year's Eve '73 (not close to midnight). Raised a drummer's son and mammas boy. Moved to Berkeley in 96 with Dax and conglomerates. Self-taught guitar and computer while rotting in record stores. Made two solo records along the way. Hosted Subtle's initialization and inaugural recordings at 1820 Alcatraz.
Tools: Drums, guitar, sampler, treatments, and voice
Born in 1970 in the West. Music junkie to a fault. Came to Oakland in 1996 with Jordan in a previous band. Collaborated with Alex in 1998, then with Alex and Marty in 1999 on live music performances to early classic films. Joined Themselves touring ensemble with Adam and Jeff in 2002. Currently residing in Oakland.
Currently exploring the recording of voice, throat, harmonica, some mouth percussion, synth and sampling. Melodica and Auto-Harp on Subtle tracks before the accident.
I'm a Southern man with no accent. My cello's my best friend. I feel safer in theaters and love climbing ladders. I'm good with a rope. I helmsman'd the film biz for live performance and like any good sperm, i love swimming up-stream. I root for choice over destiny and pick savory over sweet any day.
This Heat, Can, Gastr Del Sol, X-Clan, Fog, Why?, The Notwist, Pinback, Boards of Canada, Hood, Fennesz, B.Fleischmann Mount Erie, Ms.John Soda, Mike Patton, Tarwater, 13&God, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, Police, Steely Dan, Tortoise, Reaching Quiet, Patrick Scott, Tony Espinoza... and the tall Tom Brown.
Sounds Like
Tool meets P.M.Dawn, but with an excited Ice-T doing vocals...
Since its genesis in 2001, Oakland-based sextet Subtle has been home-recording its way to the far side of song. Drawing from a diverse palette of instruments: sampler, synth, guitar, cello, winds, electronic and acoustic drums, and the unmistakable voice and prose of doseone, the band fashions a self-sampled and live-micd honest to genreless music.
Not to be missed, their live performance parallels and elaborates on the complex and natural lengths of their recorded material. With painted backdrops, stage-props and a whole lot of middleclass mojo, it is in the midst of live performance that Subtles works of song complete themselves.
NEW SUBTLE ALBUM! 'ExitingARM' OUT NOW
The new Subtle album ExitingARM is out now worldwide. It's an amazing conclusion to their trilogy of albums and has been getting great reviews worldwide... even some in Japanese that our distributors assures us are excellent.
The band have just completed another very successful US tour and are gearing up to hit Europe in July. Stay tuned for more info and get your copy of the album today from all good shops including these online retailers:
Meanwhile Dose One has been breaking down the 2-Deez, creating a multi-layered website dedicated to the world and words behind ExitingARM. It's constantly evolving with new and bizarre scenes being added every week until the album's release. You must check this out...
1) BAD 2) GOODMORNING 3) ROMAN PIRATES 4) STOP 5) WHEN I GO
Recorded in his own studio based in Rome, after 3 years of hard work and changes, Crazy Glue contains different musical experiences that the artist experimented reaching an original sound after the past releases on labels such Subculture and Urban pressure.
The E.P. is a set of tunes that ranging from jumpup to neurofunk. Much attention is given in the sound and rhythmic arrangements and it is into melodic tracks such as “bad”, “when I go” and “stop” that this collage get maximum pressure into dance floors.
You can for sure find some inspiration from this funny, yet serious, sticky, tricky album, Where we blending past and future into carzy present.
Hey! Makac's new release or 6 freaky spells of Dark Jazz'n'Groove freely inspired from Russ Meyer, Lalo Schiffrin, Charles Manson, Alice in Wonderland or the Twilight Zone… You can download that strange fruit through the link below…
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