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...
Yea, the landmass i see in my vision is shaped like a dinosaur. It's New Guinea, though I am drawn to both places. maybe we do both. a lot of the stuff i say is universal knowledge and can be found by many who open them selfs up to a wider view, so to speak. almost all my blogs i find from a voice beyond. it's all god, if you let go. there is a lot of it out there! universal truth. the thing to do is trust what truth was told to you in the same way. one way to find out if it truly is a universal truth or not is to ask god. these are very preliminary sketches i show. i'm an ideas man. i dont need to know all aspects of how to build this city. We'll have people who can do that with us. lets make some good vehicles and maybe we can learn to fly while we're at it! we will find our minds at peace, really good and on top of that!, the best agenda the world has seen!
We will give so much love to the world!
We Make Our Own Bank Out Of New Guinea
Where we buy as much rain forest as we can. With the agreement that we protect it. Hi-tech tree houses and such. yea it's a good idea, free money, free peace. i think it could work for those who ride the pony. http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=9sEZ-wdFegU we need to do it our selves first, then show the world. http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=SEJX0UJ6Gm8 more in me blogs. "there must be some kinda way outa here"
Hey there, just dropping by to say hi and to let you know that starting July 3rd I will be at Graven Image Tattoo fulltime Monday – Saturday so if you get a chance drop on by 1398 W El Camino Real, Suite E Mountain View, CA 94040 or call (650) 988-1818 to schedule an appointment Well back to all this art stuff for me, have an awesome day
Much Love Matthew Hamlet p.s. if I haven’t thanked you for adding me well thank you for having me around!!!
It better not be Subtle's last record. House Harkonnen would not stand for this. The Baron would send legions of suardakar to this sector of space, he survived yes.I've also heard rumor of a Predator that wants Dose One's skull for his trophy case stationed near Saturn. Ceasing new albums could be catastrophic, I don't recommend it.
That is really it. Now think about it. Now stop thinking. Not a thought. This is the truth, free money, free peace. How!? you may ask. All we do see!, is we get together and make a money collective. What! hahah are you afraid of losing what you think is yours? Did you think you had money, and that it was yours? Free money and make volunteer workfair. If a job is too unfun for us we automate. We are doing it now but instead of taking work burden off the public, our society makes it so they need to try harder. We just make our own town, that's what we do. With a large bank account we can hire BIG help, to make us dream technology. Declare independence. Go to a remote location with all our friends. The people who are in control of the way the world works are pig headed and using a universal "secret" to be rich in money and power. Once we see the same "secret" we may flip the world upside down.
You can buy your way out so you don't have to buy. First we make our own town...
Calling all Pony Homies!
the jester of peace http://youtube. com/watch?v=KuUccl5rTX8 I had a dream vision of flying over the world, coming in through the clouds and seeing this land mass. It is where we will build our own town.
Watch me, I'll tell ya what I'm a gonna do It's so easy, I keep thinking I feel better in my body than anyone on this earth. It's true, I think so. It is because I think about it a lot! I continue to get better at feeling good, real good.! I believe the music I can get out of my pony is good, real good. So now I'm going to do the same thing I did with my body and apply it to my musical superstardome plan to evacuate earth, with my friends. To a new home through the sun. It helps to repeat your wishes and keep them close. Especially such a grand one as this! For my mission I will need to make lots superstar and influential friends. Why not? I'm lots of fun! and it's what I want. I asked before for 2 billion, I'm stickin' with that. Make our own supertown, then show the world how we did it. Finally, we become light beings, priceless. I am positive it will be. I keep thinking all these positive thing about all this grand adventure to come. And zen I stop to have not a thought. I am sure as heaven! Happy positive thoughts! It's a landslide. How do you look at the end of humanity? Do you see beauty or terror? Either or; you best be gettin on to tell your pony how you want to think, when you want to think and when you do not! Grab hold. I give you all love, and with that thought, I feel the love I am giving and it's so much! I feel good! I feel so good! How bout I tell you how to feel, cause I know how it should be. Feel good!
hey yal check out my new groovtastical track up for download! spread the love! like i love the SUBT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! an ant with a little bit o leaf looks like my ass with an african mask.
