Anticon appreciation post

Alias & Ehren - Lillian
Alias moves further away from hip-hop with this release of melodic electronica with help from his brother providing wood wind instruments. It's rather a lovely CD, well thought out beats with plenty of lush electronic sweeps and Ehren's instrumentation bringing an organic human element to proceedings. Recommended.

MP3: Lillian

Alias - All Things Fixable
This is a companion piece to Alias's previous album Muted, like Lillian it's full of hip-hopped paced electronic instrumentals, but this time with the odd vocal number. It's a bit all over the place, but I mean that in a good way. I rather like this track:

MP3: Half The Devil

Dose One - Ha
After being an active member in bands such as Themselves, cLOUDDEAD and Subtle, Dose One has had a go at a solo album. It's actually very good, lot's of weird and wonderful vocal work on top of layers of sound from all sorts of sources. I think the best way of describing it is that it sounds like how it feels just before you wake up... (eh Phil?). Kind of have to listen to it for that last sentence to make sense.

MP3: Lullaby #2418a

Themselves - Live II
One for the fans here...

MP3: Grassskirt & fruithat (Denton)