FakeFour: Sixo - God Cops feat. Poindexter & Heir Max

Fort Worth producer Sixo presents the EKP Pictures-produced music video for "God Cops" featuring Poindexter and Heir Max. "God Cops" is featured on Tracking Perception, Sixo's eight-song EP featuring former Anticon member Sole, AWOL One, Onry Ozzborn, Ceschi and Gregory Pepper.

Video: Sole - I Think I'm Ben Bernanke

The song itself is about the history of America's long decline, beginning with the exploitation of the natives, slavery and the post world war 2 american dominance over the globe. Once the world was sucked dry, the entire system caved in on itself. We have been living on borrowed time since day one, with nothing left to plunder all we can do now is make radical changes or suffer the consequences. Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve has overseen many of the disastrous policies that have lead to the destruction of the middle class and american labor.  The video depicts Ben Bernanke in the near future as a homeless drunk living in a shanty, or possibly an Occupied space in the United States.

Download: Sole - Dispatches From The American Fall

Solidly united with the Occupy Wall Street movement, Mc Sole slips into the role of Ben Bernanke, the president of the Federal Reserve Boards. The days after dispersing the ruling elite.

sOlo..

News: Press Release: Sole Leaves anticon. Records

Today we got that press release of Sole (Tim Holland).We respect it and we only post the original Sole announcement!

Sole:
February 9th, 2010 -- Today, with a heavy heart I end 11+ years of working with anticon. In the early days of the label, anticon was a pet project of mine, a life-long dream. We fulfilled the dream of a collectively run record label and put out many great records and stood as an image of defiance against the music industry. Those memories, I will always have and be proud of. Sadly, those times are gone, and I need to live in the present as I prepare for the future.

Leaving the company was not an easy decision, but it was made necessary by a number of factors. Upon returning to the states from a 2-year exile in Spain, I found myself increasingly at odds with the business end of anticon and began doing more DIY work via Soleone.org. Running my own website and taking a more hands on approach with my art has always brought me great satisfaction and it is what I am choosing to return to. There are no ill feelings between myself and members of anticon. I will continue to work with many of the artists and will always love them as brothers and consider them allies. This is a decision to change the way my music will be exploited and adapt to shifting paradigms.

We created anticon as a response to what was going on at the time in the music industry - the indy boom of the late 90’s. There were still a viable music industry then and people bought records. That’s how we built up our empire. The music industry isn’t just dying, but what it means to be a recording artist is changing. Technology is making everything cheap, and cheapening everything it touches. Soon the old ways of selling records will be a distant memory, along with magazines, working musicians and employed blue-collar dads. It’s not a time to cry about the recession, or urge people to go to their local mom and pops and pick up the new sole & skyrider LP. Technology is working its magic, and instead of being a passenger on its ship, I have decided to plot a new course for myself.

The very fact that I have thrived in this environment still sometimes is a surprise to me. I’m 32 today. I put out my first vinyl when I was 16. For me its always been about ethics & passion, doing what felt right in my core and acting on that, whether or not it was the popular or conventionally wise thing to do.

From now on now all my releases will be made available @ Soleone.org via my new label Black Canyon Records and exclusively distributed worldwide via Revolver USA. There is an email newsletter list ton Soleone.org, if you wish to be kept in the loop on my releases/updates that will be the best place.

Peace
Tim “sole” Holland

Solo
R.O.L

Soleone.org

Dates & Audio: Sole & The Skyrider Band - Battlefields EP

Download Sole & The Skyrider Band - Battlefields EP

Die Independent-HipHop Grösse SOLE meldet sich zusammen
mit der Skyrider Band zurück.Nach dem selbstbetitelten Debütalbum, das noch auf anticon,(Why?,Themselves, 13&god) erschien, haben sie im Oktober 2009 mit ihrem zweiten Album “Plastique” auf FakeFour Inc. nachgelegt.Markenzeichen der Band sind die abwechslungsreich instrumentierten und apokalyptisch anmutenden
Soundkonstrukte, perfekt gemischt mit Sole´s sozialkritischen Texten.
Eine Kostprobe des Albums bietet die kostenlose Battlefields EP
(http://fakefourinc.com/battlefields/). Auf dem Titeltrack leiht hier niemand geringeres als Notwist Sänger Markus Acher seine Stimme.

Nun kommen Sole & the Skyrider Band Anfang Februar auf
Deutschland und Schweiz-Tour, um ihr Schaffen auch live zu präsentieren:

1. Februar: Köln - King Georg
2. Februar: Hamburg - Hafenklang
3. Februar: Rostock - tba
4. Februar: Leipzig - Zoro
5. Februar: München - Feierwerk
6. Februar: Bern - Dachstock
7. Februar: Zürich - tba

R.O.L.

HighFive @ Johannes!

Anticon 10th Year Anniversary - The Free Houdini

Wiki about Anticon:

english:
Anticon (styled as anticon.) is a San Francisco Bay Area independent record label founded in 1997.It is collectively owned among seven founding artists and one manager.The musicians signed to Anticon are referred to as the Anticon Collective.

The label's roster of artists has been described as "the hip-hop equivalent of post-rock," and "avant-garde hip-hop", also called "avanthop." Releases feature material created by its members, affiliates, and extended musical family. Although Anticon cohered originally within abstract hip hop circles, Anticon's founders have become only tangentially related to hip-hop music, and the label has in recent years begun releasing music in the indie rock and electronica genres. Artists signed to Anticon are based on the west coast, the east coast, the midwest, and Canada, and the label has recently signed artists in the UK.

german:
anticon. ist ein Independent-Label aus der Küstenregion San Franciscos und wurde 1998 von sieben Musikern und dem heutigen Manager Baillie Parker gegründet. Der Name Anticon steht für „anti-conventional“, beziehungsweise „anti-conformity“ oder auch „ant-icon“, was durchaus als Wortspiel in Bezug auf das Logo Anticons, einer Silhouette einer Ameise (engl. Ant), zu verstehen ist.

Die Künstler innerhalb des Anticon-Kollektivs treten sowohl in Gruppen als auch als Solisten auf, und sind bekannt für häufige Kollaborationen mit anderen Künstlern innerhalb und außerhalb des Kollektivs. Viele Mitglieder gehören mehreren Labels an, einige haben sogar ihr eigenes kleines Independent-Label durch das sie ihre eigenen Werke veröffentlichen. Nicht zuletzt durch diesen großen Einfluss verschiedener Musiker und Stile hat sich Anticon zu einer Gruppe von Künstlern, die ihren Ursprung größtenteils im HipHop-Genre haben, mit breitgefächertem Musikstil und starken Einflüssen aus Electronica, Folk und Indie-Rock entwickelt. Obwohl man Anticons musikalisches Spektrum lange nicht mehr mittels eines Genres beschreiben kann, gelten sie dennoch als Begründer des Avantgarde-HipHop.

Anticon - Free Houdini Download
After pushin the link, enter your email adress and start the download
Anticon Internetplanet