Photos by Alexander Wagner
Words and Mix by Doseone
The Art of the Demo is a beautiful thing. It is not a collection of songs and artists to mock. This is rock, rap, electronica and folk; these are songs to memorize, sing to yourself, to friends. And while they may have not gotten ‘the formula’ perfect, each and every one of these songs is ‘perfect’ in and of itself to me. These are the songs I ‘cannot make’ yet ‘enjoy the most’. I hope you can do the same…
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Doseone has leaked the first single from his new solo album G is For Deep. Due out May 15th through Anticon, it reportedly features a “Technicolour swirl of synthesizer, drum machine, hacked Gameboy and layered voice.” Grab “Last Life” in the above player and be sure to check out our rare cLOUDDEAD interview from an early issue of self-titled below…
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Like the best LPs from their better known projects (Subtle‘s A New White, the Notwist‘s Neon Golden, cLOUDDEAD‘s Ten), 13 & God‘s second album blurs the line between fractured electronic beats, scratchpad-seasoned hip-hop, and melancholic pop music. Since the digital version of Own Your Ghost drops today through Anticon, we asked Doseone (see also: Themselves, a he’s-the-DJ-I’m-the-rapper duo with Jel) to crack the code of its 10 very different tracks, from the “posse-lullabye swag” of “Its Own Sun” to the “SpongeBob SquarePants hardcore rap song” that was scrapped in favor of “a Sesame Street Segway on methweed.”
Don’t worry; it’ll all make sense soon enough…
[Photo by Alexander Wagner]
Instead of going on and on about our top picks of 2009 and the past 10 years—we’ll do that later—self-titled asked some of our favorite ‘09 artists to share their favorite records. The following is as free associative as it gets: Doseone‘s (Themselves, Subtle, cLOUDDEAD) knee-jerk take on Department of Eagles‘ debut album.
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