Subtle

Founded: 2001

Headquarters: Oakland, California

Website Link(s): http://www.subtle6.com/

Label(s)

 * Lex

Genre(s)

 * Left Field
 * Chamber Hop
 * Avant-Hop
 * Experimental

RIYL

 * cLOUDEAD
 * 13 & God
 * Why?
 * Fog

Band Members

 * Adam Drucker
 * Jeffery James Logan
 * Dax Pierson
 * Marty Dowers
 * Jordan Dalrymple
 * Alexander Kort

Includes Members of

 * Doseone
 * Jel
 * cLOUDEAD
 * 13 & God
 * Themselves
 * Deep Puddle Dynamics

Band Biography
Subtle, a collaboration between Doseone, Anticon labelmate Jel, Dax Pierson, Marty Dowers, Jordan Dalrymple and Alexander Kort, lies somewhere between the free rap of Themselves (Doseone, Jel and Dax) and their more ethereal pop-inspired collaboration with The Notwist, 13 & God. Not quite falling on either side of the spectrum, Subtle rides an unexplored sound wave between chamber pop and avant-hop, all with an impovisation vibe throughout. Doseone spits prose with the speed of an auctioneer, while the other band members, strapped at any one time with electronic and kit drums, three keyboards, three samplers, guitar and melodica, paint the equivalent of postmodern abstractionism, a sort of skewed refinement. The music is chopped and re-re-resampled, but on final listen, it has a very fluid, sweeping sound to it; consistently moving and never settling on a particular routine. The group released 4 EPs, Fall, Winter, Summer andSpring, before their first proper full-length A New White in 2004.

In February of 2005 while touring, the van Subtle was riding in had a serious accident. Thankfully no one was killed, but it did sadly leave band member Dax Pierson a quadriplegic. For more on his situation please visit his personal website.

=Discography=

Albums

 * A New White 2004 (Lex)
 * Earthsick

EPs

 * Fall
 * Winter
 * Summer
 * Spring
 * Wishingbone 2006 (Lex)

Singles

 * Long Vein of the Law 12" (Lex)
 * F.K.O. 12" (Lex)