Subtle (music)

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Subtle
Background information
Origin	Oakland, California, USA
Genre(s)	Electronic Indie rock Experimental rock Abstract hip-hop
Years active	2001 – Present
Label(s)	Lex Records Astralwerks
Associated acts	Anticon
Website	http://www.subtle6.com/
Members
Adam Drucker Jeffrey Logan Dax Pierson Jordan Dalrymple Marty Dowers

Subtle is an American electronic music group consisting of Adam Drucker, Jeffrey Logan, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, and Marty Dowers. While Adam (also known as 'Doseone') and Jeff (also known as 'Jel') both have strong ties to the Anticon music collective, Subtle is not on the Anticon roster.

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

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-mic'd honest to genreless music.

For Subtle, the last handfuls of months have been nothing short of life changing. Surviving through and recovering from a terrible tour van accident last February 2005 had led the subtle6 to their most adventurous and clear-hearted achievement, the recently released "For Hero: For Fool". A contiguous and conceptual work of album as art, picking up and running away with the motifs and musical arrangements of "a new white" and their four self-released season themed EPs. "For hero: for fool" boldly follows the B-movie dreams and midday terrors of a working-class poet, born of raw raps and the somewhat vacuum times of the last quarter century...

Another recent release, Wishingbone, is a CD/DVD collection of new material, re-approaches and remixes as recorded by Subtle and a few of their closest friends: Mike Patton, Beck, Console, Hrvatski, Fog, and Ms. John Soda. The DVD features three music videos by London-based animators SSSR, tied together as a short film. Creating a twice-textured and all-era style, SSSR melds filmed miniatures, surreal sketch work, and classic animation to create a world in and of itself. Subtle has subsequently released another video of their single, "The Mercury Craze", which continues to show off the obvious and strangely beautiful chemistry between their collective minds and those of SSSR.

Subtle has toured for each of their releases, and had embarked as of November 2006 upon a 23-show tour through most of Europe. However, misfortune struck the band yet again in Barcelona, where their tour van was robbed — bags containing $15,000 worth of gear and personal belongings were stolen, incuding a laptop holding demos and unreleased work.^[1]