| Alias | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Brendon Whitney |
| Genres | Hip hop, Indie hip hop, Underground hip hop, Alternative hip hop |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
| Labels | Anticon Strange Famous Records |
| Associated acts | Sole, Doseone, Sage Francis, Odd Nosdam, Jel, Why?, Pedestrian, Passage, Sixtoo, Buck 65, B. Dolan, Slug, Ehren Whitney, Tarsier, DJ Mayonaisse |
| Website | [www.anticon.com] |
Brendon Whitney, known as Alias, is an abstract hip hop musician and producer.[1] He is mainly affiliated with the anticon. label/collective.
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Alias is originally from Portland, Maine. He moved to the West Coast in 1999 to work on building the Anticon label, as well as to focus on his music. He returned home to Portland, Maine in August 2007.
Alias originally performed as a rapper alongside Sole in the group Live Poets. He also produced songs, but would still rap over another producer's work.
Later on, as Alias began working with Anticon, he produced tracks for most of the major artists on the label. In 2002, he released The Other Side Of The Looking Glass, a record he produced and rapped on. After that, Alias moved away from rapping to focus solely on production, releasing the instrumental albums Muted and All Things Fixable. His production work also moved away from sampling and began to involve more synthesizers and self-played instrumentation such as guitar.
In 2008, Alias released the album "Resurgam", after the Portland city motto, which is Latin for "I shall rise again". "Well Water Black", which features Yoni Wolf of WHY?, was a popular song from the album but was never officially released as a single.