Subtle (band)
Subtle was an alternative hip hop sextet from Oakland, California. It consisted of Adam Drucker (Doseone), Jeffrey Logan (Jel), Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort, and Marty Dowers. The band was formed in 2001. While considered by the artists to be "genreless", Subtle had close ties to the hip hop and indie music scene. Although both Doseone and Jel are members of Anticon collective, Subtle was not on the Anticon label roster. Subtle was signed to Lex Records. Personnel The six member band consisted of: * Adam "Doseone" Drucker - vocals and samples * Jeffrey "Jel" Logan - sampling, drum machine * Jordan Dalrymple - drums, guitar, synth and vocals * Dax Pierson - vocals, keyboards/ synths, harmonica, autoharp * Marton Dowers - winds, synth * Alexander Kort - electric cello History The Season EPs and ''Earthsick'' Subtle began in 2001 when Dax Pierson, an employee at the Amoeba Music record store in Berkeley, CA., met Adam Drucker at the record store. Drucke ...
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Alternative Hip Hop
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream. AllMusic defines it as comprising " hip hop groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta, bass, hardcore, and party rap. Instead, they blur genres drawing equally from funk and pop/rock, as well as jazz, soul, reggae, and even folk." Alternative hip hop developed in the late 1980s and experienced a degree of mainstream recognition during the early-to-mid 1990s. While some groups such as Arrested Development and The Fugees managed to achieve commercial success before breaking up, many alternative rap acts tend to be embraced by alternative rock listeners other than hip-hop or pop audiences. The commercial and cultural momentum was impeded by the then  -also emerging, significantly harder-edged West Coast gangsta rap. A resurgence came about in the lat ...
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Subtle (band) Albums
Subtle may refer to: * Subtle (band), a musical group consisting of members of the anticon. hip-hop collective * Doctor Subtilis, John Duns Scotus * Subtle body, an idea in mysticism, yoga and tantra * ''The Subtle Knife'', a novel by Philip Pullman and the second book in the trilogy ''His Dark Materials'' * Subtle, a character in ''The Alchemist'' (play) by Ben Jonson * Subtle, a tiling window manager In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more common approach (used by stacking window managers) of coordinate-based stacking of overla ...