Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004

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Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004
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Compilation album by
various artists
ReleasedMarch 22, 2004 (2004-03-22) [1]
Genre Hip hop
Length79:11
Label Anticon
Producer Why?, Themselves, Alias, Passage, Jel, Controller 7, Odd Nosdam, Matth, Sixtoo, Hrvatski, Restiform Bodies, Josiah, Dosh
Anticon chronology
Giga Single
(2001)		Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Dusted Magazinefavorable [3]
Uncut 4/5 [4]
XLR8R favorable [5]

Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004 is a compilation album released by American hip hop record label Anticon in 2004. It peaked at number 25 on CMJ's Hip Hop chart. [6]

Anticon record label

Anticon is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and manager Baillie Parker. It is now collectively owned among six musicians, co-founder Parker, and manager Shaun Koplow. The original musicians signed to Anticon were once referred to as the Anticon collective.

CMJ Holdings, Corp. was a music events and online media company which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published CMJ New Music Monthly.

Contents

Critical reception

Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying: "Even though most of the songs are under three minutes, there isn't much superfluous filler to weigh down the record." [2] Susanna Bolle of XLR8R said: "For those not already familiar with Anticon, this budget-priced compilation provides an excellent primer, collecting tracks by the label's extended stable of artists, from the fantastic, absurdist rhymes of Themselves to the acerbic rants of Sole." [5]

AllMusic Online music database

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<i>XLR8R</i> web magazine

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Track listing

No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Hello" 0:19
2."Cold Lunch" (Albert Brown Mortuary Dumpster Dive Remix) Why? 1:15
3."Dark Sky Demo" Themselves 2:35
4."Watching Water" Alias 2:25
5."Shoot the Messenger" Sole 2:15
6."The Unstrung Harp" Passage 1:50
7."The Toss & Turn" Pedestrian 3:24
8."Mothers of Invention" Deep Puddle Dynamics 2:35
9."Bunny Slippers" Controller 7 0:51
10."Wig 21" Odd Nosdam 2:20
11."Poison Pit"Themselves2:07
12."Hahaha / On My 19th"Why?2:52
13."Bottle of Humans"Sole2:44
14."Divine Disappointment"Alias3:38
15."It's Them"Themselves3:22
16."Pity Party People Interlude" 0:19
17."Eat: Chew"Odd Nosdam1:30
18."Poem to the Hospital"Passage2:10
19."Jane 2: Electric Boogaloo"Pedestrian2:24
20."Pill Hiding"Alias2:14
21."Salt on Everything"Sole2:18
22."Bad Entropy"Why?1:21
23."Wig 12"Odd Nosdam2:00
24."Crack Pipes" Sage Francis 1:56
25."Sixes Last"Alias1:38
26."Dec. 26th, 2002"Alias2:43
27."Good People Check" (Hrvatski Remix)Themselves3:18
28."Sippy Cup" Restiform Bodies 2:30
29."Darla"Why?2:55
30."Steve the Cat" Dosh 4:13
31."Unseen Sights" (featuring Markus Acher)Alias4:26
32."Dumb This Down"Sole3:13
33."Nice Last" (Demo Version) Jel 3:51

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References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to Anticon's "Corporate Dreamland" V 1.71". Anticon . Archived from the original on April 7, 2004. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Brown, Marisa. "Anticon Sampler: 1999-2004". AllMusic . Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ Wilmoth, Charlie (February 19, 2004). "V/A - Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004". Dusted Magazine. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Various Artists – Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004". Uncut . June 1, 2004. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Bolle, Susanna (April 5, 2004). "Various Artists Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004". XLR8R . Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Hip Hop (Period Ending 5/4/2004)". CMJ New Music Report : 24. May 17, 2004.
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