Sole Leaves Anticon Records

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:19 pm

http://www.soleone.org wrote:Sole Leaves Anticon Records

Today, with a heavy heart I end 11+ years of working with anticon. In the early days of the label, anticon was a pet project of mine, a life-long dream. We fulfilled the dream of a collectively run record label and put out many great records and stood as an image of defiance against the music industry. Those memories, I will always have and be proud of. Sadly, those times are gone, and I need to live in the present as I prepare for the future.

Leaving the company was not an easy decision, but it was made necessary by a number of factors. Upon returning to the states from a 2-year exile in Spain, I found myself increasingly at odds with the business end of anticon and began doing more DIY work via soleone.org. Running my own website and taking a more hands on approach with my art has always brought me great satisfaction and it is what I am choosing to return to. There are no ill feelings between myself and members of anticon. I will continue to work with many of the artists and will always love them as brothers and consider them allies. This is a decision to change the way my music will be exploited and adapt to shifting paradigms.

We created anticon as a response to what was going on at the time in the music industry - the indy boom of the late 90גs. There were still a viable music industry then and people bought records. Thatגs how we built up our empire. The music industry isnגt just dying, but what it means to be a recording artist is changing. Technology is making everything cheap, and cheapening everything it touches. Soon the old ways of selling records will be a distant memory, along with magazines, working musicians and employed blue-collar dads. Itגs not a time to cry about the recession, or urge people to go to their local mom and pops and pick up the new sole & skyrider LP. Technology is working its magic, and instead of being a passenger on its ship, I have decided to plot a new course for myself.

The very fact that I have thrived in this environment still sometimes is a surprise to me. Iגm 32 today. I put out my first vinyl when I was 16. For me its always been about ethics & passion, doing what felt right in my core and acting on that, whether or not it was the popular or conventionally wise thing to do.

From now on now all my releases will be made available @ soleone.org via my new label Black Canyon Records and exclusively distributed worldwide via Revolver USA. There is an email newsletter list ton soleone.org, if you wish to be kept in the loop on my releases/updates that will be the best place.

Peace
Tim גsoleג Holland

new contact info:
tim @ soleone dot org (press, booking, inquries etc.)
twitter.com/mcsole
facebook.com/timhollandsole
myspace.com/timholland
www.soleone.org

Stepfather · Post by **Stepfather** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:36 pm

Why must you encourage?

Dids · Post by **Dids** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:58 pm

How the fuck did you beat Employee to posting this? Does Anticon news get to Canada faster?

ape9 · Post by **ape9** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:59 pm

Dids wrote:How the fuck did you beat Employee to posting this? Does Anticon news get to Canada faster?

cenzi · Post by **cenzi** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:05 pm

I think this was on his site a few days ago....

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:07 pm

Dids wrote:How the fuck did you beat Employee to posting this? Does Anticon news get to Canada faster?

http://masturbationstation.wordpress.co ... s-anticon/

Sole Leaves Anticon
February 9, 2010 by Employee

Dids · Post by **Dids** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:18 pm

Life has meaning again.

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:22 pm

Dids wrote:Life has meaning again.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT.

Moeses · Post by **Moeses** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:38 pm

good riddance you fat whiny fuck

Nathan Blaze · Post by **Nathan Blaze** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:40 pm

L O L

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:51 pm

Moeses wrote:good riddance you fat whiny fuck

Someone's talking to himself again.

chump change · Post by **chump change** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:09 pm

unbelievable dickhead · Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:04 pm

^ post/sig combo

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:27 pm

He outlasted El-P.....He wins!

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:29 pm

http://masturbationstation.wordpress.co ... d-loner-2/

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:38 pm

Employee wrote:

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:11 pm

Employee wrote:http://masturbationstation.wordpress.co ... d-loner-2/

maybe i'm slow.. but i only half understand that post

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:46 pm

ackbar wrote:
Employee wrote:http://masturbationstation.wordpress.co ... d-loner-2/
maybe i'm slow.. but i only half understand that post

I'm not good at writing, really, at all. So it's not you, man.

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:14 pm

it's just all pretty cryptic

Julius Seizure · Post by **Julius Seizure** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:50 pm

sole stays one step behind el p

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:35 am

Did anyone think Anticon was still a label? I know I don't really follow them like some of the others on here (Ackbar, Employee) but wasn't the Darc Mind album the last thing they put out?

Also, whats the suicide rate for folks this week with the departure of Sole and the doors closing at Def Jux?

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:42 am

Philaflava wrote: Also, whats the suicide rate for folks this week with the departure of Sole and the doors closing at Def Jux?

I tried with a bottle of extra strength Tylenol. Upon learning they were my grandmother's multi-vitamin, I knew I'd failed.

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ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:22 pm

Philaflava wrote:Did anyone think Anticon was still a label? I know I don't really follow them like some of the others on here (Ackbar, Employee) but wasn't the Darc Mind album the last thing they put out?

i really don't follow them closely at all. i actually just listened to the last two why? albums this week.. they seem to be doing a lot on the fringes of the pitchfork/indie rock set more than hip hop these days (which is prolly a better fit for the label tbh). which could have played a part in sole feeling alienated on the label i guess?

The Iron Sheik · Post by **The Iron Sheik** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:10 pm

the week the music died

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:22 pm

# sole Says:
February 11, 2010 at 12:08 pm | Reply

you know man, dont make shit up.

odd nosdam is my strongest supporter. one of them. he certainly isnt throwing boulders at me.

you are the essence of a blogger employee. making shit up.

capable_keL · Post by **capable_keL** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:40 pm

besides reading about the sole board on phila, i didnt realize sole or anticon was still making music.

lol at "consider them my allies" & "built my empire"

artMajor · Post by **artMajor** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:35 pm

Moolah wrote:
Employee wrote:

that sean?

Quotashun · Post by **Quotashun** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:45 pm

steve-o?

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:34 pm

Ethix Skeptro.

LadyDeathStrizzy · Post by **LadyDeathStrizzy** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:52 pm

lol @ Upon returning to the states from a 2-year exile in Spain