Jel lives in El Cerrito, outside San Francisco, but Anticon is headquartered in downtown L.A. The collective came together in 1998 and has gone through major iterations over the years.

“Don't get too comfortable” is a recurring lyric on Late Pass, the newest album from East Bay producer and rapper Jel. But you can also think of it as a key piece of wisdom from Anticon, the ...

Krautrap is here. Rapper and producer Jel, the founder of the influential alt hip hop label Anticon, has announced details of his third album.. Set for release next month, Late Pass is a concise 8 ...

Label manager Shaun Koplow is hunkered down in the Anticon Records war room. His phone is silent, but his desk is occupied by a mountain of to-do’s and a MacBook that never stops asking for ...

Two phrases come to mind when we hear Bay Area indie hip-hop producer Jel has a new album: “totally uncompromising” and “serious knock.” “That's kind of what I was trying to do,” said ...

Chicago-bred beatsmith Jel not only co-founded the influential Anticon collective and helped define their sound in the late ’90s, he pushed the art of live sample-playing to new heights.Above ...

Anticon was founded in 1998 by seven musicians in the Bay Area. Rappers Doseone, Yoni Wolf, Sole, Pedestrian, and producers Alias, Jel, and Odd Nosdam started the collective in hopes of finding a ...

WHY? are back with a new EP, Sod in the Seed, due on August 14 via Anticon/City Slang.Stream the title track below. Still no word on that new LP which would be their first since 2009’s Eskimo ...

Like everyone in Anticon, Jel has been involved in many in-house collaborations (most notably Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God), and his debut LP-- a murky palimpsest of disembodied samples and ...

Alt hip-hop producer and rapper Jeffrey James Logan, aka, Jel has announced details of his third album Late Pass which he likens to “Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad detonating explosives under the prog-rock ...

These are exciting times for the Anticon crew, that loose clique of hip-hop/bass music misfits based around the East Bay label celebrating its 15th Anniversary at 1015 Folsom on Sept. 5. Exciting ...

Thanksgiving Brown, Jel and SixtooDue to over-whelming demand from their near sold-out Anticon 3rd Annual 10 Year Anniversary show, the Knitting Factory NY adds a 2nd, more intimate Anticon ...