Intriguing music blog Bricolage Fantasy has also posted “…Or I May Just Dream (My Life Away)” in their Valentine’s Day mix. You’d think me and Mark actually got girls or sun’in.

You haven’t heard about this fella yet?! Damn…you don’t know what you’re missing! Seriously…if anybody creates music that embodies one of About The Music Radio’s core reasons for existence (to explore genre mashing music) it would be LA’s Antimc. This is a debut record  for the brilliant multi-instrumentalist, who has spent much of his musical career supporting a wide variety of artists/bands including Mice Parade, Radioinactive, Alias and Busdriver to name but a few. Antimc’s versatility and uncanny ability to play many different styles of music has enabled him to produce a record that is truly refreshing and unique.
The tracks on It’s Free, But It’s Not Cheap are stylistically all over the shop, bouncing from electro-folk tinged tracks like “Or I May Just Dream (My Life Away)” featuring Clue to Kalo, to hip hop numbers like “Canadian Dream” which showcases Edmonton MC Cadence Weapon’s rapping smarts, and then swiftly skips on to a waltz driven song, “The Nogoodnick” featuring Fog (Lex Records)….I’m loving this!!! Tasteful Synths, snappy beats, slide guitar, blips and glitches, top notch vocals and sick rhyming all strung together and packaged up tightly in some super solid songs…check the above links for more info….can’t wait to see what this lad does next….a sharp artist, expect many good things! - Leanda

Rehearsals continue. I leave with Bus on the RJ tour (more dates coming up soon) in less than four weeks, so we gotta be tight before then. Maybe we’ll get a little tiny practice before our first show at SXSW, the T1 Skate Ramp on Thursday, March 15. Anyway, more images from rehearsal.

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I found this at parents house and wanted to share it with the world. This was the official promotional material of the Log Cabin crew, and one of the biggest ways that we got heard. It was a real voice mail box that would have, like… a freestyle from one of us, then a little bit of a song then the beep, and people would leave us messages. We would a pretty good amount of calls (we thought, at least), and they’d be coming from all over the place. Art by the one and only Tom Slikk.

Sometimes the most crucial decision artists can make is with whom to work. On his debut, It’s Free, But It’s Not Cheap, Los Angeles DJ Antimc shows he knows exactly what he’s doing. He records with a variety of artists, including rappers (Busdriver), mellow indie rockers (Fog), and guys who wouldn’t sound out of place singing on a Blood Brothers album (Anthony Anzalone). Every collaboration works flawlessly, especially hip-hop tracks such as “Canadian Dream.” This is not to imply that Antimc can’t handle things on his own. The opener, “Ten Days Out,” starts as an IDM-style downtempo jam. But as the song progresses, live instrumentation is subtly added until it becomes a straight-ahead rock song. In this sense, the CD constantly hops from one idea to the next, but never in a self-conscious way. It’s as if Antimc is too busy making good music to bother with antiquated notions of genre. - Aaron Sankin

Finally, almost 9 months after handing in It’s Free, But It’s Not Cheap, I have assembled the ultimate band of amazingly talented musicians and basically genii. Devin Foley aka Desert Eagles plays bass and some synths and a little bit of electronics. Jason “Them Jeans” Stewart shreds the tables, and touches the synth a bit and tickles the Dr. Sample. Hopefully we’ll be playing out soon, and I’ll get more photos and even youtube vids as they come together. A couple photos for now after tha jump.

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More a “mash-up” than a “remix,” and more a “curiosity” than a “mash-up,” this reworking of Busdriver’s “Kill Your Employer” by L.A. button-smasher Antimc reduces a befuddling clusterfuck of rhetoric, metaphor and punchlines (swinging somewhere between skeptical centrist and ultra-lefty) into a Hollertronix-ready banger no-brainer. Placing the still-confusing, still-infectious vocal track onto the beat from A Certain Ratio’s “Do The Du,” Antimc cops a similar feel to Spank Rock’s “Sweet Talk” (also built on an obscure post-punk sample of some sort, but Alex XXXChange is tight-lipped about exactly which). By combining these two high-brow treats, it might be the best way to slam ’Driver’s vital-but-unsexy backpacker motormouthing into the face of the Dipset-jocking hipsterati—even while making wry statements that may pertain to a lot of the snooty college kids who can afford A Certain Ratio import vinyl. - Christopher Weingarten