themselves are doseone and jel. Adam Drucker (doseone), was born in Napa, Idaho. A
product of two well intentioned hippie parents whose extremely imagined relationship
was unfortunately a half fusion of everything they had feared in their own mothers and
fathers respectively. Needless to say the couple did not last, but the son of a one-time
glass-blower managed with his ten-mile-a-minute wit, one of kind voice, humor and
imagination. His coming-of-age years were spent bouncing around Philadelphia and New
Jersey perfecting his MC-battling skills. By the time he moved to Cincinnati in his late
teens, he'd developed a unique style and approach that has been unmatched in that circuit
since. Even though his talent landed him in a few final-round showdowns with freestyle
legends like Eminem, JUICE, and members of Freestyle Fellowship in Cincinnati1s
annual "Scribble Jam," dose found battling ultimately unsatisfying. Sitting in his college
classes, he no longer found himself daydreaming about battle comebacks, instead he
started focusing more on poetry and began applying it to musical form.

Jeffrey Logan was born in Chicago to two very Catholic, Detroit natives. His early
musical influences were fairly wholesome music like Chuck Berry, Cat Stevens and the
Temptations, but inevitably and in spite of his parents' strong religious beliefs, jel quickly
gravitated towards hip hop, beats and ultimately to beat-making. Influenced by
everything he was listening to, jel became disen-chanted with the school system. In line
with early hip hop beat pioneers, jel knew he needed an SP-1200 to produce the sounds
he was dreaming about. Without the means to buy one, jel found a job pumping gas at a
service station until he stacked enough ends to buy his first SP-1200. With the right
equipment, he soon found himself spending most of his time making beats in his
bedroom and passing the tapes along to local, Chicago MC's to rhyme over. As his skills
on the drum machine progressed and his record collection grew, jel's sound became
increasingly complex and distinct. As his musical ambitions grew, so did his thirst for a
vocalist that could keep pace with his progression.

jel became familiar with dose through his good friend and college radio partner, Kevin
Beacham. But it wasn1t until early 1998 when some tapes where exchanged through
mutual friend, Mr. Dibbs, that the two realized their potential together. Soon after a few
phone conversations, jel started making frequent sojourns from Chicago to Cincinnati to
record with dose. The duo's first couple of tracks ended up on dose's first, self-released
record " Hemispheres " (1998). Then from April of 1998 to January 1999 they solidified
their chemistry, putting the tracks together that would end up on themselves-them (or
them-s/t ). That same Spring dose and jel, along with Slug of Atmosphere and sole and
alias of Live Poets began recording deep puddle dynamics-the taste of rain...why kneel?.
Out of that record, the concept of anticon was somewhere born-- whose founding dose
and jel would become an integral part of, later bringing them both to the Bay Area.

Since then, both artists have continued to push boundaries, producing and collaborating
on a range of work far outside the constructs of traditional genre forms. They've
expanded their use and understanding of their equipment, as well as perfected their live
performances. Their most recent record, " the no music. ", involved the use of: an SP-
1200, an MPC-2000, a Korg Poly 64 keyboard, some other shit, a Roland VS 880, Digital
Performer, a Dr. Sample, various microphones, numerous household items and found
objects and sounds. Recently the two of them have also expanded their roles in the group,
both contributing vocals and production to" the no music.". They also added Dax Pierson
on keyboards, Dr. Sample, Theremin and back up vocals on many of their tracks, and to
all of their live performances. Dax is essential in adding syncopation and a real time
quality to the tracks.

dose has been involved with numerous other projects such as collaborations with Boom
Bip, John Herndon, prefuse 73, Buck 65, Aesop Rock, sole of anticon, and HOOD. He's
also the front man in the band Subtle and is an essential ingredient in cLOUDDEAD with
why? and odd nosdam. jel is also involved in the band Subtle and has produced music for
Black Thought of the Roots, DJ Krush, Mr. Dibbs, sole of anticon, Atmosphere and Sage
Francis. Their most recent record, themselves-the no music. was released in September of
2002 to much acclaim.