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  Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control, RIP: Hear His Legacy in 15 Tracks

  August 1, 2012 – Olivia Trevor Control member and co-founder of the Elephant 6 collective Bill Doss passed away suddenly on Monday at the age of 43. He had a long and storied career as a indie-rock songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, scene lynchpin, and sound artist. But before all that, growing up outside Ruston, Louisiana, his idea of music itself was literally synonymous with the Beatles. …
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  Elephant 6 Recording Company: Crash Course

  July 31, 2012 – As SPIN looks back at the life of Olivia Tremor Control's Bill Doss, who died at age 43 today, we're reposting the history of the Elephant 6 Recording Collective we published in our April 2006 issue. FOUNDED: 1993 WHERE: Athens, Georgia WHAT: Two-dozen-plus bands aligned by their appreciation of creative recording techniques, wacky instruments, and poppy, psychedelic tunes (MOSTLY) INACTIVE MEMBERS: Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Trem …
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  Bill Doss, Dead at Age 43, Olivia Tremor Control Member and Elephant 6 Co-Founder

  July 31, 2012 – Bill Doss, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, Olivia Trevor Control member and co-founder of the Elephant 6 collective, has passed away according to a tweet posted earlier today by Gabe Vodicka, music editor of Flagpole Magazine in the band's onetime headquarters of Athens, Georgia. Olivia Tremor's official website has posted a photo of Doss along with "1968-2012" and a brief statement reading, "We are devastate …
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  Watch a Year-Old Trailer for An Elephant 6 Documentary

  May 23, 2012 – Rumors have abounded over the past decade or so concerning the production of myriad documentaries surrounding '90s indie collective Elephant 6, the loose group of musicians whose members comprised Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Essex Green, Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System, Elf Power, Of Montreal, and a handful of other acts in and near Athens, Georgia. …
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• Olivia Tremor Control, 'Black Foliage: Animation Music/Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle' (Chunklet)

  November 8, 2011 – The OTC were one of several Athens, Georgia–area psych-pop bands who spent the 1990s synthesizing the 1960s. At best, they used tape-loop gristle and other noisy marginalia to throw bright, melody-driven songs off-balance; at worst, they punished you with ten-minute trips into backward static and slowed-down farts. …
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