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Born in Los Angeles to a family for whom music was all-important,
Matthew Alsberg started learning guitar and piano as a young child, and by the time he enrolled in high school (where he counted
Murs, Double K from
People Under the Stairs, and
Eligh among his peers) he was also playing bass and trombone, studying both jazz and classical music, as well as listening to plenty of punk and hip-hop; he even began to rap himself, though he quickly stepped out of that and moved to production work instead. An active participant in the L.A. underground rap scene,
Alsberg, who was now going by the name
AntiMC, self-released his first album in 1998; he was also approached by friend
Radioinactive for help with
Radioinactive's Mush Records debut,
Pyramidi, which came out in 2001. Mush co-founder Robert Curcio, who by then was a friend of
Alsberg's, was impressed by what he heard and invited him to join the label. The producer's EP,
Run, was released in 2003, followed by his debut full-length, Bitter Breaks, later that year. In 2004
AntiMC and
Radioinactive teamed up again for Free Kamal, and after touring as a bandmember in
Boom Bip, the multi-instrumentalist released It's Free, But It's Not Cheap in 2006. ~ Marisa Brown