With several high profile deaths of music stars lately (Kitty Wells, Levon Helm), the passing of Bill Doss was easy to overlook. Heck, I only learned about it after a chance look at Metafilter a couple of days ago. Bill Doss was a musician and record label producer, responsible mostly for the Elephant 6 Collective.
Doss got his start as a musician in the band that would eventually become Olivia Tremor Control. OTC played an intriguing mix of indy pop, psychedelic and experimental, specializing in minimalist pop, often performing songs less than 2 minutes long. OTC, along with psych-pop bands Neutral Milk Hotel and The Apples in Stereo formed the core of Elephant 6, a label that would become incredibly influential through the late 90s and early 2000s.
http://youtu.be/jUjd6DHAutU
As a musician, Doss was often doing side projects and performing with the rest of the Elephant 6 bands. In 2000, after OTC broke up, Doss formed The Sunshine Fix, a pop band with heavy psychedelic influences. He also was a member of the Apples in Stereo, joining the band in the late 2000s and serving as a main songwriter
http://youtu.be/JToCx0n0FlU
As part of the Elephant 6 Collective, Doss championed his own brand of indy rock, concentrating on spacy, psychedelic and experimental pop. He helped put out early albums from Of Montreal, Beulah, Elf Power and The Music Tapes.
http://youtu.be/B6gSSsCdFeA
Doss passed away on July 30, 2012 at the age of 43. No cause of death has been announced yet.
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