doseone

A collaborative EP with Height Keech, written in a single week and recorded on June 14, 2025 as a protest piece. Six tracks capturing frustration and anger at the political moment in America.

A collaborative album from doseone and NYC producer Steel Tipped Dove. Dove paints with a broad sonic palette while doseone skates across every track, whether languid or acrobatic. The veteran sounds sharper than ever, with lean, hungry songs that showcase both artists at their most focused.

A collaboration between Buck 65, doseone, and Jel — three old friends and fellow 1200 Hobos. What began 25 years earlier on an 8-track in a Cincinnati basement was finally realised here. Fifteen tracks with the pace and punch of a 90s mixtape, blending the wit of three underground rap veterans. Full of humour, heart, breaks, and cuts.

Original soundtrack for Sludge Life 2, the sequel co-developed by doseone and Terri Vellmann, published by Devolver Digital. A 49-track score featuring five new tracks from Big Mud (doseone's in-game character). Players discover hidden master tapes throughout the world. The game received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Original soundtrack for Escape Academy, a first-person escape room puzzle game developed by Coin Crew Games, published by iam8bit and Skybound Games. A 47-track score spanning electronic, hip-hop, and hybrid classical styles. A departure from doseone's usual Devolver Digital orbit.

Companion EP to the Enter the Gungeon original soundtrack, featuring additional compositions from doseone's work on the Dodge Roll/Devolver Digital bullet-hell roguelike.

29-track album. Doseone provides all vocals; Boom Bip produces. Unconventional song lengths — many tracks very short. Described as hard to categorise as hip-hop.

Original soundtrack for Disc Room, the action puzzle game where players navigate rooms filled with deadly spinning saw blades. Co-developed by doseone with Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, and Terri Vellmann, published by Devolver Digital. A 53-track score released on a limited edition buzz-saw-shaped vinyl (300 copies).

A sprawling double album written, rapped, sung, and produced by doseone. Twenty tracks encompassing ten years of studio recordings and artistic exploration, ranging from maximalist raps to minimalist R&B. Released on a limited run of 100 double cassettes through Hands Made.

Original soundtrack for Sludge Life, a first-person open-world graffiti adventure co-developed by doseone and Terri Vellmann, published by Devolver Digital. A 41-track score. doseone also voices Big Mud, a rapping frog character within the game. The third Vellmann/doseone/Devolver collaboration.

Original soundtrack for Exit the Gungeon, the bullet-hell dungeon climber developed by Dodge Roll and Singlecore, published by Devolver Digital. A sequel to Enter the Gungeon set in the collapsing Gungeon, with elevator-based vertical gameplay. doseone returns with a 23-track score.

A solo doseone project released in January 2020.

Produced, written, and sung by doseone. Made in Oakland and originally released on Anticon in 2012.

ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE SURVIVING FAMILY OF BRENDON "ALIAS" WHITNEY. -- This isn't a eulogy and it isn't a sob story, but some things need to be said. On March 30, 2018, we lost Alias, Brendon Whitney, 41, who not only cofounded Anticon, but through his lyrics gave the collective a big, bleeding heart, and with his production leant mood, beauty, and invention to every song he touched. To say that Bren left too soon is unfathomable understatement—he was on a break from the studio when it hap

Original soundtrack for Gang Beasts, the multiplayer party brawler developed by Boneloaf and published by Double Fine Productions. Co-composed by doseone and Bob Larder, the score channels 80s movie music energy over bass-heavy broken beats across 42 tracks, matching the game's gleefully chaotic tone.

Original soundtrack for High Hell, a neon-soaked arcade FPS co-developed by doseone and Terri Vellmann, published by Devolver Digital. A 42-track score that builds from tension into an unpredictable array of distortion, screams, and shifting time signatures. The second Vellmann/doseone/Devolver collaboration after Heavy Bullets.

Early EP composed for the prototype version of Disc Room, which began as a game jam project. The full game, co-developed by doseone alongside Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, and Terri Vellmann, would be released in 2020.

Original soundtrack for Enter the Gungeon, the bullet-hell roguelike developed by Dodge Roll and published by Devolver Digital. An 85-minute, 30-track score that became doseone's most prominent soundtrack work, matching the game's relentless energy across anthemic and angular compositions. The game sold over three million copies. The soundtrack received vinyl releases from both Devolver and Laced Records.

Original soundtrack for 0RBITALIS, a minimalist gravity puzzle game developed by Alan Zucconi. Twelve ambient, synthesiser-driven tracks named after astronomical objects — 67P CG, Oort Cloud, Gliese 581, Sagittarius A, Eta Carinae. The game originated from the Ludum Dare 28 game jam.

Soundtrack composed by doseone and Kozilek for Super Game Jam, a documentary series by Devolver Digital pairing indie developers for 48-hour game jams. doseone also appears as a featured developer in Episode 3, paired with Sos Sosowski to create "Catch of Death" in Oakland.

Original soundtrack for Heavy Bullets, a neon-drenched roguelike FPS developed by Terri Vellmann and published by Devolver Digital. doseone's first collaboration with Vellmann, beginning a long creative partnership that would produce High Hell, Sludge Life, and Disc Room. doseone is credited as co-developer.

Original soundtrack for Samurai Gunn, the lightning-fast 2D arena brawler designed by Beau Blyth (Teknopants). doseone is credited as co-developer as well as composer — his entry point into game soundtrack work. The game features one-hit kills, three bullets per life, and local multiplayer for up to four players.

A freestyle collection, 110% off-the-top. Inspired by doseone's mentors and sparring partners, these freestyles and battle recordings were captured across 2009-2010 and showcase the improvisational skill behind his studio work.

doseone's second solo album proper, described as a collection of rap, singing, beats, and bedroom recordings. Produced by doseone in Oakland, California between 2003 and 2007, drawing on the creative energy of his work with 13 & God, Subtle, Themselves, and cLOUDDEAD.

An all-spoken-word collection of doseone's writing and poetry, drawing from lyrics and prose written for his many projects including 13 & God, Subtle, Themselves, and other unreleased works. Released as a companion piece to his musical output, offering a direct window into his writing practice.

An odds-and-ends collection from hip-hop's oddest end. Featuring Subtle outtakes, reworked Themselves material, and Pelt Accomplice b-sides. Described by Anticon as "Dose at his conceptual best." Found-sound collages, skittering beats, and stream-of-consciousness wordplay.

A book of poems and prose by Dose One, accompanied by a CD broken into eight tracks corresponding to the book's chapters. No music — all written word. A direct companion to the literary impulse behind Slow Death and his later spoken-word collections.

doseone's first foray into poetry and prose set to music, moving away from rap towards ambient spoken word. Recorded in the "Greenthink mansion" during the cLOUDDEAD era in Cincinnati. Constructed on a 4-track recorder with a Dr. Sample, sampling from his father's record collection.

Produced by Mr. Dibbs, DJ Jel, and Mark Herlihy. Cover art by Doze and Mark Wasserman (Plinko). Presage is Mr. Dibbs and Dose One of Cincinnati's 1200 Hobos, joined by Chicago producer DJ Jel. A pre-millennium dispatch of illuminated hip-hop, bridging the Midwest underground scenes that would soon coalesce into Anticon.

The debut album by doseone, originally pressed to 1,000 copies on vinyl and later reissued on CD with the bonus track "Genres". Recorded with his earliest collaborators and producers in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1996 and 1998. An all-rap record from before the founding of Anticon.

A collection of rare and unreleased early Dose One material, self-released in limited quantities.