Biography
Anthony Naples crafts immersive reworkings of house, techno, and ambient forms. Initially slotted into the “outsider house” tag via the jagged, gritty “Mad Disrespect” (2012), the producer and DJ has steadily distanced himself from that hastily invented label through every following EP and album. After inaugurating the Mister Saturday Night label’s Brooklyn offshoot with his well-received debut outing, Naples has issued material on respected imprints such as The Trilogy Tapes and Text—the latter home to his first full-length, Body Pill (2015)—yet most subsequent work has appeared on his own Proibito and ANS outlets. Later albums including the roughly biennial sequence of Fog FM (2019), Chameleon (2021), and Orbs (2023) have allowed him to delve further into reduced tempos and denser sonic environments shaped by introspective post-punk and dub, while shedding earlier rough edges.
Raised in Florida, Naples absorbed Miami bass in childhood before gravitating toward punk, noise, and experimental electronics. He took up bass and guitar, and after immersing himself in Aphex Twin, Four Tet, and Caribou, began creating tracks on a laptop. Prior to issuing “Mad Disrespect,” he had completed audio-engineering studies, completed studio internships, and served as distribution manager at Captured Tracks. The three-track EP’s April 2012 launch coincided with a Mister Saturday Night party that featured Naples’ first DJ appearance, simultaneously establishing both the label and his standing as a producer and selector.
Within two years he had accumulated five more 12-inch releases, among them two for Will Bankhead’s Trilogy Tapes and another that inaugurated the Proibito imprint. In 2015 a deliberately unpolished set of tracks forwarded to Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) for comment became Naples’ debut album, Body Pill, on Hebden’s Text label. Following additional EPs and the conclusion of Proibito’s run, he issued Take Me with You, a dreamlike chain of short yet continuous pieces, for Good Morning Tapes. Its 2019 vinyl pressing marked the first LP on Naples’ ANS imprint, the same year he released Fog FM, a comparatively direct set of refined ambient and dub-techno pieces. Before decade’s end, Naples and artist/DJ Jenny Slattery activated the Incienso label to champion respected peers including DJ Python, Beta Librae, Buttechno, and Call Super.
Issued in 2021, Chameleon—Naples’ second ANS album and fourth full-length—proved markedly less floor-oriented than Fog FM, foregrounding his melodic guitar lines and assembling layers that evoked a collaborative band process despite being recorded alone. The club-oriented Swerve EP surfaced on Running Back in 2022 and was succeeded in 2023 by the unhurried yet buoyant Orbs.
Raised in Florida, Naples absorbed Miami bass in childhood before gravitating toward punk, noise, and experimental electronics. He took up bass and guitar, and after immersing himself in Aphex Twin, Four Tet, and Caribou, began creating tracks on a laptop. Prior to issuing “Mad Disrespect,” he had completed audio-engineering studies, completed studio internships, and served as distribution manager at Captured Tracks. The three-track EP’s April 2012 launch coincided with a Mister Saturday Night party that featured Naples’ first DJ appearance, simultaneously establishing both the label and his standing as a producer and selector.
Within two years he had accumulated five more 12-inch releases, among them two for Will Bankhead’s Trilogy Tapes and another that inaugurated the Proibito imprint. In 2015 a deliberately unpolished set of tracks forwarded to Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) for comment became Naples’ debut album, Body Pill, on Hebden’s Text label. Following additional EPs and the conclusion of Proibito’s run, he issued Take Me with You, a dreamlike chain of short yet continuous pieces, for Good Morning Tapes. Its 2019 vinyl pressing marked the first LP on Naples’ ANS imprint, the same year he released Fog FM, a comparatively direct set of refined ambient and dub-techno pieces. Before decade’s end, Naples and artist/DJ Jenny Slattery activated the Incienso label to champion respected peers including DJ Python, Beta Librae, Buttechno, and Call Super.
Issued in 2021, Chameleon—Naples’ second ANS album and fourth full-length—proved markedly less floor-oriented than Fog FM, foregrounding his melodic guitar lines and assembling layers that evoked a collaborative band process despite being recorded alone. The club-oriented Swerve EP surfaced on Running Back in 2022 and was succeeded in 2023 by the unhurried yet buoyant Orbs.
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