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Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared.Liisa Ladouceur
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The concept is distinct from that of a traditional band in that musical collectives allow for flexibility in their rosters, and members are free to rotate in and out of the line-up. Collectives may exist in almost any genre of music, although they have been especially prominent in
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and hip hop. A musical collective is distinct from a musicians collective, such as the
London Musicians Collective The London Musicians Collective (LMC) is a cultural charity based in London, England devoted to the support and promotion of contemporary, experimental and improvised music. From its foundation in 1975 until its reorganization in 2009, the LMC ...
, which is an organization with more general aims and larger membership.


Notable collectives

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Alaclair Ensemble Alaclair Ensemble is a Canadian hip hop musical collective based in Quebec.
* Ambiances Magnetiques * AMM * Amon Düül I * Amungus * Animal Collective *
Anticon Anticon (often styled as anticon.) is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and manager Baillie Parker. It is now collectively owned among six musicians, co-founder Parker, and m ...
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Arcade Fire Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. The band's current touring line-up also includes former core mem ...
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Archive An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual ...
* Architecture in Helsinki * Army of the Pharaohs * Arrogant Sons of Bitches * ASAP Mob * The Band * Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution * Bankroll Mafia *
Black Hippy Black Hippy is an American hip hop supergroupBlack Mountain * Blocks Recording Club * Bomb the Music Industry! * Bran Van 3000 * Brockhampton * Broken Social Scene * Bugz in the Attic *
The Cake Sale The Cake Sale are a collective of mostly Irish musical artists including Swedish singer/songwriter Nina Persson of The Cardigans and Australian musician Nick Seymour of Crowded House. The collective was formed by Brian Crosby formerly of Bell ...
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Cardboard City Cardboard city ( Serbian: Картон сити, ''Karton siti'') was an informal settlement, or locally classified as ''unhygienic settlement'', basically a slum in the capital of Serbia. It was located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beogra ...
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Coast Contra The coast, also known as the coastline or seashore, is defined as the area where land meets the ocean, or as a line that forms the boundary between the land and the coastline. The Earth has around of coastline. Coasts are important zones in n ...
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Cocaine 80s Cocaine 80's was an American hip hop collective founded in 2011, by record producer No I.D. With James Fauntleroy serving as lead singer on each song, the group has collectively released four full-length projects: ''The Pursuit EP'' (2011), '' ...
* The Choir Practice * Computer Music Center (Columbia) * Consolidated * Crack Cloud *
Crass Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a lifestylism, way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the ...
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The Damnwells The Damnwells were an indie rock band originally from the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Leichman, Joseph (24 July 2008). Special to The Record: Damnwells seek proper identity. ''The Record'' (Bergen County, N.J.), p. F6. Lewis, Catherine P ...
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Dance Macabre The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification ...
* The Desert Sessions *
Diggin' in the Crates Crew The Diggin' in the Crates Crew, commonly known as D.I.T.C., is an American hip hop collective formed in 1992 in New York City. The collective's name derives from the act of seeking out records to sample for production. The collective is compo ...
* Doomtree *
Dufay Collective The Dufay Collective is an early-music ensemble from the United Kingdom, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music. Founded in 1987, it was named after the Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay. The group is directed by William Lyons. Group ...
* Dungeon Family *
Early Day Miners Early Day Miners are a band from southern Indiana, United States who released records on the Bloomington, Indiana based label Secretly Canadian. The band has released seven full-length records. Their first CD '' Placer Found'' was released A ...
* The Elephant 6 Collective *
Fence Collective Fence Records is a Scottish independent record label based in Anstruther and Crail, Fife, Scotland, founded by musician King Creosote. Fence Records released records by James Yorkston, Rozi Plain, Lone Pigeon, U.N.P.O.C., Kid Canaveral, eag ...
* F-IRE Collective *
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock band which originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994. The group releases recordings through Constellation, an independent record label also loca ...
* Grateful Dead * Griselda *
Gungor Gungor is a musical collective formed by husband and wife duo Michael Gungor and Lisa Gungor. The group's music has been compared to the music of Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver and Arcade Fire. The band has released seven studio albums, the last one ...
* The Hidden Cameras * Hello! Project * Henri Faberge and the Adorables *
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* Hillsong United * I'm from Barcelona * The Jewelled Antler Collective * Jungle * KMFDM * La Coka Nostra * Lansing-Dreiden * Les Légions Noires * Living Legends * Mo Thugs * The Mountain Goats *
Native Tongues The Native Tongues were a collective of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop artists known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling and jazz-influenced beats. Its principal mem ...
* The Mekons * The New Pornographers * No-Neck Blues Band * The Ocean * Odd Future * Ozomatli * Parliament-Funkadelic * PC Music *
Piano Magic Piano Magic was a musical collective formed in the summer of 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance in London, England. Their sound has been described as ambient pop, post-rock, indietronica, dark wave, "arty baroque pop" and "E ...
* The Polyphonic Spree * Pro Era *
The Reindeer Section The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. Lightbody describes the band's sound as "pretty much all very slow, quiet, folky-typ ...
* San Francisco Tape Music Center * Rhythm&Truth *
Screwed Up Click The Screwed Up Click (or S.U.C.) is an American hip hop collective based in Houston, Texas, that was led by DJ Screw. Its most notable members include DJ Screw, Big Hawk, Big Mello, Big Moe, Big Pokey, the Botany Boyz, E.S.G., Fat Pat, Lil' F ...
* Self Defense Family *
Silk Road Project Silkroad, formerly the Silk Road Project, Inc., is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and ...
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SMTOWN SM Town (stylized as SMTOWN) is a musical collective for the recording artists under South Korean entertainment company SM Entertainment. SM Town artists have performed at the annual SM Town Live world tours since the SM Town Live '08 Asia tour ...
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SOB X RBE SOB X RBE (an acronym of Strictly Only Brothers x Real Boi Entertainment) is an American hip hop group. The group consists of two active members, DaBoii and Slimmy B. The group was founded in 2016 by Slimmy B (Jabbar Brown), Yhung T.O. (Juwon Le ...
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Soul Assassins Soul Assassins is a hardcore hip hop project of Cypress Hill member and producer DJ Muggs. Each album features a plethora of guest rappers and is primarily produced by Muggs; the second and third studio albums see contributions from other produ ...
* Soul II Soul * Soulquarians * So Solid Crew * Spider Gang * Sunburned Hand of the Man * Swans *
Sweatshop Union Sweatshop Union is a Canadian hip hop collective based in Vancouver, British Columbia, consisting of four politically-minded rap acts — Dirty Circus, Pigeon Hole (aka "Creative Minds"), Kyprios and Innocent Bystanders. Known for their soci ...
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Tanakh The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
'' Trummerflora * Un Drame Musical Instantane * Underground Resistance *
Undertow Music Undertow began in 1996 in St. Louis, Missouri, as a collective of independent artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers and creative managers sharing resources, ideas, and a love of music. Undertow Music is currently located in Champaign, Illinois ...
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Vulfpeck Vulfpeck is an American funk band founded in 2011 by Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss and Joe Dart. The band has released four extended plays, five studio albums and a live album, having released all of their music independently. The band ...
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Willard Grant Conspiracy Willard Grant Conspiracy (WGC) was an alt-country band based originally in Boston, Massachusetts and later near Palmdale, California, U.S.. The band operated as a collective, with vocalist and songwriter Robert Fisher the only permanent member t ...
* Willkommen Collective *
The World/Inferno Friendship Society The World/Inferno Friendship Society (also referred to as World Inferno, or Inferno) was an American band from Brooklyn, New York. Its style merged punk, soul, klezmer and jazz, while its collective membership featured horns, piano and guitar ...
* Wu-Tang Clan *
Wu-Tang Killa Beez The following is a list of Wu-Tang Clan's associated acts and affiliates, known as the Killa Beez, the Midwest Wasps, and the Wu Fam. At times, they are directly funded, supported, or produced by Clan members, are formed as extension groups origin ...
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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Yamantaka // Sonic Titan is a Canadian experimental music and performance art collective.
* Zodiak Free Arts Lab (Berlin) * TeamSESH


See also

* Collective * Artist collective * Leaderless resistance – Collectives often share the anarchic streak associated with such entities.


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