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Bill Doss is among the co-founders of the influential Elephant Six Collective, based in Athens, Georgia, and also one of the key creative forces behind The Olivia Tremor Control, one of the leaders of the collective, and later, following the band's break-up, The Sunshine Fix.

Doss is a native of Ruston, Louisiana, where he befriended Will Cullen Hart, Robert Schneider and Jeff Mangum. Before the Olivia Tremor Control Doss had recorded under the name The Sunshine Fix, and self-released Spiraling World of Pop, which later helped comprise The Olivia Tremor Control songs. Doss, Hart and Mangum soon formed what was later to become the Olivia Tremor Control. After Mangum left the band to pursue his own Neutral Milk Hotel, Hart and Doss began to pool their musical influences, Hart being a proponent of experimentalism, Doss of 60's pop such as The Beatles and The Zombies. Before the Olivia Tremor Control, Doss had spent some time in the army, after which he joined New York based band Chocolate USA before heading back to Athens, Georgia, where he is still a resident. Doss is married to free-lance photographer Amy Hairston Doss, whom he met while both were attending Louisiana Tech University.

After the release of the second The Olivia Tremor Control album, Black Foliage, the band broke up, and Doss went on to re-start The Sunshine Fix. His first full length, Age of the Sun, was released in 2002, which was an album that found its roots in traditional pop harmonies owing much to The Zombies and The Beatles.

In 2004, Doss released the less well received Green Imagination with the Sunshine Fix (which featured artwork and videos by Kevin Evans), and currently produces albums in his own studio in Athens.

Doss has been touring with The Apples in Stereo since early 2006, playing keyboards. He also appears on the 2007 album, New Magnetic Wonder.

Contents 1 Performing Discography 1.1 The Olivia Tremor Control 1.2 The Sunshine Fix 1.3 Chocolate U.S.A. 2 External links

Albums

• Music From The Unrealized Film Script "Dusk At Cubist Castle" (1996)
• Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences (1998)
• Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1 (1999)
• Those Sessions (1999)
• Singles and Beyond (2000)

EPs / Singles

• California Demise (1994)
• Split w/ Apples in Stereo (1994)
• The Giant Day (1996)
• The Opera House (1997)
• The Olivia Tremor Control Vs. Black Swan Network (1997)
• Jumping Fences (1998)
• Hideaway (1998)

Albums

• A Spiralling World of Pop (Cassette Only) (1993)
• Age of the Sun (2002)
• Green Imagination (2004)

EPs / Singles

• Sunshine Fix (7") (1999)
• The Future History of a Sunshine Fix (7") (2000)
• That Ole' Sun (7") (2001)

Albums

• Smoke Machine (1994)

• The Sunshine Fix Official Website
• The Olivia Tremor Control label website
• The Olivia Tremor Control at Elephant6.com
• The Sunshine Fix at Elephant6.com
• Interview with Bill Doss

The Elephant Six Collective
Bands in the Collective
The Apples in Stereo | Beulah | Black Swan Network | Chocolate USA | Circulatory System | Dixie Blood Mustache | Dressy Bessy | Elf Power | The Essex Green | Frosted Ambassador | The Gerbils | The High Water Marks | Major Organ and the Adding Machine | Marbles | The Minders | The Music Tapes | Neutral Milk Hotel | The Olivia Tremor Control | Orchestre Fantastique | Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't | Secret Square | The Sunshine Fix | ulysses | Von Hemmling
Other Noted Bands and Side Projects
The American Revolution | Bablicon | Fablefactory | Great Lakes | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Icy Demons | The Instruments | The Ladybug Transistor | The Late B.P. Helium | M Coast | Marta Tennae | Midget and Hairs | My First Keyboard | of Montreal | Synthetic Flying Machine | Thimble Circus | Visitations
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