Anthony Davis, AKA Ant, the producer half of Atmosphere, has announced Collection of Sounds: Volume 2, the second installment in his four-volume series of instrumentals. In addition to his work with Atmosphere, Ant’s production credits also include tracks for Brother Ali, MF DOOM, Murs, Felt, Rav, The Grouch & Eligh, Sage Francis, Dynospectrum and more. The album consists of unreleased material from his vault, offering a new window into his decades-long career and pushing his artistry to the center.

Today, Ant has unveiled two tracks from his latest album. The first, “Damn Koop 2012,” features instrumentation by G Koop. The playful and funky track is complemented by Ant’s debut music video, which captures the song’s stylish essence. Filmed by ZooDeVille and directed by both Ant and ZooDeVille, the video presents a visually captivating day-in-the-life narrative highlighted by smooth dance moves.

The son of a military family, Ant grew up bouncing between locales: Texas, California, New York, Colorado, even as far away as Germany. While moving every couple of years presented plenty of challenges, it also exposed Ant to a wide array of different people and cultures. It also helped nurture his burgeoning love of music. Ant’s father, only 20 years his senior, was an avid record collector. “He was into funk and jazz and soul music and stuff,” Ant says. “When I’m ten years old, he’s only 30, and rap is out: he was listening to it, but he didn’t know the difference between Grandmaster Flash and Rick James. To him it was the same thing—this is all funk, this is all disco, this is just all music.”

“There was always this weird dream in my head that I could get somewhere,” says Davis. As one half of Atmosphere, the longtime Minneapolis resident has carved out the type of career that aspiring musicians across the world imagine as they cut their teeth in home studios and on small stages. Yet while decades of sold-out tours and critical acclaim might have been, at one time, an abstract notion to the now 53-year-old, he always had a sense that he could spin his ingenuity behind turntables into a living.

order Collection of Sounds: Volume 2 HERE