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	SSWW: Artists
		The future of underground hip-hop is being forged by SoleSides Records, an enterprising Northern California crew on the vanguard of innovation and creativity in music.
		A crossroads to a diverse population of students, it was the campus radio station, KDVS, where the members met and fostered a unique relationship with each other, DJs and hip-hop aficionados all sharing a common love and democratic philosophy for the music.
		The outcome was the creation of SoleSides Records as an artist-owned label committed to pushing the edge in its creative and musical endeavors.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~wndapooh/solesides/artists.html (1051 words)

	SOLESIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Even as other independent-minded California posses (Freestyle Fellowship, Hieroglyphics) were faltering in the aftermath of major-label disappointments, the Solesides folks decided to remain independent, digging deep into their crates, their rhyme sheets, and their wallets to support their own hip-hop dreams.
		From 1993 to 1997 Solesides’ slow-drip release schedule, independent business practices, and impossibly high artistic standards created an international fan base that far overshadowed its meager discography of only 11 releases (mostly vinyl singles).
		Solesides has since transformed into Quannum (same artists, different name), and it continues to stoke the flames of its obsessive fan base with Solesides Greatest Bumps — a two-disc collection that compiles unreleased nuggets, out-of-print tracks, and highlights from the pre-Quannum era.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /archive/music/00/11/24/otr/SOLESIDES.html (242 words)

	'Solesides Greatest Bumps' by Various Artists on Etherbeat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It took the hip-hop community by storm, though, and the fledgling label was elevated to elite status when Latyrx (Lyrics Born and Lateef) and Shadow dropped their monumental mid-90s debuts.
		With their rare funk samples and heady, tongue-tying lyricism, Solesides helped jump-start the vaunted independent hip-hop revolution of the past decade.
		This release presents Solesides' growth and maturation and offers some of their rarest out-of-print and vinyl-only gems, a blistering new posse cut ("Blue Flames"), and a host of freestyles and demos.
	www.etherbeat.com /albuminfo/index.cfm/albumID/658 (422 words)

	Blackalicious
		Gift of Gab[?] and Chief Xcel[?] formed the group in the early 1990s and released their first recording, "Swan Lake", on SoleSides Records[?] (the SoleSides Crew[?] had joined Blackalicious).
		In 2000 (see 2000 in music), SoleSides had become Quannum Records[?] and Blackalacious released Nia[?], their debut full length.
		This was followed by a major label[?] contract with MCA Records and the release of the critically acclaimed album Blazing Arrow[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bl/Blackalicious.html (94 words)

	Blackalicious - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Solesides Crew consisted of the two and friends of theirs who all met at UC Davis, including DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker.
		In late 1997, Solesides became Quannum Projects and in 1999 Blackalicious released the A2G EP, which served as a precursor to their debut full length album, Nia, released the following year.
		This was followed by a major label contract with MCA Records and the release of the critically acclaimed album Blazing Arrow in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackalicious (331 words)

	Sacramento News and Review August 17, 2006
		The SoleSides crew also represented a distinct vision of underground hip-hop, predicated largely on the avoidance of the gangsta rap that was the mainstream hip-hop world’s bread and butter at the time.
		Instead, SoleSides’ lyrics (if there were lyrics at all) were “positive spin,” meaning that instead of urban tales of “bitches” and gunfire, they circled around issues of spirituality, emotion and music itself.
		While the SoleSides crew released records and no doubt hoped for massive selling hip-hop glory, their “positive spin” was far from the early-1990s hip-hop mainstream.
	www.newsreview.com /sacramento/Content?oid=oid:36560 (3447 words)

	NIPP: Artists: Lyrics Born
		Forming the now seminal label Solesides, their inaugural release was a double-A 12” with DJ Shadow’s “Entropy” on one side and “Send Them” by Asia Born, as Lyrics Born was known then, on the other.
		Solesides’ “do it yourself” attitude had by this point already trickled down to other California artists, and soon other labels like Hieroglyphics and Stones Throw were formed, marking the true beginning of the underground scene.
		It was at this point that Solesides transmogrified into the label now known as Quannum Projects.
	www.nipp.com /artists/detail/lyrics-born (473 words)

	CMT.com : Quannum : Biography
		An artist-run label, SoleSides was founded in 1992 at KDVS, the college radio station for the University of California-Davis, with most of the above artists involved, plus mentor DJ Zen (Jeff Chang).
		SoleSides hit with further releases like Blackalicious' Melodica EP (also licensed to Mo' Wax) and the self-titled debut single by Latyrx.
		By 1997, SoleSides had become Quannum Projects, and the label debuted with a masterstroke, the brilliant collaborative Quannum Spectrum, including a bounty of West Coast underground talent -- Jurassic 5, Divine Styler, Souls of Mischief, and Poets of Rhythm.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/quannum/bio.jhtml (234 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Audiofile
		The Albany, Calif., label Solesides puts out some of the creamiest hip-hop blends on either shores--European or American.
		Solesides is known for turning influential U.K. label Mo' Wax on to Blackalicious and DJ Shadow.
		Rough and rugged rapper Lateef is on Solesides but bears little resemblance to either.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.10.96/audiofile-9641.html (594 words)

	CMT.com : Latyrx : Biography
		The name Latyrx was a combination of its members' performing monikers, Lateef the Truth Speaker (born Lateef Daumont) and Lyrics Born (born Tom Shimura).
		The crew's charter members -- which also included DJ Shadow and the future Blackalicious team -- were all involved in student radio and shared a progressive-minded approach to hip-hop.
		Meanwhile, Solesides was reconfigured into a new label, Quannum Projects, and the collective officially changed its name to Quannum as well.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/latyrx/bio.jhtml (527 words)

	Ninjatune Artists - Quannum M.C's
		Also rotating in various orbits within the Quannum circumference are Joyo Velarde (songstress extrordinaire), Maroons (Chief Xcel and Lateef the Truth Speaker's collaborative monicker) Portland's Lifesavas and Erinn Anova, and the Poets of Rhythm (bringing Funk music and more, all the way from Germany).
		Solesides baton passed again, this time to a newcomer.
		As Solesides gave way to Quannum, there was a feeling that the collective ideology had changed.
	www.ninjatune.net /ninja/artist.php?id=31 (700 words)

	SoleSides Keeps It Real At `Reunion' Concert / Local hip-hop crew shows off all its tricks
		But the SoleSides name and the music that emerged from the crew's earlier incarnation has left an indelible impression on the West Coast's hip-hop community.
		Even the earliest SoleSides songs -- the dizzying wordplay of ``Latryx'' (by Latryx), the elliptical ``Swan Lake'' (by Blackalicious) -- sounded as cutting-edge and creative as when the crew emerged from the University of California at Davis in the early '90s.
		These five artists are committed to blurring the borders between genres, and their innovative oeuvre ran the gamut from old-school hip-hop to funky reggae shuffles, gospel rave-ups to slow soul jams, jazzy vocal improvisation to collagelike DJ scratching.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/18/DD33049.DTL (674 words)

	Hollywood Bowl - Artist Details
		In 1992, Gab moved to Davis to reunite with Xcel and found an intense, progressive collective, centered on rowdy KDVS radio shows and all-night living-room freestyle sessions.
		As Xcel prepared their first album, Gab joined DJ Shadow to record "Count and Estimate" as part of Shadow's side of the first SoleSides label 12-inch in late 1992, and released it to underground acclaim.
		But by the end of 1997, Blackalicious and the SoleSides Crew reached a crossroads.
	www.hollywoodbowl.org /about/performer_detail.cfm?id=1437 (588 words)

	Lyrics Born - Verve Records
		LB founded the seminal Northern California hip-hop collective Solesides back in '92, along with DJ Shadow and Blackalicious.
		The very first 12" was a little double-A number called "Send Them b/w Entropy" by Asia Born (as he was known then) and DJ Shadow, respectively.
		As Solesides transmogrified into Quannum, the hits kept coming and coming -- from Shadow's Entroducing to Blackalicous' Nia.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=per&src=prd&aid=6592 (364 words)

	ukhh.com \| reviews \| nonuk \| Quannum Presents.... - Solesides Greatest Bumps
		This compilation serves to welcome in the new deal between Solesides and NinjaTune - and as with all new things they gotta make the most from the old bones before they break out their new flesh from the cupboard.
		Anyways - let me break down the doobie extras first off - the LP comes with a good bit of waffle from the Solesides crew's mascot about their beginnings and puts the whole compilation fandango into some sunny perspective.
		This is a good compilation and a must for any head wanting to fill that empty hole in their record collecting history.
	www.ukhh.com /reviews/nonuk/190.html (635 words)

	Various Artists: Solesides' Greatest Bumps - PopMatters Music Review
		It has become annoyingly popular among critics to laud hip-hop albums because they are "old school" and don't contain references to pimpin' hos, killin' sucka niggas and slappin' bitches.
		The Solesides crew is composed of the likes of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Chief Xcel and so on.
		While diehard Solesides fans will no doubt want to hear some of the earliest cuts, much of the album will probably sound familiar.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/various/various-solesides.shtml (444 words)

	Blackalicious - Biography - AOL Music
		UC Davis was where Xcel had started working with a hip-hop crew named SoleSides, whose members included DJ Shadow, Lateef the Truth Speaker, and Lyrics Born.
		SoleSides Records was the name of the SoleSides Crew's Northern California record company and in 1994, that label released Blackalicious' debut single "Swan Lake." Although not a triple-platinum smash, the single was a small underground hit that fared well among alternative rap audiences.
		By late 1997, SoleSides Records had transformed into Quannum Records, and in 1999, Quannum put out another Blackalicious EP, A2G.
	music.aol.com /artist/blackalicious/199899/biography (503 words)

	news
		According to Lateef, Solesides began in 1995 at University of California at Davis when he roomed with DJ Shadow who later conducted instrumental masterpieces such as “Entroducing.” Lateef was from Oakland and Lyrics Born from Berkley.
		Lateef said Solesides blazed trails for the independent music scene in terms of distribution.
		When Solesides flipped the script and changed their name to Quannum, Lateef says there was a rumor throughout the industry that the group was finished.
	light.uaa.alaska.edu /issues/2001_07_10/news.htm (855 words)

	Solesides Greatest Bumps - 4 LPs: DJ Shadow Merchandise
		Solesides Greatest Bumps - 4 LPs: DJ Shadow Merchandise
		It took the hip-hop community by storm, though, and the fledgling label was elevated to elite status when Latyrx (Lyrics Born and Lateef) and DJ Shadow dropped their monumental mid-90s debuts.
		Though the core of Solesides record today under the Quannum moniker, Grestest Bumps chronicles a spirit, innocence, and freshness that resuscitated hip-hop.
	www.djshadow.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=V020&Category_Code=vinyl&Product_Count=3 (235 words)

	Swizzle-Stick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A myriad of releases from Quannum spin offs Blackalicious and Latyrx have also been given the thumbs up, and the odd live appearance in England have been riotous, celebratory affairs (the crowd went mad for Blackalicious at London's Fabric nightclub in July this year).
		The success of some of these tracks, although relatively minor, ensured the group had to take their hobby much more seriously.
		By the end of 1997, with Blackalicious, Shadow and Latyrx all enjoying varying rates of commercial success, SoleSides dissolved only to be reborn in 1998, with the same members, as Quannum.
	www.swizzle-stick.com /bin/review.php?id=R0001596 (377 words)

	CLUAS Indie Gig Reviews: DJ Shadow live in Amsterdam
		OK as the tour is called ‘The Solesides Reunion’ we should have guessed.
		However, when Solesides soulstress Joyo Velarde came on to sing some drippy sub-Whitney Houston dross my patience ran out.
		If you had suggested a week before that I would walk out of a Shadow gig early then I would have told you that you were a nutter.
	www.cluas.com /Music/gigs/djshadow2.htm (523 words)

	DJ Shadow - Biography - AOL Music
		Davis had already been fiddling around with making beats and breaks on a four-track while he was in high school, but it was his move to the NorCal cow-town of Davis to attend university that led to the establishment of his own Solesides label as an outlet for his original tracks.
		Hooking up with Davis' few b-boys (including eventual Solesides artists Blackalicious and Lyrics Born) through the college radio station, Shadow began releasing the Reconstructed From the Ground Up mix tapes in 1991 and pressed his 17-minute hip-hop symphony "Entropy" in 1993.
		Later that year, Shadow produced tracks for the debut album by U.N.K.L.E., a long-time Mo' Wax production team that gained superstar guests including Thom Yorke (of Radiohead), Richard Ashcroft (of the Verve), Mike D (of the Beastie Boys), and others.
	music.aol.com /artist/dj-shadow/182429/biography (457 words)

	Various Artists
		Aided by Dan The Automator, Solesides’ sound was orchestral bombast meets Bomb Squad-booming, symphonic tracks with a holy spirit.
		Each owner acted as player, filling the others’ heads with sampladelic visions and tongue-twisty rhymes that would guide them to their own individual places in the sun.
		This two-CD history is full of silly intimacy and raunchy idealism as on Gab/Shadow’s "Rhyme Like A Nut!" and Latryx’s raucous rambling truths like "Last Chance To Comprehend" and "Say That." The key to Soleside artists is that they made socially aware, comically timed tunes good fun and good for your soul.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/030801/mus.dq2.shtml (217 words)

	RapReviews.com Feature for March 13, 2001 - "SoleSides Greatest Bumps"
		Few states in the entire union can claim to have such an eclecticly diverse selection of hip-hop artists; each doing different styles but all "keeping it real" by being true to their own vision.
		In fact, the greatest thing about this album is that it preserves the zany and humerous braggadocio and stylings of the whole fan-damily on cuts like "Freestyle Rapping" recorded live at Barony Place.
		Andre Benjamin said recently on the song "Humble Mumble" that he made a reporter shit her drawers because she thought hip-hop was only guns and alcohol.
	www.rapreviews.com /archive/2001_03F_bumps.html (665 words)

	Various Artists: Solesides Greatest Bumps: CD Compact Disc: Skateboarding Music and more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		DJ Shadow's beats, along with the vocal talent of Blackalicious, Lateef, Lyrics Born and others in the Solesides crew, give this two disc set a must have label for all true hip hop lovers.
		Blackalicious and DJ Shadow both put out new cd's this year, and the Solesides discs give a sample of what the public had been missing out on for years.
		My advice is to get anything that DJ Shadow and the Solesides Crew have a hand in, they have been doin this for years, and doin it well.
	shop.skateboardmusic.com /cds/various-artists/solesides-greatest-bumps/listen077324.html (2386 words)

	SOLESIDES.COM - HERE YOU GET QUANNUM'S FUNK !
		Some people on the solesides boards are sure this is by Shadow, some aren't.
		In the August 16 news here at SoleSides, it was mentioned that DJ Shadow is very charmed by the music of Stateless.
		Pigeon John, who is recently signed to QUANNUM dropped by on the solesides board to say that if youre interested in checking out some pigeon john music, nows the time.
	www.solesides.com /2005.htm (6829 words)

	MTV News - SoleSides Greatest Bumps A Slice Of Hip-Hop History
		The discs find them cutting their hip-hop teeth as fellow students at the Davis campus of the University of California from 1992 to '96 — where they were taking a chomp out of the music's history and spitting it out in a raw, revolutionary form.
		Culled from sessions at Dan "the Automator" Nakamura's San Francisco recording studio, SoleSides Greatest Bumps rounds up smoking out-of-print gems, hard-to-find cuts and forgotten classics from a period that immediately preceded what some would say is hip-hop's degeneration into its watered-down, present era.
		Xcel says his and Shadow's off-campus apartment was the early SoleSides center of operation.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1435957/20010105/story.jhtml (987 words)

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