Quannum Projects

American hip hop collective

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Quannum Projects

Founded| 1992 (1992)
Founder|

* DJ Shadow
* Chief Xcel
* Gift of Gab
* Lyrics Born
* Lateef

Genre| Hip hop
Country of origin| U.S.
Location| San Francisco, California

Quannum Projects (also known as Quannum MCs) is an American hip hop collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been active since 1992, when it was formed at UC Davis under the moniker Solesides Records. It is also the name of the independent record label that releases their records, as well as those of a number of other artists. The label continues to be 100% independently owned and operated.

## Artist roster[edit]

* Apsci (Dana Diaz-Tutaan & Raphael LaMotta – Brooklyn, New York)
* Blackalicious (Gift of Gab & Chief Xcel – Sacramento, California)
* Curumin (Luciano Nakata Albuquerque – Brazil)
* General Elektriks (Hervé Salters – Paris, France)
* Tommy Guerrero (San Francisco, California)
* Honeycut (San Francisco, California)
* Lateef and the Chief a.k.a. Maroons (Lateef & Chief Xcel – Oakland, California)
* Latyrx (Lateef & Lyrics Born – Oakland, California)
* Lifesavas (Jumbo, Vursatyl, Rev. Shines – Portland, Oregon)
* Lyrics Born (Berkeley, California)
* Pieces of Peace (Chicago, Illinois)
* Pigeon John (Hawthorne, California)
* Poets of Rhythm (Whitefield Brothers & Boris Borale – Munich, Germany)
* DJ Shadow (Joshua Davis – Mill Valley, California)
* Joyo Velarde (Berkeley, California)

## See also[edit]

* List of record labels
* Underground hip hop

## External links[edit]

* SoleSides website
* Archived official website
* SF Weekly article on Quannum Projects

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Quannum Projects

Groups|

* Apsci
* Blackalicious
* The Blacktop Project
* Honeycut
* Lateef and the Chief
* Latyrx
* Lifesavas
* Poets of Rhythm

Members|

* Chief Xcel
* Curumin
* DJ Shadow
* General Elektriks
* Gift of Gab
* Tommy Guerrero
* Lateef the Truthspeaker
* Lyrics Born
* Pigeon John
* Joyo Velarde

Albums|

* Latyrx (The Album)
* The Muzapper Mixes
* The Muzapper Remixes
* Quannum Spectrum
* Nia
* SoleSides Greatest Bumps
* Discern/Define
* Blazing Arrow
* Spirit in Stone
* Soul Food Taqueria
* Later That Day
* Maroons:Ambush
* 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up
* Thanks for Asking
* Achados e Perdidos
* Cliquety Kliqk
* Same !@$ Different Day
* The Craft
* Supreme Lyricism
* Overnite Encore: Lyrics Born Live
* Firewire
* The Next Logical Progression

EPs|

* Melodica
* A2G

See also|

* SoleSides

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

Other|

* MusicBrainz label
* IdRef

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