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Founded
  
1992

Official website
  
quannum.com

Country of origin
  
United States

Active from
  
1992

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Founder
  
DJ Shadow, Chief Xcel, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born, Lateef

Location
  
San Francisco, California

Record labels
  
Ninja Tune, Quannum Projects

Genres
  
Dance/electronic, Hip-hop/rap

Albums
  
Solesides Greatest Bumps, Later That Day, 4th Dimensional Rocketshi, Quannum World US Tour Me

Quannum Projects (a.k.a. Quannum MCs) is a 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.

Contents

Artist roster

  • 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)

    • Songs

    I Changed My Mind1999
    Storm Warning1999
    The Extravaganza1999

    References

    Quannum Projects Wikipedia
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