Quannum Projects
Quannum (also known as Quannum MCs or Quannum Mechanics) 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, Quannum Projects, that releases their records, as well as those of a number of other artists.
Quannum Projects
- Name
- Quannum
- Founded
- 1992
- Founder
- DJ Shadow
- Headquarters
- United States
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Quannum (also known as Quannum MCs or Quannum Mechanics) 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, Quannum Projects, that releases their records, as well as those of a number of other artists.
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• Name — Quannum • Founded — 1992 • Founder — * DJ Shadow • Chief Xcel • Gift of Gab • Lyrics Born • Lateef • Genre — Hip-hop • Country — U.S. • Location — San Francisco, California
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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)
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