# SoleSides

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**SoleSides** was an American [underground hip hop](/source/Underground_hip_hop) label based in [Northern California](/source/Northern_California), founded in 1991. It comprised various [DJs](/source/DJ) and [MCs](/source/MC), the most notable being [DJ Shadow](/source/DJ_Shadow), MC–producer [Lyrics Born](/source/Lyrics_Born) and duo [Blackalicious](/source/Blackalicious). The members of Solesides all met via [KDVS](/source/KDVS), the 5000-watt community radio station of the University of California at Davis. During high school, Davis-natives [DJ Shadow](/source/DJ_Shadow) and The 8th Wonder used to frequent the station to support Orus Washington's hip hop show. In college, journalist and then-grad student [Jeff "DJ Zen" Chang](/source/Jeff_Chang_(journalist)), broadcast a weekly hip hop radio show that got the attention of DJ Shadow and The 8th Wonder, freshmen Xavier Mosely (Chief Xcel), Tom Shimura (Lyrics Born) and [Joseph Patel](/source/Joseph_Patel) (Jazzbo). They all shared a like-minded passion for hip hop that pushed beyond the sounds of mainstream commercial music.

In 1991, the six came together to form a collective of artists and hip hop lovers, naming the label SoleSides. The first release, was a 12" single, numbered "SS001", featuring DJ Shadow's instrumental odyssey, "Entropy" on one side and Lyrics Born (then known as Asia Born) on the other side with the song "Send Them". The white-label 12" was preceded by a cassette single version of the release and both have fetched high dollars in the re-sale market. Only 400 cassettes and 200 12" vinyl singles were originally pressed up and sold on consignment in record stores in the Bay Area.

In 1996 the label won a "Goldie" award from the *[San Francisco Bay Guardian](/source/San_Francisco_Bay_Guardian)*, being described as "Both a progressive crew of deejays and rappers and a fiercely independent artist-owned label...".

SoleSides disbanded in the winter of 1996, and was reborn as [Quannum Projects](/source/Quannum_Projects) in spring of 1997.

## Members

- The 8th Wonder (Stan Green)
- [Asia Born (Tom Shimura)](/source/Lyrics_Born)
- [Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley)](/source/Chief_Xcel)
- [DJ Shadow (Josh Davis)](/source/DJ_Shadow)
- [DJ Zen (Jeff Chang)](/source/Jeff_Chang_(journalist))
- [Gift of Gab (Tim Parker)](/source/Gift_of_Gab_(rapper))
- [Jazzbo (Joseph Patel)](/source/Joseph_Patel)
- Kali
- [Lateef the Truthspeaker (Lateef Daumont)](/source/Lateef_the_Truthspeaker)
- Mack B. Dog (Benjamin Davis)

## External links

- [Solesides Web Site](http://solesides.com/)
- [Quannum Projects](https://web.archive.org/web/20060320093029/http://www.quannum.com/site/)

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