NEWS

November 30, 2001

For all of you who can't get enough of stuff like Product Placement and Brainfreeze, check out http://www.konspiracy.co.uk to download a very nice DJ mix of funk tracks made by Aaron of konspiracy.co.uk

Feedback to the man is highly appreciated.

November 25, 2001

More Blackalicious stuff

Listen to Paragraph President, the Lead single to Chief Excel and Gift of Gab's forthcoming new album, "Blazing Arrows" here

and to listen to "make you feel that way" click here

November 17, 2001

The official Blackalicious site seems to be alive again. You can download the Passion single.

Check out the New Flesh - Communicate (feat. Gift Of Gab) videoclip here

November 6, 2001

More Product Placement stuff...There's a very cool interview with  DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist at spinemagazine It also features some movie clips. It's also sorted out the Malcolm Catto-question. He has done some stuff with Shadow, but It's definately not certain it will be on the upcoming album. The tracks are not finished yet. Oh well...Read the Product Placement interview here

November 5, 2001

There aren't many hiphop tracks that are as perfect as "40 oz for breakfast" by Blackalicious. The track was originally released on the Blackalicious / Melodica EP. For all of you who still haven't found a copy of it, 40 Oz is available again on the compilation cd "We came from Beyond" hiphopsite has some audioclips of it. To listen, click here

November 2, 2001

Wow, a busy news day today...

It seems that turntablelab has the out of print DJ Shadow compiled /  Quannum Funk Compilation "Schoolhouse Funk" available again. So act fast! visit turntablelab for more info, or read below:

This is definitely my favorite funk comp to come out in a while. Reason #1: it's fun to listen to. And I can honestly say that my opinion is not swayed by the fact that DJ Shadow put this together. Just because these are some of his favorite records of high school bands, stage bands, and other rarities that you will nevereverever find in the original, it doesn't mean that the record is good. But believe this record is the shit with or without all the hype. Most of the songs are covers of stuff you should know (Red Clay, The World is a Ghetto, Scorpio, Its My Thing, Chameleon) with some nice additions and plenty of drums to keep you happy. In fact there's like a thirty second drum solo with banging breaks on "The Newborn Hippopotamus," which is a dope song in it's own right with lots of breakdowns and fuzzy guitar work. There's a real nice version of Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay with a strong drum intro that has all of us here feeling ducky. The thing that sets this music apart from most of the funk compilations is the unpolished feel to it. The recordings are not always clear, the bands are sometimes off, but hey dats da beudy of it. It's like one of those people with fucked up teeth who somehow look more beautiful because of their flaws.

November 2, 2001

There are some new product placement live pictures at the pics section (thanks to nitricboy) Or just click here

All of a sudden, and mainly because of the recent Product Placement shows, there seems to be a great hype around DJ Z-trip. And he deserves the hype. It's one of the dopest DJ's around, he mixes Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Madonna together with some serious hiphop stuff. Check him out. Below are some links to very nice sites about our man z-trip:

The interview with Mr. Rumble (plus audio, video)

Groove radio appearance 2001

Live from the Scratch Movie Party - Sundance 2001

Also, check out the future primitive sound site for more of this stuff

October 25, 2001

Alright all you completists...start digging for original tracks used for Product Placement.

Sesame Street  "I Love Trash" / Kool & The Gang "N.T." / Freddie Scott "(You) Got What I Need"
/ James & Bobby Purify "I'm Your Puppet" / James Browns  "Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothin'"
/ Southern California Gas Company  "Cooking With Gas" /  B-Boys "Rock The House Y'All"
/ Newcleus "Jam On It" / Soul Searchers "Ashley's Roachclip" / Bill Withers "Kissin' My Love" / Mandrill  "Mango Meat" / Marvin Gaye "T Plays It Cool" / Brothers Johnson "Ain't We Funkin' Now" / Esther Williams
"Last Night Changed It All" James Brown  "Funky President"  Kid 'N Play "Last Night (Instrumental)"
 

October 24, 2001

Brainfreeze VHS is out! the official release of the "*?$@! Freeze" performance filmed live at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles January 18, 2000.

watch preview[28-56kbps | 80kbps | 220kbps]
listen [Audio]

Order Now! ($25 per tape, limited copies available, pre-set price)

October 22, 2001

Product Placement Pictures!! Check out the pictures section of this site to some really nice pictures of DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist doing the PP set... Album cover below:

October 18, 2001

There's gonna be a really cool compilation album released very soon. Tracks by highly appreciated artists such as Divine Styler and Josh One are on it...Click the banner below to find out more

October 17, 2001

Within a short time, a new section at solesides.com will appear. It's going to be  dedicated to all the people who're into DJ Shadow / Quannum related and other, what we call, "good" music. It's gonna inform you what new music is out, links to all the fan-pages (some pages are definately worth checking out, there are some good producers out there) and so on; mainly to keep you informed what's going on in the music world in general, not just at solesides/quannum. First steps have already been taken (for example mentioning the release of the Money Mark album), but things are gonna be cool. 'Hope you like it. Some feedback would be appreciated.

September 21, 2001

To promote the sequel to the infamous BRAINFREEZE, DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist will do a tour. Tour dates are as follows:

Glasgow 26th October at The Arches
Manchester 27th October at Planet K
London 28th October at La Scala

Check www.djshadow.com for the full details

September 14, 2001

Not very Quannum/Solesides related, but damn, we've always loved the music of Money Mark and the release of his new album "Change is coming"  is very near. Check www.moneymark.com for more info, or click on the banner below

 August 30, 2001

Just to be sure the domain name solesides.com is in good hands, I decided to buy the domain name in stead of letting domainzero get it back from me. I bought it for two years and I think that should be enough time to think if I want to keep it when the 2 years are over......

So, you can change all your bookmarks to my site back again to 

www.solesides.com

August 29, 2001

After being in development for almost a year, djshadow.com is launched.  The site chronicles the past, the present and the future of DJ Shadow - and thus the site is broken up into those components.  Each section of the site contains information pertinent to that period of time. Some of the site hi-lites include: a complete discography, an image and video gallery, a stand-alone audio player, an upcoming album feature and Shadow's digest, a forum for DJ Shadow to speak his mind.  Enjoy exploring the site - and be sure to send us your feedback (using the feedback window in the Present section of the site.)

August 28, 2001

Tommy Guerrero has done a remix for  the excellent Poets of Rhythm song Guiding Resolution, magically turning their rowdy anthem into pure slow burn dub bliss, like Calgon for Quannum fans. This fine work will appear on the upcoming Poets 12" Smilin (While You're Crying), along with other revamps by Lyrics Born, J-Boogie and a member of the Stones Throw camp whose name we can't divulge, but it's rhymes with Bad Squib. Maybe. 

August 19, 2001

This is what Mike Roeder (from www.endtroducing.com) says about the upcoming release of the new DJ Shadow album: 

"Since it seems to have been sort of announced... The new DJ Shadow solo album will be released February 2002.

I know that this is pretty disappointing for some since we'd beenhearing that September or October was the release date. He said thateven though there were dates given early that they were shooting for,the album is not late. In February, Josh will have been working on thisalbum one year."

August 6, 2001

It seems that Official DJ Shadow site,www.djshadow.com, is still alive. It has been updated. Nothing really special to see yet, but it promises good things. Perhaps it's really true what the rumours say about the september release of the New Shadow album....

July 21, 2001

Just recently, David Axelrod was the main guest at the BBC radioshow Solid Steel. He talked about his music and his new album which is out on Mo'wax right now. He also talked about the fact that so many artists have sampled his music. DJ Shadow is one of that artists who sampled quite a few David Axelrod tracks for his own music. Axelrod and Shadow seem to be really good friends. Download the files below to listen what David has to say about Josh.

file 1  -  file 2

July 12, 2001

 The Quannum section of this site featured an interview with the Quannum crew,  which was broadcasted on a Belgian radiostation. Due to some server problems, this interview has been removed. But, the promise that everything will be fixed soon is there. In that interview, Shadow is talking about the feature of hiphop and he imitates a DMX drum machine (it's also one of the samples you hear in the background of solesides.com) The following has happened: This part is sampled for a track by "Hero No. 7,"  Called "DJ Shadow VS The Fat Boys" You can also hear Shadow saying "everything mixed tight" which is also taken from this part of the interview.

CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL SAMPLE - CLICK HERE FOR THE HERO 7 / SHADOW VS FATBOYS TRACK 

very nice indeed!

July 9, 2001

Poets Of Rhythm, the funk  band best known for backing Lyrics Born on "I Changed My Mind", have released their album "Discern/Define" today. It's out on Ninja Tune and it presents a 'no-covers' album of new standards, led by the upcoming single "Guiding Resolution". Formed in Munich, Germany in the late 80's, the Poets have released numerous 45's on their own Hotpie & Candy imprint. Shipped with Quannum stamp of approval, as well as heavy support from DJ Shadow and Jurassic 5's Cut Chemist, Future Primitive Sound and Ninja Tune. 

When Lyrics Born and DJ Shadow start going mad about a group, it's worth checking them out. Check the Quannum section of this site to listen to a couple of Poets Of Rhythm tracks.

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Many of you already knew about the fact that the Britisch rock band THERAPY? covered DJ Shadow's High Noon. They are not the only one. Angular artrock punk band "Juno" did it as well. How cool is it for a rock band (with relatively traditional instrumentation) to cover a song that is basically a turntablist collage of found sounds from super disparate sources? It is very cool. to listen to the High Noon cover, click here (thanks to bluesky / http://www.mp3.com/benignintervention

June 24, 2001

Lyrics Born features in a commercial for the sneaker-brand Royal Elastics. Click here to check out their homepage. 

June 22, 2001

New Flesh return the the fray with a track that is going to utterly smash it this summer. 'Communicate' out today features Gift Of Gab from Blackalicious, incredible beats descibed as 'Timbaland on acid' and wicked soca style singing. Forgot everything you think you know about this group, this will surprise and delight you. It's simply  fantastic. (source: ninjatune). Hiphopsite says: Gab rolls through with one of the best verses of the year

Click here to listen to the track (Thanks to Scott Wyatt). Click here for the remix.

June 11, 2001

Poets Of Rhythm, the heavy funk group brought to our attention by the Quannum posse, have a new 7" single out today. 'Guiding Resolution' is a gem of a tune that has been impressing even the most discerning listeners. Richard Dorfmeister said "brilliant, nice beats! Getting loads of plays ", LTJ Bukem said "love how this sounds" and John Stapleton says "essential! Both sides very good". Belive us now? (source: ninjatune.net / quannum)

May 29, 2001

In order to release their new album Black Arrow (late this year -  MCA), Blackalicious have just finished recording with Gil-Scott Heron and ?uestlove of The Roots. Shortly, they will be recording with Hi-Tek. 

The Quannum Mailinglist is now up and running. To subscribe, go to the feedback section of Quannum.com

May 19, 2001

According to the people at Quannum.com, there are plans to rerelease the Latyrx LP and EP's on cd. Release date somewhere in 2002

May 3, 2001

There is some new info on Quannum releases: Poets Of Rhythm - Guiding Resolution 45 (very Limited) / Early June,  Poets of Rhythm - Discern/Define / July, Lifesavas 12" - Head Exercise (w/Chief Xcel mix) / September, Joyo Velarde 12"  / September,  Lyrics Born and the Maroons (Lateef and Chief Xcel) / September

Solesides.com gets a mention at the official Quannum site. It's labeled as "terrifyingly comprehensive" - Thanks Quannum!

March 29, 2001 

A commercial for the dutch beer brand DOMMELSCH has won the award for best dutch tv-commercial. Funny thing is, it has Shadow's building steam with a grain of salt playing in the background. Maybe not at the beginning of the commercial, but towards the end, it's definately Shadow. To watch the commercial, click HERE

March 18, 2001  

Just in case you missed it & before it leaves cyberspace at the end of this month, check out the highlights from the Quannum show at the scala in london in december or kick back and watch the whole 2-1/2 hours. the link is here... http://www1.icrunch.com/features/breaks/soleside/

March 17, 2001 

Latest Blackalicious tour news: April 14, 2001, Long Beach CA, Audiotistic festival w/Common, Roots, Mos Def, Jurassic 5. Check www.audiotistic.com for more info (thanks to Quannum.com for this info)

March 16, 2001

Most of you already knew this, but if there's gonna be a sequel to the UNKLE/Psyence Fiction album, Shadow will not be part of it. To read what James Lavelle has to say about it, click here

 March 2, 2001

Zach De la Rocha (former Rage against the machine) says in an interview with Spin magazine he's just just finished a week recording about three songs with DJ Shadow. And Zach is recording songs with El-P as we speak. This album should be sick for the production alone.

February 13, 2001

Again, a new compilation which features a DJ Shadow track is released. It's called "Urban Revolutions Future Primitive Sound FPS-005"  The track is: DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist (Live At The 45 Session) - Half Time Slurpee Break (click to listen). Go to http://sandbox.pair.com/abstract/fps005.html for more info.

JANUARY 29, 2001

The Reebok Commercial for which DJ Shadow produced the music is added to the downloads section of solesides.com. It's a downloadable .ram (realplayer) file. For all of you who don't have realplayer, the mp3 will be added to the site as soon as possible. Say what you have to say about it and discuss about all things on Solesides/Quannum and everything related on the new messageboard at this site.

 JANUARY 27, 2001

A new compilation, named turntables by the bay is released. It features a new track by DJ Shadow. It's also a return of the Groove Robbers name. Click to listen:  The Groove Robbers feat. DJ Shadow - Flashback

JANUARY 22, 2001

I contacted reebok and asked if it's really true that Shadow's going to
appear in their commercials. This is what Reebok had to say:

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At 01/22/2001 10:13 AM we wrote - Thank you for contacting Reebok. DJ Shadow's music is most likely going to appear in various executions of our brand campaign--the first is the :60 brand spot that we are launching right
after the SuperBowl in Survivor II.As of yet, I do not know if and/or whenit will appear on the Reebok website.
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JANUARY 15, 2001

DJ Shadow has just been confirmed to do the music for the new worldwide Reebok campaign television commercial directed by Spike Jonze. The music for this commercial will be DJ Shadow's remix of the "William Tell Overture" (many of you might be familiar with this from the film "A Clockwork Orange"). Look for this commercial to air for the first time during the Super Bowl in two weeks!