Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
By David Roberts Listen Play "Do U Buy It?" by Lyrics Born Lyrics Born is part of the Bay area Quannum crew , and like his confreres he has a dazzling vocabulary and amazing verbal skills. Unlike them, he has strayed farther and farther from straight hip-hop, touring with a live funk band and experimenting with a wide variety of far-out sounds. These days, his tracks sound more like Gnarls...
Pop Cesspool (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Lyrics Born "Everywhere At Once" (Anti-/Quannum Projects) So this is why Lyrics Born was put on this earth: Not to be the teddy bear of hip-hop's neo-classical underground, but to be a pop monster. The musicality of 2003's excellent Later...
ProHipHop - Hip Hop Marketing & Business News (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
You, yes, YOU can become the Quannum Music House Account Executive!
jeffvrable.com (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Billboard - For his second solo studio record, the Quannum Projects godfather veers left from his sample-centric background and into something that should be highly pleasing to anyone who enjoyed hip-hop in 1988. “Everywhere at Once” isn’t the map-jumping free-for-all inferred by its title; rather, this is a focused and thoughtfully crafted party record that [...]
Poisonous Paragraphs (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
... underground duo Latryx and his new album has just surfaced. Will he recapture the old Solesides/Quannum days or will I just not be interested? Let’s see: Best Joints: Don’t Change, Hott 2 Deff, I Like It I Love It, The World Is Calling, Top Shelf, Rules Where Meant To Be Broken (Remix), Let Me In Let Me Out (Remix) Hot Garbage: Differences, Cakewalk, I’m A Phreak, Is It The Skin I’m In,...
Crave RSS (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Nonviolent vibes were a thing you could hold in your hand--and more important, put on your turntable--with this seminal Chicago soul group, now getting a rerelease on Quannum. Pieces offer both the warm vocals of the guy groups and a billowing early funk that prefaces EWF. Download free MP3 now! ...
VIBE Magazine Online (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
As a member of the Bay Area’s Quannum collective, Lyrics Born issued memorable, if ruminative singles about depression (“Balcony Beach”) and the art of breath control (“Latyrx”). But on his second solo album, he sounds transformed—festive and celebratory, his smarts undiminished. A confessional tone does creep into “Cakewalk,” where he painfully remembers a high school teacher who laughed, “A...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
» » » Crush (MP3) Crush (MP3)April 14, 2008 3:00 a.m. by General Elektriks is the brainchild of french keyboard wonder Herve Salters whose gearing up to release his second album on Quannum Good City for Dreamers. He's doing promo for it on his website with a once a month free song featuring a different MC with a sample-based beat. It's called "Pocket Full of MCs" and this is the third one- featuring...
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
... coming on DFA, Smalltown Supersound and Lo Recordings. He has also remixed Honeycut and Curumin (Quannum Projects) and Romanowski (Trouser Trout) and has collaborated with The Rondo Brothers (Fortune Records) and Tommy Guerrero and Blackalicious (Quannum Projects). Bing also DJ's in New York has recently joined NYC's Band of Thieves on keyboards. Recording on his own, Bing has released...
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... I’ve also added a track to this playlist. Besides Freestyle Fellowship I still very much like the Quannum related projects of which a Blackalicious track is included here. Around that time, late ‘90s and early ‘00s, there were several groups like Blackalicious (consisting of DJ/producer Chief Xcel and MC Gift of Gab) and Jurassic 5 who stepped up to the plate and made popular again a positive...
So Much Silence (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Quannum Records DJ D-Sharp is offering a free download of a mash-up he made of J Dilla beats and Jay-Z acapellas. It's called Gangster Donuts. Grab the zip file below (via Solesides.com), which includes jpgs for cover art. [ZIP]: DJ D-Sharp | Gangster Donuts
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
... appearance, plus two MP3s from Tommy's last album that came out on the always impressive Quannum imprint, the 2006 release from The Soil To The Soul Tommy Guerrero - Just Ain't Me Tommy Guerrero “War No More” (mp3) from “From the Soil To the Soul” (Quannum Projects) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at eMusic Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Amazon More On This Album
JoshSpear.com (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
... Albuquerque a few years ago stateside, and he’s about to release his second album on hip-hop label Quannum. Curumin isn't entirely hip-hop though; think grooves, think samba. Alexia Bomtempo : Alexia Bomtempo’s amazing voice is like syrup. This songstress’ songs have the nostalgic feel of classic bossa nova. Pierre Aderne : Easy-listening for the world music set, and like Alexia Bomtempo,...
HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Pigeon John talks about prepping a couple of new projects on Quannum records.
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
... sadly closed years ago) I found out about more socially aware hip-hop artists and collectives like Quannum, Anticon, Freestyle Fellowship and the Stones Throw label. I was hooked on this music for years. This week, while flipping through and listening to my old hip-hop albums again, I was startled by the difference in how well those records had aged over the years. Some of them still sounded...
