Listening Post (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Once known as Solesides, Quannum Projects has been a prime destination for indie-hop, thanks to its star chamber,which includes DJ Shadow, Blackalicious and more. In October, it will splice some laid-back Sao Paulo funk into its DNA with the release...
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...
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 [...]
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
I was first turned on to Bing Ji Ling (real name Quinn Luke) by my friend Charlie Hall, drummer extraordinaire (War On Drugs, Trouble With Sweeney, Windsor For the Derby, Tommy Guerrero, etc). Charlie's been living in Philly however I recently ran into Charlie and Bing at South By; they were in town to play a a couple of shows including the soul-explosion showcase on Saturday night at a Ubiquity Records...
HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Pigeon John talks about prepping a couple of new projects on Quannum records.
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Photo by Media Eater . It's hard to believe that it's been 12 years since DJ Shadow dropped his groundbreaking debut, Endtroducing ... . Since then, the Bay Area DJ has helped form the respected indie hip hop label Quannum Projects and released a couple of lesser acclaimed albums including 2006's hyphy influenced, The Outsider . Since then, DJ Shadow has been working with fellow crate digger and former...
The Sound of Young America (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
This week on the show Jesse and Jordan are joined by Quannum Projects recording artist Pigeon John . There is discussion of a lot of different stuff, including Jordan's trip to the CES and the porn convention. CONTINUING ACTION ITEMS: * Review the show on iTunes. * Do you have a dispute Judge John Hodgman can solve on a future broadcast? Email it to us ! Put Judge John in the subject line. * Have personal...
The Yellow Stereo (Free subscription) | 10/07/2007
I’ve been super busy since school started, and I’ve officially fallen way behind on posting some of the random things I’ve found rather interesting lately, so here’s a little grab bag of things I’ve been meaning to post on. The Main Drag - Yours as Fast as Mine I poster earlier on the Main Drag, but now [...]
IGN (Free subscription) | 09/14/2007
Lost funk gem from the '60s gets re-released by Quannum Projects.
LAist (Free subscription) | 09/13/2007
Quannum Projects has done their homework to discover and unveil this previously unreleased 60s recording from legendary Chicago funk and soul band Peaces of Piece . The story goes that in 1971 they recorded their only LP, and got offered a Southeast Asia tour. It was on this trip, in Singapore, that Pieces of Peace disbanded and went crawling back home. Some say it was homesickness, others claim it...
IFTF's Future Now (Free subscription) | 08/23/2007
I attended the Bandwidth Conference in San Francisco last week where music industry people, from small label owners to PR types to technology developers, gathered to discuss the intersection of music and technology and its impact on the future of...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/18/2007
The Bandwidth Conference, with a focus on the evolution and nexus of music and technology, announced today that Jordan Kurland of Zeitgeist Artist Management will appear as a keynote at this year's conference. Mr.
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 06/25/2007
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), an amazing resource for media production and distribution, is hosting Innovation Salons II (their second in a series of four salons) this Thursday, June 28th at the San Francisco Apple Store. The subject of this installment of the series is “Guitar Heroes - How are Bay Area Companies Coming to [...]
Audio Deficit Disorder (Free subscription) | 04/30/2007
Perhaps in response to last week's challenge by Passion of the Weiss and his partner in crime in their invitation to music bloggers everywhere to offer up their top 25 favorite hip hop albums, we now come to another. Berkeley Place has offered to compile a list of the TOP 25 INDIE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. Could be a beginning of a string of lists by music bloggers everywhere. I submitted my list as I love...
