When it came to choosing sides in the great hip-hop wars of the 90s, I chose the backpackers, the crate diggers, the beat snatchers. "Entroducing..." came out at a perfect time for me, so it was no surprise that I fucked with the Solesides/Quannum crew in a big way. They were one of a million reasons why I wanted to be in the Bay Area at the turn of the millenium. Fuck tech; I just wanted to see Spazz and Del and Dead And Gone and Lyrics Born.
I loved how intertwined this crew was with London's Mo Wax and Tokyo's Toy Factory, a pair of import labels whose releases are well represented in my collection. This release comes as Solesides became Quannum Projects, and continued to turn dorks like me onto the bleeding edge of what hip-hop was in 2000. Drop-in's from the like of El-P, Souls of Mischief, and Jurassic 5 make this one of my favorite snapshots from this time.
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