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Sole, born Tim Holland, is an alternative hip hop artist and a co-founder of the anticon. collective. Sole is known for his dense, often dark stream-of-consciousness writing style. His verses are often filled with abstraction, metaphor and sarcasm while avoiding or deconstructing traditional hip hop topics. His albums and record label have been featured in magazines such as Playboy and The Wire. Sole is also a producer and releases his self-produced experiments under the alias mansbestfriend, taken from the name of his Apple G4 computer
Sole was born in 1977 in Portland, Maine. He recorded his first demo in 1992. He shopped the demo to Entertainment Resources International. There was serious interest, and he was flown to Florida to record a few songs. However, the record deal fell through, and soon after, at age 15, sole got together a new group called “45 Below Records”, which included alias and a DJ, Cuz the Highlander, now better known as Moodswing9, and together released an album titled “Mad Skillz and Unpaid Billz” under the moniker Northern Exposure, selling more than 300 copies. At the age of 16, sole pressed up his first 12” and gave it away for free at the 1995 Gavin Convention. In 1996 sole started up a “webzine” and online radio station, run directly from his basement bedroom in Portland, Maine. His Live Poets 12” from 1997 garnered some press and college radio play, selling a few thousand copies and leading to connections with other like-minded artists like Doseone (Adam Drucker), Jel (Jeffrey Logan), Atmosphere, Shapeshifters, and the Sebutones (Sixtoo (Vaughn Robert Squire) and Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)).
Sole was born in 1977 in Portland, Maine. He recorded his first demo in 1992. He shopped the demo to Entertainment Resources International. There was serious interest, and he was flown to Florida to record a few songs. However, the record deal fell through, and soon after, at age 15, sole got together a new group called “45 Below Records”, which included alias and a DJ, Cuz the Highlander, now better known as Moodswing9, and together released an album titled “Mad Skillz and Unpaid Billz” under the moniker Northern Exposure, selling more than 300 copies. At the age of 16, sole pressed up his first 12” and gave it away for free at the 1995 Gavin Convention. In 1996 sole started up a “webzine” and online radio station, run directly from his basement bedroom in Portland, Maine. His Live Poets 12” from 1997 garnered some press and college radio play, selling a few thousand copies and leading to connections with other like-minded artists like Doseone (Adam Drucker), Jel (Jeffrey Logan), Atmosphere, Shapeshifters, and the Sebutones (Sixtoo (Vaughn Robert Squire) and Buck 65 (Richard Terfry)).
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Learning To Walk
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Shoot the Messenger
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Plutonium
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Da Baddest Poet
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Bottle of Humans
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Sebago
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The Priziest Horse
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Tokyo
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Selling Live Water
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Dumb This Down
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I Don't Rap in Bumper Stickers
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Tourist Trapeze
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Teepee on a Highway Blues
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Suicide Song
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Man and Woman
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Shoutbox
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staaswellcharge wrote:
http://soleone.org/nuclearwinter
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Dr_MoonOrGun wrote:
'The absolute hardest thing about being here is how you wish you could fast-forward the way it drags, now they got drugs and computers that do that for you.' goddamn.
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From-000-to-000 wrote:
you say you want blood, but drink piss all day
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mynameisstrange wrote:
sole <3
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maggothellwigs wrote:
"It's difficult to have sex on water beds, cause most of us can't afford water beds"
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Oz_Alchemist wrote:
ABSTRACT AND TRIP-HOP ARTIST, COME CHECK THIS PAGE : http://www.last.fm/music/Oz+Alchemist
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HalfEatenPear wrote:
tried el-p but my man was too lazy
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worldcapsized wrote:
tried to start a revolution but my people are too lazy
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Jibah wrote:
dopeness
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menschalex wrote:
wow fucking genious
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Zenny wrote:
slow cold drops?
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sabrage wrote:
Which song has the line about searching your own name on google...? Is that Sole?
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riigo wrote:
if i had a backpack this is what i'd fill it with, why not?
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CaemlynOfAndor wrote:
Gotta luv Sole
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cavs88 wrote:
gotta love the el p diss haha
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daddyisatripper wrote:
Bottle Of Humans is a really good album.
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Dr_MoonOrGun wrote:
yup
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fettstabilt wrote:
Selling Live Water
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ChainChompMan wrote:
If I were to buy a Sole album, which one should I get?
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yearfuture wrote:
unspeakablerx: will you keep me posted on that tour? and also if its true that you can book them for five hundred?
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Events
- Nov 23 Sole, Factor, Def 3 The Modern, Vancouver, Canada
- Nov 24 Sole, Def 3, Factor Victoria Event Center, Victoria, Canada
- Nov 25 Sole, Def 3, Factor The Cambie, Nanimo, Canada
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stofflstoffl, Ragels, derrderr420 and 2 other people added Sole to their libraries. 5 hours ago
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IanAR connected Sole to the group El-P. yesterday afternoon
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fractalsurfer, jeremy_smith127, atend1live and 3 other people added Sole to their libraries. yesterday afternoon
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wishipu connected Sole to the group Asemic Musical Exchange. Monday morning
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Mirnda, Bizness218, Jaymilton3 and 11 other people added Sole to their libraries. Monday morning
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FI3 tagged Sole with underground hip-hop and anticon. Saturday afternoon
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ngongsemau, poshnortherner, aaaaaaaawinnier and 4 other people added Sole to their libraries. Saturday afternoon
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anydaynow wrote about Sole in 50 Artists, 50 Questions.. Friday afternoon
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anydaynow wrote about Sole in a deleted journal. Friday afternoon
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mattyniceguy, LiAcos9, chironexflecke and 4 other people added Sole to their libraries. Friday morning
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