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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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Selling Live Water
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Bottle of Humans
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Live From Rome
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- Insound
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Learning To Walk
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dalakop wrote:
why so bearded, underground?
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DreamFragments wrote:
From what I remember, Tim was shopping around for some labels to drop an album on (I think it was one with him and Moodswing9). He tried talking to El-P about seeing if he could make it happen with Rawkus, since Company Flow was signed to and had recently released Funcrusher Plus with them. El-P saw Tim as some over-privileged, West coast white kid from the suburbs, so he basically said "Fuck off." Tim got pissed, anticon was formed, and he made the El-P diss track, which El-P responded to. At least that's how I've heard to situation as being. They made up it's old and irrelevent.
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NarooN wrote:
So what exactly *was* the El-p diss crap about anyway? I don't keep up on the underground hip-hop scene at all, but any time I read the comments here or on youtube, etc., people mention that beef. What did it start over and what happened?
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DreamFragments wrote:
That was years ago. And if something as stupid and meaningless as the shit with El-P "made you lose respect for him", I'd argue with the fact that that implies you had respect for him in the first place and if you were even actually a fan.
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DragonairFlair wrote:
His attempt at beef with El-P was one of the most embarrassing things ever in hip-hop. I've lost a lot of respect for this dude.
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Foln wrote:
selling live water is one of the best hiphop records ever. its a shame artists like this never get big.
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Heemeyer wrote:
makes me sad :-(
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AhSver wrote:
By far my favourite hip-hop artist. Never ceases to impress and gives food for my mind.
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DreamFragments wrote:
@sabrage I agree, but it was a LOT better than Nuclear Winter Volume 1.
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Notjoeybloom wrote:
DINOSAURS, INBREDS, AND ALIEN HOLOGRAMS.
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Notjoeybloom wrote:
living in the end times
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sabrage wrote:
ohhh I get it we just got trolled guys
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sabrage wrote:
Nuclear Winter 2... What the fuck happened?
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mGee2005 wrote:
Peep the d*mn near 20 year retrospective of Sole's career. Includes 3 rarities from his pre-Anticon era… http://wp.me/p1uCv9-3o
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spaun935 wrote:
New Sole and the Skyrider Band album featuring Lil B, Xiu Xiu, Sage Francis, Ceschi, Noah23, Pictureplane and more: https://www.circleintosquare.com/item/hello-cruel-world
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CrackerMandingo wrote:
I wonder if he takes any special precautions while eating to make sure he doesn't get crumbs in his beard.
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k_g_b wrote:
#DEATHPANEL, what what.
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ru1ner wrote:
It is I believe. NW2 is shaping up to be another great album.
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Dr_MoonOrGun wrote:
I didn't think I'd dig the Noam Chomsky song. Totally do. Hope it's on NW2.
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ekesner wrote:
I Must Be Noam Chomsky...
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News
BLACK HOLE HOLIDAY SALE $5 FOR CDS
29 Nov 2011 | from soleone.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage
In the wake of Black Friday I am announcing the "BLACK HOLE
HOLIDAY SALE" where most sole cds will be available for $5 for the
month of December. Most people don't know it, but our solar
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yoshua_nirvana, someguywithacat, gendervariant and 2 other people added Sole to their libraries. yesterday evening
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ceschi added Sole to the lineup of Fake Four Official SXSW Showcase at The 512 Bar. Wednesday morning
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brandon_doyle, mandybojangles, AVerbovski and 2 other people added Sole to their libraries. Tuesday evening
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WESTSIDEKILLA uploaded Sole to Sole’s images. 8 days ago
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WESTSIDEKILLA uploaded Sole to Sole’s images. 8 days ago
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ceschi added Sole to the lineup of Fake Four SXSW Official Showcase at 529. 9 days ago
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Pollutea, WrickkWebbur, JClerikson and 8 other people added Sole to their libraries. 9 days ago
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zuluflyeatsrats, avigozlm, Rubest10 and 5 other people added Sole to their libraries. last month
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