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for|the other hip-hop emcee with a similar name|SoléInfobox musical artist | name = Sole| image =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Tim Holland| alias = Man's Best Friend| birth_date = Birth date and age|1977|09|25|mf=yes| birth_place = Portland, Maine , United States | death_date =| origin = New York City , New York , United States | instrument =| genre = Indie hip hop , alternative hip hop , experimental hip hop , political hip hop | occupation = rapping|Rapper , record producer|producer | years_active = 1992-present| label = Anticon , Mush Records , Fake Four Inc , Morr Music , 6months, 45 Below, Black Canyon| associated_acts = Deep Puddle Dynamics , Slug (rapper)|Slug , Doseone , Alias (artist)|Alias , Sage Francis , Bleubird , Noah23 , K-the-I? ? ? | website = http://www.soleone.org/ www.soleone.org| notable_instruments = Sole (born Tim Holland ) is United States|American rapping|rapper and record producer|producer . He is also a co-founder of Anticon . He is a member of the groups Northern Exposure, Live Poets, Deep Puddle Dynamics , So-Called Artists and Sole and the Skyrider Band. He has released the instrumental albums as Man's Best Friend (styled "mansbestfriend").
Style
Sole is known for his dense and often dark stream of consciousness writing|stream-of-consciousness style of rapping. His verses are often filled with abstraction, metaphor and sarcasm while avoiding or deconstruction|deconstructing traditional hip hop topics and cliches.
History
Sole recorded his first demo in 1992. At age 15, he assembled 45 Below Records, which included rapper Alias (artist)|Alias and DJ Moodswing9 (then known as Cuz the Highlander). They released the album Mad Skillz and Unpaid Billz as Northern Exposure, selling more than 300 copies. In 1997, Sole released a 12" as Live Poets with JD Walker and Moodswing9. It garnered college radio play and selling a few thousand copies.
In early 1998, Sole and rapper Pedestrian coined the name Anticon and together started a collectively-owned record label under the name. In the same year, Sole traveled to Minneapolis with Alias and Doseone . They recorded the album The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? as Deep Puddle Dynamics with Slug (rapper)|Slug of Atmosphere (music group)|Atmosphere . Sole and Pedestrian moved Anticon to Oakland, California .
In 2000, Sole released the first official solo album Bottle of Humans on Anticon. As So-Called Artists, he released Paint by Number Songs with Alias and DJ Mayonnaise in 2001. Sole's second solo album Selling Live Water was released in 2003 and received positive reviews; Pitchfork Media gave it a 7.3,cite web|url= http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7319-selling-live-water/|title=Sole: Selling Live Water|publisher=Pitchfork Media|first=Chris|last=Dahlen|date=March 26, 2003 Metacritic gave it a score of 77 and a user score of 9.5 out of 10.cite web|url= http://www.metacritic.com/music/selling-live-water|title=Selling Live Water|publisher=Metacritic Later that year, he moved to Barcelona . Two years later, he released the third solo album Live from Rome in 2005. Soon after, he moved back to the United States, relocating to Flagstaff, Arizona .cite web|url= http://madisonhouseinc.com/sole-and-skyrider-band|title=Sole and the Skyrider Band|publisher=Madison House
In 2007, Sole released Sole and the Skyrider Band as Sole and the Skyrider Band. Their second album Plastique (album)|Plastique was released in 2009. In 2010, Sole left Anticon, citing a desire to further experiment with his music, independently of the collective, and also due to his belief that the label has developed away from what he initially intended it to be.cite web|url= http://pitchfork.com/news/37845-sole-leaves-anticon/|title=Sole Leaves Anticon|publisher=Pitchfork Media|first=Tom|last=Breihanon|date=February 9, 2010 Sole and the Skyrider Band then released their third album Hello Cruel World (2011)|Hello Cruel World was released in 2011 to generally positive reviews.
Aside from his official releases on Anticon, Sole has also released self-produced albums on his own imprint Black Canyon. These include various compilations of unreleased material, as well as the releases of his Man's Best Friend project. As he is no longer with Anticon, Sole currently self-releases his solo records.
Sole is currently based in Denver , Colorado . He is married to Yasamin Holland, whose name is referenced occasionally in his lyrics. Sole has also been active in the Denver outpost of the Occupy Wall Street political movement.cite web|url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/sole-denver-based-hip-hop_n_1071946.html|title=Sole, Denver-Based Hip-Hop Artist And Member Of #OccupyDenver, Talks Music And Life As An Occupier|publisher=The Huffington Post|first=Matt|last=Ferner|date=January 30, 2012
Discography
Albums
Music Without A Face (1998)
Bottle of Humans (2000)
uck rt (2001)
'' Man's Best Friend Volume 1 (2002)
Selling Live Water (2003)
'' Man's Best Friend Volume 2: No Thanks (2003)
Live from Rome (2005)
'' Man's Best Friend Volume 3: My Own Worst Enemy (2005)
Exhile (2007)
'' Man's Best Friend Volume 4: Poli.Sci.187 (2007)
Desert Eagle Volume 1 (2008)
'' Man's Best Friend Volume 5 (2011)
'' Man's Best Friend Volume 6: Radioactive Rain (2011)
Mixtapes
Nuclear Winter Volume 1 (2009)
Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel (2011)
Nuclear Winter Volume 3 (2012)cite web|url= http://soleone.org/component/content/article/5-blog/75-qliving-in-the-end-timesq-w-slavoj-zizek-free-download|title=Living In The End Times|publisher=soleone.org
Compilations
Learning to Walk (Sole album)|Learning to Walk (2002)
Songs That Went Tin (2005)
The Secret History of Underground Rap (2008)
Sole and the Skyrider Band Remix LP (2009)
Spring Offensive Volume 1: Nuclear Winter Remixes (2010)
Dispatches from the American Fall (2011)cite web|url= http://soleonedotorg.bandcamp.com/album/dispatches-from-the-american-fall-free-download|title=Dispatches from the American Fall
Collaborations
Mad Skillz and Unpaid Billz (1992) as Northern Exposure
''What's It All About (1996) as Live Poets
The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? (1999) as Deep Puddle Dynamics
Paint by Number Songs (2001) as So-Called Artists
'' We Ain't Fessin' (Double Quotes) (2002) as Anticon
Sole and the Skyrider Band (2007) as Sole and the Skyrider Band
Battlefields (album)|Battlefields (2009) as Sole and the Skyrider Band
Plastique (album)|Plastique (2009) as Sole and the Skyrider Band
The Pyre (2010) with Ravi Zupa
Hello Cruel World (2011)|Hello Cruel World (2011) as Sole and the Skyrider Band
The Challenger EP (2011) as Sole and the Skyrider Band
Singles
Sole (1995) as Live Poets
Respect (1997) as Live Poets
Banquet of Sarcasm (1998)
Rainmen (1999) as Deep Puddle Dynamics
Bottle of Humans (1999)
Sideshow (2001) as So-Called Artists
Salt on Everything (2002)
Plutonium (2003)
New Single (2005)
DVDs
Art Is War (2012)
Guest appearances
"Cave People" by Sixtoo on The Psyche Intangible (1998)
"Rainmen" "Savior? " "Human Races The Tortoise" "Martyr Theme Song" "Holy Shit!" on Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop (1999)
"Lyrical Cougel" by Themselves on Them (Themselves album)|Them (1999)
"Props 2000" on Strictly Indee (2000)
"When Freedom Rings" by Sixtoo on Songs I Hate (and Other People Moments) (2001)
"I Apologize" by Sage Francis on Sick of Waiting Tables (2001)
"We Ain't Fessin'" "Silence" "A.D.D." on Giga Single (2001)
"I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again (1)" by cLOUDDEAD on cLOUDDEAD (album)|cLOUDDEAD (2001)
"Song for John Walker" by DJ Krush on The Message at the Depth (2002)
"Another Super Mario Cart Brothers Drive By" by Bleubird on Sloppy Doctor (2003)
"Arrest the President" by Pedestrian on Volume One: UnIndian Songs (2005)
"My Head" by Sage Francis on Still Sickly Business (2005)
"Live Dissection" by Mr. Nogatco on Nogatco Rd. (2006)
"Humans Bury Deep" by Scott Da Ros on One Kind Of Dead End (2006)
"Tragic Comedy" by Noah23 on Rock Paper Scissors (album)|Rock Paper Scissors (2008)
"Infest" by Skyrider on Skyrider (2008)
"1 for No Money" by Themselves on The Free Houdini (2009)
"Trouble with Kids" by Time (rapper)|Time on Naked Dinner (2010)
"Long Live the Short Lived" by Ceschi on The One Man Band Broke Up (2010)
"Don't Jock the Dead" by Factor on 13 Stories (2010)
"Living in a Vacuum" by Factor on Lawson Graham (2010)
"Kill You" by Kay the Aquanaut on Waterloo (2011)
"Murder City" by Noah23 on Fry Cook on Venus (2011)
"Don't Try to Stop It" "Rust Belt Fellows" by Kaigen on Re: Bloomer (2011)
"The Great Deluge" "Fukushima Tokyo Electric Russian Roulette" on J-A-P-A-N: A Fake Four Inc. Japan Relief Benefit EP (2011)
"The Third Planet" by K-the-I? ? ? on Synthesthesia (2011)
"Darkside of the Moon" by Noah23 & Krem on The Terminal Illness (2011)
"Government Bonds" by Sixo on Free Floating Rationales (2012)
"Dance With Stars" by Sixo on Tracking Perception EP (2012)
References
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External links
http://www.soleone.org Official website
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sole Sole on Discogs
Persondata | NAME = Sole | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 1977 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Portland, Maine|Portland , Maine | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Sole Category:Anticon Category:American vegans Category:American rappers Category:Underground rappers Category:Living people Category:1977 births
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