By Chris Mills | July 31, 2008 at 2:08 am | One comment
The late Pimp C once described his music not as “hip hop records,” but as “country rap tunes.” We don’t know if Topeka hip hop talent, Stik Figa, would take it as an insult if we described his music similarly, but we do know that a fellow Top-City hip hop artist,...
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By Chris Mills | July 30, 2008 at 11:20 pm | One comment
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By Chris Mills | July 27, 2008 at 2:52 am | No comments
Tonight's installment of the Buzz/Demencha radio show project brings the Disorder Crew (KC) to your airwaves between 10 pm and 2 am tonight on 96.5 The Buzz! Disorder Crew is comprised of Mr. Solve, Ruckspin, cQuence and Arrhythmia, all bad ass drum and bass DJs. They spin...
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By Chris Mills | July 24, 2008 at 10:30 am | No comments
On August 20th, 2008, The Record Bar, Demencha Magazine, Centerpunch Radio, Bassline Pressure and Ces Cru proudly present a truly experimental fusion of underground, lyrical hip hop swordplay and dubstep rhythms at the Record Bar on Wednesday August 20th, 2008. DJs...
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By Chris Mills | July 22, 2008 at 4:55 am | One comment
***YOU'VE BEEN FOREWARNED: This post is very long and drawn-out, but we're dealing with some serious local hip hop history here. If you care about the local hip hop scene, you'll bear with us and read the whole post. Trust me, you will learn something.***
A few months...
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By Chris Mills | July 21, 2008 at 5:29 am | No comments
Dutch Newman has become the end-all-be-all of social butterflies in the KC hip hop scene within the last two or three years. But as you'll read in this interview that we did with him below, it's not always easy being the Flying Dutchman. Lately he's been hearing whispers...
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By Chris Mills | July 17, 2008 at 12:55 am | One comment
I don't know if it was Daylight Robber's mix that we featured here on Demencha a couple of weeks ago or not, but I got a hankerin' to go record digging today. Plus I needed to get out to some record stores to distribute magazines anyway.
I woke up at about 7 this morning, and...
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By Chris Mills | July 13, 2008 at 1:27 am | No comments
Tonight, Demencha Magazine and DJ C-Vaughn (host of "Liquid Buzz" on 96.5 the Buzz, which airs every Saturday night) present what we'll call the "Ghetto Buzz" radio hour which will air tonight from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The featured DJ that we've recruited for this second...
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By Chris Mills | July 9, 2008 at 12:19 am | No comments
First off, give us a brief summary of this project, Chain Smoke.
Chain Smoke is basically a production mix tape. Its 17 tracks that I have put together over the last few years, while I have been in the lab redeveloping my sound. It was originally going to be called “the...
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By Chris Mills | July 8, 2008 at 10:15 pm | No comments
Our good friend, Bassline Pressure orchestrator and severely slept-on DJ, Daylight Robber, has a bi-monthly podcast on centerpunch.libsyn.com. He asked if we would throw up a link to one particular mix that he did for centerpunch, and wala. Below is a tracklisting and below...
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