This is a DJ mix/collection of early-mid 90’s r&b tracks that I grew up on. I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure everything on this mix was released before ‘97. This mix has local implications. If Kansas Citians will remember, Hot 103, the city’s main hip hop station, refused (for whatever reason) to play hip hop during the daytime in this period.
So what I and what I would imagine a lot of other people grew up on by listening to Hot 103 in elementary/middle school were the Aaliyah’s, SWV’s, Jodeci’s and Brandy’s of the world. You can make jokes all you want, but this is what I loved back then, and still do to this day. This is by no means a “best of” 90’s r&b mix, just a few tracks that I remember from back in the day. Mark my words, you will hear a few joints in this mix that you may have not heard in over a decade.
To start the set, I mixed Sublime’s “Summertime” (I still consider this song “90’s soul,” if you will) with Mariah’s “Always Be My Baby” in attempt to drive home the point that summer is always a great time to reflect and reminisce on summers past. Perhaps even more appropriately, the last song on this mix is Michael Jackson’s “Remember The Time.“ The smell of fresh cut grass never ceases to trip me out. Next thing you know, we’ll be dusting off the aluminum baseball bats from our parents’ basement to swat lightning bugs after sunset in the backyard.
Enjoy the mix.
Chris Mills – “The Smell of Fresh Cut Grass: An Ode To 90’s Summer Nostalgia”
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tracklisting:
1. Mariah Carey – Always Be My Baby
2. Sublime – Summertime
3. Keith Sweat – Make It Last Forever
4. R. Kelly – Your Body’s Callin’
5. D’angelo – Lady
6. Aaliyah – If Your Girl Only Knew
7. Horace Brown – One For The Money
8. Keith Sweat – Twisted
9. Brandy – Baby
10. Adina Howard – Freak Like Me
11. Jodeci – Get On Up
12. Aaliyah feat. R. Kelly – Back And Forth (Remix)
13. Des’ree – You Gotta Be
14. Diana King – Shy Guy (DJ Slick Extended Mix)
15. Soul For Real – Candy Rain
16. SWV – Be Right Here
17. Mary J. Blige – Real Love
18. Brownstone – If You Love Me
19. Raja-Nee – Turn It Up
20. Janet Jackson – That’s The Way Love Goes
21. Soul For Real – Every Little Thing I Do
22. Soul II Soul – Back To Life (12” Mix)
23. Mariah Carey – Fantasy
24. Tony Toni Tone feat. DJ Quik – Let’s Get Down
25. Jade – Don’t Walk Away
26. Joe Public – Live And Learn
27. Michael Jackson – Remember The Time
Kansasanity Tee, Fountain of Blood (red/black)
Kansasanity Tee (blue/gray)
Screen Tee Gallery, Westport
Screen Tee Gallery, Westport
Screen Tee Gallery, Westport
Just making a friendly blog post letting you guys and gals know that we have brand spankin’ new t-shirts in right now, in addition to the new issue of Demencha Magazine throughout KCMO (available at Zebedee’s record store on 39th, Poptopia in Westport, Streetside Records in Westport, 7th Heaven on Troost and Screen Tee Gallery in Westport, right next to Firefly).
The idea for KANSASANITY came to me while coming home from an outdoor rave on the outskirts of Manhattan, KS, barreling down I-70 back in the fall of 2005. This play on words is intended to rhyme with “Kansas City,” so KCMO residents should not feel awkward about wearing one of our shirts today.
We are currently awaiting a confirmation for our trademark application for KANSASANITY filed last year. With the help of the good people at Screen Tee Gallery, a new indie clothing boutique in Westport, we now have our t-shirts in store. We will be pursuing more independent clothing shops in Lawrence and other parts of Kansas and KCMO very soon, in hopes that they will carry our shirts as well.
If you are interested in purchasing a KANSASANITY shirt, please head to Screen Tee’s in Westport KCMO. Here, the shirts are available for just $15.00.
Screen Tee Gallery is located at:
4120 Pennsylvania Ave (Westport, right next to Firefly)
Kansas City, MO 64111
KC local, Mr. Nuro hit us up a few weeks ago and asked if he could do an exclusive mix for demencha.com. Besides the fact that we’ll take just about all the original content we can get, Nuro is a pretty nice DJ and we were anxious to see what he had up his sleeve for these proposed mixes. After knocking out these two mixes in the car today while running errands, I quickly came to realize that there is a theme with these two pieces, particularly in the first one – “Side A.” The first track on this mix pairs someone saying, “So, I’ve decided to take my work back underground. To stop it from falling into the wrong hands,” with the sound of fingers tapping on a typewriter. One thing’s for sure, this is not a mix that you’d typically hear from Mr. Nuro, at least not what you would usually hear from him when he spins live. Most of the tracks, particularly on Side A, are kind of bizarre. Songs about brainwashing, hearing voices and various other dementia-like traits all play key roles in giving this mix some personality (issues).
Mr. Nuro – Fall 2009 Demencha Mixtape – Side A
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Tracklisting:
1. the prodigy – intro
2. renaissance man – what is guru?
3. solo – joga bola
4. solo – migets in bricklane
*foremost poets – warning acc
5. stolen – stylophone
6. brodinski – oblivion
7. radio slave – koma koma (affkt and danny fiddo remix)
8. wapomatics
9. uniforms for the dedicated (ft. ram di dam) – a play of nonsense (style of eye remix)
10. dan bell – phreak
11. the royal we – party guilt
12. dubble dutch – trollsta (round table knights remix)
13. claude von stoke – warrior
14. fake blood – mars (style of eye tool for school mix)
15. riton & primary 1 – who’s there (style of eye vocal remix)
Mr. Nuro – Fall 2009 Demencha Mixtape – Side B
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Tracklisting:
1. riton & primary 1 – who’s there (style of eye vocal remix)
2. dj gregory & gregor salto – con alegria (solo more cowbell remix)
3. christian martin – elephant fight (worthy’s trumpets and tusks remix)
4. jb vs ml – bootie
5. emerson todd – my eyes (worthy’s blurry cornea remix)
6. mowgli – nu skool
7. ray okpara – brothers
8. suzanne vega – tom’s dinner (bingo players bootleg)
9. afrojack – comeback
10. gucci vump – sha! shtil! (l-vis-1990 remix)
11. nicone and sascha braemer – nur mal kurz (philip bader remix) (RM Edit)
12. daniel haaksman ft mc miltino – kid conga (double dutch remix)
13. milton jackson – the rhythm track (jimpster remix)
*daft punk – technologic acc
Kansasanity T’s were in the building!
outside the Brick
shamless self-promotions
Homework Jones and Irv Da Phenom
Ron Ron
DJ Headfella
Ron Ron
Stik Figa and Ron Ron
Greg Enemy
King Reel, Stik Figa and Greg Enemy
Irv and Ron Ron chopping it up
Hearts of Darkness marching down Oak Street…
…and then bumrushing the Brick!!
and the hip hop guys clowning outside the Brick
“I move around like a young Ken Griffey!” – Ron Ron
Also, Click here for a really nice slideshow from the Hearts of Darkness/Greg Enemy/Bacon Shoe shows at the Crossroads Music Fest by Luke Hutmacher.
Someone named Will kept throwing up a bunch of comments here on demencha over the past couple of weeks. I had no idea who he was until he pointed me out last night at the Record Bar and had me figured out as the author of this super cool local music blog. He said that it was cool that there’s a hip hop blog in KC, among other things. He had actually picked up Ron Ron’s brand new mixtape earlier that day at 7th Heaven, which I had totally forgotten about. (I just got back from 7th Heaven, just now myself). Come to find out the lad is just 13 years old. Apparently his dad was taking him around to all these spots last night, including the Tech N9ne show at the Granada in Lawrence. His dad was super cool too. They both showed appreciation for the magazine/blog. When Will went up to 7th Heaven earlier in the day, he said he looked for a new copy of the magazine, but couldn’t find it…hopefully they’ve all been snatched up already (SHOUT OUT TO 7TH HEAVEN). But I got him and his dad a copy while there at the Record Bar. I walked out to the car with Will and his dad and gave him a KANSASANITY t-shirt (more on that later). The smallest size we had was a large at the time, so I gave it to him and said, “you’ll grow into it.” Hopefully this kid will come out to more hip hop shows with his dad until he turns 21, because we need young kids at hip hop/rap/DJ events around town. Kinda eerie, because Phantom, King Reel, Dutch and Atilla talked about this exact same thing in the story I did with them for the current issue that’s out now (pictured).
DEMENCHA.COM…FOR THE SEEDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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