![FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH: Luke Rocha aka Topp Boom [Dec. 2011]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/luke-rocha-EDIT-2-1024x488.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Artist, Luke Rocha (aka beat-maker, Topp Boom) is DIY to the teeth. Having started the blasphemously slept-on SymbolHeavy.com in 2005 to now working with a certain Brooklyn indie-rock icon, (who we cannot name), Luke is constantly learning in addition to holding a distinctly...
Our good friend DJ Shad shared a video with us last night wherein Chicago Ghetto House legend, DJ Slugo, was filming inside his studio in Chicago and by pure coincidence, a framed Demencha Magazine with Slugo on the cover (Summer 2008) catches Slugo's camera angle for several...
![Frisky! KC Presents – Mark Farina LIVE @ Blvd Nights [10.28.11]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Mark-Farina-pic-EDIT-1024x397.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
People who've never seen Mark Farina spin live before seem to always ask the same question prior to. "Will he play Mushroom Jazz or house?" From personal experience, I can say that the last time he played at Czar Bar, Farina got busy with a mixture of both styles making for a...
![Before Dubstep Listeners Needed Ecstasy [Bassline Pressure Soundclouded From 2007]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/blinds-1024x768.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Will aka Daylight Robber (KC-Chicago transplant) recently shared a link on his soundcloud featuring a live mix that he and Spider Bigger did back in the summer of 2007 at their old dubstep weekly, Bassline Pressure, which went down on Wednesday nights at the old Jilly's on...
![Global Dub Festival, ft. Benga, Mimosa + More – LIVE @ Midland Theatre [11.5.11]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/benga-dubstep.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
MAIN STAGE: BENGA ZEDS DEAD MiMOSA FREQ NASTY ANA SIA ISHE featuring CURIOUS MC KABLAMMO STAGE -Mad Classy (Chango / J.E. / Sharkweek) (Austin, Texas) -EshOne (Elk Beats, RogueDubs San Diego) **All dubplate set** -Trimangle (Barbaric Merits + FSTZ) (Snatchy...
![D/L: Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz – “Deja Vu, Uptown Baby” [MIDWEST MIX, 1997]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/city-skyline-kc-1024x768.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
And yes, they shout out Kansas City in the chorus on this version, along with Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit. "Kansas City niggas got shit on lock/ Strapped with the glock runnin' up in yo spot." I had no idea that this Midwest Mix existed until March of 2010 when DJ Just...
![Reggie B & Star Slinger Announce Collab, “Dumbin” [FREE D/L]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Reggie-pic-edit.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
This is the moment we've been waiting for over here at the Demencha HQ for several months. UK-based, 2011 production MVP, Star Slinger, and Kansas City-based soul/r&b artist, Reggie B, announced today that their song is out. And shockingly, it's a free download (GET IT...
![DJ Sabo (NYC) – LIVE @ Luna for Think 2wice Fridays [9.30.11]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Sabo.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
We suppose you'll have to pick your poison (party) on Friday next week, due to a couple of internationally heralded DJs getting down in KC dance venues that night. We already told you about Chicago house legend, Derrick Carter, spinning at Blvd Nights on the 30th. Not to...
![Derrick Carter (Chicago) LIVE @ Blvd Nights [9.30.11]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/derrick-carter-pic1.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
With Green Velvet spinning tonight in P&L, and with the Frisky cats putting on Derrick Carter at Blvd Nights a week from today, we're pretty sure it's safe to say that house music lovers in Kansas City looking for legendary talent need not sweat...er, maybe they should. ...
Crazy Boy Status' latest producto brings in ATL rap icon, Young Jeezy, rising star, Freddie Gibbs, Kansas City's own Gee Watts, Jvanizz and No Leaks. Bolstering a lineup putting on who we think of as one of the fresher new hip hop voices in the city (Gee Watts), and a...
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