By Chris Mills | December 27, 2011 at 2:46 pm | No comments
As we mentioned over the weekend, KC-beat guru, Leonard DStroy, has a new album coming out soon. Soon is today. The Elm & Oak label is calling this a "collage album", featuring over 50 beats in just nine tracks. The name behind the album seems rather simple now. We've always...
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By Chris Mills | December 22, 2011 at 2:02 pm | No comments
"Attention Deficit High Definition" (ADHD), the long-awaited beat album from Kansas City sound-shaper, Leonard DStroy, drops on Tuesday, December 27th. Elm & Oak decided it would be only right to throw out a leaked single from the project which sounds like a rather...
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By Chris Mills | December 14, 2011 at 11:04 pm | No comments
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...
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By Chris Mills | October 22, 2011 at 3:46 pm | No comments
The latest edition of the Think 2Wice & Lotus Camp presented Superb parties at the Union is cracking off tonight. With some of KC's finest selectahs in FSTZ, Jason Kidd, LC, cQuence, Lenny D and Steez Harvey aka Shaun Duval, you will NOT find a better place to dance tonight...
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By Chris Mills | October 4, 2011 at 9:34 pm | No comments
KC-based beatmaker, Dan Matic, just dropped a new EP today titled Round Numbers, in affiliation with Outer Peoples and Footclan. One of the seven tracks on here actually features Reggie B and HeaVi (of the Solution) on instrumentation, marking at least the second time...
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By Chris Mills | July 5, 2011 at 4:19 pm | No comments
Leonard DStroy's newest, the Inner Exit EP released on Friday, is a collection of some of the most sparkling beats we've heard all year. Lenny is predominantly known as the producer behind local indie hip hop stalwarts, Deep Thinkers and Kutty Slitz (who we hear is coming...
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By Chris Mills | May 4, 2011 at 10:51 am | No comments
Yep, we're still on this local female artist kick at Demencha. A few months ago at Reach's CD release party wherein local jazz band, Diverse performed, they brought along a female vocalist to collaborate with them live. That was Schelli Tolliver. And she sounded...
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By Chris Mills | February 15, 2011 at 1:17 pm | No comments
This Friday, for just $3 at the door at Czar Bar, expect to get all the bass for your buck, and then some. With Leonard DStroy (producer of Deep Thinkers/locally unheralded bass music producer/Alpha Pup affiliate) headlining with his own live set of original beats, this is...
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By Chris Mills | December 16, 2010 at 11:19 pm | No comments
Reach once wrote on facebook something about puppies dying whenever Joc Max spins somewhere and you don't go. You'll be able to catch both Reach and Joc, in addition to Wilshire District's DJ Ice, Diverse, Deep Thinkers and others at the Riot Room on January 15th. Reach's...
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By Chris Mills | November 23, 2010 at 9:48 pm | No comments
We first shed light on the Hip Hop Academy HERE, back in the summer of 2008 when we did a cover story on Jeremy, Bro Mo and Scoe for one of the first issues of Demencha. Jeremy McConnell and his ever-progressive posse are still cracking away at their effort to educate the...
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