By Chris Mills | January 20, 2012 at 3:02 pm | No comments
...Please slow your roll. As you already know, Philly-based DJ extraordinaire, Cosmo Baker will be landing in KC shortly for a gig at the Riot Room tonight alongside JT Quick and Brent Tactic. You need to be there. What you might not already know, in case you're...
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By Chris Mills | October 12, 2011 at 6:07 pm | No comments
Making mash-ups is easy. Creating an entire mix out of mash-ups is not. Instrumental/acapella cut-and-pasters are ideally meant to dumb up P&L type crowds, but experienced hip hop listeners are usually allowed a scoff or seven (unless the Springfield-based, unsung mash-up...
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By Chris Mills | January 28, 2010 at 12:25 am | One comment
I kinda think it's not fair that they're allowed to have one guy playing a beat, and one guy scratching. But I do think that these guys have gotten a shit ton better at DJing and producing beats since I started following them in '05 or '06 at the Peanut downtown. Congrats...
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By Chris Mills | January 5, 2010 at 11:42 pm | No comments
The Barbaric Merits homies consist of two KC locals, DJ Mythik and Dublow 7. While holding down the predominant DJ roles in the local hip hop crew, Soul Providers, they've hit us with a brand new mix for the two-zero-one-zero. Featured on this mix are tracks from the likes...
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By Chris Mills | December 12, 2009 at 10:34 pm | No comments
Way before Major Lazer seemed to be influencing tracklistings left and right, Hackler, better known as DJ Jah from the Kabal days in Kansas City, had been on that dancehall stuff. This is his latest mix, a dousing of kuduro, dub reggae, dubstep, minimal tech-house and...
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By Chris Mills | December 11, 2009 at 2:33 am | No comments
A B-boy getting down at the Peanut, downtown KCMO (year: unknown). Photo Credit: Chris Mills
I just threw this together in a single take a couple of hours ago. Most (all) of the tracks on this mix I got from our good friend, DJ Shad's hard drive. I did this out of...
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