By Chris Mills | February 9, 2012 at 2:48 pm | No comments
The 54th annual Grammy Awards coming up this Sunday, to be hosted by LL Cool J, will now include a special electronica/dance segment performance featuring Lil' Wayne, Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, David Guetta, and Chris Brown. I'm not necessarily sure what Weezy, Breezy and the Foo...
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By Chris Mills | February 6, 2012 at 6:49 pm | No comments
Grammy-noted jazz composer and producer Roy Hargrove swung through the Foundation on Friday night, which turned out to be a pretty wild night in Kansas City with a lot of events going down. I first went to see Matty G at the Midland Theater downtown, and his minimal,...
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By Chris Mills | February 1, 2012 at 6:56 pm | No comments
This is an interview we did over the phone with Northern California-based dubstep producer and DJ, Matty G, last month. Be sure to check him out live at the Midland Theater in downtown KCMO with Caspa and more on Friday, February 3rd.
p.s. The first person who listens to this...
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By Chris Mills | January 30, 2012 at 1:58 pm | No comments
I'm not sure what this Red Bull Thre3Style business is pertaining to because the "about" section of their website is rather outdated, but this event boasts practically an All-Star lineup consisting of some of our area's tightest DJs, with recent BET Master of the Mix winner,...
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By Chris Mills | January 23, 2012 at 5:00 pm | No comments
Catch MiMOSA with Kastle at The Granada in Lawrence, KS on Sunday, January 29th. RSVP HERE. His latest mix was just sent to us in e-mail, and you can download that below.
DOWNLOAD HERE.
TRACKLIST:
1. NiNA SiM0NE – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
2. THE T0UCH –...
Posted in: Downloads, Events
By Chris Mills | January 14, 2012 at 7:32 pm | No comments
Courtesy of Kansas City Techno comes Todd Howard's latest mix. There's some plush grooves in this mother. When it comes to Todd Howard mixes anymore, I don't even preview the soundcloud embeddings, just go straight to the download button. You should too. Do it. Now!
Todd...
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By Chris Mills | January 11, 2012 at 1:34 pm | No comments
The free holiday party that The Floozies headlined at the Beaumont Club in Westport alongside EZ Brothers just a couple of weeks ago was the best band show I've been to in quite a while. I don't know if Matt Hill is getting better at guitar, or if he's just playing more...
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By Chris Mills | January 10, 2012 at 12:41 pm | No comments
[pictured: Salva]
Lawrence kid, Morri$, just had his track "Fishy Riddim" featured on Salva's latest DJ mix for The Fader. This whole mix is really dope, in its uniformed future funk fashion. Also, be on the lookout for our Artist of the Month feature on Morri$...
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By Chris Mills | January 3, 2012 at 2:04 pm | No comments
[pictured: Caspa]
Some of the first tunes I heard out of this dubstep phenomenon came from one original dubstep don, Caspa (London) and West Coast bass delegate, Matty G, back in the summer of 2007 where the Bassline Pressure night was going down at Jilly's on Broadway here...
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By Chris Mills | December 28, 2011 at 12:26 am | No comments
With more artists in KC doing experimental, beat music derivatives this year, I thought this separate chart would only be right. I don’t think I had near as many favorite local beats to refer to when the Demencha writers put together their 2010 music picks last year. But in...
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