By Chris Mills | March 4, 2012 at 6:52 pm | No comments
[pictured: Slick Shoota]
We're not about to water-down or dilute anything, so there's only three artists in our weekly Soundcloud Scoop (click HERE for previous SSSs). Hope you all had a good weekend, and stay tuned next Sunday for a fresh batch of...
Posted in: Downloads, SSS
By Chris Mills | February 21, 2012 at 4:52 pm | No comments
Words can't really describe how happy I am to see Westport more open to obscure dance music than it's probably ever been. Come see, listen and dance for yourself on Saturday night up at the new Gusto Stadium (504 Westport Road) with a handful of KC's chief party rockers. ...
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By Chris Mills | February 12, 2012 at 5:58 pm | One comment
From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House from Sonali Aggarwal on Vimeo.
Sonali Aggarwal, DJ Slugo and Subterranean Playhouse (among others), recently put this nearly hour-long documentary out on vimeo for the world to see that this hyper-bass juke music is not the latest...
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By Chris Mills | November 19, 2011 at 3:30 pm | No comments
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...
Posted in: Op-Eds/Misc., Videos
By Chris Mills | November 12, 2011 at 2:46 pm | No comments
The Balkan-born, Canadian living rapper/vocalist, Filip Filipi, has displayed a varied range of styles to our own ears within recent months...and we've only heard two of his tracks thus far. The first one still holds rank as a "get the fuck out Dodge" anthem with Mansions on...
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By Chris Mills | September 24, 2011 at 2:11 pm | No comments
In anticipation for Global Dub Festival on November 5th at the Midland featuring Benga, Mimosa, Zeds Dead, Freq Nasty and a whole gang of bass champs sure to be spliced up into different rooms, we decided to throw out this brand new mix from Mimosa. Sent to us in e-mail by...
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By Chris Mills | August 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm | No comments
We've decided to start a new monthly post here at Demencha.com wherein guest KC-based tastemaker DJ, Brent Tactic, is going to put together a top ten list of sorts from his own personal collection every 30 days or so. Turns out with this first installment, Brent's still on...
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By Chris Mills | July 27, 2011 at 1:08 pm | No comments
Though the following soundcloud embeddings were posted about 3 months ago, it doesn't detract from the fact that they're still hot. This is the kind of disco-infused ghetto-dancey shit that caused me to initially fall in love with Big Dope P's tracks. Salute from KC to...
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By Chris Mills | May 29, 2011 at 2:02 pm | No comments
The audio for this mix was taken from a party that FACTMAG recently put on wherein jukemaster, DJ Rashad threw down. We over at Demencha are not going to stop pushing this juke business any time soon. CLICK HERE for more on juke-related posts we've made over the years,...
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By Chris Mills | March 28, 2011 at 6:38 pm | No comments
We've had our eye on Paris' Big Dope P and his Moveltraxx label for a while now. With the fifth installment of their Moveltraxx radio show podcast, they dropped the selection duties on The Philthkids from British Columbia, and all the material on this mix will appear on...
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