![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...
![Drake, Kendrick Lamar, ASAP Rocky LIVE @ Sprint Center KCMO [03.01.12]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/drake-EDIT-1024x532.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
All three of these dudes put out fantastic new records this year. Drake's Take Care, Kendrick Lamar's Section 80 and ASAP's LiveLoveA$AP have all been in heavy rotation for me over the past few months. Just when I thought it would be quite a while before another...
I have to clear the air and note that it's quite rare that we jack content from other official sites, much less podcasts specific to other sites, but this new hour long mix from the one man, London-based bass tastemaker, Om Unit, is something else. XLR8R has been doing an...
![D/L: Dom Chronicles – #LIFECHOICES [prod. Ohbliv]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Dom-Chronicles-EDIT.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
BBS representer, Dom Chronicles, just unleashed a new freebie single off his upcoming "Revolution: The Afterlife EP", not too long ago. We at Demencha like to have a finger on the respective pulses of both the vets of our local music scene and the new guys. If you came up in...
![Doomtree LIVE @ Granada in Lawrence [01.19.11]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/dessa-of-doomtree-EDIT-1024x582.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
pictured: Dessa, of Doomtree @ Kanrocksas 2011 I caught Doomtree at Kanrocksas earlier this summer and they rocked it. The Minneapolis-based live hip hop collective have a new record out titled No Kings (cop it HERE). Dessa, one of the group's core MCs, just released...
![M83 LIVE @ Granada Theater, Lawrence [05.01.12]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/m83-pic.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
Check their official website for more on their music, additional tour dates and other occurrences - http://ilovem83.com/. I want to hear...
KC-based producer/turntablist, Z-Sonic, has a new mix out called "Worldwide Wax". Though we'd like to think of him as being adept at various forms of music performance, this mix is special because it was recorded with 100% vinyl. In a way, Z-Sonic is kind of a throwback...
The newest member of Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang, younger brother of Project Pat and Academy Award-winning recording artist, Juicy J, dropped one of the more anticipated hip hop mixtapes over the past few months just a couple of days ago. Of Three 6 Mafia fame, Juicy is back...
![D/L: We Run KC & Demencha Present – Gee Watts “The City’s Mine” Mixtape [Nov. 2011]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/100_3147-1024x768.jpg&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
First and foremost, shout out to Gee Watts himself, Soul M.U.T.T. over at We Run KC and DJ Shad for helping put this mixtape together. I initially approached Gee Watts about doing a project presented through We Run KC and Demencha Magazine just a couple of months ago. Frankly,...
I finally decided to take a look at Mikael Colombu's website just now. There's some pretty breathtaking videos up there. I'm not even a big video geek (yet) but word is, anything this guy touches is gold. These are what you call music videos heading into 2012. Shot in...
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