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 | 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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By Chris Mills | December 8, 2011 at 6:09 pm | No comments
BEAR CLUB x KJHK SADLY PRESENTS: BLASIAN FINALE: WE GONE, DUECES EDITION from Team Bearclub on Vimeo.
Morri$ and the Team Bear Club crew have been making a lot of noise out in Lawrence for a hot minute now. One of those noises manifested itself in the regular Blasian...
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By Chris Mills | December 5, 2011 at 5:21 pm | No comments
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...
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By Chris Mills | December 1, 2011 at 2:46 pm | No comments
(pictured: Morri$)
Barcelona-based producer and remixer, Sinjin Hawke, has been getting a ton of spins out of my Boses (and through THIS MIX I just did recently) over the past couple of months accredited to his remixes of "I'm On One", 702, Tevin Campbell and The Dream among...
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By Chris Mills | October 17, 2011 at 2:55 pm | One comment
Will aka Daylight Robber (KC-Chicago transplant) recently shared a link on his soundcloud featuring a live mix that he and Spider Bigger did back in the summer of 2007 at their old dubstep weekly, Bassline Pressure, which went down on Wednesday nights at the old Jilly's on...
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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 | September 23, 2011 at 12:40 pm | No comments
With Green Velvet spinning tonight in P&L, and with the Frisky cats putting on Derrick Carter at Blvd Nights a week from today, we're pretty sure it's safe to say that house music lovers in Kansas City looking for legendary talent need not sweat...er, maybe they should. ...
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By Chris Mills | September 13, 2011 at 5:10 pm | No comments
RIP Tupac. I thought it might be appropriate to rip this vinyl (no pun intended, I swear) I've been sitting on for a while, just for the Tupac fans out there...
DJ Kool - "Let Me Clear My Throat" (Tupac Tribute Edit)...
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By Chris Mills | September 12, 2011 at 1:19 pm | No comments
Skinny Friedman of the Philadelphyinz crew is stopping by to wreck shit for what will turn out to be yet another rager at the Union of Westport this Saturday night. Friedman's style is highly influenced by current rap music, whether he's flipping those rap tracks into...
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