By Chris Mills | February 10, 2012 at 3:32 pm | No comments
Kansas City-based producer (among other things), Phantom, is urging listeners and DJs to grab this one while it's hot before he disables the download allowance later tonight. For his latest uptempo effort, Afrojack's "Take Over Control" gets taken down a notch. We can see why...
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By Chris Mills | February 1, 2012 at 1:40 pm | No comments
Come celebrate the creation of BluntRap's new album, "Thunderalbum9million", this Saturday at Riot Room in Westport. Accompanying the smoked-out live rap band are Phantom (KC), Les Paul (KC) and J Boozer (STL). Hit up THIS GUY for $5 presales. They might want to bring a...
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By Chris Mills | March 8, 2011 at 10:08 pm | No comments
At 21, and like so many artists that this blog has covered over the years, Ghost (whose real name is Steffan), doesn’t have press photos just quite yet. That’s why we had to jack this shot from his facebook page.
Words by Chris Mills
To take the word “ghost”...
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By Chris Mills | December 22, 2010 at 4:33 pm | No comments
I came to familiarity with NewSense a few nights ago in Westport after meeting one of the guitar players, Trey, at the Riot Room. This three piece has a self-described 311/Sublime type of sound, only spear-headed by an MC. They've only been together for about six months,...
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By Chris Mills | October 20, 2010 at 1:31 pm | No comments
Local multiple-hat-wearer, Kemet Coleman aka The Phantom, posed a question recently about what DJs he should shop his tracks to, in a sense, seeing as how he's lately becoming more active in house music. Phantom's always had a very strong electronic/dance influence in his...
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By Chris Mills | July 18, 2010 at 12:22 am | 3 comments
Diss tracks from KC rappers aimed at other local rappers are not very common, but I've gotta keep it 100% real right now. This is probably the weakest diss record I've ever heard in my life. Phantom makes some nice tunes, but I'm not co-signing on this track whatsoever. ...
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By Chris Mills | September 13, 2009 at 1:21 am | 2 comments
Someone named Will kept throwing up a bunch of comments here on demencha over the past couple of weeks. I had no idea who he was until he pointed me out last night at the Record Bar and had me figured out as the author of this super cool local music blog. He said that it...
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By Chris Mills | August 8, 2009 at 6:27 pm | 2 comments
Courtesy of Adam Magic for IndyGround/Demencha! I'm hoping that this issue opens us up to a couple of different markets in the local music industry. BIG SHOUT OUT to Nici Watts, Ben Bradley, Julian Harper and Adam Magic for making these covers look so...
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