By Chris Mills | April 5, 2012 at 3:58 pm | No comments
Kansas City's heralded DJ/producer/singer, Miles Bonny, recently dropped a project with NYC beat monster, B.Lewis. On this project, Miles is doing vocals over some of Lewis' original productions. While I don't necessarily think that Miles' voice and the electro-soul beats...
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By Chris Mills | March 16, 2012 at 1:48 pm | No comments
[pictured: Shaun Duval]
With Brent Tactic being out of town at SXSW (jealous), LC is filling in for him alongside Shaun Duval tonight at Gusto Lounge in Westport KCMO. LC typically messes with mostly house music, whereas Tactic is usually all over the place regarding...
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By Madame E | March 9, 2012 at 10:43 am | 2 comments
It's that time again… spring break, which also means that it's time for WMC, MMW, and Ultra among the few music conferences taking place in sunny Miami starting next week. SpinSpinNYC / Shakedown Events reached out to us recently to peep us to the jazzy, house, funk,...
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By Chris Mills | March 3, 2012 at 6:09 pm | One comment
I thought it was pretty wild the last time I saw Joc Max spin with Pat Nice at the Hangout on Broadway back in maybe 2006. A pair of KC legends in their respective genre fields under one building had me wondering if Joc was into house, and if Pat was into hip hop. It became...
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By Chris Mills | February 28, 2012 at 4:53 pm | No comments
[pictured: B. Lewis]
Have you ever run into some music online or live that absolutely captivated you from the jump? I just had one of those jaw-dropper moments about 20 minutes ago when KC's Miles Bonny posted a new track with his vocals over a B. Lewis beat. I wasn't...
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By Chris Mills | February 19, 2012 at 5:50 pm | No comments
[pictured: Sweater Beats (Team Bear Club)]
OK, I've finally figured out what I'm going to do about the seemingly hard-to-fetch ideas for Sunday posts at Demencha (CDs come out on Tuesdays, remember?). Every weekend I'm going to try to get gather my favorite soundcloud tracks...
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By Chris Mills | February 15, 2012 at 2:44 pm | One comment
GET THESE NOW. Levantine, Sweater Beats (Team Bear Club), Le Youth, Attack Yourself!, Vostok-1 and Futurewife brought some real flames on this free soundcloud remix project honoring the late Teddy Pendergrass. You have to go to the actual URL where the player is hosted,...
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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 2, 2012 at 2:28 pm | No comments
The two NYC-based, singing sisters known as Nina Sky, of Major Lazer ("Keep It Goin Louder") and Alchemist ("Hold You Down") collab fame among others, have a new album coming out in July titled "Nicole & Natalie". Embedded here is the player for the latest freebie single from...
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By Chris Mills | January 29, 2012 at 7:10 pm | No comments
Besides being an awesome writer and having one of the sharpest voices here at Demencha Magazine, Nick Ah-Loe aka DJ A:42 keeps it even more real by playing all vinyl still today in 2012. As I understand it, he doesn't do a lot of DJ gigs, but how are you gonna front on five...
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