Song Of The Week

Friday, August 1, 2014

[Audio] Graffititech - "Blissfully Inadequate RED"

Blissfully Inadequate RED

Graffititech is a Baltimore born and based visual artist and producer. Graffititech's mission is to inspire and transform the creative landscape. Having be involved and around music since youth, Graffititech views music as a magicians medium to influence people and does so through tones, dynamic sounds that create cinematic imagery and evoke an emotional response. By doing this he puts people in his shoes and makes them feel what he feels, and see what he sees. In 2012 Graffititech launched the "Blissfully Inadequate" series with "(A)" and this year he launched the second entry "RED", the first part in a 3 part mini - series. While (A) dealt with the cosmos, exploring one self and restrained emotion; RED explores the colour red through sound, creating a vibrant, emotional, energetic experience, that takes listens on a roller coaster. RED mimics the red rose, an organic object that can symbolize life and death, love and obsession, soft to the touch, but with thorns that can cut. As REDs life expires, Graffititech prepares the next entry, BLACK.



Friday, July 25, 2014

IN MEMORY OF DJ K-SWIFT: OCTOBER 19, 1978 – JULY 21, 2008

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by Petula Caesar
Today is the sixth anniversary of the death of Khia Danielle Edgerton, a.k.a. K-Swift. K Swift was a deejay, emcee, radio station personality, and one of the driving forces behind Baltimore’s music scene and the undisputed “Club Queen”. She passed away after a swimming pool accident at her home. I remember very well seeing her that very afternoon doing what she loved on the deejay culture stage at Artscape. She did a set that had everyone moving their bodies. A few short hours later the buzz of my Instant Messenger woke me up at 3 a.m. – someone who worked at Good Samaritan Hospital had told a friend of mine who told me about the tragedy that had taken her life at the tender age of 29.
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From her beginnings as an intern at 92Q in 1994 when she was only 18, to becoming as an on-air personality only four years later, to her number one ranked “Off The Hook” radio show with co-host Squirrel Wyde to her Club Queen Entertainment company, K-Swift was a well-loved and extremely successful multi-talented woman. Her “Jumpoff” series of mixtapes helped propel Baltimore Club music to international status, making the music genre more than just a local thing (and can still be purchased on iTunes here).

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

A Baltimore Love, Hate, Rap Thing | Where's The Support?!


Below you can hear a conversation about one of Baltimore's most talented recording artists (4thQu), learn a little bit about Baltimore's "support system" or lack thereof + much more via a wonderful podcast called "Social Riot Radio" ! Enjoy !



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