baltimore house

;-)

al: gvt name is the bomb! please do more baltimore stuffs

i'd also love to be able to get 'work' that's on the bambabounce blog.

oddly, frank ski's 'whores in the house' was HUGE in glasgow in the early 90's. i think it even got put out as a bootlegged 12" by a local shop. i had always thought it was from chicago so it's interesting to find out it's one of the early baltimore club classics.

oh, and the photos in dj technics' gallery are off the hook!

baltimore club tracks also focus all the bass into the kick drum, there's usually no basslines.

I love going to gramaphone and flipping through the ghetto house section and just throwing some of that stuff on the turntables there and trying to figure out what stuff i could possibly work in another context.

Dj Deeon - Let Me Bang

(DJ Deeon)

actually that DJ Deeon track sounds a lot like DJ Assaults stuff

Is anyone here up on this kind of music? deej? and what? I need recommendations....

u want to talk to the First Some Dude

other thread has more info:

Baltimore Breakbeat

lol @ me 3 years ago

recommendations are tough with this stuff, especially cause I don't really have any idea what's available online or distributed in different places...I mean you can just guide yourself by a vague axis of Rod Lee/DJ Booman/Blaq Starr/Miss Tony/Say Wut/DJ Technics/etc and find a lot of good shit that way.

can anyone point me to some essential baltimore mixes? or some 101 guide. it seems like the info about it is pretty rare.

there are tons of great mixes out there but any one of them is so slanted toward a particular era or label or crew that it's really tough to pinpoint one, and sometimes the ones that try to tell the whole story or cover the most ground are the ones that fall short the most.

lol @ me 1 year ago saying something so similar.

anyway i am pretty partial to Rod Lee's early mixes that were reissued recently, particularly the first couple (Operation Start Up and Operation Not Done Yet)

i have great old mix CDs by various DJs, but they are really really old. they will grow old with me too. i have tons of great stuff on vinyl too, but that won't do anyone any good. scotty b sent me amazing live dj sets of his and i need to dig those out. but i am out of the loop as far as more recent stuff goes.

"but they are really really old," he says as if it's a bad thing.

not at all!

you know where i stand.

just feel kinda bad that i haven't kept up with recent developments.

yeah we may have to arrange some kind of old/new trade or something -- how far back would you say you're out of the loop?

god, years! like, 4 years at least. marthas vineyard wasn't a great spot to buy the stuff. (and i refused to buy the hepcat lacrate ghetto shit CDs and vinyl that the store on martha's vineyard did actually carry.) (though i did actually enjoy the spank rock album) the last CDs i wrote about were those rod lee and lil jay ones that got the good distro. for matos in seattle.

OK, cool. there's been loads of great shit since then.

lol @ radioclit starting the thread. just happened upon this
http://www.thefader.com/2010/02/03/radioclit-we-like-to-party-mp3

Dude/AL
I used to listen to mixes on the Baltimore r'n'b/rap radio stations years ago (though I pick up the Baltimore station better in my car than at home. I guess they're on the web now too?). Does 92 Q or anyone else play any mixes on the radio anymore? Certain nights or times?

Yup -- club sets still happen on 92Q during half or all of the 9pm hour on weeknights, sometimes more on weekends, and they do a short 'K-Swift memorial mix' now around I think 7pm.

Thanks

Some Dude’s book on Baltimore club dance music is coming out August 19, and Stereogum posted an excerpt last month

https://www.stereogum.com/2312315/we-dressed-to-sweat-read-an-exclusive-excerpt-from-the-new-book-about-the-history-of-baltimore-club-music/columns/sounding-board/book-club/

hell yea

pumped

This has been a really long time coming, right? Tbh I thought it had come out awhile ago, sorry some dude (I'm excited to read it though).

I hope you're doing a city to city tour

maybe if you work in a britney spears peg somehow

I see he's got an appearance for the book on Saturday August 23 @ 3 pm @ the Baltimore Club Music Town Hall at the Motor House, 122 W. North Ave , Baltimore.

yeahhhhh baby long time coming. the pump fake years ago is really on me, i wish i had just kept quiet on the whole thing until it was done, but i'm glad it's finally happening.

right now i only have events and things planned in the Baltimore area, would love to go do things in other places but i have no idea if i will unless someone somewhere invites me to do something, with everything else going on i just haven't taken any initiative and that's one area i have no experience in.

I actually have had some kind of intuition that we’re primed for a big moment for bmore club outside the city, like the hipster cooties of the lamestream discourse are finally kind of shaken off and ppl will be able to hear some of it with fresh ears … I’ve bought a few cool records recently myself to Dj with as part of eclectic sets and they sound really cool & enlivening idk… obvious point perhaps but what timeless music !!

yeah i think there's definitely an interesting thing happening with Baltimore club's kind of perennial ubiquity ebbing and flowing, it's kind of the godfather of a broader 'Club music' umbrella and always one of those regional styles that randomly pops up in a kpop or drake song etc.

the book is out today! ilx's own scott seward is one of the dozens of people i interviewed!

https://repeaterbooks.com/product/tough-breaks-the-story-of-baltimore-club-music/

cannot wait to read this

purchased!

just ordered a copy

congrats al! can’t wait to read it

ordered

Congrats! Definitely going to cop.

Congratulations, man! (Ordering shortly.)