rolling Baltimore club music thread

we've had a few threads about this stuff over the years:
Baltimore Breakbeat
baltimore house
The Limits of the Internet and Baltimore Club Music
scott steward on why baltimore house music is the new bob dylan

but I thought it would be nice to do kind of a fresh new thread to talk about it. partly it's a good way to plug the book I'm writing and the Kickstarter fundraiser I'm doing for it, partly I always feel like I should post about this stuff on ILM more and just never get around to it. I know Seward was saying on one of the other threads that he wants to catch up on the more recent stuff, so maybe I'll dump some youtubes and download links here.

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ha, left a couple empty links that post -- if any mods are looking feel free to delete

DJ Pierre's one of the best club DJs of the really young new generation (I interviewed him a couple years ago when he was still in high school) -- this is one of his mixes from earlier this year, good sampling of the kind of post-post-Blaqstarr sound that's big in the city these days: http://www.sendspace.com/file/32kqmc

"so maybe I'll dump some youtubes and download links here."

yes please do! and good luck with the book! i mean that from the bottom of my cold cold heart.

haha thanks. i'll definitely be bouncing some ideas off you or asking for feedback as it comes together.

don't know if you're familiar with DJ Class's "I'm The Ish," but it's the big crossover club song of the last year and a half that got him working with a lot of mainstream artists:

xxxx://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMvhhRFlwIU

DJ Class's Theme still top ten stuff for me.

the what?

The Love Theme! sorry, typing too fast. one of my favorite 12 inches of all time.

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/251224-01.htm

ah right

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktrack/2010/07/92q_boosts_baltimores_signatur.html

So those are the specific times 92Q plays B-more club music

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Awesome dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv3K8wzBrt8

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Awesome dude.

― curmudgeon, Saturday, July 10, 2010 5:47 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, belated thanks!

Chris interviewed me for that Post piece, but ended up not quoting me. i need to write something about K.W. Griff & Porkchop's "Bring In The Kats," which is the greatest thing ever to me these days.

I was listening to some of 92Q's K. Swift tribute weekend programming over the weekend.

I know it's not necessarily an album genre, but are there any classic Baltimore club albums I should check out? What's a good starting point?

my go-to answer as far as stuff that's really good AND in-print or easy to find are Rod Lee's first 5 albums, i have favorites but they're all solid.

Unruly Club Classics Volumes 1, 2 , and 3 are essential.

If you can get a hold of DJ Technics' The Main Event album its well worth it.

"Dance My Pain Away" was my entry into this via the Wire so I'd def like to check those Rod Lees out.

Apologize for my ignorance/missing other threads, but if there's one Baltimore record store to visit for this stuff, what do you recommend?

http://www.baltimore-club.com/packs/bmore-essential-pack-vol1/

Apologize for my ignorance/missing other threads, but if there's one Baltimore record store to visit for this stuff, what do you recommend?

here

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so the book, looking forward to it~!

hey man you know when chris and snoop are going around identifying new yorkers based on their knowledge of club music and they namedrop a bunch of artists. i think one young leek is one? me and my roommate were wondering how hip to bmore club chris was (or, the writers i guess) whenever those episodes aired?

Fuck that sea of lillywhite faces in the youtube video. That gives me chills, and not in a good way.

doesn't bother me that much

You from Baltimore? I am, and maybe that's why it bugs me.

it's Whartscape, dude, what are you gonna do.

anyway if there's anything problematic there it's Scottie deciding to spin "Niggaz Fightin'" in front of a mostly white crowd

hey man you know when chris and snoop are going around identifying new yorkers based on their knowledge of club music and they namedrop a bunch of artists. i think one young leek is one? me and my roommate were wondering how hip to bmore club chris was (or, the writers i guess) whenever those episodes aired?

― werner herzomg (samosa gibreel), Saturday, August 7, 2010 11:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Young Leek was a kiddie rapper out around that time, I think he was actually from Jersey or something but he came to Baltimore and got involved in the club music scene (managed by K-Swift, single produced by Blaq Starr), got a little buzz for a minute and got signed to Def Jam but nothing ever came of it. the other names dropped in that scene where 92Q morning show personalities and DJs (Marc Clarke, Sonjay and Troy Johnson, although their show got taken off the air a year or two back), not club music people. by that point there'd already been some Rod Lee and DJ Technics club music tracks featured in the show. also there's a great bit in David Simon's The Corner book about an old Miss Tony song!

thanks alot, man. my curiosity is satiated. such a great scene.

they don't listen to that shit in new york. listen to some bullshit up in new york

ya i think it was all radio references, he says k-swift (radio dj) and young leek 'shake it and jiggle it' (hit on local radio)

You from Baltimore? I am, and maybe that's why it bugs me.

― Three Word Username, Monday, August 9, 2010 1:13 PM

not orig but been here 15+ yrs. bugs me a little but i'm not like "ugh white skinned faces!"

It was the racial homogeneity that freaked me the fuck out, not the mere presence of white folks -- so you know.

no i get that, just don't ~feel~ it to the same extent. the genre is practically dead and the djs take those kind of gigs to eat. its been like that for yrs now so it doesn't surprise me anymore -_-

also it would make no sense if Scottie refused to spin for white people

How's the book coming along?

slower than I'd like to admit, but that's really my fault. adapted more of a "however long it takes as long as it's done right" attitude than my whirlwind "let's do it!" optimism early on. but i had a great interview with Say Wut recently and i'm gonna do my 2nd interview with DJ Equalizer soon.

just found out about this collection, looks awesome

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/misstonybigtony

http://images.cdbaby.name/m/i/misstonybigtony.jpg

yeah Diamond K has done a great job of keeping Tony's stuff in print. got some great Tony stories for the book from the Unruly guys recently!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBr9aRqd24

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/midnight-sun-blog/bs-ae-tt-the-artist-20160408-story.html

TT the Artist. Who else is happening in Baltimore club music these days?

The new Abdu Ali album Fiyah!!! i incorporates Baltimore club music and more. Sarah M Hughes does free jazz solos on it. I like it

The work of the musician Abdu Ali, for example, combines the influences of punk, rap and Baltimore club (the city’s explosive, ecstatic brand of hip-hop inflected house music) to create something bracingly new. A gender nonconforming artist, Ali spoke about the need to recognize the contributions of women and queer artists to the city’s musical history — particularly the pioneers of Baltimore club, such as Miss Tony, who recorded tracks and spun records in drag through most of the ’90s, and K-Swift, one of the city’s most popular young D.J.s at the time of her death in 2008 — while also expanding the scope of what’s possible in the city. In 2013, Ali co-founded a concert and party series called Kahlon, which had the explicit goal of putting alternative and experimental black, L.G.B.T.Q. and women-identified artists on the same stage. As a Baltimore native, Ali noticed that too many of the shows they were going to, often dominated by straight, white artists, “didn’t reflect what the city really is, and what brings the charm to the city."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/t-magazine/baltimore-artists-art-culture.html