TAG: Baltimore club

May27

Al Ripken Jr, “Captain Cougar” (MP3)

Al Ripken Jr is one of the in-house producers for the acclaimed Top Billin label from Helsinski. Al Ripken has also been well known for the Baltimore club beats and even worked with people such as Diamond K. Captain Cougar itself sounds like the score to some sorta character who has such hubris that they demand blaring horns and lasers jetting off in their direction when they walk into a room. If anything I think I would call it minimal juke inspired tang; it doesn’t necessarily go in as hard but it never needs to. Luckily for y’all you can download Al Ripken’s latest EP for free thanks to him and Top Billin.

 

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Jul26

Blaqstarr

Men of Mystery (by Brandon Ivers) 

Baltimore club music is great and everything, but after almost 15 years of hearing the same two breaks looped over bootlegs and “Percolator” samples, you had to wonder if the music was ever going to go anywhere. That is, until Blaqstarr arrived. “Club music is just taking a song and putting it to a different tempo,” says Joe, who, along with his brother, Charles, makes up Blaqstarr. “But what we’re doing is making our own songs, our own style. We’re the sample.” “We’re a different style,” adds Charles. “It’s not just club—it’s black rock music. R-O-Q, black roq music.”

Charles and Joe opt to keep their full names shrouded in mystery, though it’s not clear why. Unlike their Baltimore club contemporaries, the members of Blaqstarr have nothing to fear from the copyright police. Instead of ripping off Akon bootlegs, …

Nov01

In Da Club :: Baltimore

Baltimore club music is the raunchy, pitched-up sound of the city's urban underground. Go inside the world where the only thing bigger than the booty is the beats. 

By Tony Ware

“If you’ve got $5 in your pocket put your middle finger in the air,” blares the command, and several hundred fingers like antennae perk up in response. Any other night, some of these fingers may be looking for respect, others looking for blood. But tonight, all these bony receivers are attuned to the same frequency, and all their energy is fueled by a mouth on the mic and unrelenting 120 BPM calls to “hit that ass from the back,” “pop yo’ pussy” and “put yo’ hands up like a gun in the air.”

Onstage is “Club Queen” DJ K-Swift, on the floor are several hundred hipsters and on the speakers is Baltimore club music, known alternatively through the years as “Doo Dew,” “Baltimore Trax,” “B’More club” and simply “party music.” …

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