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Flyers for events photographed in March 2005 appear below.   A link to the associated photo album appears beneath that. 03.01.2005 True Tuesdays featuring DJ True Balanca's Kansas City, MO 03.05.2005 Frisky Miami Warm-up Week 2 featuring Derrick Carter, Luke Sardello, Pat Nice Kabal Restaurant & Nightclub Kansas City, MO photos by shaun 03.05.2005 DJ Birthday Bash featuring DJ P with residents Paul DeMatteo & Ataxic Kabal Restaurant & Nightclub Kansas City, MO 03.01.2005 True Tuesdays featuring DJ True Balanca's Kansas City, MO 03.09.2005 Wednesday Perk featuring Mike McGrath with resident cQuence Cup & Saucer Kansas City, MO photos by jason 03.11.2005 Inertia featuring Rob Lee & Josh C Vermont St BBQ Lawrence, KS photos by jason 03.05.2005 Frisky Miami Warm-up Week 3 featuring Dan X & Simply Soul Syndicate Kabal Restaurant &

forward by Brent Crampton ~photo by Lunatik ~ This month’s On Decks edition is bringing you a taste of the old school acid house sound courtesy of DJ Lunatik. Lunatik has been bangin’ electronic music in the Midwest for over a decade. Considered a staple in the Omaha scene, Lunatik has done it all. Whether it be throwing events with international talent such as H-Foundation and Frankie Bones or signing talent to his record label, Wreckless, Lunatik is a mad man of ambition. His newest mix, Room 303 is sure to bring those reminiscent feelings of the acid house days while simultaneously displaying forward-thinking aspects. On the Decks gives the DJs themselves an opportunity to explain the feelings and progression behind the mix. Below are the words of Lunatik taking you guided tour while you listen to his mix. Imagine it’s 1988 in a dark warehouse. Your spine is tingling, the sweat is dripping and your mind is tripping on the sound of acid house. While your body is jackin and your

photo by todd ~ Local KC Techno DJ, Solaris is back once again with his picks for some of the hardest and rawest Techno beats for the new year. Always looking for ways to push the limit of your Techno experience, check out these tracks and, courtesy of DJ Solaris. BLACKOUT AUDIO - BRAINSHAKER VS THE ANXIOUS - BOA012 Nice stuff here. Leave it to Mark and Chrissy to find have the time to get this out. Great builder with a tinge of that acid feel for your flavored needs. This tool is great to prelude the night of the audiophiles. CARNAGE – OBI - CARNAGE09 I have to say that this label snuck up on me a month ago and I haven’t been the same since. Its nice to see one of those dedicated labels pull out floor stompers left and right. This one is no different. Great percussive madness with a kick to die for. Keep your ears peeled. I see great things from this label. YING YANG - PEDRO DELGARDO - YYR008 One of those well rounded records here. You have everything you need. From tech ho

by phelyne ~ An all around Electronic Musician who is talented enough to be signed onto 3 labels and who is more that just a jungle producer. True electronic musicians dabble in a little bit of everything, because electronic music stems from everything. Here is an in-depth look at what it is like to be an electronic musician, from someone who has been in the game for a decade and is still pushing forward. More than an up and comer, but still striving for personal and professional excellence, this man has some wonderful things to say about his journey thus far. When and how were you introduced to electronic music? How old? It was around 15 yrs old which would be approximately 1995 when I was first introduced to "proper" electronic music. It was while skateboarding I think, it was jungle on the New York university radio. What did you like about the music for it to perk your interest? The beat. First time I heard a jungle beat I was hooked. Aside from that I guess it was

interview by senseone ~ photo by lorri auer ~ Right in between Kansas City and St. Louis lies a little college town called Columbia, and if you ever find yourself there, you also might be looking for something other than your average college bar. This month, I took a minute to speak with my good friend, Kevin Mc. Gee, also known as Kevo. Kevo runs two nights in Columbia, one that has been going for 2 years now, at club Shattered, and has also another night now, at the Sapphire Lounge. Kevo, along with DJ Bernard Jones and Jim McKibben (aka Johnny5) also run Midwestmassive.com, a web site dedicated to bridging that gap between the cities and connecting the scene there in general. How long have you been involved in the Columbia scene, and when did you get involved with Shattered? Well I've starting getting into electronic music around 97 but didn’t really dive into until 2001 or so. Before then I was more like a bystander (sp) watching DJ's at numerous house parties around

written by the heavy lounge ~ photo by babygirl ~ New to the burgeoning Kansas City dance scene is a group of individuals who not only promote and play, but live the genre of music that has many names. Downtempo. Trip Hop. Nu-Jazz. Dub. Rare Grooves. Minimal House. Ambient. Atmospheric Drum and bass. Jazzy Hip Hop. Neo Soul. The list goes on and on and crosses musical genres like a phantom. This collective calls themselves the Heavy Lounge, which is appropriate in that the heavy part is the music itself. This isn't your cookie-cutter, run of the mill dance music or 4/4 beats. This is soul through and through. The members of this collective, J.A.H., Ben Fuller and Candlewax (together as Tactic), Aural Assassin, Bucho, pictured left and right, RJ Bass, Sydeburnz, and Rob Lee, are in this for the music. There's no one person in charge, there's no hierarchy. It's communal in nature, it's pure, and most of all, it's universal. "There hasn't been a

You know... every time I write this column I sit down and listen to the latest download. For the last couple of months, it's been the "on decks" column of this site, now being managed by Brent Crampton. If you have a mix you want people to hear. Get ahold of him. It has got to be a new mix though. We want you to give the massive something new that they don't already... aight? Weird. All I started off to say was... Nice Funky Start Lunatik! I'm only 5 minutes into it and my leg is bouncing as I sit here and write. Don't miss this one. This is defnitely a good mix. This month's cover was a bit of a problem. We didn't really have a photo that was related to the main article, so I had to go find something that was kinda loungish. There a bunch that I had picked out, but something about this one did it for me. The shot is actually one that I took at Kabal during the Bunnies & Billionaires party a few weeks ago. The one on this page was taken

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