Silent Cacophony is a sounding board for Chase March. Here you will find his podcast, book reviews, skatepark tours, teaching-related articles and resources, and much more. Please use the buttons on the home page to navigate to the topics that interest you.
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M’Chigeeng Trail
The M’Chigeeng Hiking Trail is located on First Nations’ land on Manitoulin Island. The trail starts off rather rocky and runs uphill for quite some time. The run was worth it just for this beautiful rocky terrain. But it gets even nicer at the top. The trail markers are easy to follow all the way…
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Mastermind Street Jam – Tape 26 (Nov ’95)
A live hip-hop mixshow on commercial radio that played real hip-hop? In the 1990s? From Canada? If you don’t know, now you know! This show broke new records and helped me grow my cassette and CD collection. DJ Mastermind spun some of the best hip-hop records ever made on this show. I have digitized my…
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Who is Biggie Smalls? (WIB Rap Radio Exclusive)
Quick question – Do you know who Biggie Smalls is? Have you heard any of his music? I doubt you have. I hadn’t prior to beginning research on the last edition of Know Your History, where I looked at rappers that had the same name as other musicians. I was going to get into Biggie…
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Bridal Veil Falls
Bridal Veil Falls is located in a small village on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. I spent some time on the island last week and wanted to find a few interesting places to run. This definitely fit the bill. Here you can see the Kagawong River which flows from Lake Kagawong to the North Channel of…
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A Fake Sense of Urgency
We are constantly bombarded with information. We get text messages, social media alerts, and emails that we feel need to be attended to. It’s hard to ignore a ringing phone or beeping alert. Our devices can seem to hold us prisoner. We are at their beck and call. But is this a good thing? In…
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Mastermind Street Jam (Tape 25)
The Mastermind Street Jam was broadcast every week on Energy 108 (107.9fm) and it served the Hamilton and Toronto, ON. Canada area and beyond. Here’s an episode that I taped off the radio back in 1995. It features classic hip-hop jams that were brand new at the time. This was one of the freshest hip-hop…
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Why do So Many Rappers Have the Same Name?
Know Your History is a documentary series that gets in-depth about hip-hip history and culture. Hosted by Chase March, this program has been a regular segment on DOPEfm and Word is Bond Rap Radio for over ten years. In this edition of the show, we look closely at rappers that have the same name as…
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One Man Can Summon the Future and Change the World
Star Trek: Mirror Universe – The Sorrows of Empire by David Mack One of the best episodes of the classic television series Star Trek was “Mirror Mirror.” In it, Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura inadvertently trade places with their counterparts in a parallel dimension. Many things are the same aboard this version of…
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I Am Hip-Hop – Cool Conversations
I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture by Andrew J. Rausch This is what Dres of Black Sheep had to say when he was asked, “What does hip-hop mean to you?” “It’s kind of grown over the years. I’ve kind of come upon a revelation that it’s the music of the people. I…
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Mastermind Street Jam – Hip-Hop Classics
DJ Mastermind spun great hip-hop jams live on the radio twice a week back in the 1990s for one hour Monday nights and one hour Tuesday nights. The show was the only hip-hop show on Energy 108, 107.9 fm, serving the Hamilton and Toronto, ON. area. This is the Tuesday night edition and features some…