Chase March – Blog
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New Show Intro . . . Starring YOU!
Word is Bond Rap Radio is an underground hip-hop mixshow that airs weekly on 94.9 fm in London, Ontario, Canada. For the 400 episode, I produced a new theme song for the show and did some scratching over the beat. Now, I am looking to add a rapper to the start of it. Do you
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Mastermind Street Jam #5 Nov 1994
The Mastermind Street Jam was required listening back in the day. It was an underground hip-hop mixshow on commercial radio, which made it quite unique. The station catered to dance music the rest of the week, but for two hours, we had that raw, real, hip-hop, and it was heaven. This is Tape 4 from
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Mastermind Street Jam #4 Oct 1994
The Mastermind Street Jam was required listening back in the day. It was an underground hip-hop mixshow on commercial radio, which made it quite unique. The station catered to dance music the rest of the week, but for two hours, we had that raw, real, hip-hop, and it was heaven. This is Tape 4 from
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Rapper & DJ Dialogues in Song
Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement by S. Craig Watkins Sometimes, I read a hip-hop book and don’t learn anything new. That was not the case with this book. S. Craig Watkins drops a lot of knowledge in this book. I already wrote about some of great
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Mastermind Street Jam #3 – October 22, 1994
Mastermind Street Jam was a great Golden Era hip-hop mixshow on Energy 108 (107.9 fm CINJ) that people from Hamilton to Toronto enjoyed back in the day. I taped it religiously and have started digitizing those cassettes to share with all of you. This is Tape 3 from my extensive collection and it features an
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MIDI Changed Everything
“In 1981, Roland developed a standard for electronic musical instruments called Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI. This was a standard for unifying the signal that connected the keyboard and sound generator. By unifying all the different types of signals that manufactures had been using into the MIDI standard, we were able to give electronic