Mania Music Group A week ago at Joe Squared, Kane Mayfield announced a new member of Mania Music Group: Eze Jackson of Soul Cannon. Right after a passionate mini- set from Mania’s Ron G, Jackson did a five-minute straight freestyle–in the truest sense of the word, without the accompaniment of a beat–that ended with...
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Midas Mania Music Group’s Midas (now going by the name DDM) has a hip-hop and club fusion record called American Graffiti coming out soon on Unruly Records. The project was first mentioned in City Paper a few weeks ago in a profile of Unruly borders-breaker Schwarz (he has a beat on the album) and,...
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KaneMayfield Last Thursday’s Mobtown Studios microshow from Mania Music Group’s Kane Mayfield and a live band—guitarist Karlos Brickhouse, keyboardist Dennard Watson, drummer Brandon Segar, and trombonist Patrick Harrison—is now available for download at the Mobtown Studios web site. Kane begins with a snappy, near Neptunes-like take on his recent single “Wreck,” and from there...
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Up for grabs Attention Baltimore rappers with chintzy, sounds-like-ass beats. You no longer have an excuse. In-house producers for Mania Music, BeaLack and Headphonemusik, are handing out 11 beats for free over at the Mania Music Group BandCamp account. These aren’t instrumentals of previously heard Mania tracks either. They’re new productions in a wide...
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Get Em Mamis The Windup Space doesn’t book hip-hop shows very often, but it’s proven that when it does, it gets it right. Saturday night’s bill was in many ways the perfect trio of acts to represent Baltimore rap at the venue: left-field and approachable enough for the Station North crowd, but still hip-hop...
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