Published on
April 10, 2008 in
DJ Music and Labels.
Tags: , Atomic, Dance, DMC, Heaven, House, Little Mountain Recordings, Max Graham, Montreal, Ottawa, Owner of a Lonely Heart, Parking, Re*brand, Sander Kleinenberg, Shinemusic, Transport.
Max Graham is a house music producer and remixer from Canada. He was born in the United Kingdom and lived in Spain and the USA before settling in Canada in 1989. In 1994 Max discovered house music, which soon led to his contribution to the Canadian dance music scene. He started his professional production career in 2000, having played house music for ten years previously in Ottawa, Canada at the well-known Atomic night club. His first two releases, “Airtight” and “Tell You” helped him become well-known around the world, and led to him being asked to mix the popular Transport series in 2001. A world tour followed, which furthered his popularity across the globe. Continue reading ‘Max Graham in profile: Owner of a Lonely Heart’
Published on
February 26, 2008 in
Producers.
Tags: AJK, Alberta, Alchemist, Best Kept Secret, Biggie, BKS, Clipse, Degs, DJ Pump, DMC, Hi-Tek, hip-hop, Jay-Z, Kardinal Offishall, M.O.P, Slim Thug, Stretch Armstrong.
Best Kept Secret (BKS) is a production company run out of Alberta by a trio of passionate Hip Hop artists: promo/hypeman Degs, AJK, and DMC & ITF champion DJ Pump. Like true Hip Hop purists, they continually strive for the balance between the soulful and the street. I’m a big fan of old school mixers and it really helps that they draw a lot of their style from from old school R&B and funk cuts.
They feature drops and shout-outs from all kinds of artists from Hi-Tek and Alchemist to Kardinal Offishall and Stretch Armstrong. Their website seems very simple at first glance but if you poke around a little like I did, you’ll find that they actually feature a full copy of ‘Fresh Produce’, their debut effort from 2007, for free download! I like BKS Productions’ sound because of its diverse mix of artists — everyone from Jay-Z, Biggie & M.O.P., Clipse & Slim Thug, and even some notable street poets such as Common & Nas. With fresh product like that, they’re all set to make a name for themselves in the underground Hip Hop community.
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