Friday, December 23, 2011

MF 911 's "Come On" and "The Rukus" from the "Rukus" EP

After Pressing plant delays and distribution staff changes the MF 911 "The Ruckus" EP will be dropping in February 2012!

Ant "Mad Scientist king" live, Ced-Rat, Mainy Main, Tim The Terrible are
MF 911

So In the meantime and between time check the funky boom baper "Come On" produced by Track Master 30/30 (WU Tang Fame)

and "The Rukus" produced by Mega Force's own Ced-Rat as he smashes it dolo style!!







Saturday, November 12, 2011

VES 120 TURN STYLES VOL 2 BPCD-02


DJ, Emcee, producer,graphics designer, Ves 120 comes rare and hard with TurnStyles Vol 2, a perfect blend of underground and rare indie cuts swirled together with sweet blends and precision cutting!! Throw back joynts from the back packer days of Kanye's produced "City to City" with Chicago legend Grav, featuring Lil Ray & Al Tariq (Beat Nuts ), to the underground burner, MoleMan's Vocabulary Spill Feat. Mass Hysteria, to Kids in the Halls Hoes Clothes and Liquor show cases rare Chicago bangers!! This is super strong 26 tracks of underground solid hip hop music!!


Monday, November 7, 2011

DJ MARC DAVIS

Chicago veteran record collector, DJ, producer and owner of independent record label Black Pegasus Music has been involved in the music industry for over two decades. Marc first got his start as an admirer of the DJ culture in the early 80’s listening and watching neighborhood legends Chico Frye, Steve “Silk” Hurley, and Eric “E.T.” Taylor. This gave Marc the confidence to get his own set of turntables and start shopping for records at Imports and Loop Record’s. Marc became a heavyweight in collecting records purchasing soulful disco, electronica, Jazz, rare funk, afro beat, latin and Brazilian records. This is right around the time Marc linked up with child hood friend Dion Wilson pka NO ID (JayZ, Common, Kanye West Fame) and started practicing his DJ skills and getting his first look into music production. No ID schooled Marc in the art of sampling rare grooves and obscure drum breaks.

Since then Marc has been off to the races recording on various record labels such as Robbins Entertainment/BMG (Savior), Oxygen Music Works/Pinacle (Toot Toot), Skint Records/Sony (Toot Toot), Launch Pad/Topplers (I am the One). He has recorded with a slew of artists from Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic/Dr. Octagon fame) to Roz Nash of Groove Collective. His music has been remixed by the likes of Kurtis Mantronix, Ashley Beedle’s Xpress 3, Fat Boy slim, to Albert Cabrera’s Latin Rascals.

As a mobile DJ, Marc has been able to perform gigs both domestically and internationally. He has played in Cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angelos , London, Nottingham, Wales, Birmingham, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm, Gotenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, and others.

In 2006 Marc created Black Pegasus record label. Black Pegasus is an eclectic imprint releasing underground hip hop, soulful disco, afro & brazilian beats. The first release was a self produced funky House single Trust In Me/Mechanical Melody. The record was well received in European and USA clubs but because of lack luster distribution the potential was not maximized.

In 2010 Marc closed a worldwide distribution deal with Cross Talk and began releasing underground hip hop through Black Pegasus. The next 4 releases included UltraMagnetic Foundation "Ultra Laboratory Stories LP," East Of The Rock "Galaxy Rays Ep", Fully G "There She Goes Again "single, MF 911 "The Ruckus EP"



















http://ustre.am/:bt89

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

UltraMagnetic MC's performing live in New Jersey @ the Asbury Convention Hall


UltraMagnetic MC's performing October 1st 2011 @ the Asbury Park Convention Hall with a standing crowd only of 55 million 8 thousand 9!!!!!



Saturday, October 1, 2011

DJ Marc Davis, Elvis Leon, & Buddy Finch Abstract Funk @ ikodu Lounge Sat. October 22nd

Abstract Funk @ ikodu Lounge 2130 S. Wentworth (China Town)


Abstract Disco-Jazz-Brazilian-Afro Beat-World Music Beat by DJ's Marc Davis, Elvis Leon & Buddy Finch 9pm-3am, $5.00 cover, ladies free B4 11, drink Specials!!

Friday, August 26, 2011

ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S


Before forming as a hip hop group, Ultramagnetic MCs members Cedric "Ced-Gee" Miller, "Kool" Keith Thornton, DJ Moe Love (Maurice Smith), and TR Love (Trevor Randolph) from The Bronx, New York were break dancers for the New York City Breakers and People's Choice crews.[6] They recorded a demo, "Space Groove", in 1984 and released their first single "To Give You Love" in 1986.[6] Other singles, including "Space Groove" and "Something Else", became popular at block parties and earned the group notice in the underground music scene, eventually leading to the group's signing with dance-oriented record label Next Plateau Records.[7]
The group made a stylistic breakthrough with their subsequent 1986 single "Ego Trippin'". The song boasted dense, minimalist production, featuring synthesizer riffs and a drum sample from Melvin Bliss' "Synthetic Substitution", and erratic lyricism by Ced-Gee and Kool Keith.[6] The group's 1987 single "Funky" showcased Ced-Gee expanding on his production style, incorporating a piano sample from "Woman to Woman" by Joe Cocker.[6] Before the release of Critical Beatdown, he contributed to production on albums such as Antoinette's Who's The Boss (1989), Criminal Minded (1987) by Boogie Down Productions.[6]

The dynamic, choppy production on Critical Beatdown was handled primarily by Ced-Gee, who used a E-mu SP-1200 sampler.[3] His sampling of early recordings by James Brown, particularly their guitar and vocal parts, added to the music's abrasive, funk-oriented sound and exemplified the growing popularity of such sampling sources in hip hop at the time.[3] In the second edition of The Rough Guide to Hip Hop (2005), music journalist Peter Shapiro notes its music's energy as reminiscent of The Cold Crush Brothers and writes of the album's musical significance, "It may have been a stunning explosion of early sampling technology, but Critical Beatdown remains a devstating album even in an age of 32-bit samplers and RAM-intensive sound-editing software."[8] He also views that the technological limitations of using such a sampler added to the album's style, making the music "rawer, more immediate, and more febrile, like a raw nerve."[3] Hip hop production team The Bomb Squad has cited the album as a major influence on their production for Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.[8] Shapiro dubs it one of the greatest hip hop albums and comments on its musical legacy, "Recorded at a time before 'street' and 'experimental' were mutually exclusive terms, it ushered in hip-hop's sampladelic golden age and laid the foundation for several generations of underground rap."[2]
Kool Keith's and Ced-Gee's lyrics on the album are characterized by abstract braggadocio,[9] stream-of-consciousness narrative style,[10] and psuedoscientific terminology.[11] The Anthology of Rap, published by Yale University Press, makes note of such terminology in Ced-Gee's lyricism on the album's 1986 single "Ego Trippin'", particularly the lines "Usin' frequencies and data, I am approximate / Leaving revolutions turning, emerging chemistry / With the precise implications, achieved adversively".[11] Kool Keith's rhymes are manic and expressed in a staccato pace.[11] His lyrics on "Ego Trappin'" also criticize the musical aesthetic of old school hip hop artists at the time: "They use the simple back and forth, the same old rhythm / That a baby can pick up and join right with them / But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copasetic / Using nursery terms, at least not poetic".[11]

Allmusic editor Stanton Swihart praised the album's production as "forward-looking" and called it "an undeniable hip-hop classic [...] one of the finest rap albums from the mid- to late-'80s 'new school' in hip-hop."[12] He noted the "lyrical invention" of Kool Keith's and Ced-Gee's respective styles, adding that "Somewhere in the nexus between the two stylistic extremes, brilliant music emanated. Critical Beatdown maintains all its sharpness and every ounce of its power, and it has not aged one second since 1988."[12] Trouser Press journalist Jeff Chang called it "an amazing debut" and complimented Kool Keith's "shifty rhyme patterns", while writing that Ced-Gee "pushes sampling technology to its early limits, providing sonics that are less bassy and more breakbeat heavy than most of their contemporaries."[21] Pitchfork Media's Alex Linhardt called it "a flawless album—one that stands tall today as one of Golden Age's most ageless," lauding Kool Keith's "lyrical ingenuity" and citing Ced-Gee as "the source of the album's most insane, digitalk-quantum gibberish, spouting lines [...] [T]hey should be studied in seminars alongside general relativity."[16] Linhardt attributed its music's "surging psychosis" to DJ Moe Love's turntablism and Ced-Gee's dense funk sampling, particularly his arrangement of vocal samples, writing that they "are ingrained in the very fabric of the beat, concealed and crippled amidst the relentlessly fuzzing bass. And like most great rap albums, many of them come from the patron saint of yelps, James Brown, and flurry and flux with such abstraction and chaos that they make the beats feel deceptively fast-paced."[16]
Melody Maker stated in a retrospective review, "full of scratch-tastic heavy beat, gold plated hip hop which manages to combine the minimalist ground-breaking Sugar Hill sounds with the show-no-mercy aural assault of the then-emerging Public Enemy."[14] NME gave it a nine out of 10 rating and called it "a bona fide classic."[15] Sputnikmusic's Louis Arp noted the group's sound as "developed solely around the sampler" and stated, "Critical Beatdown's notoriety as one of hip-hop's first copyright offenders is more than slightly impressive. The album unashamedly nicks from the common James Brown staples and then-popular drum breaks like Melvin Bliss' 'Synthetic Substitution' [...] Those grooves, the lyrics and the all around unique feel of the album make for some innovating hip-hop."[20] Arp commented that the album "marks a sign of hip-hop's early burgeoning creative maturity" and praised Ced-Gee's "method of chopping up samples, rather than simply looping them like most of his contemporaries did, essentially changed the way the producer approached the hip-hop beat," adding that "One could go so far to call these tracks as genre defining."[20] Rolling Stone writer Peter Relic gave the album four out of five stars in a June 2004 review, citing it as the group's "quintessential release."[22] Writing in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), journalist Kembrew McLeod gave Critical Beatdown four-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a bona fide classic of hip-hop's 'golden age' of the late '80s and early '90s, an album that was mostly ignored at the time but whose reputation has grown exponentially in the years since."[17]

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums

Critical Beatdown ◄ (13 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1988

Funk Your Head Up ◄ (6 versions) PolyGram 1992

The Four Horsemen ◄ (9 versions) Wild Pitch Records 1993

The Basement Tapes 1984-1990 ◄ (2 versions) Tuff City 1994

New York What Is Funky ◄ (2 versions) Ol' Skool Flava 1996

Mo Love's Basement Tapes ◄ (2 versions) Ol' Skool Flava 1996

The B-Sides Companion ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Entertainment 1997

Pimp Fiction Spoiled Brat Entertainment 1997

Smack My Bitch Up ◄ (2 versions) Tuff City 1998

The Best Kept Secret ◄ (2 versions) DMAFT Records 2007

Ultra Laboratory Stories ◄ (2 versions) Black Pegasus 2011

Singles & EPs

To Give You Love / Make You Shake ◄ (2 versions) Diamond International 1986

Ego Tripping / Funky Potion ◄ (4 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1986

Traveling At The Speed Of Thought / M.C.'s Ultra (Part II) ◄ (8 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1987

Funky / Mentally Mad ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1987

Watch Me Now / Feelin' It ◄ (4 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1988

Ease Back / Kool Keith Housing Things ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1988

Critical Beatdown (Album Sampler) (12", Promo) FFRR 1988

Give The Drummer Some / Moe Luv's Theme ◄ (6 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1989

Traveling At The Speed Of Thought / A Chorus Line ◄ (3 versions) Next Plateau Records Inc. 1989

Make It Happen / Chorus Line (Pt. 2) ◄ (5 versions) Mercury 1991

Poppa Large ◄ (3 versions) Mercury 1992

Two Brothers With Checks (San Francisco, Harvey) ◄ (4 versions) Wild Pitch Records 1993

Raise It Up / The Saga Of Dandy, The Devil And Day ◄ (5 versions) Wild Pitch Records 1993

Watch Your Back (12") Tuff City



Ultramagnetic MC's Featuring Kool Keith - I'm F**kin' Flippin' (12") Tuff City 1994

Bait (7", W/Lbl) Roadrunner Records 1997

Make It Rain (12") OMW (Oxygen Music Works) 2001

Mechanism Nice (Born Twice) / Nottz (12") DMAFT Records 2006

Chilling W/ Chuck Chill Out (10", S/Sided, RE) Dick Charles Recording INC. 2010































ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S


Sunday, July 3, 2011

SOULFUL TROPICS W/DJ MARC DAVIS & GUEST DJ, SADAR BAHAR THURSDAY JULY 14TH @ BONNY'S 2417 N. MILWAUKEE (OFF FULERTON)

Party People in the Place to be Soulful Tropics presents DJ Marc Davis & Legendary Guest DJ, Sadar Bahar!! Prepare for a Monster Beat Down of Brazilian, Afro Beat & Disco!!! No CD's No Serato!! 12 inches, 7 inches (45's ) and LP's all night long!!
BONNY'S 2417 N. MILWAUKEE (OFF FULERTON)

Friday, July 1, 2011

Adler After Dark "Sky" Presents Solar Soul W/DJ Marc Davis @ Adler Planetarium Thursday July 21st

Adler After Dark "Sky" presents Solar Soul @ Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive W/DJ Marc Davis spinning Astro Jazz funk, Spacey Disco, & Solar Soul Thursday July 21st 6:30 pm-10:30pm, 21 & UP Advance Tickets: $9 Students and Members, $12 non members, At The Door: $12 Students & Members, and $17 non members!!


Chicago veteran record collector, DJ, producer and owner of independent record label Black Pegasus Music has been involved in the music industry for over two decades. Marc first got his start as an admirer of the DJ culture in the early 80’s listening and watching neighborhood legends Chico Frye, Steve “Silk” Hurley, and Eric “E.T.” Taylor. This gave Marc the confidence to get his own set of turntables and start shopping for records at Imports and Loop Record’s. Marc became a heavyweight in collecting records purchasing soulful disco, electronica, Jazz, rare funk, afro beat, latin and Brazilian records. This is right around the time Marc linked up with child hood friend Dion Wilson pka NO ID (JayZ, Common, Kanye West Fame) and started practicing his DJ skills and getting his first look into music production. No ID schooled Marc in the art of sampling rare grooves and obscure drum breaks.

Since then Marc has been off to the races recording on various record labels such as Robbins Entertainment/BMG (Savior), Oxygen Music Works/Pinacle (Toot Toot), Skint Records/Sony (Toot Toot), Launch Pad/Topplers (I am the One). He has recorded with a slew of artists from Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic/Dr. Octagon fame) to Roz Nash of Groove Collective. His music has been remixed by the likes of Kurtis Mantronix, Ashley Beedle’s Xpress 3, Fat Boy slim, to Albert Cabrera’s Latin Rascals.

As a mobile DJ, Marc has been able to perform gigs both domestically and internationally. He has played in Cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angelos , London, Nottingham, Wales, Birmingham, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm, Gotenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, and others.

In 2006 Marc created Black Pegasus record label. Black Pegasus is an eclectic imprint releasing underground hip hop, soulful disco, afro & brazilian beats. The first release was a self produced funky House single Trust In Me/Mechanical Melody. The record was well received in European and USA clubs but because of lack luster distribution the potential was not maximized.

In 2010 Marc closed a worldwide distribution deal with Cross Talk and began releasing underground hip hop through Black Pegasus. The next 4 releases included UltraMagnetic Foundation "Ultra Laboratory Stories LP," East Of The Rock "Galaxy Rays Ep", Fully G "There She Goes Again "single, MF 911 "The Ruckus EP"





Monday, June 27, 2011

Sadar Bahar Interview from Manchester, England


Phil South, Mark Seven, Tiago – all resounding names in dance music and have all played and shook the foundations of Manchester through revered Manchester club night Cutloose. And again, another huge pioneering name in soulful disco funk music lands in the form of Sadar Bahar. Expect to hear… well, stuff you haven’t before, as it’s this man who has collected some of the rarest grooves around from the beginning of house music’s revolution. Never has the cliched term ‘Expect The Unexpected’ been so apt. We are privileged then to have been able to catch up with Sadar via an exchange of question type words. Check out a mix of Sadar’s below, full of disco funk. Big ups!

newsicmoos (nm): It’s a pleasure to feature you on newsicmoos! Firstly, how are you and what have you been up to in the past week?

Sadar Bahar (SB): I have been fine. Lately, I’ve been working with Lee Collins on the a project for BBE and also the Chicken Wing Edits 3.

nm: You are one of house music’s treasured DJ’s – how did your love affair with house music begin?

SB: I was surounded by DJs when I was young. One of the them took the time time to teach me to blend – that was Charles Breckenridge.

nm: You DJ’d when house music was beginning to gain global recognition. What was it like back then when DJ’ing? How is the scene different to now?

SB: Before it was ‘house’ music loved music, It was like a secret community of people that liked to dance and hear music. It was nothing like it is now. Back then the music that was called ‘house’ was different – we all played disco, funk, italian disco, etc. Artists that made new tracks later took the name ‘house’. I don’t really consider most of music today House music at all.
nm: Can you recall a significant memory that you’d like to share and let us delve in to music history when you DJ’d in the mid-80’s?

SB: Sitting around with all the neighborhood DJs waiting your turn to get on the turntables.

nm: What is it about the music you DJ that really makes you appreciate it? What is it within a record that makes you like it and ultimately play it out?

SB: When i hear something super funky i have to play it. The hotter it is the better.

nm: You’re renowned for scoping out some of the most underground classics that some people may not have even heard of. How do you go about finding these classics?

SB: Digging in record stores constantly and talking to collectors.

nm: What’s been the most exclusive record you’ve got your hands on and which track are you guaranteed to play out?

SB: LeCop – Move your Body, Africano – Open Your Heart

nm: Are there any DJ’s or producers you think we should know about?

SB: DJs: Lee Collins (of course), Trent, Richie Rich, Steve Mathis, Bullit, Brian Reaves, The Chuck Brothers, Mike Wilson, Mark Davis, Jeff White, Mark Gusane, Mike Cole, DJ Goldie, Darrin, Terry James and Producers: BSTC, Mr. Ali, Peven Everett, Gene Hunt.

nm: What’s in store for you in the coming months?

SB: A record release, new mix CDs and the tour in October. We also plan to be very busy in the studio.

nm: Manchester is very excited about seeing you live. What can we expect?

SB: A monster beatdown – bring a sweat towel – class will be in session.

nm: Any last words or shout outs?

SB: Shouts to: Theo Parrish, Garage Paradise, JAW, Spicy Pimps, Josh Milan, Frankie Valentine, Donna McGhee, LeDisque Records, Mark Gurney, Mark 7, Lady Bugs and Hunch Music

To everyone: “Keep vinyl alive and Keep our Soul in the Hole”

Friday, June 24, 2011

DJ VES 120









Funky Beats,sweet blends, sharp cuts, smooth scratches, Fresh Art Work

Monday, June 13, 2011

DJ Marc Davis Bringing The Funk to ST. Louis this week!!



June 24th Funky Friday @ Thaxton Speak Easy 1009 Olive Street, ST. Louis, MO w/Chicago's Marc Davis bringing Disco-house-Jazz-Funk-Afro Beat!! 10PM-2AM

THIS IS FUNKY MUSIC FOR THE SOUL THAT IS EXPRESSED ON THE DANCER FLOOR!!

Saturday, June 11, 2011

MF 911 - THE RUKUS EP (BP-04)

Mother F*%king emergency , mega force and 911 are the original suggested names given by Public Enemy’s Chuck D to the Detroit hip hop trio known as MF 911.
MF 911 made up of Ant Live, Mainy Main, and Ced Rat are one of the first groups to put the “D” on the map way before the Eminem and Jay dilla era. Their 1993 debut album Idol The Blood Sport was produced by Ced-Gee from UltraMagnetic MC’s on Next Plateau Records. This album is considered a classic. MF 911 thrived on sounding original, hardcore and most importantly kicking lyrical metaphors!! Although they had a classic album underneath their belts, that didn’t stop them from getting caught up in the record industry politics. In 1996 when the group was at the end of recording there second album “The
Rukus” Next Plateau Records was bought out by major label Mercury Records leaving there new album shelved without a home to release it. In 2011 MF 911 and Black Pegasus is proud to announce the licensing of this classic banger!!

Picking up where "Idol The Blood Sport" left off.  The Rukus takes you on a head boppin boom bap trip where hardcore attitude and lyrical competition is truly appreciated.

The Leed off track "Come On" produced by Track Master 30/30 (Wu Tang Clan Fame) is a slow melodic joynt that cruises while Ant Live and Mainy Mane give the fake "gangster rappers" a verbal beating.  The track "last man standing" is a soul groove dropped over the classic impeach the president drums with the crew describing the struggle to maintain in Detroit.  The self titled "The Rukus" showcases Mainy Mane on the solo tip rhyming over a gritty boom bap track with a dusted Method Man sample for the chorus.  "Real live Shit" is the street anthem with the hypnotic hook from the Group Home's "Super Star" adding the flavor with rugged video to accompany it.

As whole this Ep is rated A Plus for any hip hop lover of lyrical metaphors and funky head snapping beats!!

A1: Come On
A2: Indian Tents
A3: We Bring The Rukus
A4: Real Live Shit
A5: Last Man Standing
B1: The Burner
B2: 45's & 38's
B3: Fairplay
B4: The Rukus
B5: 1970

Friday, June 10, 2011

FULLY G - THERE SHE GOES AGAIN 12" (BP-03)

During the 1990's in Chicago Hip Hop artists were striving to get signed to major labels but most were over looked. A handful took it upon themselves and pressed up there own records and walked it into the stores and to DJ's to get it heard.

One of the major players to do this was the Bellwood duo,Fully G and his partner and producer Diamond Kut. Fully G's 1995 white label single "There She Goes Again" was an underground smash!! This record was limited to 50 copies but was an athem in Chicago Hip Hop venues such as The Elbow Room and The Spot.

This mid tempo soulful gem with hard drums grabs you as soon as the beat drops! Fully G's lyrical break down of the female species being a "gold digger" paints a graphic picture. The scratch chorus quoting "There she goes again the dopest ethiopian" from Pharcyde's "Passing Me By" puts the icing on the cake!!

The Andy C (All Natural Fame) and Grant Parks remixes both give the original a serious run for the money with two different grooves. There hasn't been such a challenging single since A Tribe's Bonnita Applebum 12 inch.

A1 There She Goes Again (Radio)
A2 There She Goes Again (Street)
A3 There She Goes Again (Andy C Remix)
B1 There She Goes Again (Instrumental)
B2 There She Goes Again (Andy C Remix Instrumental)
B3 There She Goes Again (Grant Parks Remix)

Saturday, June 4, 2011

EAST OF THE ROCK - GALAXY RAYS EP (BP-02)

Overlooked by major labels, Chicago hip-hop outfit East of The Rock independently pressed up Galaxy Rays in the 90s. Black Pegasus brings back the EP, which only existed in extremely limited quantities at the time of the initial release (50 copies!!!), and the label provides the world with a rare chance to taste some of the best beats and rhymes to come out of the Windy City. The Mad Thinker, Flux, Mr. V, & DJ Mack Ten combine raw drums, bouncy baselines, and sick samples with thoughtful, smoothly delivered lyrics in songs like "Egyptian Musk(1)" and "Burnout Assassin(2)," and "Mr. Producer(3)," a jazz-funk-influenced track, incorporates a popular Main Source line, "false producers telling lies". Also notable is the title track(4), an unmistakably 90s song featuring a Ultramagnetic MCs sample. Instrumentals included plus a bonus track on the b-side, recommended.

S-N-I-P-P-E-T-S

A1 Egyptian Musk
A2 Galaxy Rays
A3 Burn Out Assassin
A4 Mr. Producer

B1 Egyptian Musk (Instrumental)
B2 Galaxy Rays (Instrumental)
B3 Burn Out Assassin (Instrumental)
B4 Mr. Producer (Instrumental)
B5 X Track (Bonus)



Associate Producer: DJ PNS for Molemen Inc.

Friday, June 3, 2011

MARC DAVIS - MECHANICAL MELODY 12" (BP-01)

First release on Black Pegasus Music from the founder Marc Davis himself.

This is a nice piece of wax for all those who can't get enuff of fresh and funky house music.

Released in 2006 the single also features the song "Trust In Me" on the B-Side.


Thursday, June 2, 2011

ULTRAMAGNETIC FOUNDATION - ULTRA LABORATORY STORIES (BPLP-01)


All star Hip Hop producers TR Love & DJ Moe Love of the legendary UltraMagnetic MC’s return to the market with a double LP entitled Ultra Laboratory Stories and under a new moniker UltraMagnetic Foundation. These two funk scientist stick to the Critical Beat down formula and keep this album layered with distinctive grooves and hardcore drum programming. Vocal wise, Ultra members, Kool Keith, Ced-Gee, Tim Dog, and TR Love spit fire, while south Bronx new comers, Fred Beanz, Diabolique, and Street Ruckus Mc’s make an impressive debut.
From the soulful piano stabs on Is it them to the funky chops on Throw Your Hands up to the dusted unreleased version of Plucking Cards and to the 2010 chorus line, Mind Games, this album stays consistent and shows you how well produced music makes a hip hop album sound full and complete.
For all the buyers and hip hop aficionados there’s too many bangers to describe each one individually but according to the heads on the web blogs this album is certified a classic!!


A1 Intro (The Drama)
A2 Is It Them (Keith & Ced)
A3 Ride Wit Us
A4 Cold Crush Interlude
A5 Pain & Changes
A6 Mind Games

B1 Make It Rain
B2 Bronz Bombers Interlude
B3 Throw Your Hands Up
B4 Mix It Down
B5 Sub

C1 Plucking Cards (Unreleased Version)
C2 TR's Verse Interlude
C3 The Cipher
C4 Baby I'm Mad
C5 The Anger, The Extasy Interlude
C6 Mechanism Nice (Unreleased Version)

D1 TR's Feelin It
D2 My Life
D3 Live & Learn
D4 It's Hard To Understand
D5 Funk Radio

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

DJ MARC DAVIS/ CEO OF BLACK PEGASUS

Chicago veteran record collector, DJ, producer and owner of independent record label Black Pegasus Music has been involved in the music industry for over two decades. Marc first got his start as an admirer of the DJ culture in the early 80’s listening and watching neighborhood legends Chico Frye, Steve “Silk” Hurley, and Eric “E.T.” Taylor. This gave Marc the confidence to get his own set of turntables and start shopping for records at Imports and Loop Record’s. Marc became a heavyweight in collecting records purchasing soulful disco, electronica, Jazz, rare funk, afro beat, latin and Brazilian records. This is right around the time Marc linked up with child hood friend Dion Wilson pka NO ID (JayZ, Common, Kanye West Fame) and started practicing his DJ skills and getting his first look into music production. No ID schooled Marc in the art of sampling rare grooves and obscure drum breaks.

Since then Marc has been off to the races recording on various record labels such as Robbins Entertainment/BMG (Savior), Oxygen Music Works/Pinacle (Toot Toot), Skint Records/Sony (Toot Toot), Launch Pad/Topplers (I am the One). He has recorded with a slew of artists from Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic/Dr. Octagon fame) to Roz Nash of Groove Collective. His music has been remixed by the likes of Kurtis Mantronix, Ashley Beedle’s Xpress 3, Fat Boy slim, to Albert Cabrera’s Latin Rascals.

As a mobile DJ, Marc has been able to perform gigs both domestically and internationally. He has played in Cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angelos , London, Nottingham, Wales, Birmingham, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm, Gotenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo, and others.

In 2006 Marc created Black Pegasus record label. Black Pegasus is an eclectic imprint releasing underground hip hop, soulful disco, afro & brazilian beats. The first release was a self produced funky House single Trust In Me/Mechanical Melody. The record was well received in European and USA clubs but because of lack luster distribution the potential was not maximized.

In 2010 Marc closed a worldwide distribution deal with Cross Talk and began releasing underground hip hop through Black Pegasus. The next 4 releases included UltraMagnetic Foundation "Ultra Laboratory Stories LP," East Of The Rock "Galaxy Rays Ep", Fully G "There She Goes Again "single, MF 911 "The Ruckus EP"