{"id":4027,"date":"2020-03-18T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2020-12-01T01:29:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T01:29:14","slug":"karizma-07-03-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/karizma-07-03-20\/","title":{"rendered":"KARIZMA 07.03.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4023\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/karizma-07-03-20\/karizmamain-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?fit=3066%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3066,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KarizmaMAIN\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?fit=580%2C568&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?fit=695%2C680&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4023\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?resize=580%2C568&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?resize=580%2C568&amp;ssl=1 580w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?resize=768%2C751&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?resize=940%2C920&amp;ssl=1 940w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/KarizmaMAIN.jpg?w=2085&amp;ssl=1 2085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Gathering\u2019s 15 Year Anniversary Celebration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The \u201cD\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">2400<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The highs sound before the bass kicks. Spaced out whumps wobble from the soundscape. Jazzy synth chords play before being hushed. The heart beat of the pulse-the drums-pound at 124 beats per minute. The track plays like a walk through a park on a breezy day. \u201cPlay dat shit! Kai.\u201d The accolades continue. \u201cWork it. Work it. Work it.\u201d<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Much is voiced during a Kai Alc\u00e9 journey. The music meanders through deeper tech rubs, KemeticJust presents Terrance Downs&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ndatlmuzik.bandcamp.com\/album\/here-for-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here For It,<\/a>&#8221; time traveling backwards, \u201cBad Times (I Can\u2019t Stand It)\u201d Part 2, to yesteryear\u2019s vocal anthems now reconstructed with hypnotic bass drops, Leela James\u2019 \u201cMy Joy.\u201d Even playing Ian Friday\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/5914\/west-end-blue-vol-2-the-island-life-ep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carib\u2019s Leap<\/a>\u201d (West Blue Remix) induces dance floor pandemonium. Visages contorted with shock. Lips plucked. Nostrils flared. Eyes closed. Everyone wears a stank face. <em>The nerve of him to drop such heat.<\/em> Voices clamor, torsos contort, hips gyrate, and knees drop to the cement. This ain\u2019t a pretty dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Atlanta\u2019s Alc\u00e9 serves unreleased edits and beats.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/ndatl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NDATL<\/a> label founder, who designs his eyewear frames, sees into the future-miles ahead of his contemporaries. The stitched \u201cD\u201d on his ball cap representing \u201cDetroit,\u201d should read \u201cDoc.\u201d As in Doctor Kai, of all-things-soulful wearing a black Casablanca Records sweatshirt is in showoff mode. Apropos. Only seated behind him is one of the premier master mixers this planet has ever witnessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Nightlife Apocalypse<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI call it the deregulation of the city\u2019s nightlife,\u201d says Ramon Rawsoul the founding father of the Gathering. \u201cThat allowed for Saturday nights to open up and for me to throw the Gathering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Fifteen years earlier, during the mid-aughts the city\u2019s soulful house music community sat at a crossroads. City ordinances: early last-calls and early bar closings shuttered long-held parties where nightlife promoters disappeared, attendance ebbed, and venue closures dotted the city\u2019s bleak landscape. The few denizens left standing were die-hards, preservers to keep the music playing during the nightlife apocalypse. In stepped Ramon Rawsoul to fill a void. The native Chicagoan proposed a gathering. Where music selectors, music lovers and music dancers could fellowship. So grew the party that traveled across the city from locale to locale. Over time its underground reputation preceded by one defining factor-longevity. In the underground where the nightlife changes in the swipe of a screen, there comes merit, the ability to boast. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>0100<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Atlanta<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2019s longest running deep house music party\u201d is where the excitement registers off the hinges tonight. When one master plays closing duties another master leaps to his call of duty.\u00a0\u00a0 His ear attached to a headphone cup. His fingers swivels knobs. His thumb punches buttons. His hand slides across the sound ware. His visage locked as if decoding an unspoken language. The arsenal: four oversized CDJs and a formidable mixer ready for combat. And when his index finger presses cue. The beast is unleashed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stand on the Word<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Armonica\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/943975\/ngeke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Negeke<\/a>\u201d roars. South Africa\u2019s Toshi\u2019s vocal ignites feverish pitches of unbridled praise. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/track\/5176809\/ngeke-andhim-remix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">andhim<\/a> Remix plays over moody chords and weightier drums that bend torsos low to the floor. At the break, when the pads dissipate, echoes stutter across the ceiling rafters. As when the drums return, the beat drops like a ton of bricks on a woman wearing open-toe sandals. Ouch! There is joy in pain. Within three minutes, the guest DJ is giving the children a beat-down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A broken pattering of toms, equipped with electro bleeps bulges speaker cabinets. A famous guitar lick announces the arrival of lyrics, \u201cTen years ago on this day.\u201d\u00a0 The Jackson\u2019s \u201cThis Place Hotel\u201d shocks! And sends additional \u201cHee, Hee(s)\u201d into the air that coruscate from several disco balls hanging from steel beams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A virus. Locusts. Rumors of war. Tornadoes. And a city\u2019s main artery closed that caused traffic standstills of Olympic proportions could not hinder the coming triumph. When the choir sings. Elements of Life&#8217;s reissue now featuring Jasper Street Company\u2019s and a DJ Spen and Gary Hudgins Vocal Remix ministers. Encouraging all, when in the midst of trails and tribulations to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/1267962\/stand-on-the-word-remixes\">Stand On the Word.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The room transforms into Pentecost shoutin\u2019 and hollerin.\u2019 As the congregation\u2019s spirited praises go up, bountiful blessings fall in the form of Nicholas Ryan Grant\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/r2records.bandcamp.com\/album\/gypsy-woman-kaytronik-remix\">Gypsy Woman (She\u2019s Homeless)<\/a>.\u201d The Kaytronik Extended Remix, a cover of the Crystal Waters and Basement Boys produced classic has a blonde-hair blue-eyes bruh singing, \u201cLa da dee, la dee dow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">From there the music treks deep into extraterrestrial territory. Anthony George Patrice\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/losslesscc.bandcamp.com\/album\/ll1214-nujan-ep\">Nujan<\/a>\u201d evokes the spirits of transitioned house heads to join the dance. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/800563\/the-black-messiah\">Black Messiah<\/a>\u201d a cappella plays over drumming percussions before Prince croons, \u201cI Wanna Be Your Lover\u201d (a cappella).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Karizma<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Truth-be-told, Karizma does not play music. Karizma interprets music. He becomes a conduit of fanatical rhythms of factious melodies. Born Christopher Clayton in Baltimore, Maryland, his music experience started when singing in the church choir. Soon after, he picked up the art of playing music at his first party as a young teenager. Inspired by the likes of DJs who created the Baltimore club sound, he began to play in nightclubs and create music. Be it his many monikers, Kristopher Klayton, Kaytronik or K2, his music incorporates elements for every palate.\u00a0\u00a0 Karizma\u2019s pursuit tells tales amongst stutters, echoes, and hot cues. He commands the groove, cultivating its core. His music is a climatic expression deemed bold often in-your-face. More so, his sound is distinguishable. What defines Karizma\u2019s music is texture, less toning.\u00a0\u00a0 Listen to his music\u2019s journey.\u00a0\u00a0 You will be hard-pressed to hear a standard tempo. Instead he pulls from a vast repertoire of tonality that emphasizes mood. There are melodious chords, interposed from other singular elements, maybe a surprising vocal interspersed throughout navigating uncharted flair. All eschew from the brilliant mind. You hear it in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/r2records.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-power-e-p\">The Power<\/a>.\u201d Lush fusion meets raw. The Power defies. It\u2019s captivating and holding all in its grasping spell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Unplugged<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMy favorite Gathering was when Jovann Armstrong played,\u201d recalls Ramon. \u201cThat was back when we hosted the party at a warehouse on the Northwest of town. Every hour the power kept going out. Jovann was angry. Someone would have to plug the cord back into the outlet. Up stepped a dancer. \u2018I got this,\u2019 she said. Every time the power stopped, she plugged the chord back into the outlet and the party kept going. At the time I was not impressed. However, looking back that is my favorite moment. I saw how we have dedicated people in our midst.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Look across the room, this admiration and dedication shows on familial faces to this day.\u00a0 Shout outs to the spirit dancer, the circle dancer, the hatted dancer, @dancinhousehead, KW, the Free Your Soul DJ, everybody\u2019s favorite photographer, Ghostcam, toasted ink, the Nightingale, DJ Housecat, the Madam, the Model and MC Kiwi all faithfuls who keep the party going.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI don\u2019t quit.\u201d Ramon further emphasizes. \u201cI\u2019m not a quitter. Something in my spirit says keep going. I feel as if I still have something left to give.&#8221; He continues, \u201cI want to dispel the rumors of what is house music. House music is rhythm and blues. House music is Kem and Jill Scott.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">House music is Chaka Khan too.\u00a0\u00a0 The familiarity of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tallblackguy.bandcamp.com\/album\/tall-black-guy-x-chaka-khan-i-know-you-i-live-you-re-rub-12-inch-vinyl-only-featuring-karizma-kaytronik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Know You, I Live You<\/a>,\u201d (Kaytronik Dub) receives the rowdiest applause by far. And when the Tall Black Guy x Chaka Khan (Re-Rub Vocal) drops, seen are several souls scurrying from both restrooms and emptying onto the dance space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Massive<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When Karizma signed on to release the \u201cDeadpool EP\u201d on the Netherlands based label Lumberjacks In Hell, he might not have anticipated what was to come. One of his contributions included a barely five-minute track. The chorus, an all-to-familiar verse to those raised in black churches and fed gospel music-is catchy. The beat ripped from a remix is simple, yet compelling. The song would become an international acclaimed summer hit, played at parties and festivals around the globe. To the point Silicon Valley caught ear and used it in one of their advertisement campaigns. For a music producer, let alone a soulful house music producer, to score worldwide success is massive. But that is Karizma, massive. When he drops his massive track \u201cWork It Out.\u201d Dancers take note. One dancer falls over, as he stomps his feet on the floor, a woman seated on the wooden bench leaps into the air, jumping up-and-down with upstretched arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ramon has to smile at the spectacle before him. He knew it along. \u201cThe Gathering was to be church,\u201d he says explaining the party\u2019s purpose. &#8220;We (The DJs) are ministers of sound. We play for the people who need to hear music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAfter the week I\u2019ve had, whew\u2026I so needed this (party).\u201d Someone whispers into an ear in this social distancing climate of cancel culture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">You\u2019ve been dancing for 25 hours<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cStop showing off.\u201d A lady says to one dancer as she passes the bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another woman, dressed in all black notes, \u201cYou\u2019ve been dancing for 25 hours,\u201d to the same dancer spinning around in circles to Rocco Radamaal and Keith Thompson\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/1189027\/break-4-love\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Break 4 Love<\/a>.\u201d The Raze cover never sounded so refreshing. Of course, it\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/track\/6549696\/break-4-love-kaytronik-not-worried-dub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaytronik Not Worried Mix<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Likewise, no one appears worried at all, when the venue\u2019s lights shine brightly. The sight of thirty bodies moving, grooving, swaying and singing the lyrics to a slow-grind of Aniya Baker\u2019s \u201cSweet Love\u201d is most impressive. The smash-up comes to a fade-out that signals time to leave. It took 15 years to get to this momentous occasion. No one wants this anniversary celebration to end. Although the time reads 4 am thanks to losing an hour for daylight savings time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is how the Gathering\u2019s founder conducts himself in life. Ramon delivers the best product. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in taking short cuts. 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I want people to leave, feeling like they were taken care.\u201d Outdoors, standing in the crisp air, most certainly, the smiling faces and hearty laughter, proves so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thanks to the Gathering for 15 years of music and dancing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dedicated to Sam \u201cThe Man\u201d Burns<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">wrds: aj dance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">grphcs: aj art<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ajdance76\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png?w=695&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/karizma-07-03-20\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gathering\u2019s 15 Year Anniversary Celebration The \u201cD\u201d 2400 The highs sound before the bass kicks. 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