{"id":4677,"date":"2022-09-10T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2022-11-06T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T16:22:45","slug":"baltimore-beat-down-pt-ii-karizma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/baltimore-beat-down-pt-ii-karizma\/","title":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE BEAT DOWN Pt II: KARIZMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Karizma Effect<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When darkness is fully realized and the moon is only left to guide you.\u00a0 <\/span>The humidity registering at 65% sticks to your shirt.\u00a0 <\/span>Ewww.\u00a0 <\/span>A truck is parked the wrong way on a one-way alley street.\u00a0 <\/span>The driver, a woman is passed out at the steering wheel.\u00a0 <\/span>Across the street is a lanky man perched\u00a0 <\/span>on the sidewalk.\u00a0 <\/span>Sleeping.\u00a0 <\/span>His face covered with a black hoodie skull.\u00a0 <\/span>This is just another Friday night in these streets of Atlanta.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe city whose (soulful) house music scene is dead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve avoided using the word \u201cdead.\u201d But I agree.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

You overhear two dancers declaring as you arrive front door the venue walking by the bar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter the main room. Aphotic. Feel the pulse that echos from white walls to glass windows.\u00a0 <\/span>Emptiness straddles the air. That feels albeit depressing. A face of longing appears, then retreats into the abyss. A body appears over here and disappears over there. A lone dancer spins around. Entertainment for the few souls inhibiting the benches seated alongside the windows. Their faces appear weathered by life. The AARP crowd at their finest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet me show you love\u2026\u201d the late Romanthony tune pulls bodies onto the hardwood.\u00a0 <\/span>Sleepy house heads awaken. \u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d and \u201cDab me up\u201d are heard over beats. In the house, yes, over there is Nubian vocalist Dezaray Dawn head bopping to her most recent\u00a0 <\/span>collaboration \u201cThe Real Deal<\/a>\u201d with famed music producer Kai Alc\u00e9. Who, thus far, holds back. No particular hardcore anthems are played, instead the NDATL<\/a> founder delivers floor warmers.<\/span><\/p>\n

0025<\/span><\/p>\n

Then Karizma steps to the music\u2019s control center.\u00a0 <\/span>The Baltimore favorite\u2019s playlist forges into Afrofuturism.\u00a0 <\/span>Where Caiiro\u2019s \u201cThe Akan<\/a>\u201d bleeds into OVEOUS featuring Mike Kearney\u2019s \u201cLegacy<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The latter causing ear aches as the volume is jacked to unappreciated decimals.\u00a0 <\/span>Karizma delivers a punch.\u00a0 <\/span>Nouveau X Vintage.\u00a0 <\/span>His trademark. His voice.\u00a0 <\/span>A perspective of codes at play.\u00a0 <\/span>Simultaneously paying reverence to the classics.\u00a0 <\/span>As experienced when playing his Nicholas Ryan Gant\u2019s \u201cGypsy Woman<\/a> (She’s Homeless).\u201d The crowd salivating to the Coflo Remix.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Power<\/a>\u201d producer\u2019s soundtrack never plays linear, nor lateral.\u00a0 <\/span>Where playing Wipe the Needle Featuring Josh Milan\u2019s \u201cTenderly<\/a>\u201d cranks the thermostat, playing Rihanna’s “James Joint” (K2 Retouch) falls flat.\u00a0 Karizma\u2019s nonlinear approach of broken lines are three dimensional.\u00a0 <\/span>There is much going on.\u00a0 <\/span>Acapellas.\u00a0 <\/span>From the late Loleatta Holloway\u2019s \u201cHit and Run\u201d to Sinnamon\u2019s \u201cI Need You Now.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Beats that slap.\u00a0 <\/span>George Clinton and P Funk\u2019s \u201cAtomic Dog\u201d (Karizma Rework).\u00a0 <\/span>Finger snaps on the groovy Natalie Cole\u2019s \u201cTell Me All About It\u201d (White Label Dub). To handclaps and hollers courtesy Ron Hall\u2019s \u201cTell God \u2018Bout It<\/a>\u201d (DJ Spen Sunday Service Re-Edit).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The mixologist plays something for everyone.\u00a0 <\/span>Disco burners from Chaka Khan\u2019s \u201cLive In Me,\u201d (DJ Spen Edit) to the funk and soul of the late genius Prince\u2019s \u201cErotic City.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Both songs juxtaposed with neo Natureboy Flako\u2019s \u201cLonely Town (Karizma Rework).\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

0130<\/span><\/p>\n

Familiar faces exit and vacant space appears as a minute dance circle meanders left to right before the Distinctive Party\u2019s founder, Kai Alc\u00e9<\/a> returns to music duties with a throwback. Maxwell\u2019s \u201cNo One\u201d is perfect to dance out of Apache XLR\u2019s front door and back into those streets of Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n

TBC<\/a><\/p>\n

wrds: aj dance<\/p>\n

\u00a0Karizma grphc: aj art<\/p>\n

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