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Topic: Anti-Crew, Miles Bonny, Joe Good, DJ Ataxic in KC Star

1. May 18, 2006 04:40pm by FlareThaRebel - http://www.myspace.com/anticrew http://www.youtube.com/anticrewtv http://www.cdbaby.com/anticrew2 "Ignorance is not something to shout" -FlareThaRebel Location: Kansas City, Missouri
   In the Preview section of today's Kansas City Star, you'll find Anti-Crew, Miles Bonny, Joe Good, and DJ Ataxic in the annual "30 Under 30". Here are the links and articles below. [b:508657240c]Anti-Crew[/b:508657240c] [url]http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/14601895.htm[/url] By JENEE OSTERHELDT The Kansas City Star ANTI-CREW Hip-hop duo Ages: 19 (FlareThaRebel, aka Jeffrey Shafer) 18 (DJ Eternal, aka Matt Peters) Kansas City’s first hip-hop crew to earn mainstream success could very well be one of its youngest. Composed of Jeffrey Shafer and Matt Peters, better known as FlareThaRebel and DJ Eternal, Anti-Crew knows about guerrilla tactics. When they were still students at Lincoln Prep, they were selling their CD, “The Progressive Movement: A Step Forward,” out of their backpacks. They made shirts, stickers, buttons and a Web site (anticrew.com). “You’ve got to be realistic with yourself,” Flare says. “No matter how good an artist is, in this industry it takes tons of money for marketing and distribution. We don’t have that. We aren’t going to wait. “We are going to do it ourselves. We are going to give out free samplers, stickers and buttons to get our logo out there. And when you sell something to someone face-to-face, they get a better feel for it and they see the person behind the music.” Now they’re in Chicago finishing up their freshman year at Columbia College. They’re also winning over a different audience by adding a bassist and maybe a drummer. Recently Anti-Crew advanced in the Emergenza battle ( www.emergenza.net ) at the Note, a competition throughout Europe and America that rock groups usually dominate. They’re going to the semifinals soon, and if they keep advancing, they could have a chance to play for the top spot in Germany. “We want music to take us as far as possible,” Flare says. “Ultimately, we’d like to live off of our art. But we just want to reach as many people as we can.” [b:508657240c]Miles Bonny[/b:508657240c] [url]http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/14601896.htm[/url] By JENEE OSTERHELDT The Kansas City Star MILES BONNY Producer/DJ Age: 25 While Joe Good is ripping many mics (see Page 28), the other half of the SoundsGood duo, Miles Bonny also is doing big things. Known for his jazz-infused production for the duo, Bonny is a beatmaker for other local hip-hoppers, too. His resume includes Approach, Reach, Murs, I.D., Adru the Misphit and more. His beatmaking skills have been featured in Scratch magazine, taking him to another level. “I have more confidence in what I’m doing musically,” he says. “It confirms on a national scale that what I am doing locally can be appreciated by the rest of the world.” Bonny’s resume is starting to include artists outside of the Midwest. He’s working with Maryland-based soul singer Raheem DeVaughn and Washington, D.C., crooner W. Ellington Felton. Originally from New Jersey, Bonny grew up listening to pop music, jazz and brass quartets — his father is a trumpet player, and Bonny plays, too. It’s his jazz roots that seem to give his music a bit of panache. “Jazz is my favorite type of music, but I like the beats in hip-hop,” he says. “I just make the music I want to hear.” In addition to his production skills, ever since the Super Yummy party at the Peanut last December, Bonny is gaining a reputation for being a party starter. He’s a resident DJ at Hip-Hop and Hotwings at the Peanut on Sundays, and he just got his own “Feel Sexy” night the third Saturday of every month at the Hangout. And he doesn’t necessarily scratch or do tricks, but he plays the music that keeps the party hot. “I don’t take myself too seriously in any regard,” he says. “I can play stuff that is cheesy and fun, and I can play music that doesn’t get any exposure. If people can trust in my ability as a producer, then they can trust my selection of music as a DJ as well.” For more, visit milesbonny. com. [b:508657240c]Joe Good[/b:508657240c] [url]http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/14601927.htm[/url] By JENEE OSTERHELDT The Kansas City Star JOE GOOD Emcee Age: 25 Jamal Gamby started rhyming at 11 — but only in the dark. “I would only rhyme with the lights off so my friends wouldn’t make fun of me,” he says. Nobody makes fun of him these days. As half of the jazzy-phat duo SoundsGood, he’s known as Joe Good, a thorough emcee. He’s no longer scared to perform with the lights on. SoundsGood went on tour across the East Coast last year, and as a solo artist, his mix tape, “Hi, May I Help You,” released earlier this year has him in a bright spotlight, rhyming on the regular. Whether he’s opening for hip-hop giants like KRS-One or kicking it live at the Peanut for Hip-Hop and Hotwings, Good’s stock is on the rise (myspace.com/joegood). “As a solo artist, the music I make is more geared to Kansas City,” he says. “After being on tour and seeing other cities and hearing other people’s music, I wanted to put something out there for the city. No one talks about KC like they are really proud to be from here. But I am a one-man tailgate party on game day for the city.” Good’s ideal touchdown has little to do with fame or money and everything to do with making music he loves and giving Kansas City’s hip-hop scene a sense of hometown pride. “We are not St. Louis; we are not Chicago,” Good says. “We are kind of out here by ourselves, and surrounding cities like Topeka, Omaha, Des Moines and such, they look at us as the big city — we need to take that and run with it.” [b:508657240c]DJ Ataxic[/b:508657240c] [url]http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/14601901.htm[/url] By JENEE OSTERHELDT The Kansas City Star DJ ATAXIC DJ Age: 27 For the last two years Ataxic has been the man behind the music at Kabal on Saturday nights. Recently Ataxic flipped the script and is playing music that caters more to the hip-hop purist, sort of destroying the night and rebuilding it into something truer to hip-hop’s essence. “It seems like the music that’s coming out today is not very entertaining,” Ataxic says. “A lot of it is boring, and it draws in a crowd that has a bad attitude and a bad vibe in general. I want the party crowd back.” To do that, Ataxic is now playing the music he loves, everything from ’70s funk and soul to classic hip-hop. “Something about old-school music brings me back to a point in my life when I loved music and it was great,” he says. “When you hear someone say, ‘Oh, I haven’t heard this song in years,’ it’s like they forget about work and troubles and just have fun. It’s about good times.” Besides being a resident DJ at Kabal, he’s also the official DJ for Reach, winner of the national Scion emcee search and on most Sundays you can catch him spinning at the Peanut. He has also opened up for LL Cool J. But Ataxic, born Bryan Fisk, likes to share his shine. When the LL gig came his way, he invited a few b-boys to do their thing with him. Even with his success, he’s humble, sort of like a people’s champ. “I still feel like my style hasn’t quite developed yet, I like to mix things up and be varied, but I’m still shaping it.”