REVIEWED: Big Freedia/Rusty Lazer/Emynd – 5/19/10 – Talking Head, Baltimore

Much like Baltimore club music, New Orleans bounce features call and response party and sex rhymes, high energy, and loops, breaks and rhythms that are infectious and eminently danceable. Therefore, it goes without saying that when one of New Orleans’ hottest bounce rappers, the “Queen Diva” Big Freedia and constant bounce music supporter and DJ, Rusty Lazer are doing an East coast tour, that Bmore clearly had to be a stop, and that it was going to be a party. Big Freedia, though, isn’t your average everyday rapper. Bounce music’s most entertaining subgenre is that of “sissy bounce,” which of course features male transvestites spitting rhymes about love and romance and an insatiable desire to generally have a good time. This sets the scene for last night’s Cullen Stalin promoted party at Baltimore’s Talking Head as underground dance party legend DJ, an extremely knowledgeable NOLABounce.com contributor, and co-creator of the Crossfaded Bacon label Emynd joined with Rusty Lazer and Big Freedia for an incredibly odd yet terrifically fun time for a crowd that bordered on the bizarre if you’re a square, but for the more liberally minded, was just another ridiculous night at the club.

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The most apt comparison for Big Freedia is to equate her to bounce as Sylvester was to disco. She’s the self proclaimed “Queen of Bounce Music,” and it’s a deserved title. Tall and statuesque and loaded with tons of charisma, her two hottest singles are “Azz Everywhere” and “Gin in My System,” which gives you a sense of exactly where the night was headed. With a travelling stage show of Rusty Lazer on the decks and three tattooed booty popping shawties in back tied half shirts and barely there black bootie shorts, you got the distinct sense that you had been transported to a Wednesday night in the fifth ward, and not a night in downtown Baltimore. For a crowd populated by gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites and generally a group of people that love good music, it was an all out dance floor assault. Booty shaking, arm flailing, makeout sessions and copious amounts of dry humping accompanied the staccato drum loops, samples and hooks that Freedia shouted, the highlight being a room filled with every extraction of person from literally every walk of like saying that they had “Gin in my system, and who’s my next victim.”

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Sissy bounce has legs as a style and absolutely isn’t a one note joke. Any music that causes the type of general hysteria that sissy bounce causes should be regarded as something worthy of attention. Big Freedia as an artist in many ways caters to a community of people who already REALLY want to get down. It’s taking that energy, and then being able to take the rest of a room and turn them into a posse of wilding out maniacs that is both a credit to the strength of the music and to the skill of the artist in harnessing that energy and releasing it in incredible performances. Last night was a fantastic party thrown by a fantastic performer. While sissy bounce’s mainstream potential is another discussion for another day, it’s an inarguably vastly entertaining blend of style, fashion, camp and music, always a wining combination.

SHIT I’M DIGGING THIS WEEK – DOPE MIX EDITION

aka avant garde musical water cooler discussion

1. Rusty Lazer – Sweetheart’s Ball Sissy Bounce Mix

New Orleans DJ and producer Rusty Lazer is a rising player in our newly adopted favorite music scene, that of New Orleans based sissy bounce music. Yes, we dropped some Sissy Nobby last week, but this week, we return with a mix to give you a really broad sampling of the flavor of the top artists in the area, Nobby, Katey Red, Vockah Redu and Big Freedia. A HUGE bounce retrospective party this year at SXSW may prove to be the lynchpin to “sissy bounce” music reaching the masses in greater degrees. However, enough of my writing, I’ll let the hyperkinetic energy and party vibe of the music speak for itself!

Fat Bottom Girls – Rusty Lazer
Azz Everywhere / Live at the Grand Hotel / Gin In My System – Big Freedia
Fuck Katey Red (Skit) / Melpomene Block Party (Punk Under Pressure) / Work On Da Wall – Katey Red
Spinnin’ Top / Da Letter / Get Out My Face – Sissy Nobby
Shake Ya Bone Loose / Roll Call (Chopped & Screwed) – Vockah Redu
Big Freddie Kay Ready – Big Freedia & Katey Red

2. DC’s DJ Cam Jus presents the Blast 3 Mix!

in the next few weeks, i’m about to go 8000000% harder as far as music is concerned. hopefully i’ll see some results. people get ready…  – DJ Cam Jus from his Twitter account

If DJ Cam Jus were in a smaller pond as far as young and developing DJs are concerned, he’d be the biggest fish by a far, deep, wide and large margin. However, in an area where young DJs place a high premium on promotion over talent, individuals like Cam, who lack in the promotion and marketing, but more than make up for it with raw skill and talent in both DJing and production are left in an unenviable position. Either be depressed and lose interest in the game entirely, or get made, get inventive, and get even. Cam has begun infiltrating Latin, African and Bhangra (yes, Bhangra) scenes looking for new, interesting and rhythmic sounds to differetiate himself from an oversaturated market. Listen to his Blast 3 Mix to get an idea of where this young man’s sonic development has taken him.

BLAST3 – STREAM VERSION by Cam Jus

1. Intro – Underdog the DJ Speaks – Beat by DJ Blaqstarr
2. Bulletrpoof (Cam Jus remix) – Raheem Devaughn
3. Damn Woman – Cam Jus
4. Toyfriend – David Guetta feat. Wynter Gordon
5. Loonies To Blow (A-Trak Toyfriend blend) – Drake
6. Click Mi Finger (Nick Catchdubs remix) – Erup
7. So Fine – Sean paul
8. Oye Mi Amor (MikiWar edit) – Mana
9. El Tigeraso (Cam Jus remix) – Maluca
10. Tha Runnas instrumental (Cam Jus)
11. Pretty Girls – BYB
12. Soldier – N*E*R*D feat. Santigold
13. No, No, No – Dawn Penn
14. Woman I need You – Sizzla
15. Give Me a Try – Sizzla
16. Lemonade – Gucci Mane
17. I’m Expecting (DJ Teenwolf remix) – Gucci Mane
18. How Low – Ludacris
19. P-Poppin – Ludacris
20. What’s Your Fantasy – Ludacris
21. My Love is the Shhh – DJ Sega
22. Hit It 2 the Beat – DJ Wallah
23. Bad Habits (Dave Nada house mix) – Maxwell
24. Champagne Campane – Enur
25. Dancin on Me – Maggie Horn feat. Jahdann Blackamore
26. Feelin’ (Dmerit remix) – Will Eastman
27. Night By Night – Chromeo
28. 11th Dimension – Julian Casablancas
29. She’s On Fire – Lil’ Wayne
30. All the Way Turnt Up – Roscoe Dash
31. Vice Versa – Pastor Troy
32. Devil’s Eyes (Diplo remix) – Drop the Lime
33. Lemon-Lime – Cam Jus
34. Voyage to Atlantis – The Isley Brothers
35. May the Force Be With You – Bootsy Collins
36. Submerge – Maxwell

3. Murder Mark Runs This Bitch

Murder Mark may be the best young producer in all of Baltimore Club music. With a nod of the head to Brick Bandits young lion Nadus and master mixer DJ Pierre, Mark, down with Debonair Samir and Da Yo Boyz is a developing club champion. This mix presenting Mark’s best tracks, with vocal drops by none other than big brother to the site Jonny Blaze, and tracks featuring the underrated DJ 695, and the best kept secret of Baltimore, TT the Artist. Do download this, and be fully aware that youth will be served in the not too distant future of club music.

1.Intro(Produced by MurderMark)
2. I Run This Bitch(Produced by Murder Mark)
3.Throw It Up(Produced by Murder Mark)
4.Wild Out(Produced by Murder Mark)
5.Walk Around Stomp Your Feet(Produced by Murder Mark)
6.Cherry Hill and Down Ya Block
7.The Party Starter(Produced by Murder Mark)
8.Pump This Party(Produced by Murder Mark)
9.Garage Music(Produced By Murder Mark)
10.Get Down To The Beat(Produced by Murder Mark)
11.Get Your Fucking Hands High(Produced by Murder Mark)
12.K-Swift Tribute(Produced by Murder Mark)
13.K-Swift Intro(Produced by Johnny Blaze)
14.Pork & Swift (Remastered) –
15.Mega Exclusive
16.Put Your Click Up(Mega Exclusive) – Dj 695 featuring T.M.S. and K.S.(Baltimore Battles Champion)
17.Lets Do It Again 2009 (Main) – T.M.S. featuring Murder Mark
18.One(Instrumental)
19.Break It Down(Produced by Murder Mark)
20.Break It Down(Blaqstarr)
21.My Way 2nite – Murder Mark
22.She Rocking
23.Let Me Show Em – Da Yo Boyz (TT the Artist,Mike Mike ,Rell)
24.Cherry Hill and Down Ya Block – Murder Mark
25.Do The Ayo
26.Do The Ayo