Meet the players:
MARK BROWN
http://www.mcbrown.info
http://markbrown.muxtape.com
Wham City artist collective member Mark Brown has been curating cultural events and performing worldwide as a video artist, DJ, laptop noise artist, and general weirdo for well over a minute. Mark Brown's first moves in the game began at warehouse parties in Baltimore, eventually moving on to hosting the award winning and critically acclaimed (Spin, XLR8R, Rolling Stone) bi-weekly event "Are We Not Men?!". For the last year Mark Brown has been working with City Paper's Best DJ (2008) Adam Gonzo curating and performing at SERVED, a monthly event at Baltimore's Wind Up Space. Adam Gonzo and Mark Brown have hosted such major players as Blaqstarr, DJ Sega, Johnny Blaze, Video Hippos, & Audio Hallucinationzzzzz (featuring Juiceboxxx, Shams, & Ami Dang).
When not promoting and curating events around Baltimore, Mark Brown has been getting deep in the studio producing remixes for Pictureplane & Teengirl Fantasy, as well as cultivating a unique blend of Old Skool Rave, Jungle, Baltimore Club, Funky House, and Heavy Bass edits and mashers.
Mark Brown also performs as a live visualist and avant video artist. As a video artist Mark Brown has worked with Dan Deacon, Teengirl Fantasy, Growing, Chandeliers, Ecstatic Sunshine, WZT Hearts, and many more. In the winter of 2009, Mark Brown will be touring Europe as a solo artist and visualist working with Teengirl Fantasy.
THE SCHWARZ
http://www.myspace.com/schwarzproductions
Despite recently emerging onto the Baltimore scene as an underground DJ, producer, and rapper, the Schwarz has been creating music beyond genres since he was a child in St. Louis, MO. Way back in kindergarten, Schwarz began making tapes of original songs, one of which was broadcast by the principal with the school announcements. While in the eighth grade in 1999, he released his first CD-R "Vanilla Bean," featuring emo vocals, guitar riffs, harsh noise, and processed Led Zeppelin samples. Within the following two years, he had released dozens of genre-hopping solo albums. In 2001, online music critic Mark Prindle published a series of reviews of these albums, which concluded that, "either Adam Schwarz is a fool or a genius dwelling in some alter aural landscape that the rest of us will probably never understand (or want to). And if he's a fool, he's the weirdest frick-frackin fool I've run across in quite some time." It's True. Except Schwarz is a fool AND a genius.
Since moving to Baltimore and leaving behind his role as producer for the St. Louis rap crew AOSTL, the Schwarz has created a number of projects, including a self titled rap career (which he recently retired), an experimental DJ project under the guise "Tear Da Club Up '97"", a free jazz duo "Transition", a collaboration with singer-songwriter Dave Fell called "Hard As Fvck," and a Third Eye Blind cover band. Currently the Schwarz primarily focuses on producing for others, such as Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx, IDM legend Cex, and his cousin, DJ Dog Dick. As a live DJ and artist creating original remixes, he is scheduled to release a series of CD-Rs of edits, remixes, and mash-ups. "Vol 1: World Party" is due out on Oct. 15th, coinciding with the premiere of the "Deep in the Game" event series with Mark Brown.
Despite recently emerging onto the Baltimore scene as an underground DJ, producer, and rapper, the Schwarz has been creating music beyond genres since he was a child in St. Louis, MO. Way back in kindergarten, Schwarz began making tapes of original songs, one of which was broadcast by the principal with the school announcements. While in the eighth grade in 1999, he released his first CD-R "Vanilla Bean," featuring emo vocals, guitar riffs, harsh noise, and processed Led Zeppelin samples. Within the following two years, he had released dozens of genre-hopping solo albums. In 2001, online music critic Mark Prindle published a series of reviews of these albums, which concluded that, "either Adam Schwarz is a fool or a genius dwelling in some alter aural landscape that the rest of us will probably never understand (or want to). And if he's a fool, he's the weirdest frick-frackin fool I've run across in quite some time." It's True. Except Schwarz is a fool AND a genius.
Since moving to Baltimore and leaving behind his role as producer for the St. Louis rap crew AOSTL, the Schwarz has created a number of projects, including a self titled rap career (which he recently retired), an experimental DJ project under the guise "Tear Da Club Up '97"", a free jazz duo "Transition", a collaboration with singer-songwriter Dave Fell called "Hard As Fvck," and a Third Eye Blind cover band. Currently the Schwarz primarily focuses on producing for others, such as Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx, IDM legend Cex, and his cousin, DJ Dog Dick. As a live DJ and artist creating original remixes, he is scheduled to release a series of CD-Rs of edits, remixes, and mash-ups. "Vol 1: World Party" is due out on Oct. 15th, coinciding with the premiere of the "Deep in the Game" event series with Mark Brown.
October 15th Mark Brown and The Schwarz will be hosting the first Deep In The Game live experience at Baltimore's Zodiac (1726 N. Charles st).
Schwarz and Mark Brown will be using this night as a testing ground for new material, edits, remixes, deep blog digs, torrent treasures, and hard drive exchanges. Each event will feature a special guest to showcase up and coming and established local and foreign music makers and freaks.
The special guest for our inaugural rage life experience will be Baltimore's own Techno Legend Rjyan Kidwell (CEX).
Let Your Freak Loose.
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