Meet the Artist: Emskee

I have had the privilege and great pleasure of knowing Emskee (Marc Smith) for several years.  He is a multi talented DJ, musician, radio personality, husband and father.  It's time that more people get to know this very talented man.  He's authentic an original when it comes to spinning and in everything he is and does.

Emskee has been on the  music scene and in the game since he was a kid. Since '91 he has had his hands on records, spinning furiously and spreading his gospel around New York City and the globe including Russia, Mexico, England, Canada, Jamaica and Venezuela. He provokes,  he inspires, raises the dead and never spins the same way twice, which is why when you're on the dance floor exorcising to Emskee you never want the night to end. You won't want to leave even when it's daylight and your stomach is gnawing. You find all the sustenance you need in the music. And the DJ is also the MC. Emskee won't just holla you out of your seat at the party, he's a recording artist, with dozens of acclaimed releases as a solo rapper and as part of the power hip hop/soul group, The Good People, with his partner, The Saint. He also boasts a new collaborative project with Brooklyn producer E The 5th called "The Marc Smith LP", and numerous guest appearances and single releases abroad. 

Buy on iTunes:  The Marc Smith LP --- Emskee & E tha 5th

Buy on iTunes:  The Marc Smith LP --- Emskee & E tha 5th

Emskee currently raises the roof at a monthly all-vinyl party called RECORDNITION, in partnership with Grammy Award winning producer/DJ Easy Mo Bee in New York City. Emskee is the co-creator and host of the cult-followed, deep disco and classic house music event known as the Rare Radio Show on WBAI 99.5fm in New York City. Emskee also held an 11-year residency on the longest running hip hop show in the world (22 years and still broadcasting), the storied J Smooth's Underground Railroad on WBAI. Emskee is also part of the international alliance called the Hoglodytes, with Chubb Nice in England, which feeds the Peace Soup Movement: a drive to fuse music melodies from across the globe with a hip hop base. 

Emskee has always believed in spreading love and respect through music, and sees himself as a curator, an adventure guide, and a shaman. "You don't have to be cool here!" Emskee is known to proclaim on the mic at a party. "And we don't care what kind of car you drive or how much money you make." Emskee just cares about using music to bring people together. He takes his listeners on a journey from which they will emerge changed, yet, closer to their true selves. 

Emskee's varying  and infectious DJ styles are on display:

Mixcloud:    http://www.mixcloud.com/marcsmith184/

Podomatic:  http://djemskee.podomatic.com

Bandcamp:  www.thegoodpeople.bandcamp.com
Twitter:  @djemskee
RECORDnition Party Official on Twitter:  @RecordNition

RECORDnition and the Return of Vinyl Albums

Vinyl (the old fashioned record) is growing out of it’s niche and making a big comeback.   No longer just a small collectors niche, there are more albums being pressed than before.

A number of record collectors always disdained the compact disc, arguing that an LP’s grooves yielded warmth and depth that the CD’s digital code could not match.  The market largely ignored them and shuttered their LP pressing plants even though vinyl remained the medium of choice for many DJ’s.

Today record collectors many born after the birth of CDs in the 1980s have been growing in numbers and bringing back the resurgence of vinyl recordings.

Every major label and some smaller ones too are releasing vinyl recordings again including artists like Daft Punk “Random Access Memories” who just won 2014 album and record of the year and for the single from that album “Get Lucky”.

In addition to recordings now being released on vinyl there is the very popular all vinyl only monthly party RECORDnition created and hosted by the legendary DJ and producer Easy Mo Bee and Emskee.The party goes down in NYC where HipHop began.

If you are lucky enough to be in the NYC area this Saturday, February 15th make plans to join the 1-year running monthly ALL VINYL RECORDNITION party hosted by EMSKEE & EASY MO BEE return to double team bang out the decks with ALL THINGS BANGABLE and showing no mercy from 10pm to 4am. The 1st party of 2014 goes down in the basement of THE DELANCEY (168 Delancey Street @ Clinton St.) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. FREE ADMISSION!!!! 

THE DELANCEY boasts a spacious dance floor for you to get lost in the music on. It's not just 45's. They play it all. (Except 78s).  Warm up to the music and get your sweat on. Come early and stay waaaaaaay late.

Official  Facebook link:  RECORDnition

                     EASY MO BEE                                                                   EMSKEE  (Marc Smith)   

     

                      

Official Twitters: @RecordNition  @djemskee and @Easy_Mo_Bee