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	Coast2Coast
	[COMPILATION + MIX ALBUM]
	Artist: Karizma Label: NRK Date: 25.09.07
	Buy US 13.09

The Coast2Coast series surges on with its no-nonsense approach to the mix compilation, bringing you the very best in underground house DJs and mixes that fly the flag for real house music! Following in the footsteps of Âme, Ron Trent, Quentin Harris and Kerri Chandler, Baltimore’s finest, Karizma, gives us a lesson in the art of mixing it up!

Karizma shows us just why he’s very much in favour at the moment, bridging the gap between the soulful/broken beat vibes and the edgier, techier sounds by dragging in the more European influences that are dominating the dancefloors of London, Berlin and beyond. Lighter vocal nuggets from artists such as Onsulade (under his Yoruba Soul moniker) and Slope’s remix of 1Luv rub shoulders with the deeper house sounds of Pasta Boys, Dennis Ferrer, Manuel Tur and Wahoo. Some refreshing Japanese productions from Shuya Okino give the mix a real international flare, whilst Karizma himself weighs in with home-grown productions such as the hypnotizing “In Tha D.ee.p.” and “Tha D”.

Karizma's musical career started at the early age of 13, DJing at various fashion shows and college parties, and progressing into radio on Baltimore's college radio station WEAA. At the same time he was playing at various clubs around the city, with an obvious love for house music. He would often bump into fellow Baltimore resident DJ Spen, and bug him for advice. As fate would have it Spen and Karizma would work together at radio station V103. This prompted the two to work together on his 1st Jasper Street Company album project. Karizma contributed the song E.B.W.2.R.T.W (Everybody Wants 2 Rule The World) and did drum programming on the track "Temptation". A bourgeoning relationship, Spen & Karizma then collaborated on Kim English's "Tommorrow", Mary J Blige's "Beautiful" , Kenny Bobien's "Let Me Show You" and SuSu Bobien's "Thank you" . The rest is history.

Spen and Karizma, (now with Basement Boys productions), went on to remix Everything But The Girl, Amira, Lenny Kravitz, Ann Nesby, Ron Carroll, Roy Ayers, Boris Dlugosh, Bob Sinclar, Kathy Brown, Jocelyn Brown, Ministers de la funk, just to name a few. It was also in these remixes Karizma developed the "deepah dubs" and "deepah ones" moniker for his rendition of the remixes.

Flashing forward ...after a healthy career of remixes and productions, Karizma struck out on his own and formed Kohesive Productions. His first production "Samma Ganni" was released on Basement boys imprint "Elphunk". His remixes, redits and productions are heard weekly at the "Sky Lounge" bar on Thursdays, his residency in Baltimore. Many of his productions have been championed by the likes of Louie Vega, Simon Dunmore, Dj Spinna, Marquis Wyatt, Tony Humphries and many more.

PLEASE NOTE: Tracks 1.) ‘Acorado, 8.) ‘Hardcore Hiphouse’ and 12.) Karizma’s continuous mix are BUNDLE ONLY. Although these specific tracks are visible in the tracklisting below and you can listen to the track samples, you CANNOT add them to your cart or purchase them from this page. Attempting to add them to your cart from this page will do nothing.

These tracks can ONLY be purchased by purchasing the full album bundle. The rest of the tracks CAN be purchased individually from this page.