How ironic that I just spoke of my departure from the DMV, but now I’m bragging about returning there this Saturday for the highly anticipated music festival, TRILLECTRO. It’s been a well known fact among music progressives that the mixture of hip hop and electronic is where the future of music is headed.Trillectro will be the first outdoor music festival ever to celebrate the joining of these two genres this Saturday at Half Street Fairgrounds in Washington, D.C. Among a few of the impressive acts includes, Phony Ppl (who The Pink Mic is already obsessed with) and my long time favorites, hip-hop/electronica duo Beyond Modern. The team over at DCtoBC.com have all of D.C. amped about this weekend after executing a strong campaign that even included wheatpasting in the streets of Columbia Heights just last night. Make sure you get all the deets at Trillectro.com so you can participate in this trill ass event.

I spent time away from keyboards and studios to get adjusted to the NYC life this summer. The DMV is great but I want to be smacked in the face with artistry every time I step out of the house, so of course NYC was the move. Constant delusional claims of future stardom from strangers can get old, but I did get lucky and come across music collective First Class. I’m jumping the gun and sharing material before the projected release dates from this crew because I find it strange that more people don’t know about these kids. I’m still trying to put my finger on what I like about Dot “The One” and Amjay’s style. It’s like a young Jay type and a young Lisa Stansfield type (a Lisa Stansfield that can rap) linked with a few kick ass producers (Nana Kwabena, Justin Baron) in Harlem and the rest will be history in the making. They’re being vague so I can’t squeeze out more sounds from them yet. Cool people are so freakin’ mean. I will get the rest of the goods though. For now check out "This Is Real" Dot the One feat. Amjay prod. Nana Kwabena