In every art form the most sought after element is individual style. Countless subcultures have come and gone because the style got old, re-purposed and sold back to the community it originated from. The one subculture that is the most notable is hip hop. In its entirety it has transcended race, wealth, borders and much more.
Hip hop is a culture of style, a constant forward moving machine that continually checks itself out in the mirror and asks, "am i relevant" and "am i cool". By bombarding itself with constant criticism and self analysis hip hop grows by its own accord, unrelenting, unashamed.
This my friend is dedicated to someone who has incorporated style into their lives and honed it to perfection. His style is so complex that when he starts camouflaging it and shit ain't no body gonna be able to read it.
That is ?mark
C.O.I.
Seeking a bass existence
C.O.I. is a culture enthusiast who maintains sanity through the production of art. By no specific defintion of the term "art", C.O.I. wishes to expand his understanding of expression and further the exploration of "cool." A music lover first he began his descent into music because of his father. Jazz music has always been his first love but a chance encounter with a "raver" lead to his expansion into electronic music. Now an avid circuit bender, C.O.I. enjoys all things broken, broken to a point of sound destruction. From noise-core to jazz C.O.I.'s musical tastes vary immensely. Expect to hear this in his sets which are never genre specific.
Founder of Brokenbeat.ca in 2000 C.O.I. is on a mission to break as much shit as possible and uses those pieces to create fresh culture that do not rely on current archetypes. The main one being that brokenbeat.ca has nothing whatsoever to do with broken beat music. Brokenbeat.ca is going to re-appropriate the term and use it the way it was meant. Our philosophy is to break the cultural norms that society has created in its wake of consumer culture. We are dedicated and hard working and we will not stop. Ok not that hard working, but we're working on it.
