For the last 14 years kipkillagain has been dedicated to spinning and producing jungle music. Playing at some of the first all jungle partys in the west coast.Kip went on to become the only undefeated (jungle) champion of AZ,. And to date kipkillagain is currently promoting the newest realese on deprogramerssound which is a seattle based jungle label owned and operated by laura and eric cuadras (www.deprogramerssound.com) specializing in only the most authentic american jungle. With the second imprint on this label deprogramerssound brings you all original reggae instramentation on the song titled ''rootsrmx'' by non other the production of kipkillagain playing (drums,laughing) with allstar musician ceta singley playing (onedrop,bass,electric guitar,melodica and hohner pianet) and special guest sit in by mandolinist andrew henry playing (mandolin) this is by far the freshest approach yet to all original american jungle NO COVERS! The flip side to this record is another scorcher by rudebwoy dublate killer U-Ome titled ''fighter''. For more indepth bioraphy,booking,contact information and FREE! downloads please visit www.kipkillagain.com PEACE!Patrick CuseyPersonality Profile: Kip Cronmiller11-15-06A sweet, smoky smell lingered in the air as Kip Cronmiller emerged from his bedroom at his parents Flagstaff home. Fresh from the shower, Cronmiller's shoulder-length black hair was wet and fully slicked back; he wore a plain black t-shirt, gray-black shorts, black tube-socks pulled half way up his calf, and shiny black Adidas with yellow stitching. "Do you mind driving me to pick up Jeremiah?" asked Cronmiller. "We have to start burning some of his CD's today." Jeremiah, also known as Transfer, is one of the artists on Cronmiller's independent music label, Times 13 Records.Zipping through the streets of downtown Flagstaff on a windy but sunny day, Cronmiller talks about other interviews he has done: radio spots in Los Angeles, Ca, Flagstaff Live , the Arizona Daily Sun, as well as other music publications and Internet radio programs. Transfer is waiting in front of Ni Marcos Pizza. The traffic is busy, so it takes a minute before he can cross the street to get into the car.En route back to Cronmiller's house, he and Transfer mull over their agenda for the day. The hour is nearing 4 p.m. as we arrive at Cronmiller's west side home. In the driveway, waiting for Cronmiller, are two good-looking young women. They are Cronmiller's friends from out of town, come to wish him a happy birthday; Cronmiller turned 25 years old last week.By the age of 25, Cronmiller said, "I've been really serious about making music for about 13 years." He got hooked on hip-hop and punk music at a young age, listening to everything from the Beastie Boys and West-coast gangster-rap, to Offspring. "I absolutely loved the Beastie Boys back then," said Cronmiller, and "I saw the Offspring perform at least five times before they even had a color album cover."Cronmiller is known in the music scene as Kip Killagain. "That's the moniker I use on stage and on my records," he said. Cronmiller, although producing many different genres of music, from hip-hop, to his sister Clove's music, which he describes as "a cross between Sade and Beth Gibbons of Portishead," is a Jungle D.J. at his core. Jungle music, according to Cronmiller, is "a mix between techno and reggae music," and he appreciates that he has become a recognized influence in the Jungle music scene. "My hero, and the greatest Jungle D.J. of all time, R.A.W., let me know he was going to be playing in Long Beach right around my birthday if I wanted to come see him play," said Cronmiller with a devilish smile, "that makes me feel really good. He's the grand-daddy, god father of Jungle music in America; for him to say 'I'm gonna rock the house for you' and him being a major influence for me, in turn knowing now that I'm an equal influence to him, it's cool. I'd say that I'm living the life."As far as money is concerned, Cronmiller could care less. The money he makes from his music allows him to go to the places he wants to, and see the things he wants to see without having to bow down to a nine-to-five job; the last time Cronmiller had a regular job was nearly 10 years ago, "I want to just keep learning about music, and life and to just be here with everybody else."Although Cronmiller could never really afford to go to school, through his tireless efforts in the studio and endless experience of playing live, he has been invited to teach at a number of music schools. He taught a short course at a music school in Seattle, though he couldn't recall the name of that particular institution. "I know why things work because of trial and error," said Cronmiller. Although having had no formal training, Cronmiller has owned and broken every piece of equipment his students are learning to use. "I've spent my life not affording the school, but affording the equipment to break," said Cronmiller"You can call me Transfer," said Cronmiller's friend and label artist Jeremiah, "Kip is one of the most driven, overly ambitious, but that's a good thing in the music industry, D.J's I've ever known. He's one of my biggest inspirations, not to mention, one the biggest contributors to the songs that I've been making, and, one of the biggest contributors to Flagstaff itself as a music scene, and not just one genre, but many different genres." Transfer is an emcee on Cronmiller's Times 13 record label; a skilled lyricist, he rapped one of the new verses he's been working on. "My raps are wide ranged, I can make them laugh and cry, give you a glimpse of the future or choose to take you back in time. The struggle breaks us down, takes us to this hellish place, some dig their own graves, the strong elevate. So celebrate your pain, in the name of the creator, God gave me the recipe, the stress gave me the flavor," recited Transfer. Transfer has awe like respect and admiration for Cronmiller's music. "It's fresh, it's real, and sometimes it way too hard. But I love that, I love how he can take hard gangster-rap and put it with some Jungle, to me that's sick, because he's taking two worlds and making them collide, but he does it so beautifully."Cronmiller takes tremendous pride in being a Flagstaff native, and said, "Flagstaff needs something to be proud of. If Jeremiah can say some things that all my friends feel, then that's good. And I'm proud to be a part of it. I'm proud to be a part of believing in my friends and family, because that's all I've ever really had to believe in."
