Local Artists Hitting the Airwaves

Washington-- Local record label owner, Derrick Winters, CEO of XXXplosive Records, received a radio transmitter worth approximately $900 from Metropolitan Business Development Center today.  Ken Ogasawara, an intern from Canada, presented the unit to Winters.  Winters will be borrowing the unit in order to promote his local hip-hop/R&B talent, consisting of artists from Washington and surrounding areas. 

Winters describes his musicians as those with a “unique sound coming out of the South; they’ve been overlooked by the major labels, but we’ve got a rich talent right here in Eastern North Carolina.  My job is to get these voices out there. We want in!”.  XXXplosive Records artists Originale (Matthew Brown) and Terrible (Donté Albritton) have already been on the air on XM Radio, a satellite radio station broadcasting around the world; 101.1 “The Beat”; and other stations, including stations in Virginia and South Carolina.

Winters plans on setting up the transmitter, which will give a signal within a one-mile radius, near the intersection where Highway 17 and 264 cross.  Compact discs can be purchased at Stereo Town, at the cross-roads of Hwy 17 and 264.

(l-r) Derrick Winters, Ken Ogasawara