The most recent episode begins with some vogue club, weaving in and out of a bit of post-punk noise and techno realness (RIP Marcus Intalex) before some sino-rap slows things down and we make the switch to hip hop. From there it’s a gradual speed up, dropping a bit of drum’n’bass, quite a bit of oblique industrial…
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Tune in to RadioNOPE next Wednesday (6/20, 11E/8P) for another new SttM! This week is a bit of a followup to #120, though less ooooout there. The similarities: plenty of oblique club beatz and no allegiance to a single BPM. Different: not completely divorced from a recognizable rhythmic pulse, and mixes in some old-school Hip-Hop…
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This week’s episode served to get me out of a few lazy ruts that I noticed I’d fallen into. One of them is only playing music with a metronomic pulse that can be correctly ‘gridded’ in Traktor. This took over from my previous tendency to use the ‘warp’ feature on everything when I was using Ableton, putting…
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This week’s episode… and I’m cognizant of the fact that I’ve said this several times before, and I’m regretting that at this point, wishing that I could take it all back, because it’s established a bit of a ‘The Bob What Cried Wolf’ situation wherein I’ve robbed the phrase of its full descriptive power, leaving…
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Last week’s episode was a sequel of sorts to episode 117’s “Footwork and Footwork Adjacent” playlist. One difference: the footwork adjacent part is more limited to jungle and club (although “club” remains an amorphous enough genre term that it doesn’t limit all that much). Another difference: more populist remixes and sample choices: Migos, Depeche Mode, Barry White,…
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