Month: November 2018

Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

This Week: Let It Ride

For a good time, tune in to Radio NOPE tomorrow (aka Wednesday) night at 11E/8P for a brand new episode of Step to the Music! If you’ve been listening the past few weeks, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect. There will be some hard-hitting techno bangers, some heavy-stepping club edits, some…
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Radio NOPE Electronic Top Ten for November 27, 2018

Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference (Scorpion Beach/Banana Tapes) Peace to Mateo – Some Strange Reason (Young Heavy Souls) Ouri – We Share Our Blood (Ghostly) Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi (Ghostly International) Daniel Avery…
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Episode 136: Laced With Acid

This episode is just a party. Nothing pretentious, no throwing in chin-scratching tracks for their own sake… sure, things do their usual weirdness around the half-hour mark, but even then it’s brief and mild and quickly returns to straight-ahead grooves. The original idea, as suggested by the title, was to play a whole ton of acid tracks.…
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This Week: Low pH House and Club

Thanksgiving Eve! That’s tomorrow night. And it is one of the busiest nights (so I am told) at bars, as people visiting their home towns go out and get drunk and have random hookups with people they haven’t seen since high school. Or, as my serious hard-drinking friends call such events: amateur night. Don’t mess…
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Radio NOPE Electronic Top Ten for November 20, 2018

Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi (Ghostly International) Rejoicer – Energy Dreams (Stones Throw) Daniel Avery – Diminuendo EP (Mute) Peace to Mateo – Some Strange Reason (Young Heavy Souls) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference…
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Episode 135: Lessons in the Uncouth

A few weeks back, episode 133, I noted that the episode number and the BPM rate of the mix were the same, noting that such had been a rare event and suspecting that it would remain so. Two episodes later, BEHOLD! Episode 135 has some techno and some club, with mmnl-ist thud and industrial pound, but…
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Episode 134: Come Back to the World

What the previous SttM was to cranking the filter knob clockwise to make a track sound tinny and transistor-radio-y as a transition device, this episode is to cranking the filter knob counterclockwise to make a track sound like it’s sinking underwater as a device to prevent it from clashing with another track’s drop. Possibly some day I’ll…
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This Week: November Beats

Tomorrow (Wedensday) night, 11E/8P, ONLY on RadioNOPE: As the nights grow longer and the days grow cold. as the wildlife retreats and the leaves die, November leads us to thoughts of darkness and mortality. So what else can we do but dance? Episode 135 of Step to the Music traffics in techno and club sounds…
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Radio NOPE Electronic Top Ten for November 13, 2018

Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Rejoicer – Energy Dreams (Stones Throw) Peace to Mateo – Some Strange Reason (Young Heavy Souls) Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi (Ghostly International) Daniel Avery – Diminuendo EP (Mute) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference…
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Radio NOPE Electronic Top Ten for November 6, 2018

Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Rejoicer – Energy Dreams (Stones Throw) Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi (Ghostly International) Peace to Mateo – Some Strange Reason (Young Heavy Souls) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference (Scorpion Beach/Banana Tapes) Ouri – We…
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