Month: July 2019

Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

This Week: More Footwork and Sundry 160BPM Fellow Steppers

Tomorrow night, Wednesday night, July 31st, tune in to Radio NOPE at 11E/8P for another new episode of SttM, this one featuring more 160 madness. I’ve heard it said that Footwork is music for dancing, and dancing of a specific type, and so if you don’t dance Footwork, you can’t truly understand Footwork music. The…
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Episode 156: Establish Yrself in My Body

“But all my friends, they cry about being lonely…” This episode starts off with JETS in full IDM mode, sounding a bit like a cross between AFX and Mouse On Mars. From there, things get syncopated and energetic. Hard Drum, Hop Hop, house and club manifestations, a bit of mnml techno, some Jersey Club, even…
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This Week: Pop/Club/House/Techno

“But all my friends. they cry about being lonely…” Tomorrow night (by ten minutes!) Wednesday night. You know the drill! 11E/8P, ONLY on RadioNOPE, you can hear the premiere of a brand spankin’ SttM. There’s some hooky dance pop, like earworm fish-hooks, I can’t get these melodies out of my head without one of those…
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Episode 155: Hypersigil

Here’s an episode that returns us to the well-trod path of drum’n’bass music, most of it Autonomic in variety. Things start out oldschool with Roni Size and his Reprazent project. Next up is Astrophonica label-head Fracture, except from an EP out on Autonomic powerhouse Exit Records. After that, a track from Lightless Records head Fanu,…
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This Week: Autonomic With a Toy Surprise

Tune in tomorrow night, Wednesday the 17th, at 11 Eastern/8 Pacific for a brand new episode! This one is drum’n’bass, mostly of the Autonomic variety, plus a rather random curveball to keep everyone on their respective tarsals. Yup, this boy has secured himself another compilation! A new one from Samurai Records, celebrating a decade of…
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Episode 154: Funky Diabetic

Another exercise in offensively eclectic, this episode begins with Chicago shoegaze and ends with Trukish psych-rock. In between it visits some hip hop (in ironic celebration of my newfound Insulin resistance), some French disco, some Latinx club, some Hard Drum, some techno-produced hip hop, some deconstructed club, some club remixes of various provenance (R&B, Russian…
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