Episode 183: I Tried

Grey Area Experiment #04

As I mentioned in the description for the previous one, this episode was partially inspired by a chatbox discussion on Grey Area’s use of polyrhythms to create two simultaneous tempos– usually 127 BPM and 171 BPM (though I’ve recently discovered that producers have expanded into other tempos… a subject for a future experiment!), and it reminded me to give it a try.

So, this one begins in the 130 range, with a scummy dance rock groove giving way to house and techno sounds until Sam KDC comes in with some triplets to shift things to 175 BPM for a few DnB tracks, before the OG (unknown) Grey Area themself comes to bring things back to house/techno tempo. Things wind up with some death/goth rock from Swedish band Then Comes Silence. It’s a song that ends too abruptly to be a truly good show ender, which I forgot until too late.

• Damaged Bug – I Tried [Bug On Yonkers]
• Pev & Kowton – Beneath Radar (Kowton mix) [Beneath Radar (Kowton mix / Peverelist mix)]
• POL – Yaphet Kotto [Yaphet Kotto]
• Lemonick – Crash Cove [NH V-A VOL. 1]
• ARME – Gush [4 Years]
• Asusu – Sister [Sister / Too Much Time Has Passed]
• Arashkha – Banyan Tree [A Tribute to the Dark Venus]
• DJ Boring – High Groove
• Sam KDC – Canon Law [Samurai Music Decade (Phase 1)]
• Kolectiv – Straight To The Ground [NBR Archive #2]
• Fanu – Asymmetrical [Polar]
• Grey Area 01 – Grey Area 01 #4 [Grey Area Volume One]
• Run The Jewels – A Few Words For The Firing Squad (Radiation) [RTJ4]
• Forest Drive West – Escape [Static / Escape]
• SHEE – The Undisputed World [SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME III]
• TSVI – JAM52 [NH V-A VOL. 1]
• La Blanquette – Lets Live
• Then Comes Silence – I Gave You Everything [Machine]

BPM: 131/175/83