Episode 198: 2020 In Hindsight II: No More Boogaloo

Here is the second episode (of two) in my look back on the music of 2020. Like I said for episode 197, there was a whole lotta great music for such a terrible year. An earlier version of this playlist would probably have run almost three hours. Even ruthlessly pruned (so many tunes on the cutting-room floor!) it still clocks in at over an hour and a half.

This is also an episode that does something I’ve wanted to do for a while, but never quite succeeded at (especially given how many of my shows focus on a single BPM)– I ‘went around the horn,’ starting at 100 BPM with Swing Ting, gradually speeding up to house tempo (125), up through techno (127) and club (135), through footwork (160) and D’n’B (170-75) and finally up to 178 BPM before dropping to half-time for some 89 BPM hip hop. Full circle!

• Swing Ting – 99 Dances [100 Dances]
• Jessy Lanza – Alexander [All The Time]
• Franc Moody – She’s Too Good For Me [Dream In Colour]
• Yre Den – Blind U [Inlight]
• Prince Josh – It’s All The Same [The Joy]
• Yeule – Pixel Affection [Serotonin II]
• Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep [I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep]
• Agrabah – Break Town [Break Beach]
• Cerrone – I’ve Got A Rocket [DNA]
• Charleeps – Matabiau [SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME. III]
• Cartel Madras – WORKING
• SINQMIN – City of Noise [Nonfiction]
• Bicep – Atlas
• 4hero – Hold It Down (Bugz In The Attic‘s Co-Operative Mix) [Breaking the Beats: A personal selection of West London sounds]
• Ariel Zetina – Eyeshadow Fallout [MUAs at the End of the World]
• ADULT. – Reconstruct The Construct [Perception is/as/of Deception]
• Austra – Risk It [HiRUDiN]
• Cop Envy & DJ Plead – Dash To Finish [Hinged]
• Armand Hammer – Bitter Cassava ft. Pink Siifu [Shrines]
• Client_03 – Thought Disposal [Thought Disposal]
• SebastiAn – PLEASANT FEAT. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG [Thirst]
• Georgia – Never Let You Go [Seeking Thrills]
• Darren Keen – Glass Juke [Total Nerves On Absolute Maximum EP]
• Yunomi – Koi no Uta (feat. Tsukasa Yuzaki)
• Philip D Kick – 160909313 [As We Continue]
• Squarepusher – Nervelevers [Be Up A Hello]
• Machinedrum – 1000 Miles (feat. Sub Focus) [A View Of U]
• martianMan – The Mysterons [Mars Colony]
• Skylark – The Replicant [Echo Form]
• Only Child Tyrant – Solid Grey Zebra [Time To Run]
• Current Value – Certainty [Pacer EP]
• Yves Tumor – Gospel For A New Century [Heaven to a Tortured Mind]
• Run The Jewels – The Ground Below [RTJ4]

BPM Range: 100-178