2021 Part I It has become something of a tradition, or maybe just a habit, for me to do two episodes looking back at the previous year in January. The first episode is traditionally/habitually a collection of the rock and/or roll songs that I’ve enjoyed over the year but (usually) didn’t play because they didn’t…
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Here’s a fun one. I initially recorded thie episode at the end of October, and it kept getting pushed back for one reason or another. So, here is the first episode of 2022, looking forward by looking back. Stuck – Playpen of Dissent [Content That Makes You Feel Good] Future Image – March Madness (blastah…
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This is an episode from almost four years ago that, for some strange reason, never got published on this here ‘blog. It goes all over the place, but the main thrust is that it begins with ~140 BPM club bangers, moves to dubstep and grime, then shifts back to underground club. As a side note,…
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A few years ago I decided that the final SttM episode of every year should be deep/dub techno. You could search back through the archives for the explanation, but it’s basically that the week between Christmas and New Year’s is always an odd, timeless/spaceless space in time, and the underwater sonics of deep techno mirrors…
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’twas the Wednesday before Christmas… Every few years I put together a new Yule episode for the Winter solstice-adjacent holidays, the celebration of the return of light to the world as the days stop getting shorter and start getting longer. Remember: the tilt in the Earth’s axis is the reason for the season! Recent holiday…
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Aside from a bit of slow footwork, a bit of fast house, and a post-shoegaze curveball, the bulk of this episode features (the dreaded) dubstep and instrumental grime. Then the mix ends out with some clubland bangers STRAIGHT out of left field, because this IS SttM, and I get itchy if I stick to one…
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The bulk of this episode is house and disco, that’s the main thing to know. There’s some indie rock at the beginning and the end, a bit of jazzy techno, but for the most part it’s soul and vibes and luvv. Park Hye Jin goes out to all the singletons, followed by Akabu and Linda…
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This episode marks SIX YEARS of Step to the Music, which is truly wild to consider… It took me by surprise, so I basically made the episode I would have made but without giving myself any time constraint. What I ended up with was 97 minutes of footwork and jungle and finest blend of MISC…
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