…because that jagoff slept on The Beths for MONTHS! This week’s episode is a look back at the music that made me grin or had my feet tapping, or even had me doing the chair dance in 2018. I kinda threw a playlist together and it ended up two hours long. In hindsight I woulda…
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Based on a very non-scientific, very hand-wavey analysis of two different metrics that I can in no way vouch for, I’ve compiled a list of the top five most popular episodes of Step to the Music from the past year. I have listened to these and tried to come to some conclusion about what makes…
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The last episode of 2018 takes a turn. A companion to the timeless space between Christmas and New Year’s, when nobody knows what day it is or what to do with themselves, dub techno stretches time and space with delay and reverb and repetition, creating a timeless space and a spaceless time. An hour dilates…
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Last night’s episode, aka the third SttM Xmas special, begins with a ridiculous mashup of the Mighty Monarch’s henchmen doing their karaoke Garage Band version of Sir Paul McCartney’s (rightly) reviled and hated Christmas confection vs Rhythm Scholar’s cut-n-scratch remix. The latter samples the Rankin/Bass pseudo-classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” to delightful effect, and…
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Tomorrow night, Wednesday, December 5, will see the beginning of the annual Yuletide madness on Step to the Music! Radio NOPE will be replaying SttM013b, the 2016 remaster of the 2015 “Exxin’ X-Mas” special. This is the show that premiered my Waitresses x Gang of 4 mashup, “What We All Want For Christmas.” It’s epic.…
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If I had to fir a theme for this episode, it would have to be an anachronistic blend of rave sonics with contemporary club rhythms. Conveniently enough, the first track, a hard-banging techno number from Dan HabarNam, captures both elements– rave-y sirens coexisting with Jersey Club-esque kick patterns. Overland provides some acid, VILLAGE explores more vintage…
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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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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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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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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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