Last week’s episode goes all over the place. That includes using the one weird triplet trick I picked up from experimenting with Grey Area Techno to jump from 100BPM to 150 BPM. It also features dork rock anthemz and hip hop bangerz and all kinds of remixes/refixes/edits/mashups/covers and the like. If you want an hour of the most…
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Tonight (AKA Wednesday, 8/8) at 11E/8P you can tune in to RadioNOPE for a new episode of Step to the Music. It’s a thing, it happens every week, you shouldn’t be surprised by now. So what is there to say about tonight’s ep? Something about a dichotomy, maybe. The bright candy-coated pop melodies and the…
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Wednesday night at 11E/8P, I invite you to tune in to RadioNOPE for another fine episode. This one starts out sounding like a dork-rock dance party, the usual SttM suspects of danceable indie, but mixed in with hip hop bangers here and there. Things gradually shift to more of a club feel, plus some rhythmically…
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Last week’s episode explored the slower range of club music, the faster end of hip hop, downtempo breaks, dembow swagger, and even a sweet taste of bhangra. Starting things off, Lao’s remix of Fever Ray’s “Mustn’t Hurry” takes the title literally and tames the original’s frenetic pace to a herky deconstructed flow. Two tracks from the…
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This week’s episode took the base stock of oblique Club I’ve been simmering for a few months now and adds flavors of house, techno and gqom. It’s a quintessential SttM episode, in that it gets really weird around the middle, and then gets super poppy at the end. Also, there are several “clever” transitions that were entirely…
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The most recent episode begins with some vogue club, weaving in and out of a bit of post-punk noise and techno realness (RIP Marcus Intalex) before some sino-rap slows things down and we make the switch to hip hop. From there it’s a gradual speed up, dropping a bit of drum’n’bass, quite a bit of oblique industrial…
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Tune in to RadioNOPE next Wednesday (6/20, 11E/8P) for another new SttM! This week is a bit of a followup to #120, though less ooooout there. The similarities: plenty of oblique club beatz and no allegiance to a single BPM. Different: not completely divorced from a recognizable rhythmic pulse, and mixes in some old-school Hip-Hop…
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This week’s episode served to get me out of a few lazy ruts that I noticed I’d fallen into. One of them is only playing music with a metronomic pulse that can be correctly ‘gridded’ in Traktor. This took over from my previous tendency to use the ‘warp’ feature on everything when I was using Ableton, putting…
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This week’s episode… and I’m cognizant of the fact that I’ve said this several times before, and I’m regretting that at this point, wishing that I could take it all back, because it’s established a bit of a ‘The Bob What Cried Wolf’ situation wherein I’ve robbed the phrase of its full descriptive power, leaving…
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Last week’s episode was a sequel of sorts to episode 117’s “Footwork and Footwork Adjacent” playlist. One difference: the footwork adjacent part is more limited to jungle and club (although “club” remains an amorphous enough genre term that it doesn’t limit all that much). Another difference: more populist remixes and sample choices: Migos, Depeche Mode, Barry White,…
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