If you know me, you might know that I’m not really big on hyping my own stuff. I’m just not comfortable doing it; I’d rather under-promise and over-deliver. So with that said, even I can’t deny that this week’s Step to the Music (which I just finished mixing and mastering) is FRIKKIN’ MASSIVE! It can…
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This week’s Episode features an array of polyrhythmic intersections, percussive club madness, and glistening dark borderline-psychedelic sounds. It leans pretty heavily on the Classical Trax “Jamz!” compilation, as well as several charity comps. Real Bingey Byrell the Great – #Cmon [Chopped Cheese] Jayda G – Sestra’s Cry [Physically Sick] NKC – For Yourself [Her Records Volume…
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What can I say about this week’s episode? At the risk of underselling it, I seem to have settled into a bit of a comfortable rut, mixing some underground club with some techno, slapping on a bit of grime, calling it a show. And it keeps working and I’m not tired of it yet, so…
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This most recent episode first aired a few weeks ago (apologies for the delay), at a time when a confluence of circumstances led to zero people listening to it. I thought that was a shame, because I’m quite fond of this one. So I let it marinate for a few weeks and aired it again.…
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Wednesday, April 25th, 11/10C, RadioNOPE Step to the Music episode 117 premieres, featuring some proper bangin’ Footwork and a bunch of stuff that mixes well with Footwork. Yup, it’s another 160 BPM show, and the hardest thing about putting it together was paring 7 hours of prime sonic ecstasy down to a lean 60 minutes……
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Last Wednesday’s episode starts out a bit ADD, fitting six short, energetic tracks into the first twelve minutes. From the Latin beats of Merca Bae to the Sino-club of Demon Slayer, to the mutated mentasm of Monotronique, to the Cali dancehall/HA! pastiche of Habibiboi, to the chopped Serbian beats and bass of dJJ’s Lil Taty…
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Last night’s episode was a reluctant return to the clubstep hybrid of 113. In terms of the oil/water emulsification of club sprightliness and halfstep langour, I feel this one was lacking whatever binder made the first iteration work. The tonal whiplash seems a bit much. YMMV, of course, and there are some great tunes represented, some…
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As much performative gnashing of teeth as I indulged in two weeks ago at the archiving of episode one-hundred and thirteen, it seems my contrition was insufficient, my shame was performative, my regret was a sham… I failed to learn from my mistake and, perhaps, did not regard it as a mistake at all. I…
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Last Wednesday’s episode of Step to the Music was another Grey Area experiment. This time, rather than focus on the usefulness of triplet polyrhythms in switching between 170 BPM Drum’n’Bass and 127 BPM Techno, I limited the pallet to Grey Area and D’n’B, keeping the beats per minute at 170. The first third of the…
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I feel that I cannot apologize enough for the name. I was putting together a playlist that alternated between 140 BPM club tunes and oldschool Dubstep jams, and the portmanteau just presented itself to my horrified mind. It was as unavoidable as it was douchey. I tried to think of something else, but it would…
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