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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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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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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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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What the previous SttM was to cranking the filter knob clockwise to make a track sound tinny and transistor-radio-y as a transition device, this episode is to cranking the filter knob counterclockwise to make a track sound like it’s sinking underwater as a device to prevent it from clashing with another track’s drop. Possibly some day I’ll…
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This episode starts off with several tunes that fall more on the “song” end of the song/track spectrum. First off, Montreal’s Ouri splits the difference between techno and pop. Then Santa Muerte provides an edit of mumblestar Lil Uzi Vert, coming from the most recent Bootlegs and Edits compilation (which comp is, without a doubt, the MVP…
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The initial idea for this episode was a bunch of techno and a bunch of gqom… but when I had the playlist worked out it was three times longer than I could even consider fitting into an hour, so I started cutting and cutting and ended up with only two gqom tracks, plus two D’n’B tunes and…
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Hooooooooray! Three years! this episode begins with an extended intro, intended to give me time to make sure I was actually broadcasting. It goes on possibly (definitely) too long, before launching into Turkish Delight’s “Around,” a song which I thought was more metronomic than it actually is, hence the clumsy transition into the Neil Landstrumm track…
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BROTHERS! SISTERS! Allow the groove to be political for just a moment. Do not need. Do not want. Then the episode settles into a sibling to episode 128, though cleaving a bit more closely to footwork. Exceptions, overlooking the lead-in track, include another fast grime tune from Proc Fiskal and a tune by Aphex Twin, off his…
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