this one begins with Astronomique’s modern reimagining of 90’s dreampop before shifting gears to Ckrono’s aggressive reggaeton sounds (off a compilation of House music). The remainder of the mix goes back and forth between oblique club and hip-hop, with a focus on the oldschool. There are a few sidetracks into slow house and alternative rock before…
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The new DJ Ends EP is pretty great. It’s a Teutonic take on Footwork, combined with Jungle influences. This episode starts out with a more Footwork-indebted track before sequeing into Miko, a Polish producer. There’s plenty of oldschool Chicago footwork to come, but Sun People, bastiengoat from Oakland, Malou Mørkeberg from Finnland, Jlin from Detroit, and KΣITO from Japan…
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So, this episode combines various interests I’ve been exploring recently. It mixes and matches various strains of techno, from funky floor creations (JETS, Bicep) to ambient-ish home listening tunes (Chloé) to driving polyrhythmic explorations (Helena Hauff). It takes a tour of various international styles of underground club music (Air Max ’97, Dasychira, Sango, Jung Navy).…
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So, a thing about this episode here what aired last Wednesday… it’s a return to the old SttM days when the whole idea was to cram as much oddly juxtaposed music together as possible. So there’s some dance rock, some oblique club, some hip hop, some techno, some downtempo, some post-dubstep, a bit of musique concrete and…
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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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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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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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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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