Category: Show Archive

Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

Episode 108: Blood From a Stone

Last night’s episode, which goes a few weird places and features some ripsnorting good tunes I Speak Machine – Blood from a Stone [Annual General Meeting Record (Vol. 2)] Le Makeup – Shame [Unaccustomed Earth] Soda Plains – Porcelain (Merca Bae Edit) [Merca Zip /2017/] Dinamarca – Mobileboy [HER Records Volume 4] BTVN – Anxiety [CVLT Singles] Hercules & Love Affair –…
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Episode 107: Vagrant Blues

Last night’s episode was an experiment in polyrhythms and their usefulness in switching between tempos. Give it a listen and let me know: successful or no? Anthony “Shake” Shakir – Mr. Gone Is Back Again [Frictionalism 1994-2009] Jacek Sienkiewicz – Vagrant Blues [Drifting] Karen Gwyer – Why Don’t You Make Your Bed? [Rembo] Ben Klock – Gooldy Sin (feat.…
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Episode 106: True Zen

Last night’s episode is available in the archives! (And on iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator) Listen to hear undergound/avant-garde club tracks from all over, combining world beats with industrial crunch. A nice change from corralling a bunch of different genres/tempos to just focusing on a smaller range… Nuvaman – Girls Girls Girls [TAR Class…
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Episode 105: It’s the End, the End of the ’17 (pt III)

Episode 105 concludes my 2017 retrospective trilogy. It starts hard with the uber-compressed kick of R Y K T then turns unexpectedly melodic before diving into Objekt’s rave pastiche and off onto a fantasia tour of modern club sounds, circa 2017, and landing somewhere between instrumental grime and Jersey club, just for a moment, making…
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Episode 104: It’s the End, the End of the ’17 (pt II)

This week’s episode continues my sift through my own tops of 2017 list. Things start out with a  Morris Day-sampling future club banger at about the 150 BPM mark, proceeds to footwork tempo where it samples Ahnold, then up into Drum’n’Bass territory, drops a Ghostbusters sample, and ends with another future club tune at 176 BPM.…
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Episode 103: It’s the End, the End of the ’17 (pt I)

Tonight’s episode featured several tracks each from the Club Chai Vol. 1 compilation and the HER Records Volume 4 compilation, bringing together club sounds from San Francisco and the UK. There was also some Jersey Club, Berlin techno, Brit hop, afrobeat, American dance rock… a smorgasbord of beats, from dark and brooding to soaring and…
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