Here is the second episode (of two) in my look back on the music of 2020. Like I said for episode 197, there was a whole lotta great music for such a terrible year. An earlier version of this playlist would probably have run almost three hours. Even ruthlessly pruned (so many tunes on the…
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Throughout the year I listen to lots of great rock and roll music, and don’t really get too many chances to play it on my show. 2020 was an exception only in that there seemed to be even MORE great tunes. After putting this episode together, I even remembered several more songs that could easily…
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The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is weird. Nothing to do but sit in a holding pattern and wait for the world to start up again. It’s an eerie, uncertain, liminal space. Or so in most years… in 2020 it’s just more of the same. That said, I made the decision a few…
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Methodology, if you care: each episode was given points for likes and shares on Facebook, likes and retweets on Twitter, and score on iTunes. Points were weighted and aggregated largely based on gut feeling… aaaand we got us a list! DEAD F@%*ING LAST First off: Booby prize is split between episodes 186 and 182, a…
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FOUR! FOUR weeks in a row playing Machinedrum and SWAN MEAT! Ahhhh-hahahahaha! Even a D’n’B episode can’t stop me. This is the last new episode for a bit of a bit, as we proceed into holiday reruns. I will be putting together an episode for the weird week between Christmas and New Year’s. As usual,…
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I think the theme of this episode speaks for itself, and without great subtlety. Right out of the gate. By the Wednesday following election day we could all breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of seeing a certain president’s back. Two and a half weeks later he’s still throwing a(n increasingly ineffective) tantrum,…
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post-vote limbo groove Well, this episode aired on Wednesday after the 2020 election, which already feels like it was a month ago. As the title suggests, we really didn’t know what was going on. The whole week was just being in limbo. I put the playlist together and mixed the whole thing on Tuesday night,…
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I am quite proud of this episode, by and large. I gave it another listen recently, and the tracks flow together nicely. There’s one transition that I feel like I messed up (see if you can spot it!), but for the most part it really works. This one aired three weeks before Halloween, and I…
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Here’s another 160 BPM episode! As is usual with 160 eps, it features a lot of footwork and jungle and footwork/jungle hybrids. It also includes some underground club and pop-techno. Notably, I accidentally included two jungle tracks from the same producer (Pulse), and for some reason the BPM reverted from 164 back to 160(?!) and…
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Holy crow! This episode marks FIVE FULL FRIGGIN’ YEARS of me doing this show! I wasn’t quite sure what to do… in the past special episodes have generally been extra long. One anniversary episode was the first I recorded using Traktor instead of put together in Ableton (which is now my usual method). Another anniversary…
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