Category: Show Promo

Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

Episode 125: What’s It Gonna Take?

This is an episode from almost four years ago that, for some strange reason, never got published on this here ‘blog. It goes all over the place, but the main thrust is that it begins with ~140 BPM club bangers, moves to dubstep and grime, then shifts back to underground club. As a side note,…
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Top Episodes of ’21

“Star Trek: Discovery” added a new term to the canon: the Vulcan Hello. Any time a Vulcan ship encountered a Klingon ship, they knew from long experience to fire first and do anything else later. I’m tempted to give the same greeting to 2022, given recent experience. No benefit of the doubt, just kick that…
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Episode 207: That Feeling Again

Just how many episodes can I begin with I LIKE TRAINS songs? I’ll just keep going until the singer’s tendency to recycle vocal melodies gets enough on my nerves to counteract the joy of the post-punk guitar hooks and tasty synth sonics… in other words, it’s possible that I’ll play every song on the album…
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Coming Up This Week: Stir Crazy Cabin Fever Dance Party

Exciting things are afoot this week at the ol’ NOPE factory! First off, I feel I owe an explanation, if not a full apology, for the lack of a new show last week. This episode fought me all the way. Or I fought it. I was trying to make it either a grimdark gothic dance…
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Top Episodes of 2019!

It is JANUARY! A month when we hit the brakes and spend a bit of time looking back, sifting through all the best of lists that came out (do we need a best of best of lists list to sort through them all?) Here’s my rather belated contribution to the genre… the top ten most…
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Upcoming: Holiday Schedule

Well friends and dancers, stick a fork in 2019, at least so far as new episodes are concerned. Starting tonight we go into holiday reruns! The next two weeks will be replays of the Space Disco episodes, in preparation for the release of Star Wars Episode IX, and then December will feature replays of the…
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This Week: More Footwork and Sundry 160BPM Fellow Steppers

Tomorrow night, Wednesday night, July 31st, tune in to Radio NOPE at 11E/8P for another new episode of SttM, this one featuring more 160 madness. I’ve heard it said that Footwork is music for dancing, and dancing of a specific type, and so if you don’t dance Footwork, you can’t truly understand Footwork music. The…
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This Week: Pop/Club/House/Techno

“But all my friends. they cry about being lonely…” Tomorrow night (by ten minutes!) Wednesday night. You know the drill! 11E/8P, ONLY on RadioNOPE, you can hear the premiere of a brand spankin’ SttM. There’s some hooky dance pop, like earworm fish-hooks, I can’t get these melodies out of my head without one of those…
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This Week: Autonomic With a Toy Surprise

Tune in tomorrow night, Wednesday the 17th, at 11 Eastern/8 Pacific for a brand new episode! This one is drum’n’bass, mostly of the Autonomic variety, plus a rather random curveball to keep everyone on their respective tarsals. Yup, this boy has secured himself another compilation! A new one from Samurai Records, celebrating a decade of…
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This Week: Eclectic 140 BPM

Episode 144 of SttM will premiere this coming Wednesday, February 13, at 11E/8P on RadioNOPE. It features a diverse collection of beats, from slow Footwork to fast techno, from Drum’n’Bass breaks to half-step dub, from dance-rock guitar jangle to avant-club jackhammer kicks, all at 140 BPM. It’s also pretty bass-heavy, so start warming up your…
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