If you know me, you might know that I’m not really big on hyping my own stuff. I’m just not comfortable doing it; I’d rather under-promise and over-deliver. So with that said, even I can’t deny that this week’s Step to the Music (which I just finished mixing and mastering) is FRIKKIN’ MASSIVE! It can…
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What can I say about this week’s episode? At the risk of underselling it, I seem to have settled into a bit of a comfortable rut, mixing some underground club with some techno, slapping on a bit of grime, calling it a show. And it keeps working and I’m not tired of it yet, so…
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Wednesday, April 25th, 11/10C, RadioNOPE Step to the Music episode 117 premieres, featuring some proper bangin’ Footwork and a bunch of stuff that mixes well with Footwork. Yup, it’s another 160 BPM show, and the hardest thing about putting it together was paring 7 hours of prime sonic ecstasy down to a lean 60 minutes……
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As much performative gnashing of teeth as I indulged in two weeks ago at the archiving of episode one-hundred and thirteen, it seems my contrition was insufficient, my shame was performative, my regret was a sham… I failed to learn from my mistake and, perhaps, did not regard it as a mistake at all. I…
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Tune in to RadioNOPE tonight at 11/10C for a new SttM, featuring a wild mix of funky syncopation and 4-on-the-floor functionality: club sounds drawing on world beats from Latin America to Lebanon crash headlong into acid techno from Chicago, indie disco-rock from DC, and Canadian avant-pop weirdness… and that doesn’t even cover the Finnish downtempo…
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This month marks the tenth anniversary of the release of Benga’s classic LP “Diary of an Afro Warrior.” So I gave it a listen and it mostly holds up (“Go Tell Them” was a too-cute misfire back in 2008 and still is), which inspired me to dedicate an episode to it, along with (mostly) other…
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Through the haze of flu and flu medicine and general early Smarch doldrums comes a new episode of Step to the Music, another frolic through the polyrhythmic possibilities of Grey Area techno. Experiment #01 began with a block of techno, switched to a block of DnB, and then to a concluding block of techno. This…
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The line between House and Techno can be a little fuzzy… more tendencies and attitudes than hard and fast rules separate them. Complicating matters is the extensive cross-pollination between the genres, creating buffer zones of house-influenced techno and techno-influenced house. Tonight’s episode explores those areas of overlap, while remaining pretty solidly in the techno camp.…
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I set out to do a very accessible episode for this week. Something like episode 94, with plenty of big, shamelessly poppy hooks and soaring vocals and… Things did not go according to plan. So what I ended up with instead… I just gave it a listen back, and it’s not quite as alienating and…
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Listen to Radio NOPE Wednesday night at 11/10C for another brand new episode! Join the cool kids in the chatbox to talk about the tunes (or anything else that comes up)! Episode 107 is an experiment coming out of some things I’ve been trying out with Grey Area techno, specifically how its polyrhythms can bridge…
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