Based on a very non-scientific, very hand-wavey analysis of two different metrics that I can in no way vouch for, I’ve compiled a list of the top five most popular episodes of Step to the Music from the past year. I have listened to these and tried to come to some conclusion about what makes…
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Tune in to Radio NOPE tomorrow, December 26, at 11E/8P for a brand new episode of Step to the Music! Since it’s going to air during that weird haunted netherworld week between Christmas and New Year’s, I got it into my head at some point that the episode should be all dub techno. I’ve done…
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Last night’s episode, aka the third SttM Xmas special, begins with a ridiculous mashup of the Mighty Monarch’s henchmen doing their karaoke Garage Band version of Sir Paul McCartney’s (rightly) reviled and hated Christmas confection vs Rhythm Scholar’s cut-n-scratch remix. The latter samples the Rankin/Bass pseudo-classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” to delightful effect, and…
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XMas is coming, the beats are getting phat, please to put your ears on Radio NOPE this Wednesday (December 19) at 11E/8P for the latest in SttM holiday music– I promise it won’t be old-hat. This one starts out with a horrific mashup I made of a remix vs a cover (of the same song),…
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SttM holiday madness on Radio NOPE continues tonight (Wedndeday, December 12) at 11E/8P with an encore presentation of last year’s Yuletime special. It has a lot of seasonal affected disco and weird mashups and samples from holiday films… it’s a good time! So tune in and drop by the NOPE choochbox to wish all assembled a…
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Objekt – Cocoon Crush (PAN) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference (Scorpion Beach/Banana Tapes) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Various – Sweat Equity Volume 3: Extreme Hits! (Sweat Equity) Various – Electro Kool-Aid Acid Test (Brooklyn Fire) Various – Brainfeeder…
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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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