Step to the Music

Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

Episode 141: Tally Ho!

Last week’s episode was a tribute to the genius of Luke Vibert: two hours of funky beats and left-field samples. Not much else to say, honestly. It’s two hours long, which seems to be a thing for 2019 (cutting #142 down to 60 minutes is proving quite a chore, one from which I’m currently taking…
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This Week: Two Hours of Luke Vibert!

Apparently instead of doing an hourlong show a week I’m now doing a two-hour show every second week. That’s my new thing for 2019, or at least Januaty. Sp you can tune in tomorrow, Wednesday January 23 for my latest missile into the unknown, a 120 minute special featuring the music of Luke Vibert, AKA…
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Radio NOPE Electronic Top Ten for January 22, 2019

Objekt – Cocoon Crush (PAN) Various – Brainfeeder X (Brainfeeder) The Samps – Breakfast (Gloriette) Amnesia Scanner – Another Life (PAN) Various – Sweat Equity Volume 3: Extreme Hits! (Sweat Equity) Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the…
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Episode 140: 2019 Me Hates 2018 Me

…because that jagoff slept on The Beths for MONTHS! This week’s episode is a look back at the music that made me grin or had my feet tapping, or even had me doing the chair dance in 2018. I kinda threw a playlist together and it ended up two hours long. In hindsight I woulda…
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Radio NOPE Electronic Top Ten for January 8, 2019

Objekt – Cocoon Crush (PAN) Various – Brainfeeder X (Brainfeeder) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference (Scorpion Beach/Banana Tapes) Various – Sweat Equity Volume 3: Extreme Hits! (Sweat Equity) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Various – Electro Kool-Aid Acid Test (Brooklyn Fire) Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands…
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Top Five Episodes of 2018

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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Episode 139: Apparitionate

The last episode of 2018 takes a turn. A companion to the timeless space between Christmas and New Year’s, when nobody knows what day it is or what to do with themselves, dub techno stretches time and space with delay and reverb and repetition, creating a timeless space and a spaceless time. An hour dilates…
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This Week: Boxing Day Dub

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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Episode 138: Wonderful Christmas(h)time

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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This Week: Yule Tunes III

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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