A few weeks back, episode 133, I noted that the episode number and the BPM rate of the mix were the same, noting that such had been a rare event and suspecting that it would remain so. Two episodes later, BEHOLD! Episode 135 has some techno and some club, with mmnl-ist thud and industrial pound, but…
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What the previous SttM was to cranking the filter knob clockwise to make a track sound tinny and transistor-radio-y as a transition device, this episode is to cranking the filter knob counterclockwise to make a track sound like it’s sinking underwater as a device to prevent it from clashing with another track’s drop. Possibly some day I’ll…
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Tomorrow (Wedensday) night, 11E/8P, ONLY on RadioNOPE: As the nights grow longer and the days grow cold. as the wildlife retreats and the leaves die, November leads us to thoughts of darkness and mortality. So what else can we do but dance? Episode 135 of Step to the Music traffics in techno and club sounds…
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Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Rejoicer – Energy Dreams (Stones Throw) Peace to Mateo – Some Strange Reason (Young Heavy Souls) Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi (Ghostly International) Daniel Avery – Diminuendo EP (Mute) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference…
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Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love (Mute) Wafia – I’m Good SINGLE (Future Classic) Rejoicer – Energy Dreams (Stones Throw) Steve Hauschildt – Dissolvi (Ghostly International) Peace to Mateo – Some Strange Reason (Young Heavy Souls) Lambda Celcius – Ana Echo and the Beauty of Indifference (Scorpion Beach/Banana Tapes) Ouri – We…
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This has been the case for a little bit of a bit, but I haven’t mentioned it here: got myself an official title. I’m now Assistant Music Director at RadioNOPE, helping sort through the music submissions we get and decide what gets added to the playlists, helping to maintain the NOPE internal library of music…
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This episode starts off with several tunes that fall more on the “song” end of the song/track spectrum. First off, Montreal’s Ouri splits the difference between techno and pop. Then Santa Muerte provides an edit of mumblestar Lil Uzi Vert, coming from the most recent Bootlegs and Edits compilation (which comp is, without a doubt, the MVP…
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The initial idea for this episode was a bunch of techno and a bunch of gqom… but when I had the playlist worked out it was three times longer than I could even consider fitting into an hour, so I started cutting and cutting and ended up with only two gqom tracks, plus two D’n’B tunes and…
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Hooooooooray! Three years! this episode begins with an extended intro, intended to give me time to make sure I was actually broadcasting. It goes on possibly (definitely) too long, before launching into Turkish Delight’s “Around,” a song which I thought was more metronomic than it actually is, hence the clumsy transition into the Neil Landstrumm track…
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BROTHERS! SISTERS! Allow the groove to be political for just a moment. Do not need. Do not want. Then the episode settles into a sibling to episode 128, though cleaving a bit more closely to footwork. Exceptions, overlooking the lead-in track, include another fast grime tune from Proc Fiskal and a tune by Aphex Twin, off his…
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