this one begins with Astronomique’s modern reimagining of 90’s dreampop before shifting gears to Ckrono’s aggressive reggaeton sounds (off a compilation of House music). The remainder of the mix goes back and forth between oblique club and hip-hop, with a focus on the oldschool. There are a few sidetracks into slow house and alternative rock before…
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The new DJ Ends EP is pretty great. It’s a Teutonic take on Footwork, combined with Jungle influences. This episode starts out with a more Footwork-indebted track before sequeing into Miko, a Polish producer. There’s plenty of oldschool Chicago footwork to come, but Sun People, bastiengoat from Oakland, Malou Mørkeberg from Finnland, Jlin from Detroit, and KΣITO from Japan…
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So, this episode combines various interests I’ve been exploring recently. It mixes and matches various strains of techno, from funky floor creations (JETS, Bicep) to ambient-ish home listening tunes (Chloé) to driving polyrhythmic explorations (Helena Hauff). It takes a tour of various international styles of underground club music (Air Max ’97, Dasychira, Sango, Jung Navy).…
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So, a thing about this episode here what aired last Wednesday… it’s a return to the old SttM days when the whole idea was to cram as much oddly juxtaposed music together as possible. So there’s some dance rock, some oblique club, some hip hop, some techno, some downtempo, some post-dubstep, a bit of musique concrete and…
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Last week’s episode goes all over the place. That includes using the one weird triplet trick I picked up from experimenting with Grey Area Techno to jump from 100BPM to 150 BPM. It also features dork rock anthemz and hip hop bangerz and all kinds of remixes/refixes/edits/mashups/covers and the like. If you want an hour of the most…
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Tonight (AKA Wednesday, 8/8) at 11E/8P you can tune in to RadioNOPE for a new episode of Step to the Music. It’s a thing, it happens every week, you shouldn’t be surprised by now. So what is there to say about tonight’s ep? Something about a dichotomy, maybe. The bright candy-coated pop melodies and the…
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Wednesday night at 11E/8P, I invite you to tune in to RadioNOPE for another fine episode. This one starts out sounding like a dork-rock dance party, the usual SttM suspects of danceable indie, but mixed in with hip hop bangers here and there. Things gradually shift to more of a club feel, plus some rhythmically…
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Last week’s episode explored the slower range of club music, the faster end of hip hop, downtempo breaks, dembow swagger, and even a sweet taste of bhangra. Starting things off, Lao’s remix of Fever Ray’s “Mustn’t Hurry” takes the title literally and tames the original’s frenetic pace to a herky deconstructed flow. Two tracks from the…
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This week’s episode took the base stock of oblique Club I’ve been simmering for a few months now and adds flavors of house, techno and gqom. It’s a quintessential SttM episode, in that it gets really weird around the middle, and then gets super poppy at the end. Also, there are several “clever” transitions that were entirely…
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The most recent episode begins with some vogue club, weaving in and out of a bit of post-punk noise and techno realness (RIP Marcus Intalex) before some sino-rap slows things down and we make the switch to hip hop. From there it’s a gradual speed up, dropping a bit of drum’n’bass, quite a bit of oblique industrial…
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