Here is last night’s episode for your time-shifted listening delight. As previously mentioned, it features a mix of techno and tech-house, plus some Swedish house-which-may-as-well-be-techno because… well… norse? Marcel Dettmann & Ben Klock – Dawning (Revisited) [Scenario] Hubie Davison – Mannequin Move [I Won’t Be There EP] Scuba – Television [Claustrophobia] Aebeloe – Forma [4…
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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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Last night’s episode, which goes a few weird places and features some ripsnorting good tunes I Speak Machine – Blood from a Stone [Annual General Meeting Record (Vol. 2)] Le Makeup – Shame [Unaccustomed Earth] Soda Plains – Porcelain (Merca Bae Edit) [Merca Zip /2017/] Dinamarca – Mobileboy [HER Records Volume 4] BTVN – Anxiety [CVLT Singles] Hercules & Love Affair –…
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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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Last night’s episode was an experiment in polyrhythms and their usefulness in switching between tempos. Give it a listen and let me know: successful or no? Anthony “Shake” Shakir – Mr. Gone Is Back Again [Frictionalism 1994-2009] Jacek Sienkiewicz – Vagrant Blues [Drifting] Karen Gwyer – Why Don’t You Make Your Bed? [Rembo] Ben Klock – Gooldy Sin (feat.…
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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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[Welcome to “Trailing Edge,” a feature I’m trying out for the ‘blog where I discover a new-to-me genre that’s actually been around for several years. The first installment covers ‘Grey Area,’ a mathematical overlap between techno and D’n’B named for the micro-label that birthed it] Something that has, for the past few months, been floating…
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Last night’s episode is available in the archives! (And on iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator) Listen to hear undergound/avant-garde club tracks from all over, combining world beats with industrial crunch. A nice change from corralling a bunch of different genres/tempos to just focusing on a smaller range… Nuvaman – Girls Girls Girls [TAR Class…
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Tonight’s episode (11/10C on Radio NOPE) features a wide variety of contemporary underground club sounds from the likes of Ariel Zetina, Semita Serpens, B.YHZZ, and more, as well as cutting edge remixes of Kanye West, Drake and Beyoncé. It’s kind of a beast, so tune in ready to have your ears pummeled by some heavy heavy…
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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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