Tooooomorrow (AKA Wednesday) night, at the usual time (11/10C), the third and final part of the SttM 2017 retrospective trilogy will air on Radio NOPE. This one goes back to club tempo, starting around 123 BPM and gradually increasing to 147 or so. It includes (exclusively, unless I missed something) music that came out last…
Read more
This week’s episode continues my sift through my own tops of 2017 list. Things start out with a Morris Day-sampling future club banger at about the 150 BPM mark, proceeds to footwork tempo where it samples Ahnold, then up into Drum’n’Bass territory, drops a Ghostbusters sample, and ends with another future club tune at 176 BPM.…
Read more
Last week had the techno, the club, a bit of hip-hop. This week takes the tempo up a notch and plays some of my personal favorites from the year that was in the 150-180 BPM range. There are some faster club tunes, but for the most part that means footwork and drum’n’bass. 2017 was a…
Read more
Tonight’s episode featured several tracks each from the Club Chai Vol. 1 compilation and the HER Records Volume 4 compilation, bringing together club sounds from San Francisco and the UK. There was also some Jersey Club, Berlin techno, Brit hop, afrobeat, American dance rock… a smorgasbord of beats, from dark and brooding to soaring and…
Read more
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I strongly suspect that I bought more music in 2017 than I had in any year previous. Trying to make an episode out of my favorite tunes of the year has backed up this suspicion. For a bit it was looking like I was compiling another 2 hour episode, until I…
Read more
Here are the five most popular SttM episodes of 2017 (according to iTunes): 5. #99: We Blowin’ Fractals (Footwork vs DnB) 4. #66: Sunsetstorm (Club vs Techno vs Grime) 3. #100 (170 minutes of club madness) 2. #73: Dork-Rock Dance Party 2 (The Dorkening!) And the number one episode is… … … …? Find out tonight…
Read more
NOTE: Compiling a list of my favorite releases of any given year often strikes me as an especially artificial exercise, given the way I usually find music– always discovering and exploring new genres, I am constantly playing catch-up. So my favorite discoveries of 2017 may well have come out in 2015, if not 2010 or…
Read more
Hello! Step to the Music has a ‘blog! Here is a place for all announcements, show links, show teasers, news and &c. One brand new thing starting… nnnNOW! is that I will be writing reviews of some of the music I enjoy, starting with some lists for 2017 STAY TUNED!
Recent Comments