This episode is a bit of a sequel/afterparty/hangover to the previous D’n’B episode, which focused on Liquid. Things start off sunny, jazzy and poppy with a nice roller from Nu:Tone and end with another. Between these two slices things get clubby, things get jungly, things get briefly Autonomic-y… but once again it’s a Liquid showcase.…
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100 BPM means a lot of things, but lately on SttM it means MOSTLY one thing: Latin club sounds. Greek producer Abyss X opens this episode with a cinematic agglomeration of sonics, which only gradually find anything recognizable as a beat. From there the mix launches into a smorgasbord of underground club sounds while I…
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This episode could be viewed as a response to the last one, heavy and sinister where 208 was light and joyful. This is not to say that it lacks melodicism, which it has in spades, hearts, clubs AND diamonds friends… more that it would rather shove your ass onto the dancefloor than send it a…
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This episode is all about joy. Things take a turn for the minor key at about the half hour mark, but in a certain context even sinister sonics feel more like a giggly jaunt through a haunted house… Allen French sets the tone with his uber-melodic contribution to the House Kitsune America compilation, after which…
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Just how many episodes can I begin with I LIKE TRAINS songs? I’ll just keep going until the singer’s tendency to recycle vocal melodies gets enough on my nerves to counteract the joy of the post-punk guitar hooks and tasty synth sonics… in other words, it’s possible that I’ll play every song on the album…
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This episode starts out straight ahead rock’n’roll, sunny sounds (Admiral Ackbar shouts a warning from his chair) from Australia’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever followed by the darker straigt-outta-Leeds post-punk vibes of I LIKE TRAINS (featuring some downright Sonic Youth guitar tones). From there, things veer into clubland, with underground electronic and techno sounds… there are…
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This episode starts out hard and heavy with the punky darkwave sound of The Mall, but quickly mellows into the jazzy sounds of Liquid Drum & Bass. In the late 90’s and early 00’s, Liquid emerged as a reaction to the heaviness of D’n’B, a pendulum swing away from the increasingly harsh sounds of Techstep…
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I don’t want to overstate it or oversell it, but… this episode is haunted. Not in a cool k-punk way, either. Somewhere in putting this playlist together, and entirely without meaning to, I slipped in some kind of curse. It wasn’t meant to be this way. My clear intention going into making this episode was…
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This is an episode for the true heads. Things start out with a bit of goth-y posty-punky dance rock from present-day Swedish masters of the genre Then Comes Silence… but then segue into the Title track from Truth’s latest EP and from there it’s pure Dubstep and instrumental Grime (with, arguably, a single track of…
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The heart of this episode is a tribute to SOPHIE, an artist whose work, I have to admit here and now, I slept on for way too long. On either side of SOPHIE’s track “BIPP” I have two tracks that seem to have been strongly influenced by her sonic innovations, that squeaky metallic sheen to…
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