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Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

Episode 201: Where Were U?

First episode after last week’s shenanigans, and I think it’s quite nice. Maybe not quite enough to make up for a missing two hours, but quite nice indeed. 160 BPM Footwork/Jungle, with some techno and club bangers and a few curveballs… including three remixes, at least one of which you’re BOUND to recognize… And things…
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Episode 200: LIVE and DIRECT (and LOST)

Episode 200, in celebration of such a big, round number, needed to be something special. Since it came on the heels of the fifth anniversary episode, a celebration of a different kind of big round number, I knew I couldn’t just go long. I finally settled on something I hadn’t done since the 3rd anniversary…
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Episode 199: Host

After two extra-long outings, this episode returns us to normal length, usual format, 135 BPM club and techno workout. Also in the mix are some low-tempo D’n’B mutations, a random cumbia track, a punky coldwave banger, and a fun mashup toward the end. Don’t be fooled, though… this is the calm before the storm… SCAM…
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Episode 198: 2020 In Hindsight II: No More Boogaloo

Here is the second episode (of two) in my look back on the music of 2020. Like I said for episode 197, there was a whole lotta great music for such a terrible year. An earlier version of this playlist would probably have run almost three hours. Even ruthlessly pruned (so many tunes on the…
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Episode 197: 2020 In Hindsight I: The Year In (Dance) Rock

Throughout the year I listen to lots of great rock and roll music, and don’t really get too many chances to play it on my show. 2020 was an exception only in that there seemed to be even MORE great tunes. After putting this episode together, I even remembered several more songs that could easily…
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Episode 196: Spectra

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is weird. Nothing to do but sit in a holding pattern and wait for the world to start up again. It’s an eerie, uncertain, liminal space. Or so in most years… in 2020 it’s just more of the same. That said, I made the decision a few…
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Top Five Most Popular Episodes of 2020!

Methodology, if you care: each episode was given points for likes and shares on Facebook, likes and retweets on Twitter, and score on iTunes. Points were weighted and aggregated largely based on gut feeling… aaaand we got us a list! DEAD F@%*ING LAST First off: Booby prize is split between episodes 186 and 182, a…
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Episode 195: Tabula Rasa

FOUR! FOUR weeks in a row playing Machinedrum and SWAN MEAT! Ahhhh-hahahahaha! Even a D’n’B episode can’t stop me. This is the last new episode for a bit of a bit, as we proceed into holiday reruns. I will be putting together an episode for the weird week between Christmas and New Year’s. As usual,…
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Episode 194: FDT

I think the theme of this episode speaks for itself, and without great subtlety. Right out of the gate. By the Wednesday following election day we could all breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of seeing a certain president’s back. Two and a half weeks later he’s still throwing a(n increasingly ineffective) tantrum,…
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Episode 193: Baby I Don’t Know

post-vote limbo groove Well, this episode aired on Wednesday after the 2020 election, which already feels like it was a month ago. As the title suggests, we really didn’t know what was going on. The whole week was just being in limbo. I put the playlist together and mixed the whole thing on Tuesday night,…
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