Time again for a 140BPM episode! These tend to lean heavily on older music, since d****** started really turning to shit around 2010. But that leaves more than five years of viable dance tunes! The newer stuff here is grime and faster club/house tunes, as well as random bits of rock, hip hop, and electronic…
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A Few Days Since I Left The House This particular episode aired on April Fool’s Day, but there’s not much joking going on. We were all still getting used to shelter in place, it still had some novelty, but certain elements were taking a simple request not to put their fellow citizens at risk of…
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This episode, named after the thing we recently had to start avoiding, centers around club mutations, with some tipping over in various directions toward neighboring genres: Hard Drum, Italo Disco, Jersey Club, Techno, mnml, House, rave, spacerock, and etc. Bookending the mix are two underground divas: Kim Gordon off her most recent release with a…
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This is ostensibly a drum’n’bass episode, and for the central chunk of its running length it behaves accordingly. HOWEVER, the path it takes to get there meanders for a bit through rockstep, hip hop, and some dance-y post-hardcore. The other end of the mix walks back down a similar path, through sped-up footwork and motorik…
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Exciting things are afoot this week at the ol’ NOPE factory! First off, I feel I owe an explanation, if not a full apology, for the lack of a new show last week. This episode fought me all the way. Or I fought it. I was trying to make it either a grimdark gothic dance…
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This episode, dating back to those innocent, halcyon days of early March, starts with some dreampop, before pivoting to dance pop for a bit, before pivoting again to hip hop. The middle third takes various detours through club, techno, and downtempo, before returning to hip hop for a bit, then concluding with a profane club…
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This episode features dance rock, disco, dance pop, some quick Latinx club, a Jersey Club remix, some left-field techno out of Bristol, UK, a bit of straight functional techno, and quite a bit of lo-fi house. As per ususl (do I even need to say it any more?) things get a bit weirrrd at around…
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Some things happened with this episode that I hesitate even to mention… possibly why it took so long to get an episode that aired on February 5th into the archives! But first the actual substance of the episode… In substance, this is a slowed down 140 BPM ep, which means, as one would expect, plenty…
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Eh! Oh! It’s another 160 BPM episode! As usual, that means some footwork, some neo-jungle, some straight DnB, and a little bit of dance rock (in this case, the bread on this drum’n’werk sammitch). What else is there to say? It slams, and the coda brings the funky motorik goodness. Is it just needlessly repetitive…
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Another extra-length episode looking back at a year that was a year, exactly what it says on the tin. This one focuses on a lower BPM range, starting at 105 and building to 135 by its end. So at the start there is hip hop, nu disco and dancehall/dembow-inspired club. The second chunk features some…
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