Tag: Autonomic

Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

This Week: Autonomic With a Toy Surprise

Tune in tomorrow night, Wednesday the 17th, at 11 Eastern/8 Pacific for a brand new episode! This one is drum’n’bass, mostly of the Autonomic variety, plus a rather random curveball to keep everyone on their respective tarsals. Yup, this boy has secured himself another compilation! A new one from Samurai Records, celebrating a decade of…
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Episode 147: Altercations

A Step to the Music episode that… well, it’s another 160 BPM episode. It starts with 90’s D’n’B and ends with 90’s D’n’B. In between it’s a mix of Footwork and Autonomic, a tour of the zone where juke and jungle collide and swap flava like a jambolaya. Once again, this mix hits HARD! Roni…
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Episode 132: The Future’s Kinda Sketchy

The initial idea for this episode was a bunch of techno and a bunch of gqom… but when I had the playlist worked out it was three times longer than I could even consider fitting into an hour, so I started cutting and cutting and ended up with only two gqom tracks, plus two D’n’B tunes and…
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Episode 114: Between Dreams

Last Wednesday’s episode of Step to the Music was another Grey Area experiment. This time, rather than focus on the usefulness of triplet polyrhythms in switching between 170 BPM Drum’n’Bass and 127 BPM Techno, I limited the pallet to Grey Area and D’n’B, keeping the beats per minute at 170. The first third of the…
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Episode 110: Atomic Clockwork

Last night’s episode begins with a great techno track from Rob Clouth, then gets brighter and more candy colored until it takes a turn… into the Grey Area. Then things get Autonomic for a bit. It gets Junglistic for a bit, then ends on a mellow ambient-ish mood If that makes no sense to you,…
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Coming This Week: Grey Area Experiment #02

Through the haze of flu and flu medicine and general early Smarch doldrums comes a new episode of Step to the Music, another frolic through the polyrhythmic possibilities of Grey Area techno. Experiment #01 began with a block of techno, switched to a block of DnB, and then to a concluding block of techno. This…
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Episode 107: Vagrant Blues

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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Coming This Week: Grey Area Experiment #01

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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