Despite this episode‘s melancholy title, it’s largely joyous when it isn’t being weird. Things start out upbeat with a characteristically poppy offering from Kitsune, then moves on to the swirling, chugging Quantic number that gives the episode its title. Even the song itself tempers its downbeat lyrics with the lush setting of “Atlantic Oscillations.” This…
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This episode pokes around the Hard Drum area of hybrid club music. Things start off with Ballroom House auteur LSDXOXO’s remix of Missy Elliott, and from there launches into a spree of African-inspired rhythms. Things wrap up with Jersey Club auteur DJ Jayhood, before winding down with some French trap. The mix is fast-paced and…
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This latest episode starts with a wash of gentle surf and ends with a wash of applause. In between it goes all over the place, taking some odd routes. The idea I went into it with was taking episode 143’s description of “Jungle vs Footwork” and making it a bit more of a fair fight.…
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So, a thing about this episode here what aired last Wednesday… it’s a return to the old SttM days when the whole idea was to cram as much oddly juxtaposed music together as possible. So there’s some dance rock, some oblique club, some hip hop, some techno, some downtempo, some post-dubstep, a bit of musique concrete and…
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Last night’s SttM is in the archives for your listening pleasure, featuring club syncopations and techno bangers from around the world: from Lebanon to Montreal; from Brasil to San Francisco; from DC to Durban, South Africa; from Finland to Bristol, England; and beyond! Janne Hatula – Lo-Fi Life [Polku EP] Eon – Inner Mind [Void…
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Last night’s episode is available in the archives! (And on iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator) Listen to hear undergound/avant-garde club tracks from all over, combining world beats with industrial crunch. A nice change from corralling a bunch of different genres/tempos to just focusing on a smaller range… Nuvaman – Girls Girls Girls [TAR Class…
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Episode 105 concludes my 2017 retrospective trilogy. It starts hard with the uber-compressed kick of R Y K T then turns unexpectedly melodic before diving into Objekt’s rave pastiche and off onto a fantasia tour of modern club sounds, circa 2017, and landing somewhere between instrumental grime and Jersey club, just for a moment, making…
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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.…
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