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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Similar to last week’s episode in a way, this one slows down the tempo to ~140 BPM and looks at what footwork and DnB producers do at a slower tempo. Some of it is slowed down footwork or jungle, some of it is Drum’n’Bass producers aping Dubstep. There’s also some techno — mnml courtesy of…
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This episode starts off with several tunes that fall more on the “song” end of the song/track spectrum. First off, Montreal’s Ouri splits the difference between techno and pop. Then Santa Muerte provides an edit of mumblestar Lil Uzi Vert, coming from the most recent Bootlegs and Edits compilation (which comp is, without a doubt, the MVP…
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Hooooooooray! Three years! this episode begins with an extended intro, intended to give me time to make sure I was actually broadcasting. It goes on possibly (definitely) too long, before launching into Turkish Delight’s “Around,” a song which I thought was more metronomic than it actually is, hence the clumsy transition into the Neil Landstrumm track…
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this one begins with Astronomique’s modern reimagining of 90’s dreampop before shifting gears to Ckrono’s aggressive reggaeton sounds (off a compilation of House music). The remainder of the mix goes back and forth between oblique club and hip-hop, with a focus on the oldschool. There are a few sidetracks into slow house and alternative rock before…
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So, this episode combines various interests I’ve been exploring recently. It mixes and matches various strains of techno, from funky floor creations (JETS, Bicep) to ambient-ish home listening tunes (Chloé) to driving polyrhythmic explorations (Helena Hauff). It takes a tour of various international styles of underground club music (Air Max ’97, Dasychira, Sango, Jung Navy).…
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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 week’s episode explored the slower range of club music, the faster end of hip hop, downtempo breaks, dembow swagger, and even a sweet taste of bhangra. Starting things off, Lao’s remix of Fever Ray’s “Mustn’t Hurry” takes the title literally and tames the original’s frenetic pace to a herky deconstructed flow. Two tracks from the…
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This week’s episode took the base stock of oblique Club I’ve been simmering for a few months now and adds flavors of house, techno and gqom. It’s a quintessential SttM episode, in that it gets really weird around the middle, and then gets super poppy at the end. Also, there are several “clever” transitions that were entirely…
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The most recent episode begins with some vogue club, weaving in and out of a bit of post-punk noise and techno realness (RIP Marcus Intalex) before some sino-rap slows things down and we make the switch to hip hop. From there it’s a gradual speed up, dropping a bit of drum’n’bass, quite a bit of oblique industrial…
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