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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This week’s episode served to get me out of a few lazy ruts that I noticed I’d fallen into. One of them is only playing music with a metronomic pulse that can be correctly ‘gridded’ in Traktor. This took over from my previous tendency to use the ‘warp’ feature on everything when I was using Ableton, putting…
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Last week’s episode was a sequel of sorts to episode 117’s “Footwork and Footwork Adjacent” playlist. One difference: the footwork adjacent part is more limited to jungle and club (although “club” remains an amorphous enough genre term that it doesn’t limit all that much). Another difference: more populist remixes and sample choices: Migos, Depeche Mode, Barry White,…
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This week’s Episode features an array of polyrhythmic intersections, percussive club madness, and glistening dark borderline-psychedelic sounds. It leans pretty heavily on the Classical Trax “Jamz!” compilation, as well as several charity comps. Real Bingey Byrell the Great – #Cmon [Chopped Cheese] Jayda G – Sestra’s Cry [Physically Sick] NKC – For Yourself [Her Records Volume…
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This most recent episode first aired a few weeks ago (apologies for the delay), at a time when a confluence of circumstances led to zero people listening to it. I thought that was a shame, because I’m quite fond of this one. So I let it marinate for a few weeks and aired it again.…
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Wednesday, April 25th, 11/10C, RadioNOPE Step to the Music episode 117 premieres, featuring some proper bangin’ Footwork and a bunch of stuff that mixes well with Footwork. Yup, it’s another 160 BPM show, and the hardest thing about putting it together was paring 7 hours of prime sonic ecstasy down to a lean 60 minutes……
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Last Wednesday’s episode starts out a bit ADD, fitting six short, energetic tracks into the first twelve minutes. From the Latin beats of Merca Bae to the Sino-club of Demon Slayer, to the mutated mentasm of Monotronique, to the Cali dancehall/HA! pastiche of Habibiboi, to the chopped Serbian beats and bass of dJJ’s Lil Taty…
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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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I feel that I cannot apologize enough for the name. I was putting together a playlist that alternated between 140 BPM club tunes and oldschool Dubstep jams, and the portmanteau just presented itself to my horrified mind. It was as unavoidable as it was douchey. I tried to think of something else, but it would…
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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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