Tune in to RadioNOPE tonight at 11/10C for a new SttM, featuring a wild mix of funky syncopation and 4-on-the-floor functionality: club sounds drawing on world beats from Latin America to Lebanon crash headlong into acid techno from Chicago, indie disco-rock from DC, and Canadian avant-pop weirdness… and that doesn’t even cover the Finnish downtempo…
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Last night’s episode showcases Benga’s “Diary of an Afro Warrior” ten years after it came out. Yes, this was what D****** sounded like before Skillrex came along and ruined everything. ~141 BPM, bass and space. At some point over the past few years I got sick of trying to explain to people who were convinced…
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This month marks the tenth anniversary of the release of Benga’s classic LP “Diary of an Afro Warrior.” So I gave it a listen and it mostly holds up (“Go Tell Them” was a too-cute misfire back in 2008 and still is), which inspired me to dedicate an episode to it, along with (mostly) other…
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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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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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Here is last night’s episode for your time-shifted listening delight. As previously mentioned, it features a mix of techno and tech-house, plus some Swedish house-which-may-as-well-be-techno because… well… norse? Marcel Dettmann & Ben Klock – Dawning (Revisited) [Scenario] Hubie Davison – Mannequin Move [I Won’t Be There EP] Scuba – Television [Claustrophobia] Aebeloe – Forma [4…
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The line between House and Techno can be a little fuzzy… more tendencies and attitudes than hard and fast rules separate them. Complicating matters is the extensive cross-pollination between the genres, creating buffer zones of house-influenced techno and techno-influenced house. Tonight’s episode explores those areas of overlap, while remaining pretty solidly in the techno camp.…
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Last night’s episode, which goes a few weird places and features some ripsnorting good tunes I Speak Machine – Blood from a Stone [Annual General Meeting Record (Vol. 2)] Le Makeup – Shame [Unaccustomed Earth] Soda Plains – Porcelain (Merca Bae Edit) [Merca Zip /2017/] Dinamarca – Mobileboy [HER Records Volume 4] BTVN – Anxiety [CVLT Singles] Hercules & Love Affair –…
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I set out to do a very accessible episode for this week. Something like episode 94, with plenty of big, shamelessly poppy hooks and soaring vocals and… Things did not go according to plan. So what I ended up with instead… I just gave it a listen back, and it’s not quite as alienating and…
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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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