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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[Welcome to “Trailing Edge,” a feature I’m trying out for the ‘blog where I discover a new-to-me genre that’s actually been around for several years. The first installment covers ‘Grey Area,’ a mathematical overlap between techno and D’n’B named for the micro-label that birthed it] Something that has, for the past few months, been floating…
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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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As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I strongly suspect that I bought more music in 2017 than I had in any year previous. Trying to make an episode out of my favorite tunes of the year has backed up this suspicion. For a bit it was looking like I was compiling another 2 hour episode, until I…
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