A Step to the Music episode that… well, it’s another 160 BPM episode. It starts with 90’s D’n’B and ends with 90’s D’n’B. In between it’s a mix of Footwork and Autonomic, a tour of the zone where juke and jungle collide and swap flava like a jambolaya. Once again, this mix hits HARD! Roni…
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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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Last night’s episode, aka the third SttM Xmas special, begins with a ridiculous mashup of the Mighty Monarch’s henchmen doing their karaoke Garage Band version of Sir Paul McCartney’s (rightly) reviled and hated Christmas confection vs Rhythm Scholar’s cut-n-scratch remix. The latter samples the Rankin/Bass pseudo-classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” to delightful effect, and…
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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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The initial idea for this episode was a bunch of techno and a bunch of gqom… but when I had the playlist worked out it was three times longer than I could even consider fitting into an hour, so I started cutting and cutting and ended up with only two gqom tracks, plus two D’n’B tunes and…
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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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BROTHERS! SISTERS! Allow the groove to be political for just a moment. Do not need. Do not want. Then the episode settles into a sibling to episode 128, though cleaving a bit more closely to footwork. Exceptions, overlooking the lead-in track, include another fast grime tune from Proc Fiskal and a tune by Aphex Twin, off his…
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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, 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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