Here’s a fun one. I initially recorded thie episode at the end of October, and it kept getting pushed back for one reason or another. So, here is the first episode of 2022, looking forward by looking back. Stuck – Playpen of Dissent [Content That Makes You Feel Good] Future Image – March Madness (blastah…
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This is an episode from almost four years ago that, for some strange reason, never got published on this here ‘blog. It goes all over the place, but the main thrust is that it begins with ~140 BPM club bangers, moves to dubstep and grime, then shifts back to underground club. As a side note,…
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I don’t want to overstate it or oversell it, but… this episode is haunted. Not in a cool k-punk way, either. Somewhere in putting this playlist together, and entirely without meaning to, I slipped in some kind of curse. It wasn’t meant to be this way. My clear intention going into making this episode was…
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The heart of this episode is a tribute to SOPHIE, an artist whose work, I have to admit here and now, I slept on for way too long. On either side of SOPHIE’s track “BIPP” I have two tracks that seem to have been strongly influenced by her sonic innovations, that squeaky metallic sheen to…
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Here is the second episode (of two) in my look back on the music of 2020. Like I said for episode 197, there was a whole lotta great music for such a terrible year. An earlier version of this playlist would probably have run almost three hours. Even ruthlessly pruned (so many tunes on the…
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I think the theme of this episode speaks for itself, and without great subtlety. Right out of the gate. By the Wednesday following election day we could all breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of seeing a certain president’s back. Two and a half weeks later he’s still throwing a(n increasingly ineffective) tantrum,…
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I am quite proud of this episode, by and large. I gave it another listen recently, and the tracks flow together nicely. There’s one transition that I feel like I messed up (see if you can spot it!), but for the most part it really works. This one aired three weeks before Halloween, and I…
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Holy crow! This episode marks FIVE FULL FRIGGIN’ YEARS of me doing this show! I wasn’t quite sure what to do… in the past special episodes have generally been extra long. One anniversary episode was the first I recorded using Traktor instead of put together in Ableton (which is now my usual method). Another anniversary…
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A few weeks before this episode, Brian Musikoff aired episode 138 of his always excellent Radio NOPE program Musicon With Musikoff, which consisted of 138 minutes of covers of the Misfits’ “We Are 138.” It got me in mind of times gone by, when I’d do episodes based on their number. SttM #23, twenty-three being…
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~100 BPM episodes are often a challenge. While some BPMs mark out definitive genre zones, 100 encompasses an overlap of several disparate sounds. So the ~100 episodes are often extra eclectic and divergent and eccentric and hence difficult to assemble. Describing this episode, therefore, is a challenge right now. There’s no through-line, no apparent theme.…
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