Another extra-length episode looking back at a year that was a year, exactly what it says on the tin. This one focuses on a lower BPM range, starting at 105 and building to 135 by its end. So at the start there is hip hop, nu disco and dancehall/dembow-inspired club. The second chunk features some…
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Despite this episode‘s melancholy title, it’s largely joyous when it isn’t being weird. Things start out upbeat with a characteristically poppy offering from Kitsune, then moves on to the swirling, chugging Quantic number that gives the episode its title. Even the song itself tempers its downbeat lyrics with the lush setting of “Atlantic Oscillations.” This…
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So this here episode slows things down considerably. 100 BPM is home to dancehall and reggaeton and various other slow-burning funky genres. Many of them, certainly in my experience, and certainly in this episode, have a Latin feel to them, even from Japanese or Londoner producers. Slavic producers, on the other hand, certainly in my…
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