Tag: D&B

Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

Episode 211: Feel Da Heat

This episode is a bit of a sequel/afterparty/hangover to the previous D’n’B episode, which focused on Liquid. Things start off sunny, jazzy and poppy with a nice roller from Nu:Tone and end with another. Between these two slices things get clubby, things get jungly, things get briefly Autonomic-y… but once again it’s a Liquid showcase.…
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Episode 188: It Ain’t No Use

I Wish That I Could Wish You Well Looking back, episode 182 featured Drum’n’Bass, began with a song by The Beths and ended with a song by Bestiärio. This episode, in a striking contrast, features Drum’n’Bass while it ENDS with a song by The Beths and BEGINS with a song by Bestiärio. Totally different, as…
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Episode 128: Time 2 Lose

The new DJ Ends EP is pretty great. It’s a Teutonic take on Footwork, combined with Jungle influences. This episode starts out with a more Footwork-indebted track before sequeing into Miko, a Polish producer. There’s plenty of oldschool Chicago footwork to come, but Sun People, bastiengoat from Oakland, Malou Mørkeberg from Finnland, Jlin from Detroit, and KΣITO from Japan…
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Episode 119: Funk From 2905

Last week’s episode was a sequel of sorts to episode 117’s “Footwork and Footwork Adjacent” playlist. One difference: the footwork adjacent part is more limited to jungle and club (although “club” remains an amorphous enough genre term that it doesn’t limit all that much). Another difference: more populist remixes and sample choices: Migos, Depeche Mode, Barry White,…
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