Last Wednesday’s episode of Step to the Music was another Grey Area experiment. This time, rather than focus on the usefulness of triplet polyrhythms in switching between 170 BPM Drum’n’Bass and 127 BPM Techno, I limited the pallet to Grey Area and D’n’B, keeping the beats per minute at 170. The first third of the…
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Last night’s episode begins with a great techno track from Rob Clouth, then gets brighter and more candy colored until it takes a turn… into the Grey Area. Then things get Autonomic for a bit. It gets Junglistic for a bit, then ends on a mellow ambient-ish mood If that makes no sense to you,…
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Last night’s episode was an experiment in polyrhythms and their usefulness in switching between tempos. Give it a listen and let me know: successful or no? Anthony “Shake” Shakir – Mr. Gone Is Back Again [Frictionalism 1994-2009] Jacek Sienkiewicz – Vagrant Blues [Drifting] Karen Gwyer – Why Don’t You Make Your Bed? [Rembo] Ben Klock – Gooldy Sin (feat.…
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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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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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NOTE: Compiling a list of my favorite releases of any given year often strikes me as an especially artificial exercise, given the way I usually find music– always discovering and exploring new genres, I am constantly playing catch-up. So my favorite discoveries of 2017 may well have come out in 2015, if not 2010 or…
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