~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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After the previous week’s episode, which delved into the mania and anxiety of shelter in place quarantine, this one provides an escape, an hour of relief in a sonic bubble bath. Now, I have to admit that I am still me and this is still SttM, and so things inevitably get a bit weird, vibes…
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This episode, dating back to those innocent, halcyon days of early March, starts with some dreampop, before pivoting to dance pop for a bit, before pivoting again to hip hop. The middle third takes various detours through club, techno, and downtempo, before returning to hip hop for a bit, then concluding with a profane club…
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I did manage a second new episode in October! It was a busy month, filling in on station duties for (happily vacationing) absent NOPE comrades, and there were a few things I had to let slide… One six two begins with a tune off the recent Ladytron release, before retreating back a few years to…
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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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Another ~120 BPM episode. This one distinguishes itself with the inclusion of more rock than the average SttM, and announces the fact right out of the gate with the latest Redd Kross single. From there it quickly pivots to some nu-disco courtesy of Breakbot and Holy Ghost! From there, we get all kindsa genre agnostic–…
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“But all my friends, they cry about being lonely…” This episode starts off with JETS in full IDM mode, sounding a bit like a cross between AFX and Mouse On Mars. From there, things get syncopated and energetic. Hard Drum, Hop Hop, house and club manifestations, a bit of mnml techno, some Jersey Club, even…
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Another exercise in offensively eclectic, this episode begins with Chicago shoegaze and ends with Trukish psych-rock. In between it visits some hip hop (in ironic celebration of my newfound Insulin resistance), some French disco, some Latinx club, some Hard Drum, some techno-produced hip hop, some deconstructed club, some club remixes of various provenance (R&B, Russian…
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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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