This was the first episode after a random glitch took out my Traktor playlists. So rather than starting with a list of all tunes I’d previously selected to fit the tempo and vibe, excluding any I’d used in previous episodes, instead I started with… nothing. The way that it shows up in this episode is…
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2021 Part II So here is the second episode of my look back at 2021. Quite a bit of “second verse, same as the first” to my look back at 2020, honestly. Lockdown hasn’t altered my pallet much at all. If anything, this episode features fewer curveballs and hews more to genre: disco/house -> techno…
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This episode begins with a misdirect: a peppy power pop tune from Texan rockers The Deathray Davies. As the tune moves into its final verse, the breakbeats kick in and we see the truth: it’s another D’n’B episode! It’s a spiritual sequel to Episode 211, a combination of Liquid funkiness, Autonomic experimentalism, and down and…
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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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This episode starts out hard and heavy with the punky darkwave sound of The Mall, but quickly mellows into the jazzy sounds of Liquid Drum & Bass. In the late 90’s and early 00’s, Liquid emerged as a reaction to the heaviness of D’n’B, a pendulum swing away from the increasingly harsh sounds of Techstep…
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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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FOUR! FOUR weeks in a row playing Machinedrum and SWAN MEAT! Ahhhh-hahahahaha! Even a D’n’B episode can’t stop me. This is the last new episode for a bit of a bit, as we proceed into holiday reruns. I will be putting together an episode for the weird week between Christmas and New Year’s. As usual,…
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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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Grey Area Experiment #04 As I mentioned in the description for the previous one, this episode was partially inspired by a chatbox discussion on Grey Area’s use of polyrhythms to create two simultaneous tempos– usually 127 BPM and 171 BPM (though I’ve recently discovered that producers have expanded into other tempos… a subject for a…
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Comparing this episode to episode 188, which aired last night, I am forced to ask myself “reuse the same tricks much?” Yes, 188 began with Bestiärio and ended with The Beths, where this one switches them and adds a J. Robbins track at the end, but I must berate myself for a lack of variety…
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