Another footwork episode, this one with some footwork-tempo Drun’n’Bass in the mix. I initially called this one Footwork vs Jungle, but if so the footwork quickly overpowered and assimilated the competition. Om Unit and Philip D Kick and Dawn Day Night and Malou are not just hopelessly outnumbered, they all contribute heavily Chicago-influenced tracks. Sinistarr’s…
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Hooooooooray! Three years! this episode begins with an extended intro, intended to give me time to make sure I was actually broadcasting. It goes on possibly (definitely) too long, before launching into Turkish Delight’s “Around,” a song which I thought was more metronomic than it actually is, hence the clumsy transition into the Neil Landstrumm track…
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BROTHERS! SISTERS! Allow the groove to be political for just a moment. Do not need. Do not want. Then the episode settles into a sibling to episode 128, though cleaving a bit more closely to footwork. Exceptions, overlooking the lead-in track, include another fast grime tune from Proc Fiskal and a tune by Aphex Twin, off his…
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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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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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This most recent episode first aired a few weeks ago (apologies for the delay), at a time when a confluence of circumstances led to zero people listening to it. I thought that was a shame, because I’m quite fond of this one. So I let it marinate for a few weeks and aired it again.…
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Wednesday, April 25th, 11/10C, RadioNOPE Step to the Music episode 117 premieres, featuring some proper bangin’ Footwork and a bunch of stuff that mixes well with Footwork. Yup, it’s another 160 BPM show, and the hardest thing about putting it together was paring 7 hours of prime sonic ecstasy down to a lean 60 minutes……
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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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