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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The initial idea for this episode was a bunch of techno and a bunch of gqom… but when I had the playlist worked out it was three times longer than I could even consider fitting into an hour, so I started cutting and cutting and ended up with only two gqom tracks, plus two D’n’B tunes and…
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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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Through the haze of flu and flu medicine and general early Smarch doldrums comes a new episode of Step to the Music, another frolic through the polyrhythmic possibilities of Grey Area techno. Experiment #01 began with a block of techno, switched to a block of DnB, and then to a concluding block of techno. This…
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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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[Welcome to “Trailing Edge,” a feature I’m trying out for the ‘blog where I discover a new-to-me genre that’s actually been around for several years. The first installment covers ‘Grey Area,’ a mathematical overlap between techno and D’n’B named for the micro-label that birthed it] Something that has, for the past few months, been floating…
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