Time again for a 140BPM episode! These tend to lean heavily on older music, since d****** started really turning to shit around 2010. But that leaves more than five years of viable dance tunes! The newer stuff here is grime and faster club/house tunes, as well as random bits of rock, hip hop, and electronic…
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This episode, named after the thing we recently had to start avoiding, centers around club mutations, with some tipping over in various directions toward neighboring genres: Hard Drum, Italo Disco, Jersey Club, Techno, mnml, House, rave, spacerock, and etc. Bookending the mix are two underground divas: Kim Gordon off her most recent release with a…
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Some things happened with this episode that I hesitate even to mention… possibly why it took so long to get an episode that aired on February 5th into the archives! But first the actual substance of the episode… In substance, this is a slowed down 140 BPM ep, which means, as one would expect, plenty…
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Another extra-length episode looking back at a year that was a year, exactly what it says on the tin. This one focuses on a lower BPM range, starting at 105 and building to 135 by its end. So at the start there is hip hop, nu disco and dancehall/dembow-inspired club. The second chunk features some…
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The first episode of the new decade spends 85 minutes looking back. Some of these songs I’ve played on previous episodes, and some of them are songs that I haven’t, but mainly because they don’t fit the format especially well… which is to say that this is an unusually rock-heavy episode. Altin Gün and Hatchie…
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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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This episode begins with a spate of SttM’s fabled “random left turns,” from indie rock to house to club to grime to Latinx trap and back around again. The second half settles into a more predictable groove, full of d****** and instrumental grime, with just one quick (very melodic) Hard Drum detour around the thirty…
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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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So this here episode slows things down considerably. 100 BPM is home to dancehall and reggaeton and various other slow-burning funky genres. Many of them, certainly in my experience, and certainly in this episode, have a Latin feel to them, even from Japanese or Londoner producers. Slavic producers, on the other hand, certainly in my…
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