’twas the Wednesday before Christmas… Every few years I put together a new Yule episode for the Winter solstice-adjacent holidays, the celebration of the return of light to the world as the days stop getting shorter and start getting longer. Remember: the tilt in the Earth’s axis is the reason for the season! Recent holiday…
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I don’t want to overstate it or oversell it, but… this episode is haunted. Not in a cool k-punk way, either. Somewhere in putting this playlist together, and entirely without meaning to, I slipped in some kind of curse. It wasn’t meant to be this way. My clear intention going into making this episode was…
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First episode after last week’s shenanigans, and I think it’s quite nice. Maybe not quite enough to make up for a missing two hours, but quite nice indeed. 160 BPM Footwork/Jungle, with some techno and club bangers and a few curveballs… including three remixes, at least one of which you’re BOUND to recognize… And things…
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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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I think the theme of this episode speaks for itself, and without great subtlety. Right out of the gate. By the Wednesday following election day we could all breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of seeing a certain president’s back. Two and a half weeks later he’s still throwing a(n increasingly ineffective) tantrum,…
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post-vote limbo groove Well, this episode aired on Wednesday after the 2020 election, which already feels like it was a month ago. As the title suggests, we really didn’t know what was going on. The whole week was just being in limbo. I put the playlist together and mixed the whole thing on Tuesday night,…
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Another ~130 BPM episode unfolds with another mix of dance rock, house, techno, and club music. This one, I suppose, distinguishes itself by an even higher than usual genre agnosticism, incorporating hip hop and Damaged Bug’s trash rock, as well as SWAN MEAT’s avant gardism, wandering almost directionlessly through the various genres on its pallet.…
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A few weeks before this episode, Brian Musikoff aired episode 138 of his always excellent Radio NOPE program Musicon With Musikoff, which consisted of 138 minutes of covers of the Misfits’ “We Are 138.” It got me in mind of times gone by, when I’d do episodes based on their number. SttM #23, twenty-three being…
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Wotcha! It’s another Footwork/Jungle episode here at Step to the Music Incorporated. This one dives right in and doesn’t let up, straight juke madness until El-P and Killer Mike drop by for some jewel running. The final third of the mix is then more of a mix of jungle, footwork and drum’n’werk tunes, until Fever…
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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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