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Beats and Grooves and Random Left Turns

Episode 226: ’21 Grands

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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Episode 224: Weird Dreams

Here’s a fun one. I initially recorded thie episode at the end of October, and it kept getting pushed back for one reason or another. So, here is the first episode of 2022, looking forward by looking back. Stuck – Playpen of Dissent [Content That Makes You Feel Good] Future Image – March Madness (blastah…
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Episode 220: Spread Love

The bulk of this episode is house and disco, that’s the main thing to know. There’s some indie rock at the beginning and the end, a bit of jazzy techno, but for the most part it’s soul and vibes and luvv. Park Hye Jin goes out to all the singletons, followed by Akabu and Linda…
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Episode 214: Get Into My Groove

Many episodes of this show end up serving as accidental (or semi-intentional) label showcases. This episode would not exist had I not stumbled across Z Records on Bandcamp. I don’t recall exactly who or what pointed me in the right direction, but I snatched up a few compilations (you can go through the playlist below…
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Episode 212: Brand New Drops

This episode starts out with an industrial/coldwave feel of dread and aggression, which hangs over most of the rest of the mix, though to varying degrees, until Daniel Avery breaks the spell. ending things on a peaceful note. In between we have appearances from show favorites, fast house, techno, noisy club jams and edits… it’s…
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Episode 209: The Pusher Man

This episode could be viewed as a response to the last one, heavy and sinister where 208 was light and joyful. This is not to say that it lacks melodicism, which it has in spades, hearts, clubs AND diamonds friends… more that it would rather shove your ass onto the dancefloor than send it a…
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Episode 206: Put Yr Soul Into It

This episode starts out straight ahead rock’n’roll, sunny sounds (Admiral Ackbar shouts a warning from his chair) from Australia’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever followed by the darker straigt-outta-Leeds post-punk vibes of I LIKE TRAINS (featuring some downright Sonic Youth guitar tones). From there, things veer into clubland, with underground electronic and techno sounds… there are…
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Episode 198: 2020 In Hindsight II: No More Boogaloo

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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