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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This is an episode from almost four years ago that, for some strange reason, never got published on this here ‘blog. It goes all over the place, but the main thrust is that it begins with ~140 BPM club bangers, moves to dubstep and grime, then shifts back to underground club. As a side note,…
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Aside from a bit of slow footwork, a bit of fast house, and a post-shoegaze curveball, the bulk of this episode features (the dreaded) dubstep and instrumental grime. Then the mix ends out with some clubland bangers STRAIGHT out of left field, because this IS SttM, and I get itchy if I stick to one…
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Dubstep Originators This episode begins with a clubby confection from Shygirl, and includes a shoegazey interlude from Brit-Pop supergroup Piroshka, but the bulk of the mix is oldschool Dubstep. Classic Dubstep. Dubstep even from artists who defined the genre, who were making it before it even had a name. Oh, and some more club (Yazzus,…
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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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This is an episode for the true heads. Things start out with a bit of goth-y posty-punky dance rock from present-day Swedish masters of the genre Then Comes Silence… but then segue into the Title track from Truth’s latest EP and from there it’s pure Dubstep and instrumental Grime (with, arguably, a single track of…
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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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Aloha Amigo-San While largely based in grime, this episode ranges quite widely, from Pottery’s wild Texan (though Canadian, actually) post-punk rave-up, to London for Silkie’s posh Dubstep and sinister instrumental grime from Terror Danjah and Johnny East… then to Portland for Modern Melodies and their slowed down take on Juke. Then we head back to…
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Following the previous angry one, this episode is relatively sedate and apolitical, featuring some jazzy electro sounds, some grime, and quite a bit of d******. There’s a touch of angry hip hop in there, because the police have not yet been defunded, and things do get pretty dang heavy just from a sonic standpoint here…
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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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