This week’s episode served to get me out of a few lazy ruts that I noticed I’d fallen into. One of them is only playing music with a metronomic pulse that can be correctly ‘gridded’ in Traktor. This took over from my previous tendency to use the ‘warp’ feature on everything when I was using Ableton, putting…
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This week’s Episode features an array of polyrhythmic intersections, percussive club madness, and glistening dark borderline-psychedelic sounds. It leans pretty heavily on the Classical Trax “Jamz!” compilation, as well as several charity comps. Real Bingey Byrell the Great – #Cmon [Chopped Cheese] Jayda G – Sestra’s Cry [Physically Sick] NKC – For Yourself [Her Records Volume…
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Last Wednesday’s episode starts out a bit ADD, fitting six short, energetic tracks into the first twelve minutes. From the Latin beats of Merca Bae to the Sino-club of Demon Slayer, to the mutated mentasm of Monotronique, to the Cali dancehall/HA! pastiche of Habibiboi, to the chopped Serbian beats and bass of dJJ’s Lil Taty…
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Last night’s episode was a reluctant return to the clubstep hybrid of 113. In terms of the oil/water emulsification of club sprightliness and halfstep langour, I feel this one was lacking whatever binder made the first iteration work. The tonal whiplash seems a bit much. YMMV, of course, and there are some great tunes represented, some…
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Episode 105 concludes my 2017 retrospective trilogy. It starts hard with the uber-compressed kick of R Y K T then turns unexpectedly melodic before diving into Objekt’s rave pastiche and off onto a fantasia tour of modern club sounds, circa 2017, and landing somewhere between instrumental grime and Jersey club, just for a moment, making…
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Tonight’s episode featured several tracks each from the Club Chai Vol. 1 compilation and the HER Records Volume 4 compilation, bringing together club sounds from San Francisco and the UK. There was also some Jersey Club, Berlin techno, Brit hop, afrobeat, American dance rock… a smorgasbord of beats, from dark and brooding to soaring and…
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As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I strongly suspect that I bought more music in 2017 than I had in any year previous. Trying to make an episode out of my favorite tunes of the year has backed up this suspicion. For a bit it was looking like I was compiling another 2 hour episode, until I…
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NOTE: Compiling a list of my favorite releases of any given year often strikes me as an especially artificial exercise, given the way I usually find music– always discovering and exploring new genres, I am constantly playing catch-up. So my favorite discoveries of 2017 may well have come out in 2015, if not 2010 or…
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