’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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This episode marks SIX YEARS of Step to the Music, which is truly wild to consider… It took me by surprise, so I basically made the episode I would have made but without giving myself any time constraint. What I ended up with was 97 minutes of footwork and jungle and finest blend of MISC…
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I put this episode together in September of 2021. It is currently May of 2022 and I wish I could interrogate myself of eight months ago to understand what he was thinking. Especially because the episode I just finished and aired, I suddenly realize, shares no fewer than THREE tracks. I managed to subconsciously plagiarize…
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This episode is all about joy. Things take a turn for the minor key at about the half hour mark, but in a certain context even sinister sonics feel more like a giggly jaunt through a haunted house… Allen French sets the tone with his uber-melodic contribution to the House Kitsune America compilation, after which…
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After two extra-long outings, this episode returns us to normal length, usual format, 135 BPM club and techno workout. Also in the mix are some low-tempo D’n’B mutations, a random cumbia track, a punky coldwave banger, and a fun mashup toward the end. Don’t be fooled, though… this is the calm before the storm… SCAM…
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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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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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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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StayInYrHouse Party Here we have an episode that was originally 124 BPM or thereabouts, but I misjudged the playlist and it ended up going quite long. Therefore it’s absurdly sped up to fit its hourlong slot. If things seem at all frantic… that’s the reason. To my ears, this is especially true of the first…
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Last night’s episode, aka the third SttM Xmas special, begins with a ridiculous mashup of the Mighty Monarch’s henchmen doing their karaoke Garage Band version of Sir Paul McCartney’s (rightly) reviled and hated Christmas confection vs Rhythm Scholar’s cut-n-scratch remix. The latter samples the Rankin/Bass pseudo-classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” to delightful effect, and…
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