~100 BPM episodes are often a challenge. While some BPMs mark out definitive genre zones, 100 encompasses an overlap of several disparate sounds. So the ~100 episodes are often extra eclectic and divergent and eccentric and hence difficult to assemble. Describing this episode, therefore, is a challenge right now. There’s no through-line, no apparent theme.…
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Now this is an episode that leans pretty heavily on underground club and Hard Drum sounds. It veers over to techno sounds and hip hop beats, and even to rock, jazz and motorik, but mostly it’s club and club-adjacent. Not sure what else to say, honestly. This one cooks, but at a simmer, with stomping…
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This is ostensibly a drum’n’bass episode, and for the central chunk of its running length it behaves accordingly. HOWEVER, the path it takes to get there meanders for a bit through rockstep, hip hop, and some dance-y post-hardcore. The other end of the mix walks back down a similar path, through sped-up footwork and motorik…
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Eh! Oh! It’s another 160 BPM episode! As usual, that means some footwork, some neo-jungle, some straight DnB, and a little bit of dance rock (in this case, the bread on this drum’n’werk sammitch). What else is there to say? It slams, and the coda brings the funky motorik goodness. Is it just needlessly repetitive…
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