This was the first episode after a random glitch took out my Traktor playlists. So rather than starting with a list of all tunes I’d previously selected to fit the tempo and vibe, excluding any I’d used in previous episodes, instead I started with… nothing. The way that it shows up in this episode is…
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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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2021 Part I It has become something of a tradition, or maybe just a habit, for me to do two episodes looking back at the previous year in January. The first episode is traditionally/habitually a collection of the rock and/or roll songs that I’ve enjoyed over the year but (usually) didn’t play because they didn’t…
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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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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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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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This episode starts out hard and heavy with the punky darkwave sound of The Mall, but quickly mellows into the jazzy sounds of Liquid Drum & Bass. In the late 90’s and early 00’s, Liquid emerged as a reaction to the heaviness of D’n’B, a pendulum swing away from the increasingly harsh sounds of Techstep…
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I don’t want to overstate it or oversell it, but… this episode is haunted. Not in a cool k-punk way, either. Somewhere in putting this playlist together, and entirely without meaning to, I slipped in some kind of curse. It wasn’t meant to be this way. My clear intention going into making this episode was…
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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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The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is weird. Nothing to do but sit in a holding pattern and wait for the world to start up again. It’s an eerie, uncertain, liminal space. Or so in most years… in 2020 it’s just more of the same. That said, I made the decision a few…
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