This episode takes some time in establishing itself. Things start off with a bittersweet kissoff from Sudan Archives before transitioning into some Euro Footwork… and then moves on to some classic Jungle presha… before moving on to a club/techno mutation from Martyn’s mentee stable. That about sets out the colors for this mix, and it…
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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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A few years ago I decided that the final SttM episode of every year should be deep/dub techno. You could search back through the archives for the explanation, but it’s basically that the week between Christmas and New Year’s is always an odd, timeless/spaceless space in time, and the underwater sonics of deep techno mirrors…
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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 starts out with an industrial/coldwave feel of dread and aggression, which hangs over most of the rest of the mix, though to varying degrees, until Daniel Avery breaks the spell. ending things on a peaceful note. In between we have appearances from show favorites, fast house, techno, noisy club jams and edits… it’s…
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100 BPM means a lot of things, but lately on SttM it means MOSTLY one thing: Latin club sounds. Greek producer Abyss X opens this episode with a cinematic agglomeration of sonics, which only gradually find anything recognizable as a beat. From there the mix launches into a smorgasbord of underground club sounds while I…
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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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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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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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The heart of this episode is a tribute to SOPHIE, an artist whose work, I have to admit here and now, I slept on for way too long. On either side of SOPHIE’s track “BIPP” I have two tracks that seem to have been strongly influenced by her sonic innovations, that squeaky metallic sheen to…
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