~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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This episode starts out moody, with Austra’s downright heartbreaking rumination on romantic doom, “Anywayz,” and gradually picks up. The tempo follows suit, gradually increasing over the course of the mix from a sedate sub-disco 117 BPM to a breakneck 130 by the end. Approaching the midpoint, we have ourselves a downright rave-up, before things turn…
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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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After the previous week’s episode, which delved into the mania and anxiety of shelter in place quarantine, this one provides an escape, an hour of relief in a sonic bubble bath. Now, I have to admit that I am still me and this is still SttM, and so things inevitably get a bit weird, vibes…
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This here episode, in its formative stages, kept flip flopping between being dark songs to plumb the depths of self-quarantine and being light happy songs to take one’s mind off (what seemed at the time) such a terrible situation (were we ever so innocent?!) while refusing to settle on either. It finally came together when…
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This episode, named after the thing we recently had to start avoiding, centers around club mutations, with some tipping over in various directions toward neighboring genres: Hard Drum, Italo Disco, Jersey Club, Techno, mnml, House, rave, spacerock, and etc. Bookending the mix are two underground divas: Kim Gordon off her most recent release with a…
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This episode, dating back to those innocent, halcyon days of early March, starts with some dreampop, before pivoting to dance pop for a bit, before pivoting again to hip hop. The middle third takes various detours through club, techno, and downtempo, before returning to hip hop for a bit, then concluding with a profane club…
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This episode features dance rock, disco, dance pop, some quick Latinx club, a Jersey Club remix, some left-field techno out of Bristol, UK, a bit of straight functional techno, and quite a bit of lo-fi house. As per ususl (do I even need to say it any more?) things get a bit weirrrd at around…
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Another extra-length episode looking back at a year that was a year, exactly what it says on the tin. This one focuses on a lower BPM range, starting at 105 and building to 135 by its end. So at the start there is hip hop, nu disco and dancehall/dembow-inspired club. The second chunk features some…
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I did manage a second new episode in October! It was a busy month, filling in on station duties for (happily vacationing) absent NOPE comrades, and there were a few things I had to let slide… One six two begins with a tune off the recent Ladytron release, before retreating back a few years to…
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