Here is last night’s episode for your time-shifted listening delight. As previously mentioned, it features a mix of techno and tech-house, plus some Swedish house-which-may-as-well-be-techno because… well… norse? Marcel Dettmann & Ben Klock – Dawning (Revisited) [Scenario] Hubie Davison – Mannequin Move [I Won’t Be There EP] Scuba – Television [Claustrophobia] Aebeloe – Forma [4…
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The line between House and Techno can be a little fuzzy… more tendencies and attitudes than hard and fast rules separate them. Complicating matters is the extensive cross-pollination between the genres, creating buffer zones of house-influenced techno and techno-influenced house. Tonight’s episode explores those areas of overlap, while remaining pretty solidly in the techno camp.…
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Last night’s episode was an experiment in polyrhythms and their usefulness in switching between tempos. Give it a listen and let me know: successful or no? Anthony “Shake” Shakir – Mr. Gone Is Back Again [Frictionalism 1994-2009] Jacek Sienkiewicz – Vagrant Blues [Drifting] Karen Gwyer – Why Don’t You Make Your Bed? [Rembo] Ben Klock – Gooldy Sin (feat.…
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Listen to Radio NOPE Wednesday night at 11/10C for another brand new episode! Join the cool kids in the chatbox to talk about the tunes (or anything else that comes up)! Episode 107 is an experiment coming out of some things I’ve been trying out with Grey Area techno, specifically how its polyrhythms can bridge…
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[Welcome to “Trailing Edge,” a feature I’m trying out for the ‘blog where I discover a new-to-me genre that’s actually been around for several years. The first installment covers ‘Grey Area,’ a mathematical overlap between techno and D’n’B named for the micro-label that birthed it] Something that has, for the past few months, been floating…
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Tonight’s episode featured several tracks each from the Club Chai Vol. 1 compilation and the HER Records Volume 4 compilation, bringing together club sounds from San Francisco and the UK. There was also some Jersey Club, Berlin techno, Brit hop, afrobeat, American dance rock… a smorgasbord of beats, from dark and brooding to soaring and…
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As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I strongly suspect that I bought more music in 2017 than I had in any year previous. Trying to make an episode out of my favorite tunes of the year has backed up this suspicion. For a bit it was looking like I was compiling another 2 hour episode, until I…
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