Favourite releases of 2014

2014 was an interesting year music-wise. Here are the 10 albums I enjoyed playing on air (and listening to in my own time) that have been released this year:

Alt-J - This is All Yours

Imogen Heap - Sparks

Royal Blood - Royal Blood

Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World

The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers

Mø - No Mythologies to Follow

SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land

Yelle - Complètement Fou

BadBadNotGood - III

Single Mothers - Negative Qualities

My favourite album that got added to the CJSF playlist this year is more of a major label re-release. The original version was released way back in 2011; we got the Epic re-release this March, only I didn't know about it until June! The album is, of course, Lunatic by KONGOS.

Local (Vancouverite) favourites who have also released great albums aside from the New Pornographers include T. Nile (electro-folk), Dino DiNicolo (bassist and vocal percussionist), and Jpnsgrls (rock). I'm also starting to get into Waingro and Dagrs, both hard rockers, as well as Dead Soft (grungey rock).

Also, releases from 2013 I enjoyed that got added this year:

My Sister Ocean - Colab EP

Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus?

Viking Fell - Pembina EP

We also just got some awesome new releases, some of which I'll be showcasing on Thursday! Till then...enjoy the rest of 2014!

December 11 2014 - Rock Show Jumbalaya

Part 2 of themed Jumbalaya. This time it's very rock-oriented, with more of a punk and grunge flavour. This is also my first publicly shared Jumbalaya where I use all three available audio formats: CD, vinyl, and digitized audio! Go me. :P

The sound might be mixed weirdly, especially for the digitized tracks (Astoria's song and Bob Mould's song). Also Thurston Moore's from the *band* Sonic Youth, not the 'album' as I said in this segment...sorry about that.
I also edited out the technical glitches as much as I can in this segment. The unedited audio contains track skips and vinyl playing at the wrong RPM (I'm still learning). :|

Next Jumbalaya will no longer be themed. Instead, I'm hoping to have a very diverse mix of genres. I'll be back on air on January 1! Happy happy holidays and may you have a wonderful rest of 2014 :D

Songs played (Canadians in *):

• Dead Soft* - Tell Me Why
• Crystal Swells* - Beach Bear
• Crystal Swells* - The Bear Scare
• Dagrs* - Nothing Wrong
• Waingro* - Ride
• Single Mothers* - Money
• Astoria* - Dead & Down
• USA out of Vietnam* - Archangel
• Port Juvee* - Just the Thing
• Death From Above 1979* - Virgins
• Royal Blood - Come on Over
• Iceage - How Many
• Bob Mould - The War
• Thurston Moore - Detonation
• Benjamin Booker - Wicked Waters

Updates and future shows

Whew!

Sorry for the delay in posts. Things have been insane these past few days and I've only just started editing the audio from the December 11 show. It's a very rock-oriented Jumbalaya so if you like punk and grunge (or post-punk and post-grunge? I'm playing all new music so...) you'll definitely enjoy the mix. ;)

Tomorrow I will NOT be on air...and neither will I on Christmas Day. So tune into CJSF again in the new year! January 1st, 8pm. Mark it in your calendars...I'll remember to track them on the calendar on the blog also. I'm still in the process of getting to grips with the embedded Google Calendar.

CJSF is also getting plenty of new music over the next few days. Super excited to try all the new stuff out, and hopefully come up with a killer playlist on New Year's Day!

December 4 2014 - Electrofied Jumbalaya

So CJSF just got a bunch of exciting new adds which made me want to actually split the huge list of artists I want to play on air into two based on their sound. This is part 1, which showcases the more electro-influenced artists.
Part 2 (next week) will be more rock-oriented.

Also in this segment I briefly mention that FKA twigs is a very likely candidate for the Grammys. Though she did get nominated, it was for the 'Best Album Packaging' category, which I didn't expect (but she's also one of the art directors for the LP1 album cover so it's still good).
Alt-J's album This is All Yours got a nomination though, which is exciting. :)

Songs played (* denotes Canadian content):

• Yelle - Jeune Fille Garnement
• Austra* - Hulluu
• Raleigh* - Ostinato (Endoliquor Remix)
• Blood & Glass* - Turning Turning
• Lydia Ainsworth* - PSI
• FKA twigs - Lights On
• Ryan Hemsworth* - Hurt Me
• Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar - Never Catch Me
• SBTRKT feat. Sampha - Temporary View
• Ryan Hemsworth feat. Dawn Golden* - Snow in Newark
• Ryan Hemsworth* - Blemish
• Viking Fell* - Pud
• Alt-J - Nara
• Rufus du Sol - Imaginary Air

What is a 'Jumbalaya'?

According to CJSF 90.1FM's website, the Jumbalaya is "your unpredictable music mix that's always delicious!"

Etymologically, it's a combination of "jumble" + "jambalaya". "Jumble", as in a mixture of random things; "jambalaya", as in the Creole dish.

It's a show mostly for new (and some veteran) music show hosts to get a feel of what it's like to have their own music-based radio show. We're given a set amount of CDs, vinyl records, and digital audio to showcase on air what the station has music-wise. A lot of the music is by independent artists, and we usually showcase non-Top 40 artists.

Each Jumbalaya is hosted by a different volunteer, and there's at least one Jumbalaya show every day of the week. The volunteers each have very different tastes in music...a lot of them like folk, some like a nice serving of electro, and you can even get a mixture of jazz, hip-hop, and metal. And of course that's not *all* we have!

Some hosts like to stick to one or two genres; others like to mix it up.

Jumbalaya is my favourite show on CJSF since a good mixture of music is represented, and each host brings a different flavour to each show. They also help me figure out what to play next on air and even discover new favourite artists! Just to let you fellow Jumbalaya hosts know (if you're reading this)...I'm listening ;)

Listen to the Jumbalaya podcasts here: http://cjsf.ca/pguide/grid/description.php?ID=70