Thursday, April 9, 2015

April 9 - (Mostly) showered in synths

Since I'm in quite a bit of an indie electropop phase I've showcased a bunch of indie pop tunes with electronic influences.

I am *really* enjoying Humans, Purity Ring, Prinze George and Until the Ribbon Breaks. They are stellar electropop-oriented releases and I've been listening to these four a lot in my spare time.

I'm also currently into Radio Radio, an Acadian electro-rap group from Clare, Nova Scotia. Arthur Comeau was their beatmaker, but now he's left the group and he's released a solo album about a year ago (oddly enough released shortly after Radio Radio's latest was released, yet he has production credit on that one too). 3/4 is a decent listen, it's a little bit more laid back but it's still got the nice quirky chiac verses which I as a very enthusiastic linguist very much enjoy :P

Chiac is an English-influenced variety of the French dialect some Acadians speak, mostly around Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Most people would describe it as Franglais.
Here's an example from a Radio Radio track (that gets stuck in my head a LOT):

Out of toutes les couleurs de rainbow, bein moi ej pick la couleur beige!
(Out of all the colours of the rainbow, well, I pick the colour beige!)

Midway through the digitized playlist glitched up and I could no longer play the stuff I wanted to play from there...as a result, I ended up picking a bunch of random CD releases:
  • Shaani Cage's track is the most acoustic-oriented release on this setlist, showcasing very organic soul music.
  • Milk and Bone luckily fit in well with the rest of the songs on the Jumbalaya setlist, being electropop acts. They're from Montreal (like I said the first time, not Quebec City).
  • Mid Pines: some other Jumbalaya host played their songs on air and I liked them...picked it up due to it having a dance/electro label in the CJSF music playlist. The track I ended up playing is *very* experimental-sounding...interesting listen, no? :P

Songs played (* Canadian content):
  • Humans* - Ennio
  • Humans* - Watusi
  • Purity Ring* - Stranger than Earth
  • Prinze George - Upswing
  • Until the Ribbon Breaks feat. Homeboy Sandman - Perspective
  • Arthur Comeau* - Meteghan
  • Walk the Moon - Work this Body
  • Until the Ribbon Breaks - A Taste of Silver
  • Shaani Cage* - Mississippi
  • Milk and Bone* - Coconut Water
  • Mid Pines* - Bond Lake
Audio links:
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_April_09_20_00.mp3
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_April_09_20_30.mp3

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