Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Catch up time!

Apologies for the massive delay in posting the tracklists over the past three weeks!!!! I'll post them, but without commentary (for now). I'll add the mp3 links to podcasts at a later date. I'm currently in the process of deciding where to commit more of my time radio wise: getting my own (more specialized) show? Production, which I've always been interested in? Contribute more arts/music reviews?

I hope to figure it all out by the end of July.

Friday, June 5, 2015

June 4 - Mixing it up real nice

Songs played:
  • Bella Cat* - Corrupted
  • Alex Cuba feat. Ron Sexsmith* - Half a Chance
  • Atlantis Airport - Hikari to Kage no Aida (光と影の間)
  • Aero Flynn - Dk/Pi
  • Weed* - Muscles
  • Needs* - Clowns to the Left of Me, Dzhokhars to the Right
  • Geographer - Need
  • Purity Ring* - Begin Again
  • Prinze George - Upswing
  • Holobody* - Ninnyhammer
  • Helena Hauff - Drowning Demons
We kick off this set with some classic bluesy-sounding Bella Cat, followed by some Cuban-influenced sunny track by Alex Cuba and Ron Sexsmith. Keeping with the 'world' theme I introduce one of the bands from Next Music From Tokyo, Vol. 7: Atlantis Airport. Some nice mathy rock.

Then we get onto the funny part where I try to link four artists together. Aero Flynn and the lead singer of Weed are both from Eau Claire and both know Justin Vernon of Bon Iver!
Then I link Weed and Needs, due to the fact that I used to confuse these two...haha. :P
Then a band called Needs and a song called 'Need'...isn't that awesome?

By the way, I don't believe Needs actually is performing on June 12. Sorry for the misinformation if that is the case!!! Brass is though. Go check them out at the Astoria!

I realized I forgot to announce the Purity Ring track, after Geographer...but at this rate I'd think a lot of people would have recognized it's a Purity Ring song, given a lot of people like to play the electronic duo (and me especially, having played them almost every week these days).

After Purity Ring is one of my favourite songs in the CJSF playlist right now: Upswing by Prinze George. So much, that I made a station ID out of it. XD It's perfect alt-pop, sounding like a mix of latter-day Kelly Clarkson instrumentals with Lana Del Rey-like vocals and the xx-like choruses.

We wrap it all up with two quirky electro tracks...first is by a Montreal-based electropop duo, Holobody, with a track that sounds like a combo of Milk & Bone and Grimes. The last was a house-influenced but VERY dark instrumental with lots of heavy percussion/beats from German producer Helena Hauff.

Audio links!
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_June_04_20_00.mp3
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_June_04_20_30.mp3