April 30 - Electro/alternative, and BIG NEWS!

Songs played (* Canadian content):

• Andy Clockwork* - Scronk
• Great Dane - DVN3
• Gramatik - Just Jammin'
• Purity Ring* - Bodyache
• Humans* - Gotta Go Home
• Imagine Dragons - On Top of the World
• The Elwins* - Is There Something?
• Until the Ribbon Breaks - Spark
• Twin Shadow - To The Top
• Harrison* - Ashe Maree
• Prinze George - We are Dreamers
• A/B Trio* - My Romance

Since I had just gotten some terrible news, my mind was a little bit out of it during this broadcast. I'm hoping to make up for it in the next coming weeks.

Also big news. I've decided to step down from my role as volunteer at Science World!
I've decided I really want to start focusing on music/radio hosting for a while, and I felt my professional and social life was starting to suffer due to lack of time to recharge and reconnect, so I've given that up to free up some time to do just that.
As a thank-you to Science World, though, I've played the Imagine Dragons song. I always heard that song when I volunteered at Science World on Wednesdays, as background music for two promo videos down at the Dome, one of which was a movie on lemurs. :)

Gramatik and Great Dane were two of three artists I got to catch at the Vogue last Saturday. It was an absolutely amazing show!! Both are electro-influenced instrumental music makers, but Great Dane is more hip-hop and trap influenced while Gramatik is more jazzy. Both are great to chill out to.

Harrison...I honestly could only describe it as 'kawaii', with the cutesy EP cover and Japanese arcade-game music. I'm not sure if I'm reappropriating my own culture or whatever but that was like the only adjective that came to mind. :P Oh well, I hope you share my very odd sense of humour.

Audio links:
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_April_30_20_00.mp3
http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_April_30_20_30.mp3

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

March 26 - Lots of locals

For now, since I've switched to a new computer I can no longer make video podcasts, so I'll just include the mp3 links on the blog posts for podcasts.
I'm currently trying to figure out a way to upload podcasts/MP3 streams online, possibly on iTunes, so the podcasts will be a lot easier to find and access.

This Jumbalaya includes a lot of local talent, including some community radio staff and volunteers playing in bands! They include the CiTR music director Sarah Cordingley drumming for Ace Martens, CJSF's very own Arts & Entertainment coordinator Jamie Cessford drumming for Did You Die, and CJSF volunteer and host of world music show Wandering Rhythms Nick Lagasse playing with Mngwa.

(CiTR 101.9FM, just in case you didn't know, is UBC's campus radio station. CJSF 90.1FM is based at SFU, so that makes us sister stations! :D )

Wandering Rhythms is on Mondays 12-2pm btw. Sorry I messed that little info up...

I've also played songs I knew a lot of fellow CJSF volunteers would like, including tunes by A/B Trio, Humans, Ibeyi, BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah, and Purity Ring.

I also showcased a new song by NEEDS, who has a self-titled LP coming out in May. I saw them at the concert I reviewed on March 3, along with Ontario rockers the Dirty Nil and locals BRASS. They had just gotten back from SXSW - that must have been exciting!
The new LP looks very intriguing too. I'm so glad I got to see them live!!

Next week I'll showcase my personal playlist picks as a reviewer. Yep, I'm reviewing music to be added to the playlist - it's so much fun! Also, there's nothing like getting my hands on advance copies of CDs to potentially put on rotation on the CJSF airwaves. In other words, sometimes we get first listens before it's officially out! ;)

Songs played (* Canadian content):

• Ace Martens* - Incredible
• Mngwa* - La Rumba de Kingsway
• A/B Trio* - For Carson (Intro)
• A/B Trio* - For Carson
• NEEDS* - Rescue Don
• Did You Die* - Nail Polish
• Humans* - Tell Me
• Ibeyi - Oya
• Mord Fustang - Drivel
• BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah - Six Degrees
• Purity Ring* - push pull

Audio links:

http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_March_26_20_00.mp3

http://cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2015_March_26_20_30.mp3