RFP MIA?

So yes! I disappeared.

I graduated from journalism school(!?)... moved out of Halifax(!)... and started a new free newspaper in St. John's(!!!)

So to all you experimental electronic fiends who've been jonesin' without me, I invite you to check out the links list to the right.

And if you're interested in checking out the new paper, we have a website, of course.

Godspeed you!

Richy-Dee - Boxing Day

Speaking of Christmas... Richard D is releasing a collection of his favorite tracks from the Analord EP series. Mp3 blog Funtime OK has posted a few great selections, one of which is titled "Boxing Day".

Show 04-01-06 - MARRY ZXMAS!!!!!!FXUXZ!!

{listen to this program} (65 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 62.8MB)

01. shitmat - full english breakfast 1
02. jaymz bee - it's christmas time
03. shitmat - full english breakfast 1
04. nullsleep - silent night
05. tep - circum crim
06. the evaporators - who are you? CC
07. mr. slide - kiss the ground
08. pierre couloumb - midnight cowboy CC
09. jack dangers - christmas is here
10. jeff st. pierre - rubber bells
11. pierre couloumb - midnight cowboy CC
12. moog cookbook - black hole sun
13. voicedude - santa benz
14. o9 - house of distraction
15. david carswell and megan barnes - i wanna kiss you this christmas CC
16. tep - bouche au scrubby
17. enduser - the end (richard devine mix)
18. david bowie - life on mars
19. nullsleep - silent night
20. edsels - rama lama ding dong
21. moog cookbook - rockin' in the free world
22. the evaporators - who are you? CC
23. gohomeproductions - casiotone rock
24. retsyn - launch zone CC
25. retsyn - scroll forever CC
26. hally - xmas songs plastic sputnik arcade punk mix
27. ramblin' ambassadors - don't fear the reindeer CC
28. milkplus - ganja bullet
29. curtis chip - it starts with a g
30. urban surf kings - hey santa claus CC
31. pierre couloumb - midnight cowboy CC
32. shitmat - witness

CC = Canadian Content

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Show 03-25-06 - Who let the sheep out?

{listen to this program} (65 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 60MB)

01. eight frozen modules - drills for devil dub
02. adaptive - nomad CC
03. atomly - cut
04. ove_naxx - ragga dub tackle
05. desertstormbreakcoresquad - shadow hunter
06. puzzleweazle - voldtaraggahitelephantmischief
07. tep - dhik tchik
08. a question of home - * of the brave CC
09. bahai cassette - between spring & fall .. summer CC
10. chromeo - needy girl CC
11. tep - fat waltz
12. cagey house - aristotle bombay
13. furious - i don't like your face
14. society suckers - mop stylee
15. (a)pendics shuffle - rampart passenger
16. the history of lions - a city for a few CC
17. adaptive - lost language CC
18. todd colby - cake
19. the four king cousins - love so fine
20. flussaeure - drop that dutchie
21. digital mode - destroyer kill the fucking band
22. unknown artist - big bad mutha fuka compilation cd #2
23. venetian snares - winniepeg the dog pooh *not half remix* CC

CC = Canadian Content

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Show 03-18-06 - taking that voodoo shit out of your ass

{listen to this program} (63 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 57.9MB)

01. senor coconut - riders on the storm
02. dizzee rascal - fix up look sharp
03. thomas komasanfen - political dance
04. nanobot auxiliary ballet - light fantastic CC
05. ramon leon - yeah
06. retsyn - launch zone CC
07. four measures of fury (fmof) - 0206
08. alexis o'hara - kindly remove that voodoo discharge from your lowest orifice CC
09. new palestine high school girls glee club - midnight cowboy
10. manitoba - leila CC
11. on an ocean amp - kokoro (jonas dunkel mix)
12. ditch - seasaw CC
13. miguel angel - gloria
14. the dj producer - rude attitude
15. frenchbloke and son - sexy model
16. grand orchestre astral - bimbi cha CC
17. raganova - pahnost
18. mighty pope - inna gadda da vida CC
19. eel - minnie
20. the phantom of the opera 1925 theme
20. sensiva - untitled 3

CC = Canadian Content

I think I screwed up the playlist near the end there... I'm positive there was more canadian stuff in there. I also say there was a korn tune in there, but I removed it for the podcast version. It was a mashup from mashup of the week.

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Show 03-14-06 - Finishing Your Sentences

{listen to this program} (64 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 60MB)

01. top cat - bunn di sensi
02. exile - rage is the beautiful light that...
03. the just barelys - other people's sentences CC
04. bibio - cherry go round
05. swat-squad - roy
06. the just barelys - other people's sentences CC
07. exile - rage is the beautiful light that...
08. kurtis blow - the breaks
09. vitalic - my friend dario
10. shadow huntaz - that ain't where it's at
11. kna'an - what's hardcore? CC
12. ben mono feat. bajka - protection (sirius mo mix)
13. lost in the supermaki - let me be your vst
14. nancy walker - to keep my love alive
15. bahai cassette - deck the halls CC
16. marshall macluhan - the medium is the massage CC
17. pirhana man - viva las vegas
18. brasil 66' - mais que nada
19. alexandre bilodeau - la prohebition CC
20. legend of diamond bar
21. d.o.c.e. - e demais
22. le chien borgne - accumulated
23. edIT - disco like its hot
24. christian bok - motorized razors CC
25. exile and john b - broken language (exile mix)
26. francis lai - bilitis generique
27. jefferson family - retox
28. philip glass - facade
29. the dansettes - oh my

CC = Canadian Content

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Show 03-05-06 - OCTOPUS MIX?

{listen to this program} (58 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 53.2MB)

(sorry no tracklist this week)

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Boy Makes Music - Oak Island EP

"Mid-19th century newspaper stories recount that in 1795, young Donald Daniel McInnis discovered a circular depression on the south eastern end of the island with an adjacent tree which had a tackle block on one of its overhanging branches. McInnis, with the help of friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughan, excavated the depression and discovered a layer of flagstones a few feet below. On the pit walls there were visible markings from a pick. As they dug down they discovered layers of logs at about every ten feet (3 m). They abandoned the excavation at 30 feet (10 m)." - Wikipedia entry for Oak Island.



Here is a lovely pair of ambient tracks from Sackville Nova Scotia's Boy Makes Music. Here he has made a 24 minute soundtrack to Oak Island, a tiny island on the south shore of the province.

This music may not make you think of treasure, but it will definitely make you think of something valuable, long-lost.

01. Boy Makes Music - Oak Island Part I [17.7M mp3]
02. Boy Makes Music - Oak Island Part II [17.6M mp3]

Show 02-19-06 - Going Big, Then Going Home

{listen to this program} (76 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 71.3MB)

01. drumcorps - vultures
02. daniel jonson - walking the cow
03. milanese - so malleable
04. dilla - airworks
05. venetian snares - winnipeg is a frozen shithole CC
06. murray mclachlan - it's a hard rock town CC
07. sesame street - yip yip aliens
08. holy fuck - tone bank computer CC
09. venetian snares - winnipeg is a frozen shithole CC
10. bj snowden - in canada CC
11. milkplus - ganja bullet
12. bahai cassette - deck the halls with this... CC
13. destro - breakcore mix side b
14. rufus guinchard - pretty little mary CC
15. edward bear bearings - mind police CC
16. macc - airdrumming
17. jack arel and pierre dufour - following you
18. datachild - adolf and elf
19. kuru kuru rock - kuru kuru rock
20. bebop cortez - shuttlecock rock
21. die todliche doris - tanz im quartrat
22. birdsongs of quebec
23. lucia pamela - walking on the moon
24. drumcorps - assassin
25. lee fields - funky screw
26. 1-speed bike - bleeched bumbaclot warning CC
27. shalimar - baby let's dance together
28. bathyscaphe - brise glace CC

CC = Canadian Content

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Show 02-11-06 - grime or dubstep or whatever

{listen to this program} (77 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 72.2MB)

01. loefah - the goat stare [DMZ]
02. kode 9 feat. daddy gee - babylon (dub mix) [tempa]
03. loefah - root [DMZ]
04. loefah - truly dread [DMZ]
05. dizzee rascal - wasteman [dirtee stank]
06. thomas jirku - goojeratensis version [intr_version] CC
07. lfo - flu shot (kringlan) [warp]
08. afx - 46 analord masplid [warp]
09. ceephax acid crew - hardcore wick [first cask]
10. billy rockwell - vita and clyde [balanced]
11. ben mono feat. capitol a - transmission [compost]
12. ben jackson - the bad sectors [unreleased] CC
13. ghislain poirier - 300,000 enfants (background) [intr_version] CC
14. kabale und liebe - 2 voor de prijs van 1 [archipel]
15. kabale und liebe - red light ticket [archipel]
16. inge heiz - aufwartsrolle [intoxik]
17. maina - 2003 a terrenal odissey [alg-a]
18. half moon dragster - mens [archipel] CC
19. morton subotnick - silver apples of the moon (1967) {excerpt} [nonesuch]

CC = Canadian Content

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Show 02-09-06 - The Morning Show?

did a fill-in for someone this morning, and brought the show along...

{listen to this program} (83 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 76.7MB)

01. snoopdroop - dr. coconut's experiments [8bitpeoples]
02. panurge - no think you [nettwerk]
03. omar salgado - asterisco [unfoundsound]
04. omar salgado - petalos [unfoundsound]
05. yav & alexandre - planête avion [acadieurbaine] CC
06. binärpilot - goof [8bitpeoples]
07. subtle - eneby kurs [purple100]
08. java - sex, accordéon et alcool [small]
09. beef terminal - we look to adults [noisefactory] CC
10. mum & sjon - she listens to her heart [motorlab]
11. dj ai - queens of hanson brothers' noise mix [alien8] CC
12. jamie lidell - live at ether 2004 [ether 2004]
13. downliners sekt - weather underground [downliners-sekt.com]
14. granny'ark - the other shuffle [zora lanson] CC
15. gurtz - dect [unfoundsound]
16. delia derbyshire and anthony newley - moogies bloogies [delia-derbyshire.org]

CC = Canadian Content

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AFX claims carrot patch

DJ Pierre - Box Energy (4 Remix 1 By AFX).mp3

Rephlex! The hardcore! One-uppance! So fierce!

Not even the bunnies are safe!


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Aquasky - 153 tracks in 5:17

Aquasky one-up everybody and mash 153 songs into 5 minutes and seventeen seconds.

{yousendit link to mp3}
{another yousendit link}

(see comments for tracklisting)

Alexandre Bilodeau - Bonze Deluxe EP

Finally!! A Polygon Network release from Moncton's Alexandre Bilodeau.

Bilodeau -- quirky techno superstar -- leads a relentless attack on Atlantic Canada yet again with this fabulous Bonze Deluxe EP... The meaning of which I am not quite certain. Maybe he should say what it means.

Anyway. The EP has five rock-solid tracks that will definitely get your head nodding, if not your booty shaking.

...

I just checked "BONZE" in the dictionary, and apparently it means a buddhist monk.

So I guess that means that if you don't dig this EP, be prepared or Bilodeau is going to come to your house and get all buddhist on your ass. Watch out.

Here are two of my faves from the release:
polygon028_02.Alexandre_Bilodeau_-_Anisado.mp3
polygon028_04.Alexandre_Bilodeau_-_La_prohebition.mp3

Visit the release page for the rest.

Show 01-28-06 - Roar!

{listen to this program} (84 minutes, 128 kbps mp3, 78.7MB)

01. the bad plus - flim (+)
02. 65 days of static - aren't we all running (feedle remix) (+)
03. 65 days of static - massive star at the end of its burning cycle (+)
04. t-polar - intermission (+)
05. esau radio studio - stones (+) CC
06. milosh - simple people (+) CC
07. milosh - creepy (+) CC
08. penny and ashtray - getting high (+)
09. best fwends - ultimate teem (+)
10. mateo murphy - shifting gears (+) CC
11. meek - live in calgary, alberta may 14, 2005 - untitled 1 (+) CC
12. meek - live in calgary, alberta may 14, 2005 - untitled 2 (+) CC
13. meek - live in calgary, alberta may 14, 2005 - untitled 3 (+) CC
14. seth p. guerra - agua mama (otto von shirach mix) (+)
15. vitaminsforyou - being away fame (+) CC
16. vitaminsforyou - six o'clock whispers (+) CC
17. vitaminsforyou - it's always raining in dublin (+) CC
18. aphex twin - boxenergy4remix1 (+)

CC = Canadian Content

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65 Days of Static

65 Days of Static, from Sheffield, England.

Post-math metal drill rock and bass?

I don't claim to be the first person to talk about these guys, but I'm surprised I haven't heard much of them before now.

I noticed on the Warp site they were touring with Chris Clark, one of the label's army of electronic music jedi, so I decided to check them out.

Turns out they're a gripping, glitchy, guitar-driven band who can build or destroy walls of noise at their whim.

65 days of static - i am robot.mp3
65 days of static - massive star at the end of its burning cycle.mp3