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CBC Radio 3, Comrades!
Jan. 21st, 2004 03:06 amI just am so filled with love for the amazing neatness that is CBC Radio 3, a biweekly music magazine published by the People's Radio Network of Soviet Canuckistan. I talked about that Audio Lava track a bit back, but this issue has some good little songs on it.
1. If I Make it Through This Winter - The Paperbacks
--has all the frantic pogo energy of the music that blurred between new wave and punk of the early 80's but with the bouncy double meaning lyrics that always makes me think of Halifax bands like Sloan and Eric's trip - but the fast breaking strumming is more raw than Sloan, but more musical than Eric's Trip. One to chairdance to, and remember the days when bopping your head from side to side was dancing.
( Alt Rock )
4. Love - The Dudes
I'll admit to being biased - I love The Dudes, and they host the city's Coolest Stampede Breakfast every year at Rock Central. They regularly slay all comers at the moustache Rock food bank festival and competition of Alberta bands who show up to play three 70's rock covers. Their shows are great..and I wish to hell they'd record an album in a real studio. The sound quality on this track is awful, so only the barest edge of their accomplished musicianship shows. another grip your beer and dance song, though. I linked their entry at New Music Canada. check out I Want to Be You, Dropkick Queen of the Weekend. and sorry about the sound quality. they do it in their living room.
5. Everything Must Change - Motion Soundtrack
Softening the rock and roll from raw exuberance into something a bit more thought out and arranged, Motion Soundtrack buries a fairly weak vocalist into polished riffs and layered drums. But while the first four tracks are shoo in for college and community radio, this has more of an FM radio feel, though it's not quite as slick as the ten songs you hear sixty times a day.
( Hip Hop, Turntableism )
8. Back Up - Fonetiks
okay, this song got through my usual take it or leave it it's okay attitude toward urban music. it must be the guitar, but the energy on it is good. I'd dance to it in the club, and some gum popping farmer's daughter would say "Oh. My. God. Rebecca, look at her butt. it is so..." this track has the funk, the big hair and the big boots.
9. Does it Have to Be This Way - Mistacronks
This track also had that same infectious feel that gets you nodding to the groove that is the hallmark of hip hop and urban music, with a softening to the chorus and the shout along motto of Do What I Do / Does it Have to Be This Way. I could hear it in the clubs, and attracting a crowd to dance to way.
( Down Tempo )
11. Saharan Icecup - Spylabtek
something about this track reminds me of the stuff that Amon Tobin does, but it's not quite that. it's an interesting mix of a Spanish feeling guitar, a drum and bass/breakbeat percussion line, and the kind of synthesizers that have knobs. snatches of conversation and brief samples of voices in chorus give this a "head" feel rather than something that moves your feet.
( More Electronica, Down Tempo )
14. Desperado - Quadra
more of that floaty, ambient sound. drumbeats that remind me of rain hissing under tires. a meditative song that sort of - instead of being background music, it sort of pulls me down into my center, brings me back to where I am.
( An oops? )
16. Reality - Pariah Project
oh, right away I'm thinking of the groups Nettwerk record in Vancouver had on board in the late 80's and early 90's. soaring female vocals, and an almost dirge like feel to the drums, and - is that a cello? the singer reminds me of the early music of Sarah McLaughlan, a staple of Nettwerk Records, and a bit of delirium, but not nearly as overblown and frowzy.
( Space Pop )
1. If I Make it Through This Winter - The Paperbacks
--has all the frantic pogo energy of the music that blurred between new wave and punk of the early 80's but with the bouncy double meaning lyrics that always makes me think of Halifax bands like Sloan and Eric's trip - but the fast breaking strumming is more raw than Sloan, but more musical than Eric's Trip. One to chairdance to, and remember the days when bopping your head from side to side was dancing.
( Alt Rock )
4. Love - The Dudes
I'll admit to being biased - I love The Dudes, and they host the city's Coolest Stampede Breakfast every year at Rock Central. They regularly slay all comers at the moustache Rock food bank festival and competition of Alberta bands who show up to play three 70's rock covers. Their shows are great..and I wish to hell they'd record an album in a real studio. The sound quality on this track is awful, so only the barest edge of their accomplished musicianship shows. another grip your beer and dance song, though. I linked their entry at New Music Canada. check out I Want to Be You, Dropkick Queen of the Weekend. and sorry about the sound quality. they do it in their living room.
5. Everything Must Change - Motion Soundtrack
Softening the rock and roll from raw exuberance into something a bit more thought out and arranged, Motion Soundtrack buries a fairly weak vocalist into polished riffs and layered drums. But while the first four tracks are shoo in for college and community radio, this has more of an FM radio feel, though it's not quite as slick as the ten songs you hear sixty times a day.
( Hip Hop, Turntableism )
8. Back Up - Fonetiks
okay, this song got through my usual take it or leave it it's okay attitude toward urban music. it must be the guitar, but the energy on it is good. I'd dance to it in the club, and some gum popping farmer's daughter would say "Oh. My. God. Rebecca, look at her butt. it is so..." this track has the funk, the big hair and the big boots.
9. Does it Have to Be This Way - Mistacronks
This track also had that same infectious feel that gets you nodding to the groove that is the hallmark of hip hop and urban music, with a softening to the chorus and the shout along motto of Do What I Do / Does it Have to Be This Way. I could hear it in the clubs, and attracting a crowd to dance to way.
( Down Tempo )
11. Saharan Icecup - Spylabtek
something about this track reminds me of the stuff that Amon Tobin does, but it's not quite that. it's an interesting mix of a Spanish feeling guitar, a drum and bass/breakbeat percussion line, and the kind of synthesizers that have knobs. snatches of conversation and brief samples of voices in chorus give this a "head" feel rather than something that moves your feet.
( More Electronica, Down Tempo )
14. Desperado - Quadra
more of that floaty, ambient sound. drumbeats that remind me of rain hissing under tires. a meditative song that sort of - instead of being background music, it sort of pulls me down into my center, brings me back to where I am.
( An oops? )
16. Reality - Pariah Project
oh, right away I'm thinking of the groups Nettwerk record in Vancouver had on board in the late 80's and early 90's. soaring female vocals, and an almost dirge like feel to the drums, and - is that a cello? the singer reminds me of the early music of Sarah McLaughlan, a staple of Nettwerk Records, and a bit of delirium, but not nearly as overblown and frowzy.
( Space Pop )
