Broadcasting from Bowen Island in the Howe Sound each week on 101.7FM CHLY, The Howe Sound System brings you the finest selection in electronic, experimental hiphop, ambient, dub and whatever else we dig up in our vast music archives.
#147 - June 15th, 2015 [Nym, Chinese Man, DJ Shadow, Beirut, Husker Du...]
Nym's still getting played all up in this piece, then we hear newish Chinese Man, Pasobionic and DJ Shadow. Brand new, like, so new its still warm Beirut opens the 2nd half, DJ Shadow gets remixed and we hear new Gucci Ghost (Trouble Andrew). We get all reminiscent with Agent Orange and Husker Du, then Secede wraps it up all nicely for this week.
Tracklist:
Nym - The Ballad of Dylan Owen
Nym - Right Here and Now
Chinese Man - Siempre Estas, Pt.1 (High Tone Remix)
Pasobionic - Echoes of Blue
DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem
Beirut - No No No
DJ Shadow - Six Days (Soulwax Mix)
Gucci Ghost - I Think I Know
Agent Orange - The Last Goodbye
Trouble Andrew - What's So Strange About Me
Husker Du - The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
Secede - Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic
6/16/2015 • 57 minutes, 17 seconds
#146 - June 8th, 2015 [2Pac, DJ Shadow, Z-Trip, Jackson 5, Fatboy Slim]
Back once again with the ill behavior.
It’s freakin’ summer and there’s no better summer anthem than 2Pac praising California. DJ Shadow cuts himself up before The Papes Come, Z-Trip remixes the Jackson 5 (with subtlety and class) and we drop classic summertime RJD2. The Herbaliser brings the heat with a storming live one and the Propellerheads do their best James Bond movie score climaxing with a ripping bassline. MARRS and Dee-Lite get us shaking our booty before we have a flashback to Summer Love ’98 from Fatboy Slim.
The lord giveth and the lord taketh away, but not hiphop yo.
6/9/2015 • 59 minutes, 16 seconds
#145 - June 1st, 2015 [Nym, Hugo Kant, Emancipator, DJ Vadim...]
Discovering new beats this week. Show starts with Nym, Hugo Kant and Emancipator. Eek-a-Mouse, Roger Molis then DJ Vadim carries us into Doctor FLAKE, Kognitif and a nice one from Tommy Guerrero. We go back in time to a 1929 recording of Blind Willie Johnson, then Dextro closes out the show for this week.
Tracklist:
Twin Peaks - "Diane"… The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper
Nym - The Carpenter
Nym - Derecho
Nym - Cansaco
Hugo Kant - In The Woods
Emancipator - Diamonds
Eek-A-Mouse - Ganja Smuggling
Roger Molis - What's Your Place (Instrumental)
DJ Vadim - Soldier
Doctor FLAKE - Loveless
Kognitif - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Hugo Kant - Flying
Tommy Guerrero - Tomorrow's Goodbye
Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves On The Water
Dextro - Momentary
6/2/2015 • 59 minutes, 55 seconds
#144 - May 25th, 2015 [Godspeed, Pinch, Byetone]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
5/26/2015 • 57 minutes, 7 seconds
#143 - May 18th, 2015 [Pasobionic, Robot Koch, Kahn, Northcape...]
Graffiti artist and hip hop producer Pasobionic starts the show this week with a couple of tracks from Empty Beats For Lonely Rappers. Robot Koch released his new Tsuki EP, and we a nice one from it. UK's Kahn and V.I.V.E.K both drop some bass then we hear a nice one from Lifeformed. We chill with a couple from Northcape's newest EP then hear from Aebeloe, Melorman, and Michael Bijker. Berlin's Youandewan close out the show this week with 1988 from the Anjou EP.
5/19/2015 • 59 minutes, 45 seconds
#142 - May 11th, 2015 [Death Cube K, Dead Can Dance, Arvo Part]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
5/12/2015 • 59 minutes, 17 seconds
#141 - May 4th, 2015 [Burial, Augustus Pablo, Recondite, Scuba...]
Burial exclusive track released only on Hyperdub's 10th anniversary starts the show this week. We hear the tech house vibes of Keir then Ancient Astronauts start the melodica groove. How can we even mention melodica without dropping a couple from the late Augustus Pablo, then Kiasmos kicks off the second set followed by brand new Recondite, and Woo York, both released on Life and Death. Scuba surfaces, then Christian Kleine brings the melodic glitch and we hear a nice ambient one from aAirial. Burial closes out the show with another lesser known one, Stolen Dog.
Tracklist:
Burial – Lambeth
Keir – Opprobrium
Ancient Astronauts – Calvert Street Rock
Augustus Pablo – Natural Way
Augustus Pablo – Nature Dub
Kiasmos – Looped
Recondite – Think Twice
Woo York – The Valley Of Songs
Scuba – The Upside
Christian Kleine – Crystal
aAirial – Feel
Burial – Stolen Dog
5/5/2015 • 57 minutes, 55 seconds
#140 - April 27th 2015 [Reso, Fatboy Slim, FSOL]
We've got a trifecta of bass, blips and beats this week. Reso drops a new one of heavy Amen breaks marking his return to his origins of drum and bass. Squarepusher let's us know that no one is more frenetic than the mighty 'Pusher and his Modern Bass Guitar. We slow it down with some archival FSOL before the acid sets in with a romp through old school rave classics featuring Uberzone, L.S.G., Fatboy Slim and The Grid. P.L.U.R.
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Tracklist:
Jeep Beat - Wrecktify
Reso - Taigo
Squarepusher - Modern Bass Guitar
T. Raumschmiere - The Game Is Not Over
FSOL - Neuro Send Device
Freak-Quency Generator - Plexus Energy Flow
Makyo - Tantrika
Uberzone - Botz
Fatboy Slim - Tweakers Delight
L.S.G. - Netherworld
The Grid - Swamp Thing
Champion - Keep On Ridin'
Young Dread’s Hot Summer vibes start the show this week. Tycho drops Spectre, and we hear a brand new Christian Loffler track, then Metaform finds a groove. We switch it up a bit with Boards of Canada, Bochum Welt, Cheju, Mnemonic and DNN bringing some melodic glitchy beats. Manchester’s Biome drops some bass, then Burial and Trampique finish it off for this week.
Tracklist:
Young Dread – Hot Summer
Tycho – Spectre
Christian Loffler – York
Metaform – Sunday
Boards of Canada – Split Your Infinities
Bochum Welt – Suddenly Spring
Cheju – Celeste
Mnemonic – Sinnspiel
DNN – Words To Say
Biome – Space
Burial – Etched Headplate
Trampique – Indigo
4/21/2015 • 58 minutes, 43 seconds
#138 - April 13th, 2015 [Aswad, Leatherface, Loscil, Phonem, Segue...]
An eclectic mix this week starting out with some classic reggae from Aswad and Steel Pulse. We hear from stalwart vets and personal inspirers Leatherface. Les Gitans De Badajoz brings the passion, and an old personal post-punk fave Savage Republic gets played. We hear from Twile, Bracken, and Loscil. Access To Arasaka glitches it up, followed by Phonem, and an obscure electronic mix by The Upsetter himself, Lee Scratch Perry. We finish off the show this week with chilled dub from Vancouvers' Segue.
Tracklist:
Aswad – I A Rebel Soul
Steel Pulse – Worth His Weight In Gold (Rally Round)
Leatherface – Dead Industrial Atmosphere
Les Gitans De Badajoz – Ramona
Wild Belle – Keep You
Savage Republic – One Thousand Days (Instrumental)
Twile – Letter L
Bracken – We Put The Pop In Unpopular
Loscil – Iona
Access To Arasaka – switch(pcap_datalink)
Phonem – Untitled
Lee Scratch Perry – UFO Attack (Ambient Version)
Segue – Turning Patterns
4/14/2015 • 58 minutes, 51 seconds
#137 - March 30th, 2015 [V.I.V.E.K., Warsa, Gidge, ODESZA, Little People...]
ODESZA opens the show with an Intro, followed by a couple deep, dark, dub tracks from V.I.V.E.K. Warsa gets dropped in the same vein, then Gidge and an ODESZA track gets remixed by Little People. Tying Tiffany, Roots Manuva and a Nocow remix of Aebeloe take us to the end of the show which gets wrapped up with Forest Swords and an Emancipator remix of a Little People jam called Offal Waffle.
Tracklist:
ODESZA – Intro
V.I.V.E.K. – Asteroids
V.I.V.E.K. – Over My Head
Warsa – Recon
Gidge – Fauna, Pt. II
ODESZA – My Friends Never Die (Little People Remix)
Little People – Aldgate Patterns (Marley Carroll Remix)
Tying Tiffany – Ghoul
Roots Manuva – Clockwork
Aebeloe – Elliot (Nocow Remix)
Forest Swords – The Weight of Gold
Little People – Offal Waffle (Emancipator Remix)
3/31/2015 • 57 minutes, 11 seconds
March 23 2015 [Fundrive]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
3/23/2015 • 57 minutes, 27 seconds
#136 - March 16th, 2015 [Blockhead, Doctor Flake, Skream, Ibeyi, Saycet...]
NYC’s Blockhead opens it up with The Fakest Story Ever Told, followed by Neotropic and Portland’s East Forest. France’s Doctor Flake starts to dub it out, then we hear some classic roots reggae from The Prophets. Senegal’s Afro-Cuban-Carribbean fusion stars Orchestra Baobab vibe it out followed by NYC’s Tonikom. Pitch Black gets us back into the dub groove and we get dark and deep with an old one from Skream. The French-Cuban sisters who form Ibeyi remix one of their own then we hear from Denmark’s Mø. The Paris idm project Saycet finish the show off with two cuts from their One Day At Home album.
Tracklist:
Blockhead – The Fakest Story Ever Told
Neotropic – Farewell/Hope (Edit)
East Forest – Chopping The Wood
Doctor Flake – Women Dub
The Prophets – Warn The Nation
Orchestra Baobab – Dee Moo Woor
Tonikom – Eternal Internal
Pitch Black – Bird Soul
Skream – The Shinein
Ibeyi – River (Oshun Dub)
Mø – Waste of Time
Saycet – Metadine
Saycet – Dream Factory
3/17/2015 • 57 minutes, 19 seconds
#135 - March 9th, 2015 [DJ Krush, DJ Shadow]
It’s all nice beats and remixes this week on HSS. We start off with DJ Krush and DJ Shadow remixing eachother and by others. First off are the chilled beats of Krush’s early Meiso remixed by Shadow himself before we get the same beats dropped by Q-Bert remixing Shadow. DXT brings the conspiracy theory courtesy of Bill Laswell before DMC champ JFB drops his wicked live remix of Shadow’s Midnight In A Perfect World. Then we go all-Krush with a couple of minimalist beats and a live set. The mighty Frane brings us back before we end out on an emotional high with DJ Food and 2econd Class Citizen.
Tracklist:
Meiso - (Shadow Mix) - DJ Krush
Camel Bobsled Race - Q-Bert
Embryo - DXT
Midnight In A Perfect World - JFB
Duality - DJ Krush
2001 Cage Odyssey - DJ Krush
Triple J - DJ Krush
Cloudy Faces Blow Away - DJ Frane
The Crow - DJ Food
On Emptyness - 2econd Class Citizen
3/10/2015 • 58 minutes, 11 seconds
#134 - March 2nd, 2015 [Eskmo, Volor Flex, Brian Eno, Little People...]
Inspired by the images of the ISS this week, we start off with the warmth of brand new Eskmo, then hear the colder more precise beats of Volor Flex, aAirial, the technical glitches and melodies of Access To Arasaka and Zainetica. Brian Eno & David Byrne warms things up, then we hear some nice roots from Yabby You, Vivian Jackson, and LKJ. Michael Rose, DJ Vadim and DJ Madd get us in the groove, then Little People carry us into the experimental beats and rhymes of Antipop Consortium. Lydia Ainsworth finishes off the show this week.
Tracklist:
Eskmo – SpVce
Volor Flex – Somewhere Inside
aAirial – Untitled#4
Access To Arasaka – Ksora
Zainetica – Squirrels Vallance
Brian Eno & David Byrne – Qu’ran
The Disciples – Poor Man’s Prayer (Alpha & Omega Poor Man’s Prayer Remix)
Yabby You – Zion Gate
Vivian Jackson & The Prophets – Deliver Me From My Enemies
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Doun Di’ Road
Michael Rose – Fight I Down
DJ Vadim – Under Your Hat
DJ Madd – Moving On
Little People – Fisticuffs At Dawn
Antipop Consortium – Splinter
Lydia Ainsworth – White Shadows
3/3/2015 • 57 minutes, 23 seconds
#133 - February 16th, 2015 [Rebel MC, Kahn, Recondite, Mogwai...]
Negativland has an important Announcement, then we hear from Rebel MC, Tenor Fly, Dubphonic and brand new Kahn. Trampique starts to smooth it out, then we hear a couple from recent faves Recondite, followed by Kodomo and Pluxus. Mogwai who is celebrating their 20th year as a band this month, closes the show with a remix of their classic Tracy.
Tracklist:
Negativland – Announcement
Rebel MC & Tenor Fly – Born Again (Serial Killaz Mix)
Dubphonic – Outland
Kahn – Over Deh So
Trampique – Orange
Recondite – Hermelin
Recondite – Tie In
Kodomo – Orange Ocean
Pluxus – Transient
Shaded Explorer – High Above Water
Mogwai – Tracy (Kid Loco’s Playing With The Young Team Remix)
2/17/2015 • 56 minutes, 22 seconds
#132 - February 9th, 2015 [Mixmaster Morris]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
2/9/2015 • 59 minutes, 47 seconds
#131 - February 2nd, 2015 [Plaid, Michna, Gidge, Bluetech, Kuba...]
Plaid opens it up, and we continue on our weekly journey with Michna, Gidge, Bluetech and new Recondite. The Rastafari Elders bring us back, where we hear Arovane remix Ulrich Schnauss. Brand new Kuba gets some time, then more Gidge and Synkro. Emancipator remixes himself, closing it out for the week.
Tracklist:
Plaid – Unbank
Michna – Believe In It
Gidge – You
Bluetech – Somatic Serenade
Recondite – Levo
Rastafari Elders – Trodding To Zion
Ulrich Schnauss – I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance (Arovane AMX1)
Kuba – Drifter (Good Old Wood Mix)
Gidge – Dusk
Synkro – Falling
Emancipator – Black Lake (Emancipator Remix)
2/3/2015 • 57 minutes, 24 seconds
#130 - January 26th, 2015 [Noiseshaper, Deadbeat, Makyo, Desert Dwellers]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
1/26/2015 • 56 minutes, 7 seconds
#129 - January 19th, 2015 [Gidge, Burial, Nils Frahm, Christian Loffler...]
From A Strangely Isolated Place. Going over the end of the year specials and mixes we stumbled upon this. Isolatedmix 48 by Gidge. Gidge is a new discovery this week, and we have been finding their work interesting. This isolatedmix shares influences, and inspirations that ground their album ‘Autumn Bells’ that we look forward to sharing material from soon. We hope you enjoy it.
Tracklist:
Matti Bye – Across The Sun
Gidge – Norrland (Tony Karlsborn Bootleg)
Downliners Sekt – Eiger Dreams
Airhead – Shekure
Burial – Come Down To Us
Nils Frahm – Kind
James Blake – Pan
Loefah – The Goat Stare
Shxcxchcxsh – Entering The S-Cloud
Christian Vogel – Seed Dogs
Christian Loffler – Young Alaska
Herbst9 – Mletkin
Eomac – I Love You, I Miss You
The Field – No. No…
Troy Gunner – Swoon
Bell.Gall. – Spight
Julia Kent – Tithonos
David Douglas – Moon Observations
The intro says it all. Shooting from the hip this week we frantically run the course from tripped out dubbiness to goa. Noiseshaper's awesome remix of Vice Vanity kicks it all off before a Dilinja and Damian Marley mashup with some dope cuts. Pendulum and Reso make their appearance as we get bassy and grungy before Pretty Lights brings us to the midway point. After that we come out swinging with old school techno of the goa flavour with Eat Static and Laughing Buddha - until we decided enough is enough and return to the land of normal bpms. L.S.G. brings us a rather memorable anthem for all us '90s era ravers and then Die Antwoord remind us that what's old is new.
Tracklist:
Vice Vanity - Noiseshaper
Twist Jamrock Out - Damian Marley vs Dilinja and Skibadee
Tarantula - Pendulum
Check 1, 2- Reso
Make It Bun Dem - Damian Marley and Skrillex
I Know The Truth - Pretty LIghts
Rum Rum Yum Yum - Nanoo
Bony Incus Prog3 - Eat Static
Dragon Wings - Laughing Buddha and Pogo
Implant - Eat Static
Netherworld - LSG
Baby’s On FIre - DIe Antwoord
1/13/2015 • 59 minutes, 29 seconds
#127 - January 5th, 2015 [Poordream, Ibeyi, Esem, Recondite...]
It's stormy outside so we've decided to go fully dark and minimal by playing an hour long mix by Voices From The Lake off their self-titled album. Minimal beats and basslines for the hour while the rain pounds down.
12/9/2014 • 59 minutes, 53 seconds
#124 - December 1st, 2014 [Ancient Astronauts, Boy Robot, Mogwai...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
12/2/2014 • 57 minutes, 59 seconds
#123 - November 24th, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
11/25/2014 • 56 minutes, 11 seconds
#122 - November 17th, 2014 [Cell, Mnemonic, Nocow, Nils Frahm...]
Cell opens the show this week with Erasing Pluto, then we hear from Germany's Mnemonic. Russia's Nocow drops a couple then Aebeloe, Hiatus, Nils Frahm and Jon Hopkins find the groove. An older one from The Abbassi Brothers and a re-release from Cygna wrap it up for this week.
11/18/2014 • 56 minutes, 45 seconds
#120 - November 3rd, 2014 [Gramatik, Kiasmos, Lusine, Deco...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
11/4/2014 • 57 minutes, 15 seconds
#119 - October 27th, 2014
Gritty and dirty is how we start out with Max Cooper leading in with some nice noise while Diamond Version gets heavy underneath. From there we go ragga dirt with a couple of new selection from The Bug's latest before rewinding all the way to 1993 with some pre-FSOL Amorphous Androgynous. Bluetech steps up with some nice dubtech followed up with Youth's Holistic Resonance. A brief interlude of throat singing from Nohon before the ethnodub kicks in with show fav Makyo.
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Tracklist:
Seething - Max Cooper
Shift the Future - Diamond Version
Tokyo Dub - Juno Reactor
Potency - Max Cooper
Ascension - The Bug
Mi Lost - The Bug
Auto Pimp - Amorphous Androgynous
Oleander - Bluetech
Holistic Resonance - Youth
Bash-Adar - Nohon
Nourah - Makyo
Madana - Makyo
10/28/2014 • 1 hour, 9 seconds
#118 - September 22nd, 2014
This week we are fortunate to have ambient artist Clinker (AKA Gary James Joynes) in the studio fresh from his acclaimed live cinema performance at this year's New Forms Festival in Vancouver. Gary programs the show this week offering up key selections in ambient work that have been influential and meaningful to him over his career. We discuss ambient music, synthesizers, sound healing and his work with cymatics while we play selections from Brian Eno, ELEH, Loscil and Clinker himself. You can check out more of his work at www.ClinkerSound.com
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9/23/2014 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 32 seconds
#117 - September 15th, 2014 [Trentemoeller, Ishome, Phaeleh...]
Summer is winding down and the show starts with Dead Man's Bones then lowers into East Forest. Trentemoeller gets remixed, and Julianna Barwick builds it like she does. Kollektiv Turmstrasse and Deetron pick up the pace and show fave Ishome gets into a dubby groove, followed by Phaeleh and Synthetic Epiphany. Santogold gets reworked by Diplo, Sir-Mix-A-Lot is remixed, and the show wraps up with a new one from Lusine.
9/16/2014 • 59 minutes, 15 seconds
#116 - August 30th, 2014 [Vibronics, King Tubby, Kode9, Burial, Kodomo...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
8/31/2014 • 58 minutes, 39 seconds
#115 - Aug 23rd, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
8/24/2014 • 1 hour, 59 seconds
#114 - August 16th, 2014 [MC YOGI, Kaya Project, Bluetech, Baaba Maal...]
The show opens with the eastern vibes of MC YOGI and Karnamrita. Kaya Project, Bluetech, and Eastern Sun get us into the chilled groove then Carbon Based Lifeforms smooths it out like they do. Baaba Maal switches the vibe a bit as we head out with Air France, Palpitation and Pluxus.
The show opens this week with the musical cutting master Doctor FLAKE, and we journey down the path of roots reggae with John Brown's Body and Burning Spear. Amon Tobin brings an Easy Muffin and we get Windmills by Stev. MADE IN HEIGHTS drops a newish one and then Volor Flex picks it up the groove a bit. We venture into Burial, Data Rebel and the show wraps up this week with Echo Grid and The Human Case.
7/20/2014 • 59 minutes, 34 seconds
#112 - July 12th, 2014
We dedicate the first half of the show to a spotlight on some recent mixes by Z-Trip. Having just dropped a new one on us this week we thought we'd play some of our favourite moments from the Z mix archive. After that some grungy hiphop meets rock courtesy of a double dose of Herbaliser remixing from T.Power and 2econd Class Citizen. After that a couple tracks from DJ Shadow and Kid Koala kills it like nobody can.
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7/13/2014 • 59 minutes, 29 seconds
#111 - June 21st, 2014 [saQi, Emancipator, Drumspyder, Random Rab...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
6/22/2014 • 58 minutes, 51 seconds
110 - June 14th, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
6/15/2014 • 58 minutes, 38 seconds
#109 - June 7th, 2014 [Budos Band, Christian Loffler, Tying Tiffany...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
6/8/2014 • 56 minutes, 52 seconds
108 - May 17th, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
5/18/2014 • 59 minutes, 24 seconds
#107 - May 3rd, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
5/4/2014 • 58 minutes, 59 seconds
#106 - April 26th, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
4/27/2014 • 56 minutes, 3 seconds
#105 - April 12th, 2014 [Tycho, Synthetic Epiphany, Subscape, Warpaint...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
4/13/2014 • 54 minutes, 45 seconds
#104 - April 5th, 2014
Dark and bass heavy is the sound this week. We start off timestretched to the max, letting Laura Palmer's "Evolve" slowly work its way into your nervous system before an old school Neotropic paves the way for a couple of even older school FSOL tracks. More low end techno dubbiness from Laura Palmer and we meet up with Deadbeat doing techdub like no other. We finish off with The Orb doing a nice nod to their old style from their latest album.
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Tracklist:
Evolve - Laura Palmer
Aloo Gobi - Neotropic
Max - Future Sound of London
Dirty Shadows - Future Sound of London
Distances - Laura Palmer
Evolve (Marko Furstenberg Remix) - Laura Palmer
Requiem - Deadbeat
Surface 1 - Grad_U
Go Down Evil (Instrumental) - The Orb
4/6/2014 • 58 minutes, 35 seconds
#103 - March 29th, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
3/29/2014 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 25 seconds
#102 - March 22nd, 2014
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
3/23/2014 • 54 minutes, 19 seconds
#101 - March 1st, 2014
Ooohhh, we kick it off with a little mashup dropping Lorde low courtesy of Ester Dean. That's right. Die Antwoord after that with Ninja flowing like no other. Danny Brown and A-Trak after that with a couple of wicked Congo Natty tracks in there too. DJ Vadim remix Terrorist with some George W Bush and then Barrington Levy and Beenie Man keeps the theme with Murderer. Phutureprimitive remixes Massive Attack while Youth remixes the Ozric Tentacles before DJ Shadow gets remixed! The bpms get cranked with The Qemists and some seriously old school Squarepusher. We catch our breath via Daft Punk and swing our hips into the end with a joint production of DJ Disk and Tim Love Lee and C2C reminds us to be happy.
Press rewind if I haven't blown your mind.
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Tracklist:
Ester Dean - Drop It Low
Lorde - Royals
Die Antwoord - U Make Ninja Wanna Fuck
Congo Natty - Nu Beginingz
Congo Natty - London Dungeon
Danny Brown & A-Trak - Smokin and Drinkin
DJ Vadim - Terrorist 2010
Barrington Levy & Beenie Man - Murderer
Phutureprimitive - Teardrop
Youth - Sploosh
DJ Shadow - I Gotta Rokk
DJ Shadow - I Gotta Rokk (Irn Mnky Swagger Mix)
The Qemists - Everything Is Under Control
Squarepusher - Full Rinse
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Tim Love Lee & DJ Disk - One Word
C2C - Happy
3/1/2014 • 59 minutes, 25 seconds
#100 - February 8th, 2014 [Mø, Mogwai, Warpaint, aAirial...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
2/9/2014 • 59 minutes, 28 seconds
#99 - January 4th, 2014 [Moderat, Xela, Submerse, Shen...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
1/5/2014 • 55 minutes, 45 seconds
#98 - December 28th, 2013 [MOSH, Ghostek, Jon Hopkins, EPROM...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
12/29/2013 • 57 minutes, 37 seconds
#97 - December 21st, 2013 [Cults, Active Child, Phaeleh, Phutureprimitive...]
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
12/22/2013 • 58 minutes, 48 seconds
#96 - December 14th, 2013 [Fortyone, Burial, Maya Jane Coles...]
Fortyone's creative sampling opens the show followed by The Avalanches. Australia's crate digging, scratch masters. The show then features brand new Burial, and we start to find a groove with Maya Jane Coles. Foals and The xx get reworked then we hear an old favourite from the Eurythmics get remixed. Since we are in the club, we drop some unusual remixes for this show. Love life, and take care of each during this holiday season!
12/15/2013 • 1 hour, 7 seconds
#95 - December 7th, 2013
Seattle's Say Hi open the show this week with an homage to Northwestern Girls then we delve into some grooving idm with Russian producer Novel 23. France's Trip Hop master Doctor Flake gets spun, and then Pretty Lights shines So Bright with a new one from A Colour Map of The Sun. We hear one from Cut Records' Great Skies, then Kilimanjaro's Don't Wait gets featured. We hear a nice Calibre Remix of Snow Ghosts and their track, And The World Was Gone then Machinedrum drops the AMIT's Thug Dub Remix of his new one Gunshotta. A Mind I Knew from Brooklyn New Yorks' Suckers, has been on heavy rotation this week, and Stiffed the starting point of Santigold gets Burned Again. The show wraps up this week with some sweetness from Rephlex Records', DMX Krew and his track, Honey.
12/8/2013 • 55 minutes, 43 seconds
The Howe Sound System - November 2nd, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
11/3/2013 • 56 minutes, 13 seconds
The Howe Sound System - October 19th, 2013
It's a rollercoaster week on The HSS. Some newfound Beasties kick it all off as we head into DJ Spooky doing some of his best work on the Trojan Records catalog. The brand new Gunshotta by Machinedrum takes us dark and steppy followed by Paper Diamond and Trouble Andrew. After the break we start dark and moody with M.Rahn and then somehow end up at the opposite side of the spectrum raving out to a Rihanna remix followed by some seriously old school rave stylee from Tin Man. If we weren't so secure with our music selections over the past 90 shows we'd be ashamed but we aren't. DJ Kentaro brings us back to the now with his remix of Reso's Check 1,2 and Modeselektor cry out for the bass drum. The Beasties bring us home in fine style as we try to figure out what the hell we just played.
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Tracklist:
Beastie Boys - DOn't Play No Game That I can't Win
DJ Spooky - Revolution Disco Dub
Machinedrum - Gunshotta
Paper Diamond - All Green Lights
Trouble Andrew - Adorable
M.Rahn - Confused Mass
Rihanna - Where Have You Been? (Paperchaser Radio Edit)
Tin Man - Eighteen Strings (Full On Kitchen Mix)
Reso - Check 1,2 (DJ Kentaro Remix)
Modeselektor - Hyper Hyper
Beastie Boys - Long Burn The Fire
10/20/2013 • 58 minutes, 27 seconds
The Howe Sound System - October 12th, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
10/13/2013 • 55 minutes, 51 seconds
The Howe Sound System - October 5th, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
10/6/2013 • 55 minutes, 47 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 28th, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
9/29/2013 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 15 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 21st, 2013
Rifflandia. Having just returned from a weekend of music overload we start this week's show by featuring some of our favourite artists from the festival, including some nice new discoveries. First off is Lynx whose album is currently on heavy rotation here at HSS HQ followed by the mighty Z-Trip off of his debut album. Chali2na reminds us of why he killed at the show with his vocals on DJ Format's We Know Something You Don't Know. After that a little Thievery Corporation and some new Orb to rbing us into the dubby territory. After the break we drop a new one from Ott that is uber hot and keep the bass tunes rolling with Opio and a Bluetech remix of Adham Shaikh. We close the show with one of the main highlights from the fest: EPROM. See you next year at Rifflandia!
Tracklist:
Lynx - Tricksters & Fools
DJ Z-Trip - Something Different
DJ Format - We Know Something You Don't Know
Thievery Corporation - State of the Union
The Orb - Making Love in Dub (Instrumental)
Alpha & Omega - Philosopher's Stone (The Disciples Stepping Up Remix)
Ott - Mr Balloon Hands
Opio - Lost Moinal
Adham Shaikh - Carpet Breaker (Bluetech Remix)
EPROM - Transparency
Boards of Canada - Come To Dust
9/22/2013 • 56 minutes, 35 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 14th, 2013
Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux kicks it off this week. The Rip-Off Artist remixes it up and we hear a new one from µ-Ziq called Twangle Melkas. Nicolas Jaar brings some Variations and Apparat's Not a Number gets picked. Massive Attack gets remixed by Mad Professor and Burial starts to tone it down on the Night Bus. Russia's IDM pioneers Sleepy Town Manufacture start to bring some smooth glitchy ambience with Preston's Giantoic and Prhizzm's Empty Your Mind following suit. Aphex Twin gets ambient with Rhubarb and Brian Eno's Drift takes us to the end of the show with Fomatic finishing it off for this week.
9/15/2013 • 57 minutes, 55 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 7th, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
9/8/2013 • 57 minutes, 11 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 31st, 2013
The last days of summer and the show kicks off with French hip hop collective Chinese Man and a remix of Miss Chang. We hear a new one from London UK's CRIM3S, and then Unicorn Kid gives us True Fantasy Love. Skream finds a groove with Fields of Emotions and Kode9 brings the Bristol sound with Nine Samurai. Burial continues giving Endorphin and then Doomtree vet Cecil Otter shares his Boxcar Diaries. Italian modern classical composer Ludovico Einaudi has a new Time Lapse and Kulkid remixes The xx. Zola Jesus takes it to the close with Lick The Palm of the Burning Hand, and Russia's Ishome wraps it up until next week with Wildness.
9/1/2013 • 54 minutes, 16 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 24th, 2013
Summer is winding down and the kidlets are preppin' for skool. The Herbaliser opens the show this week with one from their newest offering, called Welcome To Extravagance. Parov Stelar warps time with Chambermaid Swing. The xx gets a rework and Austria's Soap&Skin meets Matthew Herbert. Toronto's Austra brings a new one with Hurt Me Now, then we roll down Highway 420 with Montreal's Do Make Say Think. We hear Marla from The Dust Brothers and Skalpel brings a classic with Sculpture and Page McConnell's Late Edition rounds it out, as we float on some chill Bonobo.
8/25/2013 • 58 minutes, 35 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 17th, 2013
Zack Hemsey starts off in an Hollywood blockbuster mood before Ninja and Yolandi drop the epicness with Enter The Ninja. Doomtree and Emancipator get heavy with big beats and rhymes. We do a throwback to the Bricolage era with Tobin's Easy Muffin before we slow things down with a little JJ. After the break things really slow down with Eleh's epic bass rumble of an Homage To The Pointed Waveform (proper stereo listening experience recommended). Alva Noto glitches us like no one else can off of Transform before he teams up with Opiate for Opto's lush glitchiness (yes those are birds mixed with sine waves). Raster labelmate Byetone brings some beats and then the mighty Raster Noton supergroup Signal takes us to the close with a heavy dose of Ermafa.
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Tracklist:
Jack Hemsey - The Calling
Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja
Doomtree - Bangarang
Emancipator - Shutterbuggin' Remix
Amon Tobin - Easy Muffin
jj - High Summer
Eleh - Reflection 2
Alva Noto - Module 7
Opto - 04.24pm
Byetone - Rocky (soft)
Signal - Ermafa
8/18/2013 • 56 minutes, 23 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 10th, 2013
Montreal's Killa-Jewel kicks it off this week with her track Tempo, then Beat Junkies legends J-Rocc & Babu bring a WWII Intro. Kid Koala's project The Slew gives us 100% and 2econd Class Citizen gets us to Step Inside. JFB cuts together his Midnight (DJ Shadow) Routine and French DMC Team Champs Birdy Nam Nam gives us the rhythmic Abbesses. Dan The Automator's Handsome Boy Modelling School lets us know that Rock n' Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) and we thank them for it. The show finds a future dubby groove with the fresh off the presses Basement Dub from Bluetech, and a Bluetech rework of Abakus' Cruise Control. Phutureprimitive brings The Enemy, then Miami, the Foals track gets remixed. The show finishes up with a new one from one of our faves Phaeleh, called Here Comes The Sun.
8/11/2013 • 59 minutes, 39 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 3rd, 2013
We're soft and sweet this week on HSS. We soar with the angels with a couple tracks from Julianna Barwick and her choir of young angels. After that we swim with the whales as marine biologist and electronic musician Lisa Walker plays violin duets with wild whales. After the break we head into some eastern hiphop styles, starting off with a call to prayer from Philip Glass followed by some classic Vangelis. Up, Bustle and Out drop the sitar and hiphop and we finish off with some nice turkish beats from Gramatik.
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Tracklist:
Julianna Barwick - Forever
Phaeleh - Iscabe Piano
Lisa Walker - Transfixed
Lisa Walker - Winter Song
Julianna Barwick - The Harbinger
Philip Glass - From Egypt
Vangelis - Tales of The Future
The Kumba Mela Experience - Calcutta Delight
Up, Bustle and Out - Emerald Alley
Gramatik - The Drink Is Called Rakja
Panjabi MC - Mundia To Bach Ke
8/4/2013 • 57 minutes, 49 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 27th, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
7/28/2013 • 56 minutes, 55 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 20th, 2013
Modern primitive is how the journey starts this week. Beginning with Nohon and moving into the modern didgeridoo of Wadhom. We bring an old Juno Reactor track called Solaris which introduces some throat singing and then we hear a really cool one from Huun-Huur-Tu. Throat singing with a modern twist. Squarepusher rounds out the first half of the show with his track Last Ap Roach. We travel on in time and around the world to land with Bomb The Bass & Lali Puna's Clearcut. Germany's The Notwist find the groove, and then Trouble Andrew with Santigold pick up the pace with Reporters. IAMX electo-clashes with After Every Party I Die, then we venture to Sweden and hear Girls Night Out from The Knife, and wrap it up with one from Fever Ray called Triangle Walks.
7/21/2013 • 57 minutes, 23 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 13th, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
7/14/2013 • 56 minutes, 4 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 6th, 2013
Dead Can Dance opens like only they can. Brand new Ishome track Adam, this week from her new album Confessions, and Phaeleh drops some deep chillstep with Fallen Light. Coleco finds a groove in their Breathwork and Moderat, the Modeselektor and Apparat project has their Les Grandes Marches spun. Another collaborative project, this time from Burial / Four Tet & Thom Yorke called Ego gets dropped. DJ Vadim's ultra catchy Under Your Hat gives you something to roll with and we hear a brand new one from Pretty Lights called Press Pause. New Zealand's Liam Finn gets played and then the show goes idm/ambient with a favourite from Cylob and we finish off with Berlin's Robot Koch.
7/7/2013 • 58 minutes, 23 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 29th, 2013
"I like the little things. I like the sound an ice cube makes when you drop it from just the right height". And so begins our homage to single malt. We kick it off all Speysidey with Van Morrison's classic jam meditation on a friend's death with T.B. Sheets. Then we get all rock psychedelic with Kaleidoscope's Beacon From Mars. We head on over to Islay for some darker, smokier tunes with DJ Shadow providing some soulful guitar before a couple of numbers by the true masters of soul Milt Jackson and Ray Charles riffing off one another like no one else can. Things get really heady once we crack open the Ardbeg and put on some DJ Krush (sampling Black Sabbath no less) and a little more DJ Shadow before we close it off with the AC/DC giving us the blues. Enjoy responsibly.
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Tracklist:
Van Morrison - T.B. Sheets
Kaleidoscope - Beacon From Mars
DJ Shadow - Broken Levee Blues
Milt Jackson and Ray Charles - How Long Blues
Susie Arioli - Having Fun
Milt Jackson and Ray Charles - The Genius After Hours
DJ Krush - Day's End
DJ Shadow - Triplicate Something Happened
AC/DC - Ride On
6/30/2013 • 57 minutes, 47 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 22nd, 2013
Brand new Boards of Canada called White Cyclosa starts the show this week. San Fran's Trifonic drops Parks on Fire, then we hear another brand new one, this time from Sigur Rós called Hrafntinna. The show goes mellowly beautiful with London UK's iambic playing Aura, then a nice one from The Album Leaf called Twentytwofourteen. Berlin based Apparat gets spun featuring the vocals of Anja Plascht (Soap&Skin) on a track called Goodbye. Germany's Mnemonic glitches it up a bit with an idm beauty called Sinnspiel and then Norway's Xerxes finds a groove with a remix of the Jonas Kroon track Her Er Eg. Celt Islam starts to dub it up with a Borderless World and the show wraps with two riddims from Fantan Mojah and 3gga & Emiliano.
6/23/2013 • 58 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 15th, 2013
True to form we're all over the map this week on HSS. We kick it off Malian style with a head nodder by Vieux Farka Toure. The gears get decidedly shifted as switch into some dark beats courtesy of Phaeleh. The identity crisis continues as we jump into Beirut and then we settle down into some Doomtree hiphop. Second half of the show is all bass. A brand new one from Shpongle leads us into some Phutureprimitive. Personal highlight of the week comes next with the big bass and beats from Gramatik and we close it with a gnarly and heavy one from the mighty Reso. Yesssss.
Tracklist:
Vieux Farka Toure - Diaraby Magni
Phaeleh - Reflections
Beirut - Guyamas Sonora
YACHT - Second Summer (RAC Remix)
Sims - Pay No Mind Redo
Doomtree - Last Call
Shpongle - Brain In A Fishtank
Phutureprimitive - Vamp
Gramatik - Illusion of Choice
Reso - Otacon
6/16/2013 • 57 minutes, 31 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 8th, 2013
This week we start with a long forgotten field recording and move into the French dub of Zenzile. Classic dub poetry gets spun with Linton Kwesi Johnson and Burning Spear elevates with Estimated Prophet. Austrian IDM pioneer B. Fleischmann's It's All So gets the HSS edit and the beautiful voice of Lisa Gerrard soars with The Secret Language of Angels. Continuing with the vibe we move into a rootsy Hugo rework of Jay Z's 99 Problems and Montreal's Elage Diouf gives his take on a classic. Keb Mo and Michael Franti both wrap up the rootness and Nicolas Jaar takes us back into electronics with some Variations. Montreal native DJ Champion's No Heaven rounds out show and Cul De Sac wraps it up in the background by electronically reworking Glen Jones.
Tracklist:
Unknown - No More, My Lord
Zenzile - War Still A Run
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Time Come
Burning Spear - Estimated Prophet
B. Fleischmann - It's All So
Lisa Gerrard & Marcello De Francisci - The Secret Language Of Angels
Hugo - 99 Problems
Elage Diouf - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
Keb Mo - Folsom Prison Blues
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Ganja Babe
Nicolas Jaar - Variations
DJ Champion - No Heaven
Cul De Sac - Tuff
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6/9/2013 • 57 minutes, 11 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 1st, 2013
A short intro to sampling kicks off the chill beats from Wax Tailor. Negativland samples some noise before Muslimgauze drops the gritty dubbiness he does so well. We then soothe the tension with a couple of gentle ones from The Album Leaf and a piano-laden beauty from Ludovico Einaudi. Later we get some old school Senking giving us some quirky glitch followed by the gentle bounce of krill.minima's Nachtigal. The big hype these days is all Boards of Canada and we drop the 10 minute DJ Food extension of their new one Reach For The Dead before finishing up with Montreal's Morbin to take us to the close.
Tracklist:
Wax Tailor - Once Upon A Past
Negativland - Michael Jackson
Muslimgauze - Thief Severed Hand
The Album Leaf - Window
Ludovico Einaudi - Uno
Arovane - Eleventh!
Senking - Cups
krill.minima - Nachtigal
Boards of Canada - Reach For The Dead
Morbin - The Leave
6/2/2013 • 58 minutes, 27 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 25th, 2013
Another episode from The Howe Sound System
5/26/2013 • 58 minutes, 22 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 18th, 2013
We start y'all off nodding to the deep n dubby styles of Ishome before heading in to some IDM from BreakNoise. Skream drops a pall over any semblance of contentment we once had with the dark and heavy Exothermic Reaction. Phaeleh doesn't lighten mood any choosing to keep the night dark with a little Caustic Storm. We switch gears for the second half of the show, this week with a little mini feature on mashups. It all starts with a youtube homebrew of Stevie Wonder meeting Metallica. After that mashup champion Z-Trip with an old school classic Rockstar followed up with a nod to the serious heads out there from the late 90s with Z mashing Christina Aguilera against ACDC. I used to love that shit back in the clubs. The show wouldn't be complete without a word from our man Strictly Kev and his epic hour long mashup mix Raiding The Twentieth Century. Eric B and Rakim meet Billie Jean courtesy of Osymyso and we finish off with the unheard of Ill Chemist mashing up Beatles breaks into awesome goodness.
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Tracklist:
Ishome - Eva
BreakNoise - You
Skream - Exothermic Reaction
Phaeleh - Caustic Storm
Volor Flex - The Sign
Wax Audio - Sad But Superstitious
Z-Trip - Rockstar
Z-Trip - Live
DJ Food - Raiding The 20th Century
Osymyso - Solid Steel
Rhythm Scholar vs Billy Squier - The Stroke
Ill Chemist - Back To The Top
5/18/2013 • 59 minutes, 31 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 11th, 2013
The show starts ambient this week with one from Harold Budd & Brian Eno. Polygon Ring brings Whitewards from the OneonTwoism project, then we hear from BC local Adham Shaikh. Karsh Kale gives us a Cinematic Reprise, then Lisa Gerrard & Marcello De Francisci get atmospheric with Geisha. The show starts to bring the bass with a new one from Phutureprimitive and then we head overseas to hear from the UK Garage/Bristol Sound scene. The second half opens with a beauty from Phaeleh called Lament, and we hear the classic dubstep track Shinein from Skream. Thelem gets kinda scary with Elemental Fears, and show fave Reso gets his Exoframe spun. Loz Contreras from Leeds wraps up the show with their Sarajevo (Blackmill Remix).
5/12/2013 • 58 minutes, 35 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 4th, 2013
Beautiful slinky downtempo beats courtesy of Markus D start us off real nice like. The perfect song for daydreaming while looking up at the clouds follows with a happy little number by Youth Lagoon. New Ninjatune discovery Grasscut follows that with their quirky The Tin Man. The beats get groovy with The Invisible Conga People before we head to the break. We shift gears and go dark and heavy for the second half of the show with some downtempo drum and bass breaks delivered with wicked precision by Andy Stott. Byetone slices the bass like a freakin' chef after that bringing us the hyper edgy and intense Two Fingers (aka Amon Tobin) Razorback. Is it me or does this sound like what the Decepticons would listen to? We hear one from Tobin himself with the classic Verbal before immersing in the hard grunge of another one by Two Fingers. We close it off with the deep, grungy, Apocalypse Now infused, sub rattling goodness of Terminate from dubstep masters Pinch and Distance (aka Deleted Scenes).
Tracklist:
Marcus D feat. Emancipator - Kindred Spirit
Youth Lagoon - Cannons
Grasscut - The Tin Man
Invisible Conga People - In A Hole
Metaform - Crush
Memory Cassette - Last One Awake
Up The Box - Andy Stott
Black Peace - Byetone
Razorback - Two Fingers
Verbal - Amon Tobin
Sweden - Two Fingers
Terminate - Deleted Scenes
5/5/2013 • 56 minutes, 52 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 27th, 2013
Record Store Day 2013 Edition. This week we showcase some of the releases from this years' Record Store Day event.
4/28/2013 • 59 minutes, 55 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 20th, 2013
A couple new selections from Major Lazer start us off this week in the electro vibe before we slide into a nice one by The Hundred In The Hands. Best song title ever from The Polish Ambassador after that with "Failed Attempts To Enter Her Underwater Fortress". Then we get loungy hiphoppy with some beats and strings from Coldcut followed by a nice Bonobo remix of Tobin's Four Ton Mantis. A new one by The Herbaliser before some classic Vadim and we end off reminiscing a bit with Lyrics Born and Bad Dreams.
Tracklist:
Major Lazer - Scare Me
Major Lazer - Watch Out For This (Bumaye)
The Hundred In The Hands - Dressed In Dresden
The Polish Ambassador - Failed Attempts To Enter Her Undewater Fortress
The Veils - Jesus For The Jugular
Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
Amon Tobin - Four Ton Mantis (Bonobo Remix)
The Herbaliser - The Lost Boy
DJ Vadim - Theme From Conquest of The Irrationel (Prunes Remix)
Lyrics Born - Bad Dreams
4/21/2013 • 56 minutes, 9 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 13th, 2013
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4/14/2013 • 58 minutes, 43 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 6th, 2013
Augustus Pablo leads the way into The Glitch Mobs' Dream Within A Dream. We hear a couple of remixes of Bloc Party featuring Peaches and Toronto's Death From Above 1979. We drop some Informant then Berlin's Robot Koch takes us into the break. Fink opens up the second half of the show where Luke Vibert remixes some Turtle Soup. We hear from some Wiseguys, then RJD2 closes out the show with a sweet remix of Ghostwriter.
Tracklist:
0:00 Augustus Pablo - Natural Way
3:12 The Glitch Mob - A Dream Within A Dream
8:12 Bloc Party - Helicopter (Weird Science Remix featuring Peaches)
13:52 Bloc Party - Luno (Bloc Party vs Death From Above 1979)
17:40 Informant - Foundation
22:21 Robot Koch - Feel
32:08 Fink - Good Day For Hippos
37:48 DJ Food - Turtle Soup (Luke Vibert Mix)
45:32 Wiseguys - The Sound You Hear
50:54 RJD2 - Ghostwriter Remix
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4/7/2013 • 59 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 30th, 2013
The sun's been out, the mercury rising and we're feeeeelin' great about it. We kick off the sunshine vibe with a remix of Rare Earth's classic I Just Want to Celebrate complete with Public Enemy scratched in. Then it's into the funk with Bootsy and Deee-Lite followed by Utah Saints remixing Watermelon Man. The hippo hop wobble funk takes over with Vent and a phat bassline from A. Skillz. After some reminiscing about the early rave scene here in Van, we move into some solid IDM with Paul Kalkbrenner. Rowdy beats ensue with Ellen Allien and a Die Antwoord remix. After that a bit of hiphop by way of The Let Go and Blue Scholars before we end with some chilled IDM from Vector Lovers.
Tracklist:
Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate (Mocean Worker Remix)
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (Bootsified To The Nth Degree)
King Curtis - Watermelon Man (Utah Saints Remix)
Vent - Lunatics
A. Skillz - Cold As Ice
Paul Kalkbrenner - Queer Fellow
Ellen Allien - Stadtkind
Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (DJ Fishticks Remix)
The Let Go - Searching For Sun
Blue Scholars - Hussein
Mnemonic - Das Verkaufte Lachen
Vector Lovers - Kobe
3/29/2013 • 58 minutes, 51 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 23rd, 2013
Excited about new Alt-J this week, so we start out with their track Dissolve Me. Newly introduced to Trifonic and Kaya Project this week so we hear from each of them. We drop the Planet of Sound remix of Dissolve Me and finish the first half of the show with a little one from Cheju called Sitka. The bass drops, The Qemists Drop Audio, and we hear Menhater, an old one from Panacea. Show favourite Reso, who recently released Tangram Remixed wraps it up with a few deep remixes of his 2012 album Tangram.
Tracklist:
0:00 Alt-J - Dissolve Me
3:44 Trifonic - Santa Rosa
9:43 Kaya Project - The Fortress
16:19 Alt-J - Dissolve Me (Planet Of Sound Remix)
22:20 Cheju - Sitka
30:60 The Qemists - Drop Audio
34:57 Panacea - Menhater
41:28 Reso - Ishimura (Evol Intent Remix)
46:00 Reso - Axion (KOAN Sound Remix)
49:04 TRG - Horny (Reso Remix)
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3/24/2013 • 56 minutes, 55 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 16th, 2013
We start it off with something a little different from the Bruce Peninsula choir featuring the voice of show-fav Austra. After that we dig deep into the subsonic frequencies with some bad ass bass from Nanoo and Informant. Hard beats after that Opiuo and we try to figure out how to pronounce Esem's killer Tjiccli. Then we mellow out with some rainy techno dub from Murcof and Montrealer Morbin before the glitch enters the scene from krill.minima. We end the show by picking up the tempo a bit with a mix by Deadbeat.
Tracklist:
Bruce Peninsula - 2nd 4th World War
Bruce Peninsula - Satisfied
Nanoo - Rum Rum Yum Yum
Informant - First Harvest
Opiuo - Patchouli Dump Truck
Esem - Tjiccli
Murcof - Camino
Morbin - IC-1011
krill.minima - Monddiode
Deadbeat - Magnetic North
3/14/2013 • 56 minutes, 10 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 9th, 2013
We had some sun break through the winter doldrums so we'd thought we'd throw out some nice beats to break the dull drums out there. Starting off right are a couple of groovy tracks by french hiphop outfit Chinese Man. After the eastern groove of Calling Bombay we move into the psydub side of things with Celt Islam followed by a choice selection from Bluetech. The second half of the show features a 30min from A. Skillz that is chock full of big funky breaks that are sure to have your booty shakin'. The man is in town next week March 16th.
Tracklist:
Chinese Man: Intro
Chinese Man: Calling Bombay
Celt Islam: Against The Grain
Bluetech: Oleander
Carbon Based Lifeforms: Supersede
A. Skillz - Insame Bangers Vol 1 - 10
3/10/2013 • 57 minutes, 27 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 2nd, 2013
Dntel remixes Enya. Mali's Rokia Traore brings the beauty and then we pick up a bit with Toronto's Austra. We drop some post-punk/post-rock with Sonic Youth and Pixies then legends Eek-a-Mouse and Lee Perry bring the reggae. Electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram brings her Bird of Parallax, and Santogold drops a nice remix of L.E.S. Artistes. We drop beats towards the finish with the PNW underground hip-hop of Mad Rad, Sapient and Grayskul, finishing up with the indie pop of Sweden's Palpitation.
Tracklist:
0:00 Dntel - Boadicea
3:17 Rokia Traore - Dounia
9:27 Austra - Spellwork (MNDR Nighttime Remix)
14:33 Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song For Karen)
20:47 Pixies - Broken Face
24:16 Eek-a-Mouse - Dip Em
28:02 Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Whitebellyrats - Panic In Babylon
35:38 Daphne Oram - Bird of Parallax
39:48 Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (XXXchange Mix)
43:36 Mad Rad - Jungle Cat
47:48 Sapient - Dopesick
51:26 Grayskul - Scarecrow
54:28 Palpitation - I Lost and Died
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3/3/2013 • 58 minutes, 1 second
The Howe Sound System - February 23rd, 2013
Percussive and glitchy is how it starts moving this week. We hear some Hang Drum from David Kuckhermann and then we head into the melodic glitch of Tinaedae and o9. We slow it down a bit with The Boats and then go back a ways with Boards of Canada. Philadelphia's City Rain remixes Obfusc and drops one of his own called Between Two Minds. The show brings the bass with a Phutureprimitive remix of Massive Attack's classic Teardrop then DJ Vadim and Version Big-Fi move air in front of the subs, warming them for Ott, who is in town tonight.
Tracklist:
0:00 David Kuckhermann - Asymetric Refraction
2:30 Tinaedae - Torchlights
4:24 o9 - Terminal Red
7:57 The Boats - It's Not Your Fault (It's How Air Works)
12:14 Boards of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden
18:24 Obfusc - Amateur Cartography (City Rain Remix)
21:37 City Rain - Between Two Minds
29:04 Massive Attack - Teardrop (Phutureprimitive Remix)
33:34 DJ Vadim - Black Is Black (JFB Remix)
39:03 Version Big-Fi - Serious Dub
44:30 Ott - Squirrel and Biscuits
50:30 Phutureprimitive - Cryogenic Dreams
2/24/2013 • 56 minutes, 58 seconds
The Howe Sound System - February 16th, 2013
This week we start off with the soaring dub of Hol Baumann's Scala, then Atmosphere comes out of nowhere and drops one before we pick it up a bit and get moving with Nicolas Jaar. Mali's Issa Bagayogo remixes one of his own traditional tracks with some electricity, then the show features some great Montreal Hip-Hop. We start out with a few from Morbin, and Killa-Jewel. Canadian DMC Champ DJ Brace drops a rework of some Kid Koala and DJ Mana rounds out the show with a couple from his new Cortical Transmissions Vol.1 EP.
2/17/2013 • 57 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - February 9th, 2013
This week we revolt against the man. Starting the set off is The Man himself Johnny Cash singin' about the other man with his cover of Personal Jesus. Then we drop some nice beats courtesy of LCD Soundsystem and a bassy remix of MGMT's Kids. Following that The Qemists kick it into grimey high gear with a remix of DJ Kentaro. Having gotten the aggression out we tone it down with some bvdub and laid back dubby techno. Segue keeps it nice and chilled as we bring the show to a close.
Tracklist:
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)
DJ Kentaro - Kikkake (Qemists Remix)
Vibesquad - Jowels
SYNKRO - Acceptance
bvdub - Another Love
Segue - Snow Dub
2/10/2013 • 57 minutes, 50 seconds
The Howe Sound System - February 2nd, 2013
New music this week from Emancipator's Dusk To Dawn. So fresh it's still warm. We hear one called Heikki from Tor , a Vancouver artist, signed to Emancipators Loci Records. We then feature a really cool project called One on Twoism, which is a compilation of independent electronica artists inspired by Boards of Canada. Released for free online, the stunning site features 5 different compilation albums so far in FLAC and mp3, with downloadable artwork.
Track List:
Emancipator - Minor Cause
Emancipator - Dusk To Dawn
Emancipator - The Way
Emancipator - Afterglow
Tor - Heikki
TTK - Quagar
Trick Knobs - Feed Not Fight
Skywave - Short2
Kamas - Kalm
Polygon Ring - Whitewards
Phaelam - Southern Cross
Polar Sky - Christine
Illuminant - Division
Clinker - Due South (Towards Irricana Alberta)
Of Oceans - Qualms
2/3/2013 • 58 minutes, 59 seconds
The Howe Sound System - January 26th, 2013
Cold and foggy has been the vibe here in the Howe Sound the last week and the mood has set in. We kick it off with some high energy dnb-esque beats from Wisp and Squarepusher. We get a little melcancholy with a coupe nice tracks from Saycet and Weldroid plus Ninjatune's Eskmo. After the break we get really moody with some dark, dubby techno from Grad_U, M. Rahn and we close up the hour with a nice one from Deadbeat.
Tracklist:
Wisp - Beaduaegen
Squarepusher - Angel Integer
Thermostatic - I Want To Be A Marilyn
Saycet - Don't Cry Little Girl
Weldroid - Black Glass
Eskmo - Cloudlight
Grad_U - Surface I
M. Rahn - Confused Mass
Deadbeat - Wolves and Angels
1/27/2013 • 55 minutes, 59 seconds
The Howe Sound System - January 12th, 2013
Our 1 year anniversary show! We share electronic music that first inspired us and talk about the early Vancouver electronic music scene. William Burroughs cut-ups, the importance of Psychic TV, Sonic Youth, having big brothers, Terrence McKenna...and a bit more.
Tracklist:
The Grid - One Giant Step
808 State - In Yer Face
Psychic TV - Horror House
Ozric Tentacles - Sploosh
The Herbaliser - Scratchy Noise
Spacetime Continuum & Terrence McKenna - Speaking In Tongues
Bomb The Bass - Clearcut
1/13/2013 • 59 minutes, 55 seconds
The Howe Sound System - January 5th, 2013
We enter the new year with some dark atmosphere courtesy of Vancouver local Beesaur. After that we start getting groovy with a classic from the Orb and a wicked head nodder by Evan Marc and Steve Hillage. Orb collaborator Thomas Fehlmann shakes our booties and slams the beats from his live set at MUTEK a few years back before a new one by The Orb full of tripped-out dirty beats. Byetone drops some dirty hiphop Raster Noton style and then our man Reso closes us out in style.
Tracklist:
Beesaur – Red
Beesaur – Eve
The Orb – Close Encounters
Even Marc & Steve Hillage – Theta Phase
Thomas Fehlmann – MUTEK Live
Daft Punk – End Of The Line
The Orb – Go Down Evil
Byetone – Golden Elegy
Reso – Coronuim
1/6/2013 • 56 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - December 29th, 2012
Dark IDM courtesy of Autechre and The Orb brings 2012 to a close. We start flexing the bass with VibeSquad and a new one by Reso (one of our fav albums from 2012). We transition into the hippity hop with DJ Kentaro and a nice one by DDay One. An old school DJ Food reminds us of where we were 15 odd years ago and sets the tone for the rest of the show as we proceed to chill it out with nice IDM beats from Tycho. DJ Spooky gives Led Zeppelin a work over and we finish with a happy little folk number (as Bob Ross would say) from Benjamin Francis Leftwich.
Tracklist:
Autechre - Montreal
The Orb - Assasin
Depth Affect - Junior International
VibeSquad - Whittling
Reso - Ishimura
DJ Kentaro - Enter Newground
DDAy One - Terminal 86/Making The Transition
DJ Food - Bass City Roller
Tycho - Cloud Generator
DJ Spooky - Dazed and Confused Dub
Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Atlas Hands
12/30/2012 • 56 minutes, 5 seconds
The Howe Sound System - December 22nd, 2012
Out with the old…in with the new. This Mortal Coil opens up the show with Baby Ray Baby, then we find the chilled groove for a couple from Cell. New life gets dedicated with Pete Philly & Perquisite then the show gets ambiently glitchy with Preston, Xploding Plastix and Trickform. Drum & Bass beats kick in with Aftershock and K&D mixing Count Basic then the show wraps up in style with CoMa and one from Born Gold.
Tracklist:
This Mortal Coil - Baby Ray Baby
Cell - Under Your Mind
Cell - Spinning Whale
Pete Philly & Perquisite - Mystery Repeats
Preston - Chordafloral (Mise En Scene Remix)
Xploding Plastix - Bulldozer Butterfly
Trickform - Memory Rebuilding
Aftershock - Eclipse
Count Basic - Speechless Drum & Bass (K&D Session)
CoMa - Where Do We Go (Synthetic Epiphany Remix)
Born Gold - That Way
12/23/2012 • 56 minutes, 1 second
The Howe Sound System - December 15th, 2012
It's the last show before the end of the world and so we're taking us out in style! We start off calling for a revolution with an old school ravey Little Fluffy Clouds remix and keep the beats rolling with Eat Static's tripped out Bony Incus. We throw some shuffle in our step with Daft Punk before we really get the hips bouncing with some funked out glitch bass from The Qemists. We end the set with some serious moodiness from HSS fav Tonikom and Loscil along with a little Tuvan throat singing for good measure. Second half of the show picks up where we started with a noisey Mogwai remix and a nice eastern flavoured Bjork remix before we head over to South Africa for some end of the world zef rave style with Die Antwoord. After that we get rock n' rowdy with Santigold and Peaches before chilling out with Cat Power and a little west coast rain. See you next week!
Tracklist:
The Orb - Fluffy Little Remix
Eat Static - Bony Incus
Daft Punk - Alive
The Qemists - Dem Na Like Me (Instrumental)
Tonikom - Eternal Internal
Throat Singers of Tuva - Kongerei
Loscil - Collision of the Pacific Gatherer
Mogwai - San Pedro (The Soft Moon Remix)
Bjork - Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Remix)
Die Antwoord - Baby's On Fire
Santigold - Big Mouth
Kreayshawn - Go Hard (La.La.La)
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
Cat Power - Say
12/16/2012 • 56 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - December 8th, 2012
14 days till the end of the world and 16 more shopping days till Xmas.
The show starts this week with old favorites, Suns of Arqa and their 1987 track He Did Not Die. Bill Laswell's Material project goes Ineffect, with samples from William Burroughs. We continue the eastern vibe with Eccodek from the excellent Bluetech compiled Spirit of La Selva album. New discoveries Celt Islam bring more dubby goodness with Silk Road and Sarayda Dub. Never ones to stay stagnant the boys at the HSS head towards beats with DJ Cam bringing Hip Hop Pioneers from his first album. DJ Vadim grooves it up with Under Your Hat, then former Canadian DMC Champ DJ Brace remixes the Ancient Astronauts track Still A Soldier. Handsome Boy Modelling School's Holy Calamity gets remixed by DJ Shadow and Bomb The Bass brings the Bug Powder Dust. The show wraps up with Reso remixing DJ Kentaro's Kikkake.
Tracklist:
Suns of Arqa - He Did Not Die
Material - Ineffect
Eccodek - Silent Song (Tarun Nayar Remix)
Celt Islam - The Silk Road
Celt Islam - Sarayda Dub
DJ Cam - Hip Hop Pioneers
DJ Vadim - Under Your Hat
Ancient Astronauts - Still A Soldier (DJ Brace Remix)
Handsome Boy Modelling School - Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)
Bomb The Bass - Bug Powder Dust (Radio Mix)
DJ Kintaro - Kikkake (Reso Remix)
12/9/2012 • 59 minutes, 9 seconds
The Howe Sound System - December 1st, 2012
On November 8th, 2012 ambient master Pete Namlook died of unknown causes. This week on the show we take a look back and play some of our favourite Namlook songs. We start off slow and gentle with some delicate flute work from a collaboration between Laswell and Namlook off of Outland IV. Then we move in to a couple selections of Namlook's gentle vocal work with Ancient Beauty and Travelling Without Moving (an album title that pretty much sums up Namlook's ambient opus). We finish the show off with an absolute personal fav: the wonderfully restrained beats of Dark Side of The Moog IX.
12/2/2012 • 55 minutes, 52 seconds
The Howe Sound System - November 24th, 2012
"When I used to stay up all night in film school music" for the first half of the show this week. We get a little life experience from Mr. Iggy Pop through Mogwai then Godspeed You! Black Emperor records just down the street on East Hastings. Mogwai picks up the phone with Tracy and Belle & Sebastian Sleep The Clock Around. The show takes a turn towards electronics with City Rain and the Russian IDM producer Novel 23 brings us his First Love. Biotron Shelf, the Cheju and Mint collaboration gives us Caliper, then we get a bit dubby with Bluetech's Elementary Particles. Sweden's Carbon Based Lifeforms starts chillin' it with Init and the show wraps up with Flor from Donato Wharton.
Tracklist:
Mogwai - Punk Rock
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - East Hastings
Mogwai - Tracy
Belle & Sebastian - Sleep The Clock Around
City Rain - Over The Field
Novel 23 - First Love
Biotron Shelf - Caliper
Bluetech - Elementary Particles (Re-Edit)
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Init
Donato Wharton - Flor
11/25/2012 • 58 minutes, 26 seconds
The Howe Sound System - November 17th, 2012
We go with the minimal and moody techno as the days get shorter and colder. Tonikom sets the mood with her dark and minimal Eternal Internal. We love Tonikom. Deadbeat keeps it dark and pumpin' with Wolves and Angels and things begin to build with Legowelt before a new one from Reso rips bass right out of our speakers. Heavy beats and wobble ensue with ill.Gates & Datsik while Modeselektor really sets the tone by letting us know we need bass drum. We shift gears into the hiphop scene with some Z-Trip and Sims plus a hot one from The Herbaliser that's so new we're not even sure the album's dropped yet.
Tracklist:
Tonikom - Eternal Internal
Deadbeat - Wolves and Angels
Legowelt - Cholobass
Reso - Exoframe
ill.Gates & Datsik - Eviction
Modeselektor - Hyper Hyper
Tying Tiffany - Unleashed
Freestylers & DJ Z-Trip - Check The Skillz
Sims - Burn It Down
The Herbaliser - Return of The Seven
Doomtree - Gameshow Host
11/18/2012 • 56 minutes, 19 seconds
The Howe Sound System - November 10th, 2012
We get a little break from the rain but we are still pretty chilled out. This weeks' show starts out with one from Ozric Tentacles called Strangeitude and slowly builds with a rare one from Evan Marc (Bluetech) & Steve Hillage (System7). We then move into the psy-chill of Padmasana and their track Holistic Resonance. The sun starts to break through and we take it up a notch with one from Carbon Based Lifeforms called Interloper. Then we feature Vancouver's own The Mole with his excellent track If I Had A Nickel and Solar Fields takes us towards the end of the show with Cobalt 2.0. Born Gold wraps it up with his track Lethe from his most recent EP, Little Sleepwalker.
Tracklist:
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Resurface
Padmasana - Holistic Resonance
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Interloper
The Mole - If I Had A Nickel
Solar Fields - Cobalt 2.0
Born Gold - Lethe
11/11/2012 • 57 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - November 3rd, 2012
It all starts with a throwback to the 80s with Bronski Beat. We continue with the 808 and female vocals theme as we go into more contemporary tunes from Born Gold and a bangin' Austra remix from Mark Pistel. Aphex Twin drops a remix and then show fav Santogold sings us to the break with Say Aha. We shift gears into some psydubby territory but not withouth passing through some Flamenco flavour from Gustavo Santaolalla and Phutureprimitive. The hips start to wiggle as we move into Beanfield and we end off with the tripped out beats of Die Antwoord's Zefside Zol.
Tracklist:
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Full 12" Version)
Born Gold - Ferocious Body
Austra - Lose It (Mark Pistel Dub Remix)
Aphex Twin - DMX Krew - You Can't Hide Your Love Away (Hidden Love Mix)
Santogold - Say Aha
Gustavo Santaolalla - Zenda
Phutureprimitive - Spanish Fly (Flamenco Dub Pt.1)
Solar Fields - Magic Eye (Remix)
Beanfield - Keep On Believing
Die Antwoord - Zefside Zol
11/4/2012 • 56 minutes, 16 seconds
The Howe Sound System - October 27th, 2012
Getting close to Hallows Eve here on the Howe Sound System. This week's show has some Halloween overtones with Kid Koala opening the show scratchin' up some familiar Charlie Brown. We get into the Good Time Girl groove with Cobra Killer, then Gin Wigmore carries us into Psychobilly territory with Kill Of The Night. Italy's Tying TIffany wrecks it up with Drownin' and the Bondage Fairies bring the 8 bit distorted goodness on their track Morphine. Crystal Castles take us a little closer to where we usually tread on the HSS with Untrust Us, and we hear a unique one from The Uncluded, which is a collaboration between Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson. The Butthole Surfers really bring the weirdness with Kuntz and the subs start to get a workout as the show heads dubsteppy. Loefah brings a remix of the Vex'd track 3rd Choice and we get a newish mix of Dark Steering from Squarepusher. Distance brings Menace and the show ends with one from Reso titled Check 1,2 that is so new it's still warm.
Cobra Killer: Good Time Girl
Gin Wigmore: Kill Of The Night
Tying Tiffany: Drownin'
Bondage Fairies: Morphine
Crystal Castles: Untrust Us
The Uncluded: Bats
Butthole Surfers: Kuntz
Vex'd: 3rd Choice (Loefah Remix)
Squarepusher: Dark Steering (KCRW Session)
Distance: Menace
Reso: Check 1,2
10/28/2012 • 57 minutes, 50 seconds
The Howe Sound System - October 20th, 2012
2012 Fall FunDrive show for CHLY 101.7FM. A fun retrospective of some of our favorite songs that we have played on the Howe Sound System.
10/21/2012 • 58 minutes, 52 seconds
The Howe Sound System - October 13th, 2012
We turn down the mood a bit this week as the days get shorter and the chill sets in at night. A couple of chilled, glitchy tunes start us off with Biotron Shelf and a brand new one by Little People. We follow that up with Auditory Canvas and some cool politically messaged words by Severn Suzuki while BC's own Junior Boys drop a gorgeous, chilled Billie Holiday remix. The second set is a Ninjatune showcase of sorts, starting off with Amon Tobin's wickedly psychedelic Hey Blondie before giving way to Kid Koala and his new blues thang. The bpms rise as we move into the Aphrodelics and then Coldcut bring the positive vibe with Colours The Soul before we really amp up the sublime, closing the show with DJ Food's The Crow.
Tracklist:
Biotron Shelf - Bridgehang
Little People - Eminence Grise
Emancipator - Wolf Drawn
Auditory Canvas & Severn Cullis-Suzuki - Get Green Soothe
Access To Arasaka - Billie Holiday - Yesterdays (Junior Boys Remix)
Antipop Consortium & Matthew Shipp - Rockers Hi-Fi
Amon Tobin - Nepalese Bliss
Amon Tobin - Hey Blondie
Kid Koala - 5 bit Blues
Aphrodelics - Rollin' On Chrome (wild motherfucker dub)
Coldcut - Colours The Soul
DJ Food - The Crow
10/14/2012 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 29th, 2012
Lots of quality hiphop this week. It all starts with an Aesop Rock mashup by Equilibrium followed by some nice beats by Slouch and a little hiphop cum dnb from Chinese Man. Atmosphere and Glue give us some rhymes before Fort Minor drop the politically charged Kenji. After the break we begin with the dubby techno of Bluetech and Solar Quest before DXT (formerly Grandmaster D.ST of Rockit fame) lays down the beats and heavy conspiracy theory. DJ Krush keeps it real with the powerful Univearth and Sixtoo spits out some dirty beats to round out the show.
Tracklist:
Equilibrium - Aesop Rock x Andrew Bird Mashup (Instrumental)
Slouch - Black Coffee
Chinese Man - In My Room (DJ SUV Remix)
Atmosphere - GodLovesUgly
Glue - Goodbye
Antipop Consortium - Throat Cultures
Fort Minor - Kenji
Bluetech - Oleander
Solar Quest - Awaken Kundalini
DXT - Embryo
Bill Laswell and Pete Namlook - From The Earth to The Ceiling pt 1
DJ Krush - Univearth
Sixtoo - Closing Day Sale
Sixtoo - Jackals and Vipers and The Envy of Man pt3
9/30/2012 • 57 minutes, 2 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 22nd, 2012
Moody and minimal techno fills the entire hour as we shift into fall with the arrival of the vernal equinox. We open with the eerie and gorgeous Hour Glass by DJ Food off of the excellent Quadraplex EP. We dive into the minimal with Execution by Andy Stott before dropping a new one by Deadbeat from his 2012 release "Eight". More brilliant minimal techno from Aes Dana and a couple from The Sight Below before giving credit where credit's due with Plastikman's epic acid laced classic Consumed.
Tracklist:
DJ Food - Hour Glass
DJ Food - Looking Glass
Andy Stott - Execution
Deadbeat - Alamut
Aes Dana - Perimeters
The Sight Below - At First Touch
The Sight Below - Dour
Plastikman - Consumed
9/23/2012 • 57 minutes, 47 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 15th, 2012
The Adding Machine kicks off the show with some glitch-hoppy New World Order. The French hip hop collective Chinese Man gets remixed by the Scratch Bandits Crew and we tune in to Seattle's Grayskul and a Bloody Radio. The show takes a turn towards chillin' with Emancipator's First Snow. Longtime Aesop Rock collaborator and producer Blockhead gets his Tricky Turtle played, then Summer's Gone with Pretty Lights. The Orb teams up with Lee Scratch Perry for a reworking of Little Fluffy Clouds entitled Golden Clouds and Montreal's Kid Koala puts his twist on some old blues tracks. Kid Koala's side project The Slew is Robbin Banks (Doin' Time) and DJ Shadow gets spun with I Gotta Rokk (Irm Minky Swagger Mix). The finishes off with Of Oceans and a track called You Confused.
The Adding Machine - New World Order
Chinese Man - Down (Scratch Bandits Crew Remix)
Grayskul - Bloody Radio
Emancipator - First Snow
Blockhead - Tricky Turtle
Pretty Lights - Summer's Gone
The Orb & Lee Scratch Perry - Golden Clouds
Kid Koala - 2 Bit Blues
Kid Koala - 8 Bit Blues
The Slew - Robbing Banks (Doin' Time)
DJ Shadow - I Gotta Rokk (Irm Minky Swagger Mix)
Of Oceans - You Confused
9/16/2012 • 58 minutes, 27 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Sept 8th, 2012
Back to school with a some deep beats this week. Slow and heavy is how we start with a couple selections from The Qemists and a Daedelus remix. TTC drops by with our fav Dans Le Club before we go back in time with The Orb's bouncin' Toxygene. Die Antwoord make us drop the Listener Discretion warning at the intro and T. Raumschmiere makes Goldfrapp sound good. All that before we blow out the speakers with the wicked Qemists remix of Everything Is Out of Control comin' in at a whopping 176 bpm! Some dubsteppy goodness after that with Haywire and Opiuo before we settled down a bit with a choice selection from Prefuse 73. The Last Gambit continues the chilled vibe before ending off with a new one by Cat Power.
Tracklist:
The Qemists - Swag Intro
Daedelus - Vous Etes Stereo (Om Unit Remix)
TTC - Dans Le Club
The Orb - Toxygene
Goldfrapp - Train (T. Raumschmiere Remix)
The Qemists - Everything Is Under Control
Haywyre - LD004
Opiuo - Robo Booty
ill.Gates & Filastine - Pharma Sutra
Prefuse 73 - Choking You
The Last Gambit - Worms Are Better Than Me
Cat Power - Human Being
9/9/2012 • 57 minutes, 22 seconds
The Howe Sound System - September 1st, 2012
Almost back to school on the Howe Sound System. The show starts this week with a banger from Austra, followed by another related project called Trust, and their track Dressed For Space. Fever Ray continues the darkwave vibe with the Familjen Remix of, If I Had A Heart. The show takes a turn towards chillin' out a bit with Emancipator, then the influential Dub Syndicate takes it down another notch with a Japanese Record. Auditory Canvas gives us a recent history lesson with Lest We Make It A Mistake and Sigur Ros reminds us of the creative goodness in the world. Stendeck starts to glitch it up a bit, with Known Rebel, Tineidae and Access To Arasaka winding down the show into the changing seasons.
Austra - Beat And The Pulse (Still Going Remix)
Trust - Dressed For Space
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart (Familjen Remix)
Emancipator - Nevergreen
Dub Syndicate - Japanese Record
Auditory Canvas - Lest We Make It A Mistake
Sigur Ros - Saeglopur
Stendeck - Run Amok (Against Time Rebels)
Known Rebel - Mechanical Sunset
Tineidae - Kasatka
Access To Arasaka - syslog_ident
9/2/2012 • 56 minutes, 19 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 25th, 2012
Summer is winding down here on the Howe Sound System. This week the show starts with the circus vibes of Moss of Aura. Dorian Concept brings one of the best titles with Her Tears Taste Like Pears. South London native Burial brings the dubby, cut-up ness with Ashtray Wasp, and Radiohead puts everything in its right place with some Idioteque. Squarepusher rocks it with a new one called Dark Steering and dubstep master Mala brings some fresh Cuba Electronic. DJ Phantasy takes the DNB back a ways with Hard Step Remix. VibesquaD brings the beats with their new single Heatsink and T. Raumschmere finishes off the week with some Rabaukendisko.
Tracklist:
Moss of Aura: Sweat
Dorian Concept: Her Tears Taste Like Pears
Burial: Ashtray Wasp
Radiohead: Idioteque
Squarepusher: Dark Steering
Mala: Cuba Electronic
DJ Phantasy: Hard Step Remix
VibeSquaD: Heatsink
T. Raumschmere: Rabaukendisko
8/26/2012 • 54 minutes, 26 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 18th, 2012
A Silver Mt Zion takes us into the epic as we open the show. JJ sings us sweet lullabies as we drift under summer clouds and opens the space for Zen Mechanics and Anahata and their deep, lush beats. After that Death Cube K spaces us out with Buckethead on ambient guitar before Deaf Centre gives us some twilight beats. The sun sets as we get darker with a new one by David Lynch (yes, *the* David Lynch) before we close with the hauntingly gritty Heart by Byetone.
Tracklist:
A Silver Mt Zion - Sitting In The Middle of Three Galloping Dogs
JJ - High Summer
Zen Mechanics - A New Philosophy
Anahata - Shakti
Death Cube K - Land Of The Lost
Deaf Centre - Dial
David Lynch - Noah's Ark
Byetone - Heart
8/19/2012 • 56 minutes, 11 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 11th, 2012
We ease into Saturday night with some classic dub tracks from Lee Scratch Perry and Max Romeo to set the warm summer night vibe. Some nice hiphop beats from Doomtree and our new favs Chinese Man continue the mood. Then we dive into some bass styles with T. Raumschmiere and a new one by perenial fav Squarepusher. Some Glitch Mob and another Squarepusher track (this time from his first album) keep us solidly in the high bpms until Die Antwoord's DJ Hi-Tek drops some dubstep breaks stylez on us as we close the show.
Tracklist:
Lee Scratch Perry & The Whitebellyrats - Pussy Man
Max Romeo & The Upsetters - I Chase The Devil
Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley - Road To Zion
Doomtree - Veteran
Chinese Man - In My Room
Chinese Man - Get Up
T. Raumschmiere - Someday
Squarepusher - Unreal Square
Evil Nine feat. El-P - All The Cash (Glitch Mob Remix)
18 Wheeler - The Ballad of Paul Verlaine
Squarepusher - Problem Child
The Glitch Mob - Nalepa
Die Antwoord - Never Le Nkemise 2
8/12/2012 • 56 minutes, 55 seconds
The Howe Sound System - August 4th, 2012
The show starts out this week in recognition of Dead Can Dance and their reunion tour starting right here in Vancouver. We open with a lesser known track called The Writing On My Father's Hand then play a couple of their classics. Towards The Within and The Host Of Seraphim. The show comes even closer to home with the organic electronic vibes of the Nelson's Adham Shaikh, including an excellent collaboration with Mali's Issa Bagayogo. We bring it closer still with one from Take 5 a very talented local Vancouver artist and DJ. Tycho and Secede finish up this week with their tracks Coastal and Leraine.
8/5/2012 • 57 minutes, 56 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 28th, 2012
Must be the effect of the summer heat 'cause this week's show is hot! We start it all off with some old school dubstep from Skream before building into some deep bass from Phutureprimitive but not before a little segue way through some jungle first. Then the psychedelics kick in with Yggdrasil and their epic psytrance/dub/reggae track. Now that we're sweatin' a little we bring in Birdy Nam Nam with the bad ass Escape and follow it up with the rad Miss Chang by Chinese Man. Beenie Man and Burning Spear bring the old school dub into the mix followed by DJ Vadim dropping some new school dubby beats with Strictly Rockers 215. We bring it down and out with Kuba's Let Go. Quality bass music for the entire hour.
Tracklist:
Skream - Late Night Request Line
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Jungle Youth (Congo Natty Remix)
Phutureprimitive - The Changelling
Yggdrasil - Ryggsill
Beats Antique - Louie's Lullaby
Birdy Nam Nam - Escape
Chinese Man - Miss Chang
Beenie Man - Murderer
Burning Spear - Black Wa-Da-Da
DJ Vadim - Strictly Rockers 215
Kuba - Let Go
7/29/2012 • 56 minutes, 36 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 21st, 2012
We're all over the musical landscape again this week on The HSS. The show opens with some stretching and the mathletics of the Foals and their track Hummer. Ms John Soda picks up the pieces and gets us into groove with Unsleeping. Alt-J brings the quirk and the vocal syncopations in Dissolve Me. The show takes a turn into more familiar territory with Budapest's Weldroid then a Leftfield track featuring the legendary Afrika Bambaataa and Afrika Shox. Crystal Castles and Thermostatic both bring the 8 bit goodness with their tracks Crimewave and Reasons. The show gets ambiently glitchy as we head into IDM starting with one from r.roo called Drops. The Last Gambit drops Attention! The Colour Is Bleeding then perennial faves Arovane and Phonem bring a couple called Tabl F and Water Rights. The show simmers down and closes with Xela and his beauty Afraid of Monsters.
7/22/2012 • 58 minutes, 47 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 14th, 2012
We dedicate this week's show to airing the 2002 documentary The Fire This Time. The documentary arose as a result of Grant Wakefield's efforts with pioneering activist Miriam Ryle to publicise the devastating effect that the bombing of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent sanctions were having on the civilian population of Iraq.
From Grant Wakefield:
"Faced with intransigence, ignorance and outright hostility from mainstream media, a planned visual documentary was abandoned in favour of an audio odyssey that took us from the heartbreaking hospitals of Baghdad to the depths of US foreign policy archives, from the stunning kindness of a UN official to some of the best musical talents of the UK electronica scene, all of whom contributed to the project for nothing, and donated their royalties to MEDICAL AID TO IRAQI CHILDREN.
Garnering the kind of reviews one can only dream of, the album took over 3 years to make, half of which was spent fighting legal battles with music companies over rights, whilst 3000-5000 children died every month from malnutrition, dehydration and easily preventable disease in a political climate that, not just in retrospect, was completely and utterly insane, and ultimately totally pointless and counter-productive.
Listen, and judge for yourself.
The project is completed, and features original music by MICHAEL STEARNS, HIGHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, BASS COMMUNION with NASEER SHAMMA, SOMA, BARBED, KAIT GRAY, TOM MIDDLETON and BOLA, with exclusive re-mixes of ORBITAL and APHEX TWIN."
http://www.grantwakefield.com/projects_fire_this_time.htm
7/13/2012 • 56 minutes, 17 seconds
The Howe Sound System - July 7th, 2012
Some chilled beats served up on today's episode. We start with some real nice beats Cheju and Emancipator before digging into the underground hiphop scene with favs Buck 65 and the Cunninglynguists leading the way. We get slightly into the hick hop territory with Sweatshop Union before returning to the solid ground of Blockhead. After the break, a little hiphop ode to all the heartbreak out there... We start with Kid Koala's melancholy music box off of Space Cadet before the nostalgia of the one we've lost hits us in the heart thanks to 2econd Class Citizen's latest. The joy of two lovers re-uniting naturally follows with Nightmare on Wax and then we turn down the lights as The Herbaliser gets sexy. We finish off in blissed out wonderland thanks to Pepe Deluxe (with a little return to the sexiness, assuming all goes well).
Tracklist:
Cheju - U-Bahn
Emancipator - Elephant Survival
Buck 65 - She Kissed The Boy
Cunninlynguists - Missing Children
Sweatshop Union - Radio Edit
Atmosphere - The Loser Wins
Blockhead - Music By Cavelight
Kid Koala - Connectivity
2econd Class Citizen - Memory Page
Nightmares On Wax - I Am You
The Herbaliser Band - The Sensual Woman
Pepe Deluxe - Lying Peacefully
7/8/2012 • 56 minutes, 30 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 30th, 2012
We live up to our tagline this week as we drop some heavy bass, blips and beats. We start off with some psychedelic techno heavily influenced by dubstep production styles with a couple selections by Phutureprimitive. We add a little world sound to the psydub mix as we drop some Temple Step Project and the mighty Ott. Things get a little glitchier as The Glitch Mob brings a remix into town and we finish off in maximum intensity with the frenetic Android Porn remix by Mochipet. Warm up the sub! It's time for the Howe Sound.
Tracklist:
Xotica- Phutureprimitive
Cryogenic Dreams - Phutureprimitive
Medecine Temple - Temple Step Project
Adrift In Hilbert Space - Ott
Space Between - Desert Dwellers
Red Dress (Glitch Mob edit) - TV On The Radio
Battling Go-Go Yubar - edIT
Android Porn (Mochipet Godzilla Porn Remix) - Kraddy
7/1/2012 • 56 minutes, 17 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 23rd, 2012
We're lighting up the grill tonight. The days are long, the air is warm (when it's not raining) and the summer time vibe is in effect! For your BBQing soundtrack we start off with some feel-good hiphop courtesy of Steinski & Double Dee doing a Sugarhill megamix. Ozomatli keeps the smile on your face with the Cut Chemist suite - the grill is beginning to smoke. A few pinches of soul from DJ Format, 2econd Class Citizen and RJD2 for the beats marinading in the fridge. The coals are hot by the time Pepe Deluxe and Z-trip & Radar hit the grill with their searing beats and heavy distorted rock riffs. Juices are flowing off the steak after The Slew and Z-Trip's classic rock mashup cook us just right. Then the Beasties let us know it's time to eat as their heavy beats finish off the party. Dinner is served!
Tracklist:
Double Dee & Steinski - Sugarhill Suite
Ozomatli - Cut Chemist Suite
DJ Format - A Little Bit of Soul
RJD2 - 2 More Dead
2econd Class Citizen - The Way I Feel
Cut Chemist - A Peak In Time
Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening Theme Song
Pepe Deluxe - Call Me Goldfinger
Z-Trip & Radar - Private Parts
Pepe Deluxe - Salami Fever
The Slew - Robbing Banks
Z-Trip - Rockstar
The Beastie Boys - Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun
6/24/2012 • 56 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 16th, 2012
We delve deep into the lush, bass heavy, echo-laden soundscapes of Deadbeat for the first half of this week's show. Inspired from his stellar show in town last week, we start off right with some lush ambience from Cell to set the mood. Deadbeat's harmonium flavours enter the scene with the stellar Fixed Elections as we begin to pick up steam. Mike Shannon's Under The Radar stokes the fires as the momentum builds with tripped out vocals and rumbling beats. Deadbeat drops heavy shuffle beats with Roots & Wire and we somehow segue into Wavespeech by Pete Lazonby (famously included on Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure 1 album). Beats driving us hard forward, we drop in Deadbeat's Grounation before the break. Minimal, dubby techno ensues for the rest of the hour with Stewart Walker and Laura Palmer laying it down. Montreal's Vromb catapults us into the warp speed until Ishq takes it down and chills us right out. We close with the sick beats of Kiln's Rust Dusk.
Tracklist:
Blue Embers - Cell
Fixed Elections - Deadbeat
Under The Radar - Mike Shannon (Deadbeat remix)
Roots and Wire - Deadbeat
Wavespeech - Pete Lazonby
Grounation - Deadbeat
Phoenix - Evolution
Lakewalking - Stewart Walker
Distances - Laura Palmer
Emphase - Vromb
Happiness - Ishq
Rust Dusk - Kiln
6/17/2012 • 56 minutes, 7 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 9th, 2012
The show starts out this week with something we don’t usually do here on the HSS. Riddims! Fantan Mojah, Michael Rose, 3gga & Emiliano all have their take on the Prisonbreak Riddim. We take it back a bit with some vintage roots reggae from The Prophets, featuring Vivian Jackson or perhaps better known as Yabby You. The show comes closer to the present with the slick production and dubby vibes of ex Roberts Creek native Bluetech and his track Dread Inna Babylon. Montreal and recent Berlin ex-pat Deadbeat brings his take on dub you can move it to, then Fever Ray and their excellent Tora Vinter Remix of Triangle Walks. Toronto’s darlings Austra bring a glitched remix of Spellwork and Portland Oregon’s Emancipator takes the show down a notch with a couple remixes including a nice blend of Sigur Ros and Mobb Deep. We sign off with the Minneapolis Minnesota hip-hop collective Doomtree bringing the emotion and a Little Mercy.
Tracklist:
Fantan Mojah – Hot
Michael Rose – Fight I Down
3gga & Emiliano – Too Far
The Prophets – Warn The Nation
Bluetech – Dread Inna Babylon
Deadbeat – Abu Ghraib (Reconfiguration)
Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Tora Vinter Remix)
Austra – Spellwork (MNDR Nighttime Remix)
Emancipator – First Snow (Ooah Remix)
Emancipator – Shook (Sigur Ros X Mobb Deep)
Doomtree – Little Mercy
6/6/2012 • 58 minutes, 19 seconds
The Howe Sound System - June 2nd, 2012
A real journey through the genres this week. DJ Frane starts our trip with one from his Journey to The Planet of Birds, then Cut Chemist finds the groove and stays in the pocket with The Garden. Blockhead brings the Creepin' and it gets thick and heavy in Amon Tobin's Nepalese Bliss. We head to Sweden and take a turn upbeat with Lissi Dancefloor Disaster, Made In Heights has Viices then The Knife brings the darkwave goodness with a Silent Shout. Japan's DJ Krush starts to chill us out a bit, and Leksha brings us some fresh and clean IDM from Russia. The Higher Intelligence Agency takes us back to their first album with Spectral and Bluetech brings it back in a similar dubby groove with Seed To Soil.
6/3/2012 • 59 minutes, 21 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 26th, 2012
This weeks show starts off with the steady beats and dubby bass of Tonikom. Amorphous Androgynous speeds it up with Auto Pimp and we get back into the groove with Laura Palmer and their excellent track Distances. Byetone glitches it up and Pinch takes us into some Underwater Dancehall. Version Big-Fi brings some Serious Dub while Northcape takes it down a notch with their beautiful Doesn't Feel Like A Long Way. Kiln keeps the lo-fi dub vibe going and Auditory Canvas brings the syncopated beats and heavy bass with their emotive track Burn. Modeselektor and The Orb finish this weeks' show off in their own stylish ways.
5/27/2012 • 58 minutes, 39 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 19th, 2012
IDM flows this week on the HSS. Vector Lovers, and Sleepy Town Manufacture start the show with their glitchy, chopped beats and layered melodies. Tycho opens the space a bit with their driving bass, ambient grooves and we hear some new stuff from Yppah. Cheju takes us into some glitchy idm dubness and Auditory Canvas delivers on their bass heavy melodic track Spring Rain. The legendary Lee Scratch Perry gets his say and On-U Sounds’ African Head Charge play their classic Hold Some More. We come back to the beginning and finish the show near our starting vibe with the glitched out groovy ambience of Australia’s Thrupence.
Tracklist:
Vector Lovers – Far Side Of The Tracks
Sleepy Town Manufacture – Don’t You Miss Me?
Tycho – A Walk
Yppah – Paper Knife
Cheju – Pachinko
Auditory Canvas – Spring Rain
Sense: Orteip (Sense Remix)
Lee Scratch Perry – African Head Charge In The Hackney Empire
African Head Charge – Hold Some More
Thrupence – Voyages
5/19/2012 • 56 minutes, 37 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 12th, 2012
Spring FunDrive episode.
5/13/2012 • 56 minutes, 31 seconds
The Howe Sound System - May 5th, 2012
Beats and bass in effect this week. We start off right with the epic Uppsala from Lissi Dancefloor Disaster and then segue our way into the electronic folk domain with the likes of 2econd Class Citizen and The Amorphous Angrodynous. IDM gets its say with the lush and precise beats of edIT and a live recording of Telefon Tel Aviv. The bass gets heavy with a little Laswell until we really pick up the tempo and run the woofers through the subsonic side of things with (believe it or not) Skrillex followed by Pendulum's classic Tarantula. We close the show with the oh-so-sexy dirty bass of Modeselektor remixing Canada's own Ghislain Poirier.
Tracklist:
Lissi Dancefloor Disaster - Uppsala
Membran - Rendez-Vous In Space
2econd Class Citizen - Whishing Well (Wyred Remix)
Amorphous Androgynous - Given That We've Given
Adam Johnson - Baquelch
edIT - Dex
Telefon Tel Aviv - Live
M83 - I Guess I'm Floating
Loneliness And Revelry
Bill Laswell - Baron Samedi
Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley & Skrillex - Make It Bun Dem
Pendulum - Tarantula
Ghislain Poirier - Blazin' (Modeselector Remix)
5/6/2012 • 55 minutes, 49 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 28th, 2012
A strong start with a little brand new Santigold as we set course for solid beats all hour long. We bring it classic IDM style with Alphawezen and r.roo. Jonsi drops the beats but ups the emotion with voice and strings - a little post-rock action to end the first half hour. The journey continues with deep and heavy bass starting off all ambient techno-like with Spyra and Die Ashanti as we build our way towards the almost menacing, grinding bass of Horsepower Productions remixing Lee Perry. Afterwards TTC let's the squelching rip with Dans le Club and the mighty Modeselektor brings us to an emotionally charged ending with fat beats and the epic cascading synths of Let Your Love Grow.
Tracklist:
Santigold - God From The Machine
Geiom - Eitiel
Alphawezen - System 1
r.roo - Let Me Fly Away
Jonsi - Kolnidur
Spyra - Crossing The Channel
Zen Lemonade - Die Ashanti
Lee Scratch Perry - Exercises [Horsepower Productions Remix]
TTC - Dans le club (instrumental) - Para One
Modeselektor - let your love grow
4/29/2012 • 56 minutes, 8 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 19th, 2012
A real ride through genres this week on the show. We start all space and psychedelic with a little live Ozric Tentacles before dropping some bass heavy tunes starting with Pretty Lights' heavy and incredibly wicked dubstep track "I Know The Truth". More chest rattling ensues with goodies from Santogold and edIT. From there we go into some hiphoppy breaks styles Pilote and the mighty 2econd Class Citizen (with a new album coming soon that's sure not to be slept on) as well as Yppah and a Beatles remix that puts Jay-Z to shame. The hour ends with some driving minimal techno from M.A.N.D.Y and Brinkmann dropping funk and 303 on our asses.
Tracklist:
Ozric Tentacles - Live Throbbe
Pretty Lights - I Know The Truth
Santogold - Creator (vs. Switch and Freq Nasty)
Santogold - Anne (Switch Mix)
edIT - If You Crump Stand Up
Pilote - Microphones
2econd Class Citizen - The Way I Feel
Yppah - Blue Schwinn
Ill Chemist - Feel Alright
M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade - Body Language (Jona Remix)
Soul Center - Lopster
4/19/2012 • 55 minutes, 38 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 12th, 2012
DJ Shadow is one of the most influential DJs out there as well as the owner of the world's largest private record collection. This week we do an all Shadow show as we dig through his opus and remind us all of why he's such a killer talent. This isn't the usual collection of Shadow tracks so sit back and turn up the volume as we do the Shadow tour.
Tracklist:
Hiphop Psych Promo - D-Styles vs DJ Shadow
GDMFSOB (Unkle Uncensored) - DJ Shadow
Stay The Course - DJ Shadow
BASIC Mega-Mix - DJ Shadow
Stopper (DJ Shadow Remix) - Cutty Ranks
Brainfreeze - DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist
Dark Days (Main Theme) - DJ Shadow
Product Placement - DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist
Live In Los Angeles 10/31/09 - DJ Shadow
Six Days (Remix) - DJ Shadow
Right Thing (Z-Trip's Get The Party Off Mix, Pts. 2 & 3) - DJ Shadow
4/12/2012 • 57 minutes, 47 seconds
The Howe Sound System - April 5th, 2012
We dig into our underground hiphop crates to pull out some nice selections of rich beats, vinyl techniques and rhymes this week. We kick it off with Birdy Nam Nam, the 2002 DMC World Champion turntablist quartet and their deep Abbesses composition. Doomtree drops some rhymes and picks up the energy with Z-Trip rockin' the party and taking us into the zone. More rhymes from Grieves and Atmosphere drops some sick production until we drop back a decade or so with Ming & FS doing their hiphop meets dnb thing. Some quality Canadian hiphop in there with Sixtoo and Canadian DMC champ DJ Brace showing us that hiphop is alive and well north of 49. The silky voice of Dessa brings us down followed by the for-some-reason-unknown sample guru DJ Frane with his cutup scratchin and funked out piano groove of A Story I Heard.
Tracklist:
Abbesses - Birdy Nam Nam
Bangarang - Doomtree
Listen To The DJ (Feat. Soup Of Jurassic 5) - DJ Z-Trip
Fly Away - Grieves
02- Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man, Pt. 2 - Sixtoo
Shotgun - Atmosphere
NH TWENTY FOUR - DJ Brace
Cut The Midrange, Drop The Bass - Cylob
Madhattan Bound - DJ Ming & FS
Burn It Down - Sims
Bangin, Slamin Jam - DJ Premier
Dixon's Girl - Dessa
A Story I Heard - DJ Frane
4/5/2012 • 56 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 29th, 2012
A rowdy set this week full of hard hiphop beats and big glitchey remixes. We kick it all off with A.Skillz giving us his hippo hop wobble funk remix of California Soul - big tune for when the sun comes out. We dive in to the hiphop styles with some Kreidler, Shadow and AWOL One before dropping down a bit with Cujo and Krush. We pick things up and get rough and ready with Die Antwoord and Peaches, plus a little Kid 606 taking us back to the 90s with his NWA remix that set the world on fire with his 'new' sound back in the day. Aphex glitches out with his classic and Marilyn Manson drops some noise over Depeche Mode (who seem always ripe for a remix).
Tracklist:
A.Skillz - California soul (A.Skillz Remix)
Kreidler - L'Autre Main
DJ Shadow - War Is Hell
Doomtree - Little Mercy
cLOUDDEAD - Bike (2)
Cujo - The Sighting
DJ Krush - Univearth (feat. tetsuro naito)
AWOL One & Nathaniel Motte - Did Not Could Not
Die Antwoord - Fok Julle Naaiers
Peaches - Hit It Hard
Kid 606 - Straight Outta Compton
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (LP Version)
3/29/2012 • 56 minutes, 36 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 22nd, 2012
All over the map this week as we feel the vibe looking out over the Howe Sound as the sun sets and the wax spins. NK sets the mood with a killer heavy vibe and then we get all 90s techno with HIA before a massive Eno remix gets us all carried away wondering how someone ever thought of dropping beats over Eno. Spacetime drops the bouncy electronica as Terence takes a break and then we chill right out with Deaf Center followed up with Makyo gettin' all eastern droney. Label mates Bonobo and Tobin finish it off right.
Tracklist:
Sunlight -NK
Speedlearn (Empathy Mix) - Higher Intelligence Agency
An Ending (An Ascent) (Leama And Moor Remix) - Brian Eno
Transient Generator - Spacetime Continuum & Terence McKenna
Limn - Deaf Center
Pura (the 'Goagajah' edit) - Makyo
The Plug (Quantic Mix) - Bonobo
Hey Blondie - Amon Tobin
3/22/2012 • 57 minutes, 3 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Mar 13th, 2012
It all starts with some nice esoteric IDM courtesy of French outfit Saycet. The vibe continues in the euro IDM vein skittering and pulsing along Emancipator and Mnemonic until we get to the more solid beats of Slouch. Spliffs begin to blaze as we settle into blunted beats and sleepy hiphop courtesy of some old school Nightmares On Wax and Montreal's own mega-talent Killa-Jewel, from her debut release. A detour through Philip Glass and then DJ Shadow drops one of his most powerful ambient tunes leading us into the jazz-inflected, slow motion vocals of Jimmy Scott singing an ode to Agent Cooper.
Tracklist:
Saycet: 15
Cheju: Traces
Emancipator: Eve
The Last Gambit: A Tattoo From Amsterdam
Mnemonic: Lichtblick
Slouch: Love On Main Street
Passion - Nightmares On Wax
Sorrow - Killa-Jewel
Koyaanisqatsi - Philip Glass
Day's End - DJ Krush
Triplicate Something Happened - DJ Shadow
Sycamore Trees - Angelo Badalamenti
3/14/2012 • 57 minutes, 12 seconds
The Howe Sound System - March 6th, 2012
This week starts with a great track from Little People, travels to Norway for some Xploding Plastix. The French hip hop collective of Chinese Man features the use of a sample from Washboard Rhythm Kings' recording of Hummin' To Myself. We get into some underground hip hop from the Pacific Northwest with Blue Scholars, down to LA with some AWOL One, and out east with Aesop Rock. We glitch it up a bit with Berlins' Christian Kleine, into some Ms. John Soda and Paris' Saycet. The show closes by taking it down a notch with Deaf Center, some Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet, and the solid songwriting and soprano voice of Joel Thibodeau's Death Vessel.
Tracklist:
Little People: Mezzo
Xploding Plastix: Errata
Chinese Man: I've Got That Tune
Blue Scholars: Cinematropolis
AWOL One & Daddy Kev: Rhythm
Aesop Rock: No Regrets
Christian Kleine: H.Y
Ms. John Soda: Hiding/Fading
Saycet: Chromatic Bird
Deaf Center: White Lake
Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet: Summer Overture
Death Vessel: White Mole
3/7/2012 • 56 minutes, 59 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Feb 28th, 2012
"Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." -Carl Sagan
Minimal electronic grooves, digital thunder, soft piano and heady thoughts this week on The Howe Sound System.
Tracklist:
Robert Henke - Layer 001
Laura Palmer - Evolve
Pub - Summer (They Can't See Us In The Dark) Delay Configuration 1
If The Else - Missing My Bong
The Flashbulb - La Tristesse Durera Toujours
The Flashbulb - Suspended In A Sunbeam
Robert Henke - Studies For Thunder
Jochem Paap - Dtnd-Jn
Plastikman - Passage (Out)
Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No.1
2/29/2012 • 57 minutes, 6 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Feb 21st, 2012
Only listen to this week's show if you are ready to close your eyes and melt away to the lush rhapsody of eastern rhythms, electronics and sounds so delicate you think they're going to crack just listening to them. Soft and slow with a gentle bit of sax work over top a droning synth is how we start the show... a pace we continue all the way to the end. We gain a bit of momentum as Vat Von Trapp's voice sail over top of hand drums and drones. Juno Reactor's Song For Ancestors is the perfect accompaniment with it's deep electronics and Lisa Gerard-esque singing. Krishnamurti and Harold Budd take us deep into a introspective journey of our relationship to all of human history. Murcof sends us out to the far reaches of the galaxy and Solar Quest brings us back as we ponder the mysteries of love and the universe.
Tracklist:
Another Green World - Stream of Consciousness
Children of Dub - Spook
Vat Von Trapp - Stars of Babylon In Her Eyes
Gustavo Santaolalla - Hiding It
Juno Reactor - Song for Ancestors
Harold Budd - Balthus Bemused By Color
Adham Shaikh - Resolution
Animals on Wheels - Soluble Ducks
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Boogie Woogie
Murcof - Constelacion
Solar Quest - Singtree
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2/22/2012 • 56 minutes, 35 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Feb 14th, 2012
Welcome class. We open this week with the voice of Dunya Yunis who we heard last week sampled by Brian Eno and David Byrne. The first of the show follows the use of this sample through the likes of the Orb and M|A|R|R|S before we dive right in to Coldcut's remix of "Paid In Full" which ends up being a minimix with Derek B's remix thrown in along with a touch of Lynyrd Skynyrd. The mighty Lord Fader (aka Q-Bert) ends the first half of the show with his monster cut up of Beats & Pieces. Electronics in a different direction for the second half as we stop by Canadian favs Austra before heading off to Sweden for a couple of tracks by Palpitation and The Deer Tracks. Sigor Ros and Cat Power close the show.
Tracklist:
Dunya Yunis - Abu Zeluf
The Orb - Outlands (Live)
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume (Minimix)
Coldcut - Not Paid Enough
Derek B - Paid In Full (Derek B Remix)
DJ Lord Fader - Beats and Pieces
Austra: Believe Me
The Deer Tracks: Bless The Waves
Palpitation: I Lost And Died
Sigur Ros: Untitled #4
Jonsi: Kolnidur
Cat Power: Maybe Not
2/14/2012 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 1 second
The Howe Sound System - Feb 7th, 2012
A real journey this week as we kick off with a couple of Lee "Scratch" Perry versions of Bob Marley tunes, followed by some Yabby You grooves. Classic reggae all the way. The vibe amps up with Brian Eno & David Byrne's "Regiment" - off one of the first albums to heavily use samples as lead vocals. Is there anything Eno didn't pioneer? The assault continues with African Head Charge leading the way. Part two sees us taking the vibe down several notches as we enter the heady atmosphere of synths and soft flutes via Schpongle's "Flute Fruit". An Oud Improvisation running through some heavy reverb floats us across the musical ether as we slowly build up a groove and bounce our way to the finish, ending the set with an onsite recording of an Islamic call to prayer.
Tracklist:
Lee Scratch Perry: I Am A Madman
Lee Scratch Perry: Pirates (Black Plastic)
Yabby You: Deliver Me From My Enemies
Vivian Jackson & The Prophets: Run Come Rally
Brian Eno & David Byrne: Regiment
African Head Charge: Dervish Chant
Schpongle: Flute Fruit
Naseer Shamma: Oud Improvisation
Mad Sheer Khan: Concrete Sunblock
Eat Static: Panspermia
Grant Wakefield: Call To Prayer
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2/8/2012 • 55 minutes, 56 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Jan 31st, 2012
We start this week off with some Norwegian beats and kazoo fun from Xploding Plastix and then drop right in to some experimental hiphop with the likes of Anti-pop Consortium and Non-Prophets. Bonobo chills us out as we head into part two featuring remixes of classic dub tracks. Starting with some seriously heavy bass remixes of Lee “Scratch” Perry we are then treated to Z-Trip’s wicked remix of Dawn Penn back-to-back with DJ Spooky’s take on the same track. We close with Laswell re-working Bob Marley’s Exodus from his album of Bob Marley dub re-mixes Dreams of Freedom – a personal favourite.
Tracklist:
Xploding Plastix: Kissed By A Kisser
Antipop Consortium: Angular
Mad Rad: The Machine
Non-Prophets: That Ain’t Right
Bonobo: The Plug
Blue Sky Black Death: Sleeping Children Are Still Flying
Horsepower Productions: Exercises
Adrian Sherwood: Devil Dead Out
Z-Trip: Soundclash
DJ Spooky: No, no, no
Bill Laswell: Exodus
2/1/2012 • 57 minutes, 4 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Jan 24th, 2012
This week’s show starts off with some nice bumping glitchiness thanks to Caribou and Beat & The Pulse. We then set course for a little hiphop flavoured funk thanks to our man Cut Chemist but not without passing through some Mogwai rock and touches of dubbiness. We then turn it right around and mellow out with ambience and glitch coming from Arovane as Khonnor keeps the groove rolling while we chill out and finish off with Donato Wharton softness.
Tracklist:
Negativland: Announcement
Caribou: The Barn
SCSI-9: Vega (Original Mix)
Austra: Beat And The Pulse
Mogwai: San Pedro
Trouble Andrew: Oh No
Santogold: Guns Of Brooklyn
Cut Chemist: Adidas To Addis
Deaf Center: Dial
Klyxn: Lichtreflex
Arovane: Thaem Nue
Diagram Of Suburban Chaos: P-fect
Khonnor: Cantelopps
Donato Wharton: Flutlichter
1/25/2012 • 57 minutes, 10 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Jan 17th, 2012
Big, hard beats from Byetone and Modeselektor are dropped as we get this show underway. Modeselektor’s Kill Bill Vol.4 gives way to some old school rave style with a Fatboy Slim remix that somehow slips into techno producer supergroup the Hoxton Whores remixing Cream before we drop the bongo funk of Tim “Love” Lee. After the break we get into contemporary dub with Rhythm & Sound showing us the way and we finish off with the Moody Boyz (pre-KLF Jimmy Cauty no less!) getting real slow and heavy. This one’s tasty.
Tracklist:
Byetone – Plastic Star
Byetone – Opal
Modeselektor – Sucker Pin
Modeselektor – Kill Bill Vol. 4
Wildchild – Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old School Remix)
Hoxton Whores – Sunshine of My Love
Time “Love” Lee – Again Son
–break–
Kakatsi, Master Drummers from Ghana, Greg Hunter – unknown
Rhythm & Sound – King In My Empire
Rhythm & Sound – See Mi Yah
Pole – Green Is Not Green Yellow
Rhythm & Sound – Mango Drive
Moody Boyz – Free
1/18/2012 • 57 minutes, 40 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Jan 10th, 2012
Squarepusher! We open with Squarepusher’s epic organ heavy, squelsh-laden Tundra4, one of his best compositions ever, and follow that up with the jungle madness of Venus No.17 with its choice and perpfectly peppered MC drops before laying down one of DJ Food’s finest mixes: Squarepusher slowed into Mike Ink from ’96. Then it’s nothing but chilling out with the likes of Murcof and a surprising entry by NiN before we nearly fall asleep with the lush sounds of Biosphere (and the giant from Twin Peaks). We end where we start with some Squarepusher drone action.
Tracklist:
Squarepusher – Tundra4
Squarepusher – Venus No.17 (Acid Mix)
Squarepusher – Problem Child
Mike Ink – Paroles
Murcof – Camino
Nine Inch Nails – Ghost I, track 2
Byetone – Heart
Biosphere – The Things I Tell You
Squarepusher – Last Ap Proach
1/11/2012 • 56 minutes, 10 seconds
The Howe Sound System - Nov. 20th, 2011
Instrumental hiphop is the first course of this week’s show with DJ Shadow kicking it off with a solid intro cutup as he drops the Number Song while the classic bass line from Dark Lady bounces away underneath. Some nice beats by Modeselektor and DJ Krush follow as we begin slowing down and grooving to The Herbaliser, ending the mix with some early and very chilled Kruder & Dorfmeister. The second half of the show starts with some more hiphoppy beats before we drop into Aphex’s Alberto Balsam and we continue with solid electronic beats all the way to the end.
Tracklist:
DJ Shadow – Live in LA
DJ Food – Dark Lady
DJ Food – Dark Lady (Skint Mix)
Modeselektor – Hasir
DJ Krush – Kemuri (Untouchable Mix)
The Herbaliser – Another Mother
DJ DSL – Love Sick
Kruder & Dorfmeister – Shakatakadoodub
Emancipator – Soon It Will Be Cold Enough To Build Fires
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Fight To The Finish
Aphex Twin – Alberto Balsam
Makelmore – BBoy
Rex The Dog – Heartsong
Fever Ray – Now’s The Only Time I Know
DNN – When Angels Travel