The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour has been broadcasting on CHLY 101.7fm since 2012. It's a program initially created to give community members the chance to perform radio. It has been host to many different segments produced by many different people and groups. Lately, Ashta's been the sole community member, offering a variety of music, interviews and interesting clips.
No Memes
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2/2/2024 • 0
Funky Monkey
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1/26/2024 • 0
Rawk Fawk
Boy, oh boy, Ashta Made You a saucy little rock and roll mixtape in this special re-release. Listen here Live on CHLY 101.7fm Friday January 19th 2024
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1/20/2024 • 0
Elevator Music to Groove To
Just try staying still on your journey to the penthouse. The file
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1/12/2024 • 0
Studio 24
This week on Ashta Made You A Mixtape, an uninterrupted hour of non-stop music you can shake your glitzy glittered ass to on a sweaty dancefloor somewhere. Here is the file (playlist coming soon)
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12/29/2023 • 0
Holiday Sounds, NOT Christmas Carols
Ashta Made You a Mixtape of music that sounds Christmassy, but ’tis not of yuletide sentiment nor lyric. Airing live on Friday December 22nd at 9pm on 101.7FM CHLY Here is the file
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12/22/2023 • 0
Maybe it’s punk, maybe it’s not
This week on Ashta Made You A Mixtape! Maybe it’s a little ring-a-ting and maybe its a little djoo djooo djoo and maybe its a little something in between. Airing live on CHLY 101.7fm at 9PM PST and online at chly.ca/listen Here is the file
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12/15/2023 • 0
First of December
This week on Ashta Made You a MIxtape, there’s no discernible theme. We start the hour transitioning from the Road Poets vibe into neo psych and indie/electric soul. here’s the file
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12/1/2023 • 0
Friday Friday Friday
Here is the file (59:29)
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11/17/2023 • 0
Falling Leaves Mixtape
This week on Ashta Made You a Mixtape, a curated hour of non-stop music to groove to. All over the place when it comes to genres, but generally lots of neo psych’y weirdo stuff I think you’ll love. The first song in this mix absolutely bangs and I have listened to it on repeat all […]
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11/3/2023 • 0
No habla ingles
Not an english lyric in sight this week Here is the file (playlist coming later)
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10/20/2023 • 0
Happy Friday
This week on Ashta Made You A Mixtape, some uplifting tunes for your Friday night. Playing live at 9pm on Friday THE THIRTEEEENNNNTH Here is the file 3:51, Lemonade Market, Supermarket Woman 3:35, Pete Brandt’s Method, What You Are 3:43, Luke Temple, Hard Working Hand 2:43, Wabie, Hey Lover! 4:22, Brazilian Girls, St. Petersburg 2:24, […]
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10/14/2023 • 0
Loud and Loose
I did this show live in the studio on Friday October 6th from 9-10pm. CHLY 101.7FM here is the file
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10/7/2023 • 0
Ashta Made You a Rap Mixtape
Broadcast on Friday at 9pm on September 29th via CHLY 101.7FM to a million people in 40 coastal communities on Canada’s West Coast Here is the file
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9/29/2023 • 0
Friday September 22
Unfortunately I messed when moving the podcast from the SSVH to AMYAM, which means last weeks show will not show up on the podcast feed. Fingers crossed that this one does! This week on Ashta Made You a Mixtape Here is the file
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9/22/2023 • 0
First Ever
Well, I’m officially launching the new radio show: Ashta Made You a Mixtape Heard live to over 40 coastal communities from 101.7 CHLY and around the world at chly.ca and mixcloud.com/ashta Here is the file The tracklist
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9/15/2023 • 0
Final Sweet & Sour
The Sweet & Sour Variety hour is ending. After 11 years on Wednesday mornings, I am closing it down. I’m making room for a brand new morning news broadcast that will air on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8:30. Not to worry, because I’ve got a new show! In a new time slot! My new … Continue reading Final Sweet & Sour →
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9/6/2023 • 0
Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday
Every Wednesday morning from 8-9 on CHLY 101.7fm here’s the file
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8/23/2023 • 0
Dirt Nasty
This week on the show, some twang ass country music and rock and roll. here is the file
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8/16/2023 • 0
Das Liszt
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8/9/2023 • 0
Tingle Tangle
This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, all of the following tracks in the order they are listed below. Here is the file to do with what you will.
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7/26/2023 • 0
Apeman
Here is the sophisticated file. Right click it like a good homo sapien I think I’m sophisticated ’cause I’m living my lifeLike a good homo sapiensBut all around me everybody’s multiplying andThey’re walking round like flies manSo I’m no better than the animals sittingIn the cages in the zoo man‘Cause compared to the flowers and […]
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7/19/2023 • 0
Castles Made of Sand
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(playlist under construction)
4/5/2023 • 0
Move It
Sometimes it's old school country twang. Sometimes it's ragtime ballads. Sometimes it's classic R&B. Sometimes it's metal. This week it's an hour of music you can move to. House, dub, dance. I think you'll like it.
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3:28, Jack Stauber, Buttercup
2:48, Current Joys, New Flesh
2:40, SALES, Chinese New Year
5:05, WhoMadeWho, Space for Rent
2:36, LoveLeo, Head Over Heels
2:42, Shimmertraps, Beta Club
4:03, Johnatron- Recursion, Millionyoung Remix
3:05, Nao Kodama, Kan Sano
7:57, Jesper Ryom , End Title
3:50, John Talbot, Korlee
4:23, Disclosure, Expressing What Matters
3:00, BENEE, Glitter
2:18, Cautious Clay, Cheesin’
7:01, Lord Echo, Thinking Of You
3:15, Disclosure/ Al Green, Feel Like I do
3/22/2023 • 0
Curated Mixtapes
Every Wednesday morning at 8 on CHLY 101.7fm. If that's too early for FM radio listening, you can always use your podcast provider to listen to the podcasted version. Just search for The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour.
Where the heck else will you find Cat Power, Stevie Wonder and Solange represented in the same hour of music?!
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Cat Power, Manhattan
Madison Cunningham/Remi Wolf
Porches, Mood
KAYTRANADA, Lite Spots
Stereolab, Blips Drips and Strips
Parquet Courts, Berlin Got Blurry
The Zombies, Tell Her No
Gilbert O'Sullivan, Alone Again
Billy Joel, Movin' Out
Stevie Wonder, Golden Lady
Solange, Rise
Xenia Rubinos, Lonely Lover
BADBADNOTGOOD, In Your Eyes
Blood Orange, I Wanna C U
Babeheaven, Ode to Dom
Nilufer Yanya, Hey
Blood Orange, Minette Creek
Babeheaven, Seabird
2/28/2023 • 0
Treason Flower Sobriety Power
Actually, it's The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, and every Wednesday morning it airs live to about 1.5 million human beings, ~300 orca whales, a few billion notable sea creatures, and untold trillions of bacterium. Every one of these living organisms will be surrounded with the invisible frequency transmission of the songs listed below via terrestrial radio giant CHLY 101.7 FM at 8am PST on Wednesday.
Please donate if you can at chly.ca/donate because our lives cannot be ruled by a psychopathic elite class and their legacy media conglomerates. I mean, unless you're into that sorta thing.
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J. Lamotta/Roy Reemy, לעשות טוב
Laura Jean Anderson, Thinkin Bout You
Natalia Lafourcade, Hasta la Raiz
Ricky Gourmet, Robes
Robohands, Leaves
Robohands, Ikigai
The Poets of Rhythm, South Carolina
Adriano Celentano, Prisencolinensinainciusol
Tullio De Piscopo, Stop Bajon
La Femme, Cool Colorado
Benny Sings, Young Hearts
Peach Pit, Give Up Baby Go
Hey Steve, Whatever Blows Your Hair Back
Say She She/Piya Malik, Forget Me Not
Gabriel Sayer/Bambina, Youngest Child
Hembree, Reach Out
Kaelin Ellis/Carrtoons/Kyla Moscovich, Buck
Kaelin Ellis/Tony Rosenberg, Cats Groove
1/25/2023 • 0
Gentle Hands of January
The Earth cranes its neck and begins its slow motion nod back towards the star that heats its ever-changing face. Every rotation we feel it just a little more. From under the heavy clouds that make their shadows, we can feel it, and we wont stop feeling it.
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The songs
Eola, B and O Blues
Young & Sick, Cicadas
Ibibio Sound Machine, Cry (Eyed)
Falle Nioke/Sir Was, Wonama yo ema
Reginald Omas Mamode IV, In Search of Balance
The Shacks, Trip to Japan
Dougie Poole, Vaping on the Job
Bermuda Triangle, Suzanne
Anjimile, Baby No More
Hey Cowboy!, Cherry Jerry Citrus
Kit Sebastian, Rain
Female Species, Stop and Think it Over
Lambchop, Give Me Your Love
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, That Life
Young & Sick, Brother
LCD Soundsystem, New Body Rhumba