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.
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
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.
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
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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.
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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
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. www.howesoundsystem.com www.facebook.com/howesoundsystem 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
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
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)
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
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
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
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)
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. www.HoweSoundSystem.com www.facebook.com/HoweSoundSystem 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
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 www.HoweSoundSystem.com www.facebook.com.HoweSoundSystem
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.
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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.
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. www.HoweSoundSystem.com facebook.com.howesoundsystem www.djztrip.com to hear all the mixes
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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. www.HoweSoundSystem.com www.facebook.com/HoweSoundSystem 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
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. www.HoweSoundSystem.com www.facebook.com/HoweSoundSystem 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
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