Ashta Made You A Mixtape – A curated music radio show Friday nights at 9 on 101.7fm CHLY

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  • 15 Tik Toks/hr

    15 Tik Toks/hr

    This week on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, I glean some content gold from some of the funniest and most captivating sounds on my algorithm. If you’ve had the restraint to *not* download the short-form video app, than let me be the turd who introduces you to what your feed might sound like if you were a white woman living in Western Canada. Clips under 3 minutes interspersed with instrumental tracks. All of the creators are listed below, so if you hear something interesting, please go look them up.

    Here’s the file, you little right-clicker, you

    • “Ya, no” @athena.illustrations, Aug 28 2021
    • MF DOOM, Coffin Nails
    • “Saying socialism” @frankly_socialist, Dec 4 2021
    • The Alchemist, Arrival
    • “Elimination communication” @smokelorebotanicals, Nov 30 2021
    • Daniel Lanois, Frozen
    • “Why dont we say one-teen?” @lingusticdiscovery, Dec 5 2021
    • The Mermen, The Goodbye
    • “NDP greenwashing ads” @nerdyaboutneature, Dec 5 2021
    • Bibio, St. Thomas
    • “Best diet for harm reduction is not veganism” @alexisnikole, Nov 30 2021
    • Teebs, While You Do
    • “Hairdoo archeologist” @dougiesharpe, Nov 24 2021
    • The Durutti Column, Otis
    • “Post-growth economics” @michael_mezz, Nov 22, 2021
    • Monster Rally, Lovely You
    • “Psychological Kung Fu” @wisdomsushibites, Nov 16 2021
    • Whitney, Red Moon
    • “Green Veils” @nerdyaboutneature, Nov 14 2021
    • Etran de L’Air, Agrim Agadez
    • “Economics shouldnt exist” @itspusher, Nov 13 2021
    • DOOMSTARKS, Victory Laps (Instro)
    • “Something white women are not ready to hear” @themaggpie, Nov 3 2021
    • Philip Glass, Osamu’s Theme
    • “Small scale farming is the best career” @terramorfarm, Oct 17 2021
    • CZARFACE, Bomb Thrown (Instro)
    • “How Backstreet Boys and N*Sync got scammed” @itsshannonburns, Oct 13 2021
    • “Worst date ever” @elysemyers, Oct 6 2021
    • MV Lark, I Filmed It

  • Lyricless Music

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is an hour of music minus all the animal noises.

    Here is the file

    tracklist:

    • Flughand, Peninsula
    • Flughand, Atrebor
    • Pete Rock/ C.L. Smooth ,Back On Da Block – Instro
    • Pete Rock/Freddie Foxxx,Mind Frame – Instro
    • Saib,Sakura Trees
    • John Talbot, Sunshine
    • Luiz Bonfa, Pernambuco
    • Galt MacDermot, New Pulse I
    • Podington Bear, Lip Gloss
    • Vulfpeck, Test Drive Instro
    • The Meters,Cissy Strut
    • Javelin, Cowpoke
    • Bonobo, Cirrus
    • John Tejada, Farther and Fainter
    • Crystal Castles, Magic Spells

  • End Novemb

    It’s another week here in the land of The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, the program created to be a community-driven plethora of varietal contributions, and was for a long time. Now it’s just me, Ashta, screening good music, selecting, and placing in order a mixtape I think you’ll love.

    HERE IT IS!!

    (typing tracklist now)

  • Hello Neigbour Hello Friend

    Here we are, on the road again.

    Here is the file

    • Cab Calloway, Doin’ the Rumba
    • Mariah The Scientist, 2 You
    • Tems / Brent Faiyaz, Found
    • J Dilla, Don’t Cry
    • Flowervillian, Escape to Mars
    • Digable Planets, Jettin’
    • J Dilla, Yesterday
    • Micha Edwards / Ashton Sellars, I Wonder
    • Freddie Gibbs / Madlib, Crime Pays (Instro)
    • Terrace Martin / Robert Glasper / Kamasi Washington / 9th Wonder, The Mighty Tree
    • Abstract Orchestra, Accordion
    • Abstract Orchestra, Fancy Clown
    • Nubiyan Twist / Ria Moran, Morning Light
    • Kanye West, Believe What I Say
    • Exjx, Two Step
    • Kim Petras, Demons
    • Neon Indian, Deadbeat Summer
    • Animal Collective, My Girls
    • Bert & Ernie, here fishy fishy fishy
    • Wishbone theme song
    • On The Road Again theme song
    • Polka Dot Door (Polka Roo excerpt)
    • Canadian House Hippo commercial
  • Listening Listeners

    Listening Listeners

    If you’re a follower already, you’ll know that I fuss over the order of the songs to create the perfect mood – just like when we use to make mixtapes.

    Well, not this week.

    Everything you’ll hear on this show, was chosen by our listeners!

    If you want in on the action, follow us on Instagram @ssvhradio

    Here is the file

    • The Re-Stoned, Mental Print for Free
    • Meltt, Fool of You
    • Little Wings, Gold Teeth
    • Hozier, Wasteland Baby!
    • The History of Gunpowder, Caneless Blind
    • Buckethead, Healing Inside Outside Every time
    • Tommy Guerrero, Descendent of Memory
    • The Cactus Channel, Stay a While
    • Rodriguez, This is Not a Song
    • Taj Mahal, I Aint Gonna Let Nobody Steal My Jellyroll
    • Tiwa Savage, Koroba
    • Hollydays, On a deja
    • Hollydays, Minuit
    • Lourde/Run the Jewels/El P, Supercut
    • Tenacious D, Post- Apocalypto Theme
    • Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    • Real audio explaining some of how the media manipulates
    • Why you should set up an automatic monthly donation to CHLY
  • Facebag

    Facebag

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is a one-hour anything-goes festival of sound-good. Every Wednesday morning for 10 years, CHLY 101.7FM listeners in over 40 coastal communities have been subject to the audiocratic whims of local weirdo, Ashta. From 8-9am, she privately relishes the technical reality that terrestrial radio waves saturate a portion of the Earth’s surface with frequencies of her choosing.

    This week is no different. Only she’s asking you to follow the @ssvhradio account on Instagram

    Here is the file for Wednesday, October 20th, 2021

    Bibio , Feeling
    Com Truise , Colorvision
    Lusine , Two Dots
    Mrid, Kawtar Sadik , Salat Ala Nabina
    Generationals , In Green
    Fred Thomas , I Heard You Say
    Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin , Since you Stole my Heart
    Radiation City , The Clod and the Pebble
    Rainier Maria , Big Man
    Forro in the Dark , Voce Nao E Insubstituviel
    Forro in the Dark , Indios So Norte
    Stereolab , Diagonals
    The Beta Band , B + A
    Chopin , Etude No. 12 in C minor, Op 10
    Max Richter , The Departure
    Chopin , Waltz in c Sharp Minor, Op 62

Lookit! An Instagram!

This is it!