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

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  • Hang On CanCon

    Hang On CanCon

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, 100% CanCon.

    If you can, please give a lil to unite CHLY with The Discourse.

    Here is the file, airing live to about 1.5 million human beings, a few billion notable sea creatures, and literally trillions of bacterium. Yes, every one of these living organisms will be surrounded with the invisible frequency transmission of these amazing Canadian songs via CHLY 101.7FM at 8AM PST on Wednesday the 16th of December 2020. You’re welcome, amoeba!

    • Carmanah – I did it all for you
    • Carmanah – Roots
    • Blue Moon Marquee – Shading Tree
    • Carolyn Mark – Flaming Star
    • Carolyn Mark – Not Like the Movies
    • Painted Fruits – Gender
    • Painted Fruits – Mechanical Rhythm
    • Great Speckled Fritillary – Polar Star
    • Wolf Parade – Fine Young Cannibals
    • Wolf Parade – Solders Grin
    • Wolf Parade – Lousy Pictures
    • Aaron James and the Black Water – Fear II
    • Harpoonist and the Axemurderer – She’s Got
    • Satellite and the Harpoonist – Justine
    • Dubmatix – Wicked Part of Tow
  • Frau Song

    Frau Song

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, I have been so inspired lately by strong brave women, that I have featured all women on the program today. At the 36:00 mark, you’ll hear an invitation to make a donation to a campaign I’ve started which will unite CHLY and The Discourse. If you value independent medias, you can stretch your dollar of support, because all donations are being matched dollar for dollar. Click here to contribute to a healthy news-scape in your community.

    Here is the file

    These are the songs

    • The Bird and the Bee – Witch
    • Lana Del Ray – West Coast
    • Haley Heynderickx – The Bug Collector
    • Neko Case, K.D. Lang, Laura Veirs – Atomic Number
    • Eliza Rickman – Pretty Little Hand
    • Phildel – The Wolf
    • Weyes Blood – Andromeda
    • Grimes – Rosa
    • Kimbra – Good Intent
    • Magic Wands – Black Magic
    • Dodie – Monster
    • UNKLE & Liela Moss- The Dog is Black
    • Bat for Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do?
    • Cults – Always Forever
    • Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill

  • Help CHLY join with The Discourse

    Help CHLY join with The Discourse

    The Discourse is a community-supported journalism endeavor that is hoping to have a permanent presence in Nanaimo. They are funded by their readership, the very people who The Discourse is accountable to.  Recently, they have announced that they are offering limited spaces for Founding Partners to align with their cause. I think CHLY belongs on that short list.

    Today, I am launching a fundraising campaign that will join The Discourse and CHLY as media partners. But only if we can raise enough funds.

    One donation goes a long way

    With your help, CHLY can secure a position as Founding Partner by raising $5000, which will be matched in kind.  Your donation will doubly secure the longevity and strength of  these two important media outlets for the Mid-Island region at large.

    If you value the presence of community-based journalism, please consider making a donation. We’ve made it so easy! Just go to chly.ca/thediscourse to give what you can. For donations of at least $101.20, you will get a special thanks on the front page of our website, social media, and live on the air.

    Examples

    Here are some screen shots and links that show how CHLY and The Discourse are a perfect match.

    On Wednesday, December 2nd, I aired on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, a recent article from This Discourse in it’s entirety. Here is my presentation of Plans to revitalize old A&B Sound building in downtown Nanaimo by Julie Chadwick for The Discourse (12 minutes long)

    Here is a screen shot of what the donation box looks like when you go to chly.ca/thediscourse

  • The Discourse

    The Discourse

    This week on the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, lots of great music and an article about Nanaimo’s derelict centerpiece buildings from The Discourse.

    This amazing publication is vying for a permanent place in the Nanaimo media landscape, and all they need is a show of hands. Click here to enter your email address and you will be counted as a voice in favour of community-driven journalism in Nanaimo.

    Another cool opportunity is to secure a place for CHLY as a founding partner for this initiative! The Discourse is offering a place in their publication for CHLY and The Radio Malaspina Society (the non-profit that runs the station). All we need to do is raise some cash. Go to chly.ca/thediscourse if you’d like to contribute.

    This is the file, which airs live to 40 coastal communities at 8am PST on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 via badass terrestrial radio station 101.7CHLY-FM

    • Fat White Family – Tastes Good With the Money
    • Fat White Family – Kim’s Sunsets
    • Fat White Family – Fringe Runner
    • Fat White Family – Rock Fishes
    • Toubab Krewe – Hang Tan
    • Dope Lemon – Home Soon
    • Mike Nyoni and Born Free – Mad Man
    • Dan Reader – Havana Burning
    • Vulfpeck – Rango II
    • Willie Mitchell – Windy
    • Jenny Lewis – Little White Dove
    • The Discourse: Plans to Revitalize Old A&B Sound Building in Downtown Nanaimo, By Julie Chadwick. Read by Ashta. Music: Ludovico Einaudi – Canzone Africana IV
    • Caribou – Odessa

  • Sweet and Sour in November

    Sweet and Sour in November

    Hay
    Thanks for trusting me with the precious task of putting music to your world. I make you these mixtapes because I love you.

    Dat file, tho


    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

  • Increasing Velocity

    Increasing Velocity

    This week on The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, an hour-long mixtape of uninterrupted music that picks up the tempo as time goes on.

    Approaching the anniversary of @ssvhradio it is fitting to mention my intent surrounding the production of this radio show and podcast. I think it’s a tiny action that could help bring musical respite, and needed information to the world. Indeed, I have given freely to listeners of CHLY 101.7FM literally hundreds of hours of my time. Every once and a while, us programmers have to remind folks that this is the case. That CHLY doesn’t get big advertising bucks, and that CHLY asks very little money of VIU students (among the lowest in the country). If you can spare $5 a month, the station could really use it. Click here to spend a few minutes typing in the particulars, and join the thousands of other supporters of CHLY 101.7fm and the Radio Malaspina Society.

    This week’s program

    • Julia Jacklin- Body
    • Ty Segall – The Arms
    • Summer Cannibals – Simple Life
    • Sault – Masterpiece
    • Allah-Las – Raspberry Jam
    • Crumb – Ghostride
    • Crumb – Locket
    • Crumb – Nina
    • A Tribe Called Red – The OG
    • A Tribe Called Red – NDN Kars – Remix
    • A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation
    • Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – For Pete’s Sake
    • Guards – Take My Mind
    • Sault – Let Me Go
    • Pond – Paint Me Silver

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