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

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  • Essential 90’s

    Essential 90’s

    It was a guilty-pleasure kind of a radio show, because every track was an essential part of my up-bringing as a 90’s kid. Every song is from the 1990’s, and I’m not even apologizing for how well we know them all.

    Here’s a preview video with a sample from each tune. It’s like listening to the whole show in 1 minute 15 seconds!

    Listen to the whole show online here

    Presenting this show, my son Fox was in the studio with me. We were “live” on Facebook for the first half hour. Here is a link to that video

    Aphex Twin – Avril 14th
    Zero 7 – Polaris
    Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
    Lamb – Angelica
    Groove Armada – At the River
    Boards of Canada – Roygbiv
    Portishead – All Mine
    Massive Attack – Psyche
    Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground
    Amon Tobin – Bridge
    Daft Punk – Something About Us
    Bjork – Human Behaviour

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    As a bonus, this is a picture of me at the time when I was super into this kind of music:

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  • Ten Songs- First 2017 SSVH

    Americana-blues-stomp sounds turn into African funk. Ending with an intense instrumental to set the mood for Democracy Now! (which daily episode airs right after the SSVH.)

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    And this is the RSS feed, where you can subscribe to the SSVH podcast:
    https://ashta.ca/feed/podcast/ssvh2016

    Here’s a link to the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour Facebook Page in case you would like to “like” it. Today I posted a live stream video of basically just me in the studio presenting the whole show! FYI: Not much happens. Here are the tracks that played:

    July Talk – Strange Habit
    Whitehorse – Sweet Disaster
    Jonah Tolchin – Diamond Mind
    The Bones of J. R. Jones – Bless Your Soul
    Walker Lukens – Every Night
    Moussa Doumbia – Keleya
    Segun Bucknor & His Revolution – La La La
    The Funkees – Breakthrough
    William Onyeabor – Something You’ll Never Forget
    DJ Koze – Marilyn Whirlwind

     

  • Year-End Mixtape Wed Dec 28 2016

    Moving through about 3 different genres this week: country, jazz, and electronic.

    Carolyn Mark – All Time Low
    Damien Jurado – Radioactivity
    Pierre Cavalli – Un soir chez Norris
    Alice Russell – For Once in my Life
    Betty Carter – Thou Swell
    Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Happy Anatomy
    Sean Nicolas Savage – Propaganda
    Y La Bamba – Ojos Del Sol
    Papooz – Ann Wants to Dance
    William Onyeabor – Do You Want a Man (remix)
    Portugal – Noise Pollution
    Lack of Afro – Touch my Soul
    Jessy Lanza – I Talk Bb
    Infinite Bisous – The Past Tense
    Zammuto – Yay

    Here’s the file.

  • Christmas Special

    Holiday music mixtape of music you probably dont know the words to. Approximately 1 hour.

    Kate Bush – Home for Christmas
    She & Him – The Christmas Waltz
    Zee Avi – No Christmas for Me
    Rogue Wave – Christmas
    Ernie Halter – Christmas in Jail
    Lauren Daigle – What Child is This
    Sharon Jones – Big Bulbs
    Sharon Jones – 8 Days of Hannukah
    James Brown – Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto
    James Brown – Go Power at Christmas Time
    James Brown – Let’s Make This Christmas Mean Something
    Money Mark – Stuck at the Airport
    Jona Lewie – Stop the Calvary
    Gene Autry – Cowboy Santa Claus
    NQ Arbuckle – Christmas in Hell
    Ween – Your Party
    The Lonely Wild – Holidays
    Hotel Books – Christmas Eve Until I Leave

    Here’s the file online for streaming or saving.
    Here’s where you can subscribe to the podcast.

  • Non-stop curated mixtape 1/2 hour

    Originally broadcast on November 30th 2016, I had to create a  new recording because the stream went down at the radio station. It’s really bright stuff with intentional sounds and careful song placement. Just could not let it go to waste, echoing off into the depth of space forever.   Here’s the tracklist for this half-hour of music:

    Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou – The Homeless Wanderer
    Cobby & Porky – Black Pudding
    Monster Rally – Full Sail
    Gantez – Lazy Grey
    Summer Salt – Manastra
    Summer Salt – Summer Salt
    Deerhoof – Risk Free
    Brassstronaut – Hawk
    D.D. Dumbo – Walrus
    A Tribe Called Quest – Enough!!

    Here’s the track online.
    Here’s where you can subscribe to the podcast.

  • December 14th 2016

    Owiny Sigoma Band – Too Hot
    Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?
    Tame Impala – I’m a Man
    Top Men – Hypersleep
    Mother Mother – Monkey Tree
    Blue Moon Marquee – Double Barrel Blues
    Blue Moon Marquee – Gypsy Blues
    David P. Smith – Walkin’ Talkin’ Blues
    David P. Smith – Whiskey You Are Not My Brother
    Father John Misty – Funtimes in Babylon
    Father John Misty – This is Sally Hatchet
    The Pesky Alders – St. James Infirmary

    Here’s where it lives.
    Here’s where you can subscribe to the podcast.

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