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  • December 7th 2016 SSVH

    Vince Guaraldi Trio – Little Birdie
    Lake Street Dive – Better Than
    Redondo Beach – She Loves Her
    Redondo Beach – We Would Make Her Like Winter
    Monster Rally – The Big Surf
    Monster Rally – Baja Samba
    Foreign/National – The Hedonist
    Corduroi – Bangarangarang
    Antibalas – Dirty Money
    Hearts of Darkness – Numeration
    BULLHORN – Roll off the Top
    Tommy III – Susan
    A Tribe Called Quest – Enough!!

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  • Cohen, Blockchain, Tribe, Trews

    There have been some monumental happenings this past week, and The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is attempting to cover all the bases.  We begin with some words spoken by Leonard Cohen in one of his final public interviews, set to the final song on his final album. Then our minds and hearts are wrenched by the reworkings of German pianist, Lambert which continues behind a TED talk given by Bettina Warburg, a Blockchain Expert and Co-Founder of the laboratory Animal Ventures. She explains what the heck the Blockchain is, and how it is going to radically change global economy. Music, music, music for a while, capping off with a track from A Tribe Called Quest’s newly released album (after 17 years!) entitled “We Got it from Here”.  Next is Russell Brand with an utterly jokeless and absolutely spot-on take on the American election results. Finalizing the program, set to J Dilla, is a little encouragement from me.

    Leonard Cohen – String Reprise
    Moderat – Bad Kingdom, Lambert Rework
    Jacob Groening – Lambert’s Bad Kingdom
    TED Talk- What is the Blockchain? By Bettina Warburg
    St. Vincent – Laughing with a Mouth of Blood
    Dan Deacon – When I was Done Dying
    Dur- Dur Band – Halelo
    Nobody – Wake up and Smell the Millenium
    A Tribe Called Quest – Movin Backwards
    The Trews – Russell Brand comments on US election results
    Ashta & J Dilla

    I’m quite happy with how this week’s production came together.

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  • Yammer-free non-stop tuneage

    On November 2nd, 2016, the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour played:

    Grizzly Bear – Sleeping Ute
    Fruit Bats – Flamingo
    Quantic – Painting Silhouettes
    Fruit Bats – The Hobo Girl
    Low Cut Connie- Rio
    Los Porcos- Do You Wanna live?
    CHassol- Odissi, Pt II (Emotif) [Yuksek Remix]
    The Go! Team – Apollo Throwdown
    The Avalanches – If I Was a Folkstar
    The Avalanches – Harmony
    Special Request from Jonny in Calgary:
    BoomBox- Midnight on the Run

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  • October 26th Sweet and Sour

    What do ya know? Another hour of virtually non-stop music. Thanks to the folks who called in and pledged financial support to the fund drive. It’s so important to be the media, because it’s obvious we can’t trust the mainstream.  If you benefit from CHLY in any way, please visit chly.ca/donate and set up an automatic monthly donation of anything you think is fair.

    Next week I will be continuing fund-raising efforts by playing requests and money-related tunes. Maybe even some good rendition cover songs. Here’s an idea! Lee Camp said he might do a phone interview with me…. but maybe I’ll hold out for a decent enough pledge to sponsor the call? email your intentions to ashta@ashta.ca

    The tracks heard today, Wednesday October 26th, 2016:

    Let ‘Em In – Wings
    Primitive Man – Fruit Bats
    Bees – Caribou
    In the Deathcar – Iggy Pop
    Viva Puerto Rico Libre – Ghetto Brothers
    Got this happy feeling – Ghetto Brothers
    You’re too weird – Fruit Bats
    The Keys – Matt Duncan
    Humbig Mountain Song – Fruit Bats
    Happy Up Here – Royksopp
    Glare – SHeep, Dog & Wolf
    Pass the Popcorn – The Roots

    For the first time, most of the show was live video streamed to Facebook! Watch it here

    Here is the link to the file hosted on archive.org

  • Wed Oct 12 Hour of Tunes

    The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour this week is another jam-packed hour of non-stop music!  I pipe in every now and then to tell you the artists. Here is a visual track list:

    HNNY – Sunday
    HNNY – Memory Tape One
    Dirty Art Club – Fantasy Phone
    Dirty Art Club – Napalm Skyline
    Dirty Art Club – Dead Man’s Letters
    Dirty Art Club – One Thousand
    Onra – Ms. Ho
    Junior Kimbrough – Meet Me in the City
    Darondo – Didn’t I
    Blonde Redhead – Cat on Tin Roof
    Rubblebucket – Came Out of a Lady
    Tune Yards – Wait for a Minute
    Jonwayne – Andrew
    Jehst – Bluebells
    Dirty Art Club – Just a Memory
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
    HNNY – Cheer Up My Brother

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    The SSVH has aired on CHLY 101.7fm every Wednesday morning since 2012. Listen live at 8am PST at www.tinyurl.com/chlyradio

  • Podcast Announcement & 1 Hour of Music

    Podcast Announcement & 1 Hour of Music

    That’s right! The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is now available as a downloadable podcast! Here’s the link to the RSS, or search for it on iTunes, or whatever podcast service you use.

    As a special treat, I am offering a pre-release of  tomorrow morning’s show to demonstrate the benefit of this wonderful technology! This is the first time I’ve released a show before it’s air date. Seize the moment, and subscribe to the podcast!

    There is one hour of music packaged up in this tight little bundle. Here is the tracklist!

    • Brigitte Fontaine – Le goudron
    • Willy Mason – Restless Fugitive
    • Badbadnotgood – Time Moves Slowly
    • Helado Negro – It’s My Brown Skin
    • Badbadnotgood – Confessions
    • Badbadnotgood – Kaleidoscope
    • Daedalus – Special Re: Quest
    • Libey Mas’aduley – Teranga Beat
    • Django Django – Skies Over Cairo
    • Sao Paulo Underground – Olhaloui
    • Arbes – Sun on my Back
    • Tune-Yards

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