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

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  • Special Variety: PFR & TV Buff Radio

    Last week all the programmers down at CHLY tried their darndest to raise $20,000. Unfortunately, we’ve still got $5000 to go before meeting the minimum it will take to ensure community access radio continues to grow in Nanaimo. Every Thursday at noon, I co-host a show with Kevin M. called People First Radio (you can find the MP3’s if you click on the radio tab along the top of this page)

    Here is a conversation between Kevin and I about media consolidation. Otherwise known as “The Reason CHLY Needs That Money”

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    Fast forward a week, and you’ll get to todays episode of the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. This first part is a short piece of music followed by some events coming up presented by Jerry (12 mins)

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    TV Buff Radio!

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  • The Nickerbokker Sisters of 24 Watkins

    Taken in spring 2012. The chickens are egg machines now! Free eggs!
    Cameo appearances by Kitty Le Meow

  • SSVH October 10th 2012

    For a show I didn’t plan whatsoever, this one turned out to be pretty darn okay! That is, except for the technical glitches. And I got free juice outta the deal compliments of DJ All Good who incidentally brought his D-cell battery-powered turntable and industrial grade juicer! Life is good. Pardon me, it’s All Good.

    I started off the show today with a longish classical composition. One of my favourite pieces of music ever! Piano Concerto no. 2 composed by Shostakovich in 1957 for his son. After that, Jerry fills us in on some happnins and we take a call-in from someone who loves Elvis.(17 mins)

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    The second part of the show got a little wylie with tons of music all over the place! (25 mins)

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    DJ All Good brings me juice and plays you some dusty 45’s! It was a great time! (15 mins)

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  • For Geli

    Gorillaz. A favourite of mine since high school. Dare I say, a staple in my collection. This one goes out to my girl Angelie

  • Sweet and Sour Variety Hour October 3rd

    In three acts, here is what happened on the show last week. Be sure to tune in tomorrow morning for a “freshly squeezed” episode of the variety hour!

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  • Hope

    Not that it matters, but these are exactly my sentiments.

    “I firmly believe that the contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind’s brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis with which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species. We need to recapture the mysterium tremendum of the unio mystica, the millennial awe our ancestors felt in the divine presence, in the sublime majesty of our marvelous Universe, in the entheogenic “bemushroomed” state the sage Gordon Wasson described.” –some guy

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