May 30, 2006: Podcast

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May 30 2006 podcast

Just for your information, other great Quebec artists (from the 90's) that I wished I had time to play: Daniel Belanger, Kevin Parent, Isabelle Boulay, Marc Dery

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Sweet Hereafter May 30: Looking to the future, all the way to 1996

Hey everyone,

As the number of shows that I have left at CFRC gets frighteningly close to single-digits, I thought that I would spend a bit of time every show to play some music from each year that I have been here (Total: x number of years). I started out at CFRC in 1996, a long, long time ago when every family still gathered around the family radio every evening to spend quality time at home. But unbeknownst to some of you, my first show at the station was actually a French show as part of CFRC's french programming. My initial interest in the station was to keep my french going and they needed some new blood in that department of the station so I joined. Eventually I fell in love with english music, and the fact that there were a few more listeners, but for that first year, I played musique en francais.

So expect a couple of my favourite french songs on the show today, as well as some cover songs I didn't get to last week, including Ryan Adams' cover of Wonderwall which I could only play partially last week.

A tantot,

Tuan

Sweet Hereafter May 23, 2006: Covering its tracks

Hey everyone,

So the latest album to grace the turntables of my mind is Open Season, a collection of remixes of Feist songs. It's the only album full of remixes that I own because I find that these albums are usually hit and miss. Some songs are better than the original, others destroy the songs and even worse, some make you hate the songs that you loved once.

I find that covers (and remixes) fall into three categories depending on how the original was transformed:

1. Sprinkle a hearty dose of beats: This one is the standard approach. Give the song to a beatmaster and let them add some tsi, tsi, tsi...and start nodding along

2. Acoustication: Take an uptembo song with an edge or a beat, and then strip all of that away.

3. All covers that don't fall into category 1 or 2 (sorry, I'm writing this an hour before the show): This involves transforming the song into a style that is different, whether through big bandization, latinization or others

For today's show, I'll be playing examples of all three including some Ryan Adams, Feist, Gary Jules, Suzanne Vega and others.

Feel free to send some suggestions (within the next 45 minutes) and I'll try to get it on air.

See you in a bit,

Tuan

Sweet Hereafter May 16, 2006: Festival hoppin'

Hey superstars,

I'm happy to be back from a two-week academic exile and since science has been my companion in the last two weeks, I've decided that I'll play some songs about science...or that contain the word science in it. Surprisingly I've found 4 already and if you know of any, please send them my way. Don't worry, I'll only devote half-an-hour to it. The Sweet Hereafter is usually my escape from science!

Also, we'll talk about a group of Canadian artists who've united to set the record straight about what artists feel about the way that record companies are trying to regulate the distribution of music.

As an insider's tip to music festivals of different scales that are coming up this summer:
1. June 24: Skeleton Park Music Festival which is a great way to spend the day with friends and family in a local setting http://skeletonparkmusicfestival.ca
2. August 11-12: Just a short ferry ride away, the Wolfe Island Music festival (August 11-12) promises to be even better than last year's edition despite the lack of melodic singer-songwriter
3. July7 - 16: It might be stretching the definition of blues just a wee bit, but the Ottawa Blues Festival's lineup is phenomenal (http://www.ottawabluesfest.ca/en/) so I'll give you a taste of what to expect.

See you in a bit,

Tuan

Sweet Hereafter May 2, 2006: Cue the summer reruns

Hey everyone,

Quick note: I won't be doing the show for the next two weeks due to academic reasons (science first as they say) so it's summer reruns for a bit. This week, the show from April 4 with the interview with the band Infotourist. So don't phone in with requests or for tickets because I won't be able to satisfy those requests (not that I do a spectacular job at doing so anyways).

Take care and I'll see you soon.

Tuan