So how about those Winter Olympics? I’m really going to miss having those distractions in the afternoon. It’s always nice to have sports like Biathalon, Skeleton and Bobsleigh. Although, I still think that the 2010 hockey gold still falls behind the 2002 gold in terms of importance, it was still an amazing moment that let to a lot of spontaneous celebration all over this country. It was an epic game and will only add to the legend of Sidney Crosby. What does this have to do with our musical selections? Not much. I did contemplate playing “Gretzky Rocks” by The Pursuit of Happiness but I just couldn’t do it. Maybe in a week to come, you’ll hear it. So what did I include this week? Here’s the playlist:

Mercy Mercedes – Dr. Huxtable from “1.21 Gigawatts”

Anathallo – Noni’s Field from “Canopy Glow”
Further Seems Forever – Blank Page Empire from “How To Start A Fire”
Jason Collett – Love Song for Canada

Apples In Stereo – Dance Floor from “Travellers In Space And Time”
My Brightest Diamond – Tainted Love from “Guilt By Association Vol. 2″
Joy Electric – Picture of You from “ElectroCured – An Electro Tribute To The Cure”

Mogwai – I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead from “The Hawk Is Howling”

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.

Jared

After last week’s patriotic song, I come back with another Winter Olympic sport-themed song. Although this time it’s the Weakerthans with their story about a guy getting drunk at a curling club pondering life. The track was recorded at a sweet venue in their hometown of Winnipeg, which I remember as the Walker Theatre. However, a few years ago it was named for the second most famous singer from the city (Neil Young counts as #1), namely Burton Cummings.

We’ve also got some brand new music from The New Pornographers and Broken Social Scene. Both are great tracks that have me counting down until both of those albums come out. There’s also a live version of Vampire Weekend covering a Rancid track that is some kind of awesome.

The Damien Jurado track at the end comes from something called Laminar Excursion Monthly. A couple small, mid-Western US labels (Crossroads of America Records and Flannelgraph Records, if you don’t know what a flannelgraph is, look it up) are releasing two EPs a month on mini-CD’s (when was the last time you saw one of those?) and they started it off with Damien Jurado. It’s a cool idea and pretty cheap. I’m just really looking forward to later in the year when they release the highly anticipated Blaster The Rocketman disc. It’ll be awesome. The Playlist:

BTK – Peppyrock from “Birth Through Knowledge”

The New Pronographers – Your Hands (Together) from “Together” (Download it here.)
Constantines – Million Star Hotel from Daytrotter.com sessions (Download it here.)
PS I Love You – Facelove from “Diamond Rings/PS I Love You 7″” (Download it here.)
Apples In Stereo – Beautiful Machine Parts 1-2 from “New Magnetic Wonder”

The Weakerthans – Tournament of Hearts from “Live At The Burton Cummings Theatre” (Download it here.)
Vampire Weekend – Ruby Soho (Download it here.)
Broken Social Scene – World Sick from “Forgiveness Rock Record” (Download it here.)

Damien Jurado – Eastlake from “Laminar Excusion Monthly”

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.

Jared

Tracks 7 and 8 are both from Nellie Recordings, a great progressive imprint I’ve been really digging lately. I did a remix for them not too long ago of the track “Indonesia” by Latvian progressive artist Kaspar Kochker – look for that some time in the near future. Also in the mix this time around, another remix for Kaspar Kochker… this time of his track “Weekend at Moonlight”.

As always, drop me a line and let me know what you thought of the show. You can always reach me on Twitter. I hope you enjoy the mix!

Tracklisting:
01. Dr Kucho & Pedro Del Moral – Rain (Juanjo Martin Remix)
02. Spirit Catcher & Compuphonic – Cleaver (Original Mix)
03. Oliver Moldan – Backseat Dreams (Paronator Remix)
04. Alex Dolby – City Shark (16 Bit Lolitas Remix)
05. Hernan Cerbello – Reach Your Soul (Original Mix)
06. Daniel Portman – Baaly (Original Mix)
07. Claes Rosen – Endeavour (Original Mix)
08. Kaspar Kochker – Let’s Funk Together (Original Mix)
09. Kaspar Kochker – Weekend at Moonlight (David Akermanis Remix)
10. Dave Horne – Q.E.D. (Original Mix)
11. Proff – We Show It (Original Mix
12. Tyler Michaud & Moonbeam – Openhearted ft. Tiff Lacey (Original Mix)

Direct Download: Right click HERE and Save as.

So, how about those Winter Olympics? I was watching some of the women’s downhill and that was crazy. People pushing themselves so hard that they just completely wiped out. As I write this, I’m watching some short track speed skating. It’s insane. They had a relay on early and I always wondered how the next racers could always get in perfect position to take their turn. They move at fast speeds around tight corners with lots of traffic. It’s amazing that it doesn’t turn into a complete pile up more often.

Anyways, there’s a rather patriotic song kicking off the podcast this week. Not too many surprises, just some quality, quality music. Oh No Forest Fires are giving their EP away for free, so check that out. Le Pigeon is off a cool compilation of Toronto area bands called Friends of Bellwoods 2. Out of all the comps I listened to last year, only Dark Was The Night was better than it. Anyways, onto the playlist:

Classified – Oh… Canada from “Self Explanatory”

Oh No Forest Fires – Who Will Cut Our Hair When Our Hairdresser is Gone? (Song For Emily) from “Wants To Try Something”
Miike Snow – Song For No One
The Rosebuds – Shake Our Tree from “Birds Make Good Neighbors”

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way
Expect Delays – A Million Neon Lights from “A Million Neon Lights”
Pacifico – Eleanor Rigby from “Side B: Rarities and Covers”
Le Pigeon – Freezing Rain from “Friends of Bellwoods 2″

Bon Iver – Blindsided from “For Emma, Forever Ago”

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.

Jared

So who is Eric Campuzano and why should I care? Sure he’s not a household name to you, but he’s played in three of my favourite bands and just released a song as part of new project. The Prayer Chain shaped a lot of my teenage years, Cush the tail-end of my University days and although it’s out of order chronologically, Lassie Foundation has soundtracked a lot of the last 5 years for me. So I was delighted to hear that he’s working on some new music. Northern Records just posted a single from a project called CampAndCastl that I’ve included for your listening pleasure this week. It’s a little bit different from his other work but still a rocking song.

I’ve been throwing my iPod on random lately and listening to what comes up. It’s reminded me of a lot of great music from the last couple years that I haven’t listened to in a while since I’ve been caught up pursuing new released, so I’ve included a few for your listening pleasure. Enjoy.

John Reuben – Make Money Money from “Word Of Mouth”

Telegram – Sleeping In from “We Look And See”
CampAndCastl – 4 Minute Mile from “CvsC”
Brian Fallon – Tin Pan Alley

Takka Takka – In The Air Tonight from “Guilt By Association Vol. 2″
The New Pronographers – Hey, Snow White from “Dark Was The Night”
Sufjan Stevens – Size Too Small from “Seven Swans”
The National – Daughters Of The Soho Riots from “Alligator”

The Weakerthans – Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call from “Reconstruction Site”

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.

Jared

And it has been said, “With great power, comes great responsibility.” And it was so…

But the internet screwed it all up.  Well, now I’ve figured out how to with hold my urges to spread music but have found that artists actually like it when their music is played… GASP!

I’ve downloaded a bunch of music from artists’ websites and have added them in the show today.  They are awesome and great, but also good.  Grood. (It’s still funny)

Tried to mix today’s show up a lot but also add some good book-ending music so that it leaves you pumped up for the day… it’s some great power I’ve got.

Power is awesome.

Le Tigre – Deceptacon – Le Tigre

Yacht – Psychic City – See Mystery Lights
Magic Man – Monster - Real Life Color
Ocean Colour Scene – Mrs Maylie - Saturday
Shout Out Loud – Walls – Work (album is coming out soon…)
Girls – Laura – Album

The Hush Now – Hoping & Waiting – Constellations (album is coming out soon…)
White Mystery – Power Glove – Powerglove 7″
Kashmir – Mantaray – Trespassers
The Secret Machines – Like I Can – Like I Can EP
Yeasayer – O.N.E – Odd Blood (album is coming out soon…)

The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa – Warm Heart of Africa
Quasi – Repulsion – American Gong (album is coming out soon…)
Owen Pallett – Midnight Directives – Heartland
Sarah Jaffe – Clementine – Suburban Nature (album is coming out soon…)
The Boy Least Likely To – Every Grubby Little Memory – The Best B-Sides Ever

The Breakestra – Back at the Boathouse – Dusk Till Dawn

2010 has had some great releases already. Vampire Weekend and Spoon released some pretty good discs and with The National and Starflyer 59 releases coming a little later, there’s still a lot that I’m looking forward to. One release that caught me by surprise was Retribution Gospel Choir’s new release, “2″. I was never huge fan of Low. I loved Things We Lost In The Fire, but that was really all that I heard from them, so I kind of disregarded the first release from RGC. I wound up downloading the first track off “2″ a couple weeks ago and during a recent trek to my local record store, I found a vinyl copy for a pretty good price and wound up picking it up. I’ve really been digging it. So much so that I thought I’d feature another track from it, even though I played another last week. So enjoy.

Other than that, this features a couple tracks from Daytrotter.com and something that might now qualify as a retro track. It’s tough to think of Dry The Rain by The Beta Band as retro but we’re not too far away from rap-metal making a comeback as something cool given that people have already moved onto grunge. Seriously, why are people wearing plaid shirts again? Crazy. Anyways, Dry The Rain came up during a recent day of using the random function on my music library and I felt like it fit this week. It really is a great track. Rob Gordon wasn’t lying. Here’s the playlist:

Retribution Gospel Choir – Working Hard from “2″

TW Walsh – Borrow My Vibe from “The Soft Drugs Get Back – Side A” (Download it here.)
BRIGHTLIVE – In Your Arms Tonight from “BRIGHTLIVE”
Sister Suvi – The Lot from “Daytrotter.com Sessions” (Download it here.)
The Wooden Sky – North Dakota from “When Lost At Sea”

Thrice – Come On Up To The House from “Daytrotter.com Sessions” (Download it here.)
Cary Brothers – Love Song (Donate to help Haiti and get it from here.)
Bon Iver – For Emma from “For Emma, Forever Ago”

The Beta Band – Dry The Rain from “Three EPs”

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next week.

Jared

It feel’s like we’ve done this before… well, no not really.

On this special holiday which really means nothing, I give to you what you expect on a Tuesday; a new BCOL.

Things are a madhouse in my house and time keeps flying by way faster than I’d like it to.  Every once in a while, I’d love to redo a day or two, but really, I’d have to choose those days.  Otherwise, I’m pretty sure it would be hell and you can ask Bill Murray about that.

If you haven’t noticed, not much to say other than what I’ve said and to restate the inevitable, that the show is a good one.

So here it is…

OH! Wait! I did wake up with a horrible song in my head which luckily this podcast has removed.  I think there’s a research paper in there somewhere.

So really, here it is…

Catherine Wheel – Heal - Happy Days

Belle and Sebastian – I Love My Car – I’m Waking Up To Us
Jens Lekman – I Saw Her In The Anti-War Demonstration – Oh You’re So Silent Jens
The Rosie Taylor Project – Anne Sexton – This City Draws Maps
Frightened Rabbit – Old Old Fashioned - The Midnight Organ Fright
The Mountain Goats – Dance Music – The Sunset Tree

World’s Greatest Ghosts – The Royal Court - No Magic
Deerhoof – Spirit Ditties Of No Tone - The Runners Four
Tapes ‘n Tapes – Jakov’s Suite – The Loon
Gomez – Airstream Driver - A New Tide
The Figurines – Release Me On The Floor - Skeleton

The Envy Corps – Wires & Wool – Dwell
Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resource – Bitte Orca
The XX – VCR - XX
The Dodos – Walking – Visiter
Yea Sayer – Tightrope – Dark Was The Night

Analog Rebellion – You’ve Been Had (Machine) – Ancient Electrons

Now that I’ve returned to adding audio narration to my show, I find that I’m struggling a little with what to write here. Sure there’s great new music from Spoon and Surfer Blood, but I’m not sure if I feel strongly enough about them to write something of any great substance here.

I guess the big news is that I’m featuring a couple songs that you can get from here: http://www.songsforhaiti.com Paste Magazine has gracious allowed access to their MP3 vault of rare and unreleased tracks in exchange for a donation to one of the charitable groups that’s working with Haiti. They have direct links for Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, who are both great organizations that can definitely use the money outside of Haiti. So go, check it out and if you feel like it, donate and then download some great music. By the way, Wilco have also posted a couple shows for download in exchange for a suggested donation of $15 to Doctors Without Borders or Oxfam.

Onto the playlist:

manCHILD – Take It Outside

Poems – Made 4 Me from “Bloomin’ Sounds”
Arrested Development – Tennessee (live)
Mainsail – Wilson Pacific Ocean from “Mainsail”
Surfer Blood – Swim from “Astro Coast”

Spoon – Before Destruction from “Transference”
Retribution Gospel Choir – Hide It Away
City And Colour – Boiled Frogs

She & Him – Lotta Love

Thanks for listening and we’ll see you next week.

House music is my one true passion, I love doing this! My tracks have been played by superstar DJs both in North America and abroad, I’ve remixed for some of dance music’s most exciting up-and-coming artists and hope to continue to do so for as long as I am alive and breathing. I’ve played at some great venues both in Canada and the U.S. with some of dance music’s most exciting artists – I’m incredibly thankful to have had the chance to experience this. So glad to be here, I hope you enjoy Progressive Aggressive!

There’s loads of great new stuff in this month’s episode. Inside you’ll find Spark & Aura from my forthcoming EP on Silk Digital as well as Colorless’ remix of Hoping Tonight. His deliciously techy mix stormed the Beatport.com Progressive House Top 100 charts this week and continues to rise.

I hope you enjoy the mix!

Tracklisting:
01. Mobilize – Progressive Sunshine (Original ‘Dream Deeply’ Mix)
02. Rasmus Faber – Traveller Toccata (Rasmus Faber Remix)
03. Beat Factory – Spark (Stan Kolev Remix)
05. David Akermanis – Spark (Original Mix)
06. Daniel Mehes – Aqua Attack (Original Mix)
07. Glenn Morrison – Another Suggestion (Original Mix)
08. Atlantis Ocean – Life Frequency (Playton Remix)
09. Ange, Perception Of Sound – Touching The Sky (J-Soul Vocal Remix)
10. David Akermanis – Aura (Original Mix)
11. Alaa – Kerala (Original Mix)
12. David Akermanis feat. Marcie – Hoping Tonight (Colorless Remix)

Direct Download: You can grab an mp3 copy of the show here.

P.S. If you’re interested in hearing more you can head over to davidakermanis.com and download my whole back catalog of shows as well as some of my original productions.