TEM Ep 4: Halloween Episode ft. coda interview!

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Happy Halloween

I am AD Springer, your musical tour guide to all things future funk, chiptune, synthpop, and other reach out and grab you music in the electronica sphere on The Electric Metropolis. Come tour the city of sound with me from around the world! On this tour you will hear the dark alleyways that stretch forever in all directions, followed by the bright shining lights that make The Electric Metropolis the great city of sound it is! Near the end you will also hear an interview with coda, the composer of Omega Strike Original Soundtrack and many other great albums you should check out!

Featuring songs from Church of Trees’ album Primitive Creatures; coda’s Omega Strike; and Lazy Nerd 204’s Ontario Pheonetix and many others! In the darkness you will hear the soul, sorrow, and seething anger hidden deep in the city and in the light see all the hopes and dreams you could ever hope for rise above for all to see!

The first stop features a stop at the future funkiness of Desired followed by some alleyway skulking where few tread. After that we will see about battling our way out and finding the bright lights that bring us to the highest of the eternal urban nightscape. So stay close, listen well, and maybe you’ll hear something you’ll want to hear time and time again.

Tour Itinerary:

First Stop:

“Honey Bunny” by Desired

Synth Alley:

“Primitive Creatures” by Church of Trees off the album Primitive Creatures
“A Darker Path” by Midnight Danger off the compilation album Magnatron 2.0
“She Moves Like A Knife” by PERTURBATOR off the album The Uncanny Valley

Heavy Chip Alleyway:

“Soul Harvest” by Phil Western off the album Neuro-Plastique
“Refinned Solutions to Bleeding” by Lazy Nerd 204 off the album Ontario Phonetix
“Nightflier” by Themnotyou off the album BotB One Hour Battles

Battle District:

“Battle Stem” by Norrin_Radd off the album Dice Mage 2 Original Soundtrack
“Forbidden Hell” by Heosphoros off the compilation album Noisechan & Nugget: Adventures In Chiptunes
“Omega Strike” by coda off the album Omega Strike Original Soundtrack

Interview with coda!

coda

–Check out coda’s soundcloud & bandcamp for all they’ve done and will do soon!

Final Stop:

“Hopes and Dreams (UNDERTALE)” by David Ramos & Ro Panuganti off the album Spirit

Got any suggestions for future tours?

Tweet me @ElectricMetCHSR
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Email me electricmetropolis@gmail.com

 

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Dillon Ryan & the Dream Romantic LIVE in Studio D – CHSR Sessions

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Dillon Ryan & The Dream Romantic are a Melodic Rock band based out of Moncton/Miramichi NB influenced heavily by British Post-Punk/Gothic Rock such as The Smiths, The Cure & Echo & The Bunnymen. The group shares new songs and we talk their Music New Brunswick award win, a recent brand change, and a new album in the works.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Joe, Brett & Conner (Theatre UNB’s “Criminals In Love”)

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The text of a play contains a lot of material to interpret, highlight, focus and transform before it goes on stage; that’s probably why they call it a production.

My guests today are three of the people responsible for the upcoming Theatre UNB production of George F. Walker’s Criminals In Love. Joe is taking his turn as the Director, after having acted in the previous George F. Walker production as the lead character. Brett joins the play as the actor playing the lead character’s father. Conner will be seen pressing buttons in the dark as the Technical Director. They join me to talk about how this play has come together, and what it’s like for each of them to contribute to the collective creation.

Criminals In Love shows at UNB’s Memorial Hall from November 1 to November 4, 7:30pm nightly. Tickets are $14 for regular tickets, $10 for seniors/the underwaged or $8 for students.

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Her Turn 2017-10-31

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Track Listing:Her Turn

1.) Ella Fitzgerald ft. the London Symphony Orchestra – I Get A Kick Out Of You

2.) Esmerine – La Pénombre

3.) Eliana Cuevas – Nunca Jamás

4.) Kacy & Clayton – Cannery Yard

5.) Bird City – A Bit part

6.) Dana Wylie – Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Hallelujah

7.) Winona Wilde – The Night Joel Got Shot

8.) Terra Lightfoot – Lonesome Eyes

9.) The Beaches – Strange Lights

10.) Emily Haines + The Soft Skeleton – Perfect on the Surface

11.) Cibo Matto – Moonchild

12.) The Pack AD – Dollhouse

13.) The Pack AD – Not Alright

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Surprise!!! New General Distortion tonight!

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Photo credit: Ryan Stacey (@staceytakespictures)

 

What’s up everyone? Its been a while!

 

General Distortion is back with a new episode tonight with a very good friend of mine, Tyson Davidson from Fredericton’s I, Monolith and Cable Crusher!

 

From 10-11:30pm tonight, we will be talking about how not to be a douche when making music videos, hosting touring bands and the grind involved with building up a music scene!

 

Tune in at 97.9 FM or on our pop-up player right here on our website!

 

Stayed tuned from more, we really mean it this time haha.

 

Johnny

Homemade Jams 2017-10-30

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Track Listing: Homemade Jams CHSR

1.) Alan Doyle – Come Out With Me

2.) The East Pointers – What We Leave Behind

3.) SIRR – Problems

4.) Steve Haley – Quiet Years

5.) The Barr Brothers – Maybe Someday

6.) Matt Mays – 78’s, 33’s & 45’s

7.) Gun Jr. – This Hole

8.) Jessie Brown – Ghost

9.) Floodland – Tangled

10.) Fuzz Fiction – Off My back

11.) Little You, Little Me – Racket In My Brain

12.) Not You – TwoFour

13.) Kill Chicago – Count To Ten

14.) Long Distance Runners – Great Escape (recorded LIVE at CHSR)

RFYL Episode – LanternSpiceEP43

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Run For Your Life! – the psychobilly rock show of zombie sharks

 

Another Halloween is upon us! So, we bring you.. well, more of the great stuff out today. Sure, there’s a big burst of psychobilly and the songs are a bit darker than usual but everybody likes that! Also, we feature some of the strange, new things out there in the vast, wide world. So grab a friend, turn up that radio knob, download a podcast directly to your brain-pan and.. I clearly don’t know how this works.

Just enjoy the episode. If you have a track that I need to play, fire it off to me at RunForYourLifeCHSR@gmail.com ! I will give it a spin and see how it goes, you never know! All the submissions I’ve received lately have been amazing.

Keep it up!

SPOOKY!

Playlist:
Rat Race – Brody Dalle
Dead Finger – Like A Motorcycle
Waste Not, Want Not – Bella Clava
Foreign Skies – The Dreadnoughts
Hell Is Full – Diemonds
Patient Zero – the black frame spectacle
Death At My Door / A.O.T.B.H. / Another Way Out – The Creepshow
The Last Rhino – Allout Helter
Kids of Calamity – Sumo Cyco
Fear The Fire – Orbital Express (Official)
Down On The Road – Electric Mountain
Earth And Ashes – Unleash The Archers

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The Lunchbox Interview: Stage Manager Melissa (Theatre UNB’s “Criminals In Love”)

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The stage, the lights, the set, the actors: we can be mistaken and think that everything we see at a play is all that there is, but there’s much more going on behind the scenes…

My guest today is Melissa, the stage manager in the upcoming Theatre UNB production of George F. Walker’s Criminals In Love. Melissa is working on her last production as a student with Theatre UNB, a situation filled with excitement and some sadness. We talk about working furiously behind the scenes to build the movements, set and structure which carries the play to the audience.

Criminals In Love shows at UNB’s Memorial Hall from November 1 to November 4, 7:30pm nightly. Tickets are $14 for regular tickets, $10 for seniors/the underwaged or $8 for students.

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Homemade Jams 2017-10-26 with Rory Taillon

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A special thanks to Rory Taillon who chatted with Bondo live in studio today!Homemade Jams CHSR

Track Listing: 

1.) Rory Taillon – Elegant

2.) Rory Taillon – Whispers LIVE in STUDIO A

3.) Rory Taillon – Gone

4.) Colin Fowlie – Words and Chords

5.) The Hypochondriacs – 3/4

6.) Dennis Ellsworth & Kinley Dowling – Panorama High

7.) Adam Baldwin – Arms

Rory Taillon Tour

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ParaPhrasing – Beautiful Haired Beast: A Tim Peeler Story

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Big. Hairy. And… beautiful?ParaPhrasing

What if we told you a North Carolinain mountain man, Tim Peeler, claims to have seen Bigfoot. Now, what if we add in that Mr. Peeler claims Bigfoot came back for a second time. How about if we tell you that Mr. Peeler had a physical altercation with Bigfoot!

Listen in while Marvin, John and Erin discuss the specifics of this case, play you the actual 911 phone call and Fox News television report, then learn that this isn’t the first time a cryptid like Sasquatch has been reported in the area!

In the last section of the episode the three PROF members debate whether Sasquatch is even real, or biologically even could be real.

Missed a previous episode of ParaPhrasing? You can catch up on other episodes here.

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Homemade Jams 2017-10-25

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Track Listing:Homemade Jams CHSR

1.) Matt Mays – Trust Life

2.) Matt Mays – Drive On

3.) Hello Delaware – Nowhere To Run

4.) Mo Kenney – The Details

5.) The Brood – Sex Ed

6.) The Brood – Sapphire Blue

7.) The Stogies – For The Second Time

8.) Right Shitty – Nag

9.) Ian Sherwood – Don’t Want To Leave

10.) Jeff Gay – Bridges

11.) Beatrice Keeler – Keep Astray (Montreal, QC)

12.) Alicia Toner – Set Myself Free

13.) The East Pointers – Tanglewood

14.) The East Pointers – Two Weeks

15.) Matthew Hornell – Crimes

Homemade Jams 2017-10-24

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Track Listing:Homemade Jams CHSR

1.) Florian Hoefner – The Great Auk

2.) Joshua Van Tassel – Chapter 2: The Old Woman

3.) Rob Lutes – A Little Room

4.) The Hypochondriacs – Two Bottles Of Whiskey

5.) Whitney Rose – I Don’t Half

6.) Rick Sparkes – All The Gold In California

7.) Gabrielle Papillon – The Damage

8.) Sleepy Driver – Unpromise

9.) Esmerine – Mechanics of Dominion

10.) Pony Rouge – Cyber Groove

11.) Pony Rouge – Prince de Funk

12.) Instruments – The Golden Library

The Lunchbox Interview: Jillian & Alex (Criminals In Love)

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With all that the modern world changes, human beings remain inspired and involved in the most primitive of reactions — like Criminals In Love.

My guests today are Jillian and Alex, two of the actors in the upcoming Theatre UNB production of George F. Walker’s Criminals In Love. Alex plays the lead character, Junior, who turns to his love, Gail (played by Jillian) to get him out of trouble. We talk about creating a couple on stage and how the actors get themselves ready, and hear a scene from the play where things are starting to go wrong in Junior’s life.

Criminals In Love shows at UNB’s Memorial Hall from November 1 to November 4, 7:30pm nightly. Tickets are $14 for regular tickets, $10 for seniors/the underwaged or $8 for students.

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The Lunchbox Interview: Rachel (#GirlsBelongHere)

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One of the most important things that can be given to a human being is opportunity, and one of the most tragic failings is inequality.

My guest today is Rachel, a 4th-year student at St Thomas University. She was granted the opportunity to step into the shoes of a dream job through Plan Canada‘s #GirlsBelongHere campaign, which seeks to empower young women and provide them with support and encouragement, and combat inequality. We talked about her experience with the placement in Ontario’s Provincial Advocate for Youth and her thoughts on inequality and positive change to overcome it.

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Fuzztone mania episode 29

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Hello all well we made it through another weekend and another work week has begun. We had a rocken good time last Friday Here a just a few bands we listen too. Led zepplin,White snake,Girls school,Godsmack,Dokken,Ozzy Osbourn and a whole lot more….

 

Play List for 20/10/17
1. Led zepplin – Dancing days
2. Judas Priest – Braking the law
3. Red rider -wipping boy(can)
4. White snake – still of the night 
5. Black sabbath – sweet leaf
6. Prism – mirror man(can)
7. Motor head – Iron horse
8. Girls school – Going under
9. Triumph – what’s another day of rock n roll(can)
10. Ac\Dc – Fire your guns
11. Judas priest – Hell bent for leather
12. Steppenwolf – Skullduggery (can)
13. Alice n chains – Them bones
14. W.a.s.p – I wanna be somebody
15. Brighton rock – Unleash the Rage (can)
16. Black sabbath – War pigs
17. Godsmack – Voodoo
18 . Helix – Dirty dog (can)
19. Dokken – Just got lucky
20. Scorpions – The zoo
21. Rush – The working man (can)
22. Metallica – wiskey in the jar
23. Ozzy Osbourn – Mr crowley
24. Zztop – La Grange

 

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The Electric Metropolis Episode 3: Hard and Soft Chips

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I am AD Springer, your musical tour guide to all things future funk, chiptune, synthpop, and other reach out and grab you music in the electronica sphere on The Electric Metropolis. Come tour the city of sound with me from around the world! On this tour you will hear some hard chips, some soft chips, and all that resides in between. I like’em both, I think -at least this time- you will too. Though don’t forget there is always a bit of party time left on the tour.

Featuring songs from Louie Aronwitz’s album Thrashlevania; coda’s Cloudtop Mountain; and The Midnight’s Nocturnal and many others! This is the sort of music that clubs and bars of the future will rock out and lounge to. These are the songs that will get your heart pumping and put your mind at ease.

The chips are such tiny things that can disappear into the palm of your hand; but with a few complex commands, the world of sound opens up and crafts a city sprawl so wide that the tour will always hear fresh sounds and new vistas every night all night. So come with me, grab some chips, and let us see if we can make this city a bit bigger. Though first, let’s tour about a while.

Tour Itinerary:

First Stop:
“Part I” by Smoochyface off the album The Cracks Are Where the Light Shines Brightest

Hard Chip District:
“IRQ 0 SYSTEM CLOCK” by MASTER BOOT RECORD off the album INTERRUPT REQUEST
“Straight Edge Child” by Louie Aronowitz off the album Thrashlevania (Music from Castlevania) as put out by Materia Collective
“Guns of Caracas” by National Broadcast Network off the album 7 Billion Volts

Soft Chip District:
“Cloudtop Mountain” by coda off the album OMEGA STRIKE Original Sound Version as put out by Scarlet Moon
“Wishy Washy” by Darius off the album B-SIDE U: 2017 VOL. 1 as put out by HALLEY LABS
“Shinko no kiseki” (AKA Miracle of Faith) by Kommisar off the album Cosmic Phantasm

Future Funk District:
“I Can Tell” by YUNG BAE off the album B4E
“Yami” (AKA Night) by Dan Mason off the album Miami Virtual as put out by Business Casual
“The Getaway” by Aloe Island Posse off the album Goodnight Aloe Island

Synthpop District:
“Shadows” by The Midnight off the album Nocturnal
“Reach For The Stars” by Dana Jean Phoenix off the album Synth City
“Built 4 Love (feat Ninja Sex Party)” by TWRP off the album Ladyworld

Final Stop:
“Rejection” by Norrin Radd off the album Noisechan & Nugget: Adventures in Chiptunes as put out by ubiktune

Got any suggestions for future tours?

Tweet me @ElectricMetCHSR
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Email me electricmetropolis@gmail.com

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South Park Review

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The potty mouth 4th graders, Cartman, Kyle, Stan & Kenny are back. Matt Stone and Trey Parker bring us another adventure in the video game world rather than on the small screen.  Does the new installment in this franchise hold up as well of the first one? Let us find out.

South Park the fracture but whole picks up right where the first one left off. You are still playing the middle age’s game for about five minutes, during this time it will give you a quick over view of the new combat system. At the end of those five minutes, you run in to Cartman, who has switched games to superheroes. Once the game switches over, you start at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to your popularity. You will then have the story of the game explained to you; you are looking for missing cats in
South Park in order for a reward so you can fund your super hero franchise. There is two sides of the super heroes, the coon and friends & the freedom pals who are in a civil war. In the story line, they are making fun of the marvel cinematic universe. As you progress through the story you find out there is more to it than just finding the cats for a reward there is a darker side to it than just what meets the eye.

The Game Play in South Park is just about the same as the first installment but a little bit more in depth, especially when it comes to the combat. This time you move along a certain amount of spaces along a grid to reach your target. Each move you do has a different range of attack, which adds a nice variety to the combat. Don’t worry about going in alone it never happens. On your side you can have up to three different sidekicks like The Coon, Captain Diabetes, The Human Kite, Mosquito and much more. Each of them offering their unique abilities to help you on your journey throughout South Park. A few of the new additions to the game play is crafting, you can build costumes, consumables and more. Throughout your adventure, you will pick up artifacts, which gives you more strength for your attacks it is highly recommended especially towards the end of the game when you need a might of 500 for some missions otherwise you will have a difficult time completing these missions. South Park is a mix of open world; turn base combat, RPG game. When you are travelling through the world you will run in to characters who will assign side missions to you this will help you get new artifacts and level up.

 

South Park the Fractured But whole is a proper and wonderful sequel, keeping the humor of the show, adding more to the combat and exploration. I loved by 18 hours of game play I completed the story was able to complete all the side missions except for two of them and get all the collectibles & I hope a third one comes out this is one title you don’t want to miss this year.

 

Score: 9/10

 

Reviewed by ICE at Gamers of the Round Table

“West Coast Reign” by Vic Horvath – A Review From Colin Fowlie

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West Coast Reign Before I venture much further down the road of producing content for CHSR in the form of “Music Reviews” I feel that there is an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed. It has been brought to my attention (but not to my surprise) that my writings are skewed towards the positive in a big way. And I’m not going to deny it for a second, but I am going to take a moment to explain myself.

     Less than half a decade ago I was bemoaning the fact, like many others do, that there was no good new music out there. The actual fact is, I’m not sure there’s ever been more good music out there now that technology has removed the barriers to producing decent quality recordings of one’s songs at an accessible price. The issue is that good new music doesn’t find you as easily anymore. Mainstream media is in the superstar business, not the music business. You have to go searching on your own to find the good stuff, which can be an overwhelming charge. I’m always grateful for help in this regard, and in return, I hope to help others on the same journey.
     I’m fortunate in that I have solid local indie radio to listen to, and I have some great friends with incredibly high music IQs that provide me with endless playlists of undiscovered awesomeness. So when I encounter some music that I don’t like (or, more accurately, don’t get…) I simply move on. I invest my time in music that I think is worth your time.
If requested to review some piece of music or art in particular, I’ll be open and honest, but if given the mandate to select my own subject matter, I will lean towards projects that resonate with me.
With that out of the way, I want to discuss an album that really resonated with me in a big way.
“West Coast Reign” by Vic Horvath was among a handful of albums that I snagged from the CHSR new-music shelf to summarize and ensure it’s fit for their very accepting airwaves.

Well, it’s fit for the airwaves.

The album is 7-track beauty that is raw, authentic, and roots to the bone. The production makes you feel like you are in the room while the magic takes place. The occasional chair creaks, the door opens and closes, and the cookie cutter is left in the drawer where it belongs.

Now for the facts.

Track Listing:

1. Shiny Shotguns
2. Pistol and Rye
3. Black Magic Tradition
4. Kiss Nice
5. Ratts and Races
6. Sow it in Spells
7. Don’t Go Lightly

All songs written by Vic Horvath

Percussion – Rad Juli and Matt Andrade
Bass – Jody Johnson
Vocals, Guitar – Vic Horvath

The opening track, Shiny Shotguns, is an eclectic lullaby. Pistol and Rye is a toe-tapping roots jam. Black Magic Tradition is a prog-folk piece that shifts time signatures between movements while staying close to the core of Horvath’s Canadian-Americana lyrical sensibilities.

Kiss Nice turns the page and delivers an acoustic blues-rocker that evoked my very best “This is a seriously good tune” facial expression.

Ratts and Races provides an introduction to the haunting beauty that Horvath is capable of channeling. The simple instrumentation and vocal harmonies gave me chills. This wasn’t recorded to a click track and over-edited. They just let the magic happen in its own time. The penultimate track, Sow it in Spells is a cheery folk-blues tune that cleanses the palette before the finale, Don’t Go Lightly.

I think that at the end of 2017 I will compile a list of the best new songs that I discovered this year. “Don’t Go Lightly” will be firmly on that list. It’s the embodiment of a song written using nothing but 3 chords and the truth that leaves the listener infatuated. This is, in my opinion, the best song in a collection of great tunes. Now that I’ve been so fortunate to discover Vic Horvath as an artist, I cannot wait for the opportunity to see them play live.

I highly recommend taking this album and getting it into your earholes at your earliest convenience. And then let me know what YOU think. Get at me on Twitter or Instagram @ColinFowlieNB

https://vichorvath.bandcamp.com/

The Lunchbox Interview: Raymond Cua (The Travelling Foodie)

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The world is a bigger place than you can ever imagine – but you can get a taste of it, bit by bit.

My guest today is Raymond Cua, otherwise known as The Travelling Foodie. After making the decision this year to turn his passion into a full-time job, Raymond now travels the world seeking out new places to see — and new foods to eat when he’s there. We talk about how he does it, where some of his most recent trips have taken him, and about the full variety of constantly-surprising tastes of the world.

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