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Whatever's Cool With Me
Thursday November 19th, 2020 with Ryan Bresee
The Swan Lake vs. The Besnard Lakes Episode

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Instrumental
Infinite - 360 Degrees Canadian
Swan lake
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Winter - Allegro
NAC Orchestra - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Canadian
Main theme
Ludwig Göransson - The Mandalorian OST
Isolation
Flying Horses - Reverie Canadian
Chanson
Jean-Michel Blais - Dans Ma Main Canadian
Lost with you
Patrick Watson - single Canadian New
Kyoto (Copycat Killer version)
Phoebe Bridgers - Copycat Killer EP New
Iris
Phoebe Bridgers and Maggie Rogers - single New
Alaska
Maggie Rogers - Now That The Light Is Fading
Graceless
Beyries - Encounter Canadian New
Seeing other people
Donovan Woods - Without People Canadian New
Long blue light
Leif Vollebekk - Long Blue Light EP Canadian New
Pretty paper
Tami Nielson - single Canadian New
Robber
The Weather Station - single Canadian New
You gotta feel it
Kevin Drew - Darlings Canadian
Raindrops
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Canadian New
Runways
Mystery Machine - Western Magnetics Canadian
Framed by the comet's tail
Metz - Atlas Vending Canadian
Bow down
In Heat - Fixed Canadian New
Enamored
Motorbike James - single Canadian New
Where you find me
The Notwist - Vertigo Days New
Please let me go
Paragon Cause - Ottawa Experimental Music Compilation Canadian New
Tearing me up
Bob Moses - Days Gone By
Medicine for Melancholy (Live from Yaad Version)
Bonjay & Queer Songbook Orchestra - single Canadian New
End of this world together
LAL - Meteors Could Come Down Canadian New
Frontier psychiatrist
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Take care in your dreaming w/ Tricky, Sampha the Great
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You New
Doorway (No More Mix) w/ LOUISE
Tricky - Doorway EP New
The black renaissance w/ Black Thought
Sa Roc - The Sharecropper's Daughter New
8 million stories
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Cookie chips w/ MF Doom & Cam O'bi
Rejjie Snow - single
Nothing ain't free
Kofi Stone - Nothing Ain't Free
No Good w/ Neon Belle
The Joynt - single Canadian
10, 2 get in w/ Odd Thomas
J Givens - Fly Exam
Interactive CKCU
pb
Swan Lake!

9:34 AM, November 19th, 2020
Benoît
Vat eez theess, the seebeesee? ;-s)

9:42 AM, November 19th, 2020
pb
For the record. i used to "perform" this, as well as Carmen, Bolero, Madam Butterfly and sooooo many others ... at about age 4-10 in our living room, in mono. i could still "conduct" all of these today... JUST WOW to all!

9:45 AM, November 19th, 2020
B
Amazing calm, Blais: "actually, we're recording right now..."

9:54 AM, November 19th, 2020
pb
HAAAA! Benoît. This did not googletranslate well. Care to try a different random language? q;^) Manatu e faʻataʻitaʻi se eseʻese gagana?

9:57 AM, November 19th, 2020
Ryan Bresee (host)
I can picture that, PB!

9:59 AM, November 19th, 2020
oh no, not pb again
Ry, assuming you mean the conducting and ballet moves, not so much the undies. Right?? Wonderful shooooow. Best radio is always just after The Drive.

10:06 AM, November 19th, 2020
Ryan Bresee (host)
The conducting, yes, and thanks!

10:35 AM, November 19th, 2020
Jay of Paragon Cause
Excited for you to play our experimental tune Ryan, we had a lot of fun recording that. A little background for interest sake :) (Sorry for the long message, but i thought it was interesting) We used my computer to sample some sounds on old TV shows and then used the samples in a pitched keyboard then put through a tape echo. the first synth you kind of hear in the song is one of the songs. Other sounds are michelles voice mixed with keyboards, when you start to hear the keyboard, you cant really hear it cause it mixes so well. THEN, to go even further, all the sounds, including guitar were played through the PA Side of a Roland Space echo (A Real Tape Echo), what that means is, you bypass the clean portion of the echo and record ONLY the echo directly on tape and only hear the tape echos, so, you need to set the echo speed to be 1/4 note from when you actually play it, so you are always playing a 1/4 note BEFORE and need to really think! Its not easy. You can get different tones and sounds depending on the tape head you use and speed you use on the Space Echo, it was mildly frustrating, but definitely get a different sound from it. A bit saturated and over compressed. you can hear some notes/chords that are off in timing due to this, but we still liked it. We also sampled MIchelle's breathing when she was about to sing, you can hear that alot too. The basis for the song was The figurehead by The Cure, but we mixed that with a drum style from Trentemoller. We recorded synth parts, played them backwords and then learned to play the backwards parts forward..lol. I know. The synth I mentioned above, the computer sample, was done that way. It was actually played the opposite way, then we learned to play it backwards and re-played to try to get some different melodies in the synths.

10:46 AM, November 19th, 2020
B
From Swan Lake to Bow Down... (And later, Frontier Psychiatrist!)

10:52 AM, November 19th, 2020
Ryan Bresee (host)
I take "general music show" seriously!

10:56 AM, November 19th, 2020
B
Hah!

11:02 AM, November 19th, 2020
B
Ooh, and one from The Avalanches' 2nd opus. Which I've long meant to get, but...

11:12 AM, November 19th, 2020
croiky not that pb again!
OH! Is there a book coming out Jay of Paragon Cause?! i have no idea what you are talking about mostly, which is GREAT! And, the visuals do make my brain happily hurt. THANKS! Oh, and yet more happy research to happen q;^)

11:18 AM, November 19th, 2020