Bot is of the future. The year is 2028 in the land of indastria. Humanity has been overtaken by outsiders from worlds beyond who control the minds and sounds for all mankind. Listen to the sounds escaped, from the mechanical resistance – ‘african mining’ & ‘indastria’. What we have here folks, is the new tomorrow.

Bot is Andrea Fratangelo, a UK based, Italian-born producer who until recently was a member of one of the biggest electronic groups of the past decade. Bot joins Neoteric and Astronomar to bring you Main Course.

Early support from: Teki Latex, Brodinski, Savage Skulls, Sound of Stereo, Fake Blood, Mixhell

Tracks:
1) African Mining
2) Indastria

Bot – Indastria 2028 (Video)

Video by Sage Caswell for SOSONET (@SageCaswell)
Cover by Nick Arcidy

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All Main Course releases are offered as free downloads, but please support the artists via the links above.

Every. Body. Pay. Attention…When the drum beats go like this! Two massive tracks jump early out of the gate, heading towards festival season with reckless abandon. We ain’t even gotta write this, cuz your favourite DJs are already playing this. But we will. These sound like how that new dance you can’t do looks. We love how both these records will be at home in the most underground of clubs, while also keeping the bodies in the bigger rooms moving. Authoritative track titles aside, we simply ask you to give a listen, but demand you pay attention!

Astronomar (Marlon Lumba), is a Los Angeles based producer, by way of seattle. Undeniably one of the most exciting new producers in electronic music, his originals and remixes have been heavily supported by the likes of Diplo, A-trak, Skrillex, Boys noize, Laidback Luke, Congorock, and many other incredibly rad dudes. Labels like Mad Decent, Dim Mak, Southern Fried, Discobelle and Top Billin have all paid attention. Now, Astronomar joins Neoteric and Bot to bring you Main Course.

Early support from: Clockwork, AC Slater, Autoerotique, Teki Latex, Botnek, Wax Motif

Tracks:
1) Like This
2) Pay Attention

Astronomar – Like This / Pay Attention (Video)

Video by Sage Caswell for SOSONET (@SageCaswell)
Cover by Logan Sturrock

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I’m really happy to have met Marlon. We used to go to the same hip hop shows back in the day, and were both big backpack rap nerds. We didn’t really know each other then, but he knew my crew (shouts to the Boozehounds). We crossed paths years later, after he had finished school in Vancouver and headed to Seattle. He’d come up to Vancouver for shows and we got to kickin it. Then I found out we shared all this past rap experience, which was a trip. He was always making tracks, but then he started making house, and it took a while before he’d up and send them to me. When he did, I really heard something I liked, something that really complimented my tastes. One of the first tracks he sent, Playhouse, I really dug, and popped it into Ableton and added a few things to it I thought finished it off. That sat around for a couple years pretty much, and Marlon kept sending me more tracks, each one better than the last. I had been helping assemble releases for my Finnish crew at Top Billin, and sent my favourite ones for them to hear. The rest, as they say, is history, and Mar’s “Y’all Know” EP was released by the label last year (including Playhouse). Before that, and since we’ve been cold chillin whenever possible. Workin and bouncin ideas of eachother, and plottin schemes for releases. I had to ask him to join us at Main Course, as an artist, A&R and partner. He’s in touch with the music I love, and he also shares a similar encyclopedic knowledge of all types of music. There is no one in the world who’d come close to beating me at a game of ‘name that tune’, but he’d come damn close. Proud to call him a friend!
- Jeremiah

Sweet Sixteen 006 – Astronomar
(As The Days Go By)

Although this list doesn’t accurately portray all of the musical phases i’ve been through, its almost more representative of moments or stages of my life. And of course some random stuff that stuck with me along the way. I give you..As The Days Go By

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Tracklisting:

1. Peanut Butter Wolf – They Don ‘t Fall Down (Feat. DJ Babu & J Rocc)

This one takes me back to the glorious days of Napster; the musical scavenger hunt was new & unending. My good friend Inua & I spent many school nights downloading users’ entire libraries, practicing bubbles letters in our black books while mp3s trickled through the download cue.

2. Top Hits Group – Brown Girl In The Ring

Whenever I hear this song, I think about the happiest moments in my childhood. Being on a fishing boat with my dad & brother, family parties, etc.. I’m just thankful the CD was still around my mom’s house for me to rip it.

3. Group Home – Living Proof

Primo was so on point with this project; and Supa Dupa Star was the on the b-side. best 12″ ever???

4. Deee-Lite – What Is Love

The first piece of music i ever owned was the cassette single for Dee-Lite’s “Groove is in the Heart”. After a while i wore out the single and my mom bought me the album. Not only was a faced with this bizarre dance music at the age of 5, but I was also faced with the question “What is Love?”.

5. Killing Joke – Requiem

There is something victorious about those synths in the intro. makes you feels as if you have just conquered an army and now marching home for a 7 course meal.

6. BellX1 – Flame (Solid Groove Mix)

I love everything about this song. The phrasing, arrangement, sonic qualities… I need to start playing this more.

7. Megadeth – Angry Again

Yeah yeah… I had a metal phase.

8. Dj Food – Dark Blood

This is another gem from the Napster era.

9. Nurses – Lita

What is a Sweet 16 song list without some weird Indie band in the mix for good measure?
I was introduced to this song while I was working in a snowboard warehouse, and my supervisor was playing this one day. It gave me memories I’ve never had.

10. Steely Dan – Deacon Blues

This is hands down favorite song in the world; my kareoke “go to”, and the album that it was packaged with (Aja,1977 ABC Records) is a fucking studio masterpiece. Probably my favorite album of all time. Learn to work the saxophone.

11. Dj Cleo – When I 1st saw you

Nothing wrong with a bit of filtery fun that makes you want to fall in love with someone

12. Snoop Dogg – Down For My Niggaz feat C-Murder & Majik

Smoking weed & skateboarding used to be a big part of my life, and this song is representative of my peak in both areas. My best friend had a Suburban, and we would pick up all the homies and drive to different skate spots smoking out of metal pipes bumping this on repeat on blown subs.

13. Chemical Brothers – It Doesn’t Matter

My reintroduction to electronic music! I borrowed Dig Your Own Hole from the cool goth chick in my 8th grader class and was addicted to this song.

14. Presage – Divide & Conquer

Another souvenir from my weed smoke & tagging days.

15. DJ Shadow – Influx

I’d rather explain this one to friends in person if they would like to know its significance.

16. ESG – The South

Those reversed drums get me every time!! This song is charming on so many levels. The ratchet intro, the dude singing off-key on the hook, and the brag-laden crescendos in the verses form like a knock-off Voltron to bounce & swang through the nearest neighborhood.

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Wow, what can I say about GMAN. First off, he’s an absolute pillar of the Vancouver scene. Back in the day, all I hoped to accomplish was playing a gig for him. It was a real honor when that happened. He asked me to take part in the Redbull 3 style too, which was huge for me. As we got to know eachother better, I realized everything I knew about him was true, but there was so much more to him. His work ethic, and the way he treats people really inspires me, I don’t know anyone that works as hard. His ear for talent is always way ahead of the curve, you’ve never seen a wack DJ at GMAN’s parties. And it’s not just parties. He owns Timebomb, who distribute the best brands across Canada. Plus Livestock! And now Fortune Sound, Vancouvers best club, both for sound and bookings. How he does it all, with family and everything, I have no idea. He’s done so much for me, and everyone else in Vancouver over the years that I can’t even recap it in proper form. He was a big supporter of White Light series from the start, and even sponsored us to press copies of the first 20 mixes! I’m really thankful that we’ve grown to be good friends; it was great to spend a few days with him in Berlin and show him around my new city. Every time I head back to Vancouver, Fortune is my first stop. He was such an obvious choice to feature in Sweet Sixteen. I’ll never stop signing the praises for Garret Louie!
- Jeremiah

Sweet Sixteen 005 – Garret ‘GMAN’ Louie
(Time Flies, Airplanes Crash)**

It’s virtually impossible to have ’16 favourite tracks of all time’ , but I tried to put 16 tracks down where each one represents a ton of other songs in a stage of my life. It’s a little journey in chronological order of when I can remember the start of my love for music until now. I tried to think of more timeless classics that I would listen to forever rather than music that I just dig now and maybe not 10 years from now. I give you..
Time Flies, Airplanes Crash

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Tracklisting:

1. Frank Zappa – Peaches En Regalia

I went to a unique small school where songs like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Peter Tosh and Jimi Hendrix were the top requests at the high school dance. Frank Zappa was huge for us and this song & Frank for that matter is genius.

2. Jacob Miller – We A Rockers

This track reminds me of how big I was into reggae & dancehall music. Just some mellow roots shit. The sound track that this song came from is one of those records that is from top to bottom amazing.

3. Bad Brains – Sailin On

After reggae music for me came punk rock & hardcore. Bad Brains just blew me away when I heard them. A bunch of black dude rastas ripping this hard? Sign me up. One of my all time favourite bands and before I die I vow to bring them to Vancouver.

4. Devo – Big Mess

I really could have picked any Devo song. When you listen to their music now even, they were so far ahead of their time.

5. The Smiths – Heaven Knows Im Miserable Now

The Smiths are on rotation for life.

6. Cutty Ranks – The Stopper

Dibby dibby dj, dibby dibby dj. The song comes in so hard. Oh what? A hip-hop beat mixed with dancehall? Dope. After Cutty Ranks it was all about Supercat, Papa San, Jamalski etc…

7. Public Enemy – Timebomb

One of my all time favourite hip-hop groups. Id say this and the rest of the Def Jam artists is what really got me into hip-hop. I 1st heard this song when the Beastie Boys gave an award at the Grammys, and before they gave the award they played this song from their ghetto blaster and started dancing around like the rap goofs that they were. I had to find that song and this is it. Side note…my distribution is called Timebomb.

8. Inner City – Good Life

This song could have been Aly Us Follow Me, Frankie Knuckles, Fingers Inc etc etc… This song reminds me of when I started promoting in old abandon warehouses and sick spaces. Everything was new, exciting and fresh.

9. Bob James – Nautilus

My step father was a professional jazz guitarist and this was one of the records that I raided from his collection. Such an ill tune with probably the most famous sample being Ghostfaces Daytona 500, but there was really over a dozen hip-hop artists that have sampled from this song (Pete Rock, Run DMC, Murs, Ultramagnetic MCs, Jeru The Damaja, Eric B & Rakim, Jazzy Jeff to name a few). I really started digging for rare grooves and got off on finding samples for a pretty long period of my life. Then re-issues and the internet came around which really took the fun out of the hunt.

10. Stevie Wonder – As

Stevie will go down as one of the best concerts I have ever seen. Well Im sure you would have to be a Stevie fan like me, but if you ever get a chance to see him, do it! Bucket list that one.

11. TLC – Silly Ho

There was a big R&B era for me. When this song came out, it wasnt a massive deal to me, but I recently revisited this as started to really appreciate it allot. Sick beat, stupid lyrics…nothing to serious. Maybe I just like the name.

12. Sade – Paradise

Sade is just timeless and classic and this song is one of many of hers that is amazing.

13. R.Kelly Ignition (Remix)

I dunno. Quite possibly my favourite r&b song of all time? How can you not just sing along when you hear it?

14. El Guincho Bombay

I dont know what the hell the he is saying but I dig it. The video enhances the whole song for me. YouTube it and make sure you see the non clean version.

15. Tanlines – Real Life (Memory Tapes remix)

This song just brings me to a happy place and reminds me of summer. Or in Vancouver when its mostly not summer, I can at least pretend that its summer.

16. Grimes – Oblivion

Some Canadian content. We had the pleasure of having Grimes perform in the club and it sounded mad tight on the Funktion-One. Im a fan and I hope she blows the f%*k up

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What is Sweet Sixteen? Read more about the series here.

Bot is Andrea Fratangelo. An Italian gentleman living in London, formerly one half of popular production group Crookers, and now apart of this thing we call Main Course. He’s also a good friend, and a man behind the scenes of sorts for Main Course. I had no idea what to expect with this playlist, but I love the approach, and the result. Enjoy!
- Jeremiah

Sweet Sixteen 003 – Bot (Kid Icarus)

The approach I took with this Sweet Sixteen was trying to remember my personal charts while growing up, rather than recreating them according to what i now think of those bands and tracks. I present to you,

Kid Icarus

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Tracklisting:

1. Metallica – Master Of Puppets

I still know all the lyrics to this one, they somehow resembled how i felt towards my mother, who i saw as a master of puppets, who was twisting my mind and smashing my dreams. That’s how i saw it in my early teenage years anyway , turns out my mother is great. Going back to the song it was a particularly powerful one, and the distorted guitars had bass, not just high-pitched solos but powerchords, fat ones with its release stopped, yeah!

2. Sepultura – Kaiowas

Kaiowas was more a journey into the amazon rather than the usual metal track. I remember thinking of the jungle and of Indios playing huge drums every time i listened to this song, which by the way was from my favourite band at the time, Sepultura.

3. Pantera – Cowboys from Hell

I have to say, this is a metal track that is pretty funky when compared to its genres standards, but that’s not why i liked, it would probably have been a reason to dislike it at the time. The reason I liked it was because of its sonic violence reached the climax in my eyes, and it also meant i would never go that deep into extreme metal again.

4. Downset – Anger

This song, and that whole album, got me so excited at the time. i still feel some of the same emotions when listening to it now. I was listening to Rage Against The Machine too at the time, but to be honest Downset won between the two back then. They wouldn’t win over Rage now though.

5. Beastie Boys – Root Down

This song was my gateway drug into hip hop, and it changed my life way more than other ones. It meant Rap and Graffiti writing, the two things that would take over my life after that for years.

6. Naughty By Nature – O.P.P

I discovered this song a few years after it was originally released but i got obsessed with it, it had the happiest chorus around even if I had no idea what they were saying. It sounded like a party, one that I wanted to join badly.

7. George Morel – Let’s Groove

When I decided to start practicing turntablism and bought my first pair of decks, the guy who sold them to me also gave me a box full of Strictly Rhythm’s and lots of old deep house records, which resulted in me never learning anything about turntablism, but falling in love with house music. I like it to this day and I believe it has a modern attitude towards house with some bastard elements, it’s not pure and classic and that’s how I like it.

8. Isolée – Beau mon Plage

This song sounded like something from the future to me, very clean and high tech yet so groovy and just great. It came out at a time when funk sampled based house was big and it helped me having an even more broad vision of what you could do with club music that had its roots in house, which is pretty much everything.

9. Theo Parrish – Falling Up (Carl Craig Remix)

Three notes is what it takes to start the journey, and I have one each time I listen to this track, it’s almost impossible not to, it just flows perfectly. Carl Craig is a Zen master with this one, the timing is magically perfect and elements come in and leave when they have to, not a bar later. It was the first time I understood how important it is and how much work I had to do to reach this goal, and still have to. I must admit I’m very jealous of this talent.

10. Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At

This song felt like a nuclear music factory exploded and two guys managed to make sense out of it, and they managed beautifully. I was blown away, I had never experienced so many different elements and changes in a song with a house beat, huge influence.

11. The Beatles – Across The Universe

This one is too personal.

12. Black Strobe – Italian Fireflies

This one somehow brought back the fun in what I was listening to at the moment. Big, bold and somehow melodic synths were at the forefront of the track, something that I would replicate in many productions. The synth came out of the closet and did not need to hide its presence and melody under a bigger groove anymore.

13. Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix)

My definition of epic. Epic with style, and a ton of it.

14. Velvet Underground – I’m Sticking with You

When I started discovering the Velvet Underground I was surprised that this was my favourite song of theirs. I liked all the more famous ones too but it always came back to re-listening to the first part of this song again and again…and again.

15. Pharrell ft Snoop Dogg – Drop it Like it’s Hot

Pharrell mastered the art of doing a sick beat with just a few elements and I was deeply amazed by it. It was his moment, and with this track it felt that everything he was going to do would work.

16. The Chemical Brothers Get Yourself High (Switch Remix)

One of those tracks when someone just does something else. It’s like there are steps missing that lead to doing a track like this, it just came from Switch’s mind. Once again I was blown away and motivated to experiment outside the genres comfort zone.

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Zia Hirji is a great friend from Vancouver. For years now he’s been involved in the Vancouver music scene, DJing, throwing parties, and doing his radio show ‘Inside Out’ on CITR. We wanted to feature the Main Course crew first before we branch out to others. With that said, take it away Zeeaa!
- Jeremiah

Sweet Sixteen 002 – Zeeaa (I’m Sorry, I Can’t, Dont Hate Me)

With my Sweet 16 I wanted to put together a bunch of songs that serve as a sampling of what I listen to day to day. Some of these songs are personal favorites, others are just good tunes I listen to on a regular basis. The first bit starts off pretty sexy and R&B tinged basically music to get sexy to, then we get into rad post punk tunes, and there is a Coke Boys song at the end. I present..

I’m Sorry, I Can’t, Dont Hate Me

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Tracklisting:

1. Bobby Caldwell- Open Your Eyes

My favorite Bobby Caldwell song and a great way to open a mixtape. How his vocals and the piano work together is really amazing and super powerful.

2. Erykah Badu – Sometimes

Light some candles, invite a lady over and play this song. Thank me later.

3. Bilal – Hands of Time

Same thing I said for the last song goes for this one. Remember the whole Neo-Soul thing? It was really the best.

4. DJ Quik- Summer Breeze

Big DJ Quik fan here. This is my go to summer jam, even though I’m from Vancouver and we get like 2 months of sun I put this song on and pretend.

5. Lucy Pearl – Dance Tonight

“I want to dance tonight, I want to toast tonight, I’ll spend my money tonight, I want to get freaky tonight” – what are you guys doing tonight?

6. Donald Byrd – (Fallin’ Like) Dominoes

This is one of those tunes you put on and you just cant help but moving your body to it.

7. Model 500- The Flow (Juan Atkins G-Funk)

Juan Atkins does G Funk, and its pretty decent.

8. The Sound – Unwritten Law

This is the part of the mix where I got into some of my most adored post punk records. The Sound is a band that is painfully overlooked, if you like Joy Division or any of their contemporaries you will dig this.

9. The Chameleons – Pleasure and Pain

Another great post punk record.

10. Grauzone – Eisberg

My friend Tyler Fedchuk who does Radio Zero and a bunch of nights around town does a Post Punk night and played this and I immediately freaked out and had one of those WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS moments.

11. Ladyhawk –The Dugout

Ladyhawk is from Vancouver and I saw them play in 2007 in a random warehouse and the minute they played Dugout I was instantly sold. This song basically captures what Vancouver felt like to me from 2007-2008.

12. The Members – The Sound of the Suburbs

I’ve never been that up on Punk rock or whatever the kids call it these days, but I stumbled upon this record and it instantaneously caught my ear, the pop sensibilities of this song are unparalleled.

13. ESG – Part Music

I had to put an ESG song on here, and this one is the hardest out.

14. Quincy Jones – Ai No Corrida

I was at the airport in Houston at some random airport bar and started talking to this guy who looked vaguely familiar. Finally i placed him and called the guy on it and it turned out it was Quincy Jones. After talking about his jazz carreer and working with michael jackson for hours he finally had to leave for his flight and left me with A FUCKING $200 bill. Fuck that guy he owes me money…this song still rules though.

15. Sound Stream – All Night

I really wanted to put Master Jam – Dancing All Night on here but I couldn’t find a digital version of it, and I really like Sound Stream so two birds with one stone I guess?

16. French Montana feat The Coke Boys – 9000 watts

Guys, French Montana isn’t a geographical place or the French part of Montana – HE’S THE HARDEST SHIT OUT. Seriously I listen to a lot of Rap Music but didn’t put much on this list this so you have a French Montana track. “I MADE A MIL- I FUCKED IT UP”-French Montana being honest. THIS IS POWERFUL MUSIC MAN.

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Sweet Sixteen 001 – Neoteric (What Is Life?)

I could make a dozen of these lists, and I just might have to, because theres no way I can make just one. I wanted to put a bit of everything on here. Some of them are a bit obvious. Some of them perhaps you haven’t heard, but these are songs that have really stuck with me in a big way…I give you:

What Is Life?

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Tracklisting:

1. Bobby Brown – Cruel Prelude

This intro signifies to me something good is about to happen. When I was 12, for some reason my mom wouldn’t trust me to babysit my brother and sister, so in true player fashion, I convinced her to hire my girlfriend at the time, who was exactly the same age. We’d put my brother and sister to sleep and put on this Bobby Brown CD, or Janet Jackson’s ‘Janet’ and make out for hours on end. Until our faces were red and raw. Each heavy make out session started with this, and I learned so much during the way, which has shaped my prerogative. I also started a proper mix with this for Nicky Digital back in 2009, which covers many more important songs from my teenage years.

2. George Harrison – What Is Life

If I had to, at gunpoint, name the best song ever, this would be the one for me. It’s so real. It can help relate life, love and so many other feelings. The scene in Goodfellas this is used in is amazing, probably the best example of music MAKING a scene even realer. This is my song for when things get a bit crazy, and I need a reality check. Or when I need to storm through the kitchen of a busy restaurant while trying to sell guns.

3. The Grass Roots – Let’s Live For Today

This is more a message to myself. Learning to live for the day, not stressing about the future, or my never ending “to-do” list. I love the haunting vocals. They certainly don’t make music like this any more. You know that 10 disc Time Life Flower Power Collection Peter Fonda sells on TV? I got that…and LOVE IT!

4. Poets of Rhythm – Smiling While You’re Crying

For a few years, I was listening to nothing but rap, was big into Solesides, Quannum and all that. This came out on one of the labels, and I let the Poets of Rhythm ‘in’. It sounds like an old sample record I digged up, but it had some charming modern qualities about it too.

5. RJD2 – Sweet Piece

This also represents a move out of my backpack hip hop years. RJD2′s album Deadringer was a big album in my life, and I admittedly thought this album was soft at first – what is all this singing bullshit?? But it ultimately grew on me, when I decided to let it in.

6. Jonas Rathsman – Tobago

This is a really new track, and I didn’t want to include anything too new, but this has so many of the qualities I look for in a timeless track, I knew I had to include this one. This sounds like freedom. And it sounds like moving on. But more importantly I can yell this at the top of my lungs, with a big smile on my face, and feel much better after doing so.

7. Paranoid Castle – Paranoid Castle

This one reminds me of my first years of touring. 6 guys in a shitty van, hitting every city across Canaada, playing for $200 a night, sleeping on floors with no blankets, barely covering gas costs, and eating whatever was on McDonalds dollar menu. Driving 8 hours to get to the next city, get wasted, and do it all again. Around this time, my friend Factor released this project with Kirby Dominant, and it was quite a departure from what all our crews were doing at the moment. Listening to this in a Van on my headphones heading from city to city will be a memory that never leaves me.

8. Wilco – Jesus, etc.

This might be the country boy in me coming out. I grew up in a town of 500 people in rural Ontario, and certain songs always pull strings. I can’t really put out a specific memory tied to this one, but it’s always been a really uplifting track to me. I’m a bit of a romantic, and this one always spoke to me.

9. Burial – Aarchangel (Boy 8-Bit’s Simple Remix)

I didn’t want to put anything too clubby here, but this remix just happens to be uptempo. The original is amazing, and I love the simple touches Boy 8 Bit added. Such a classy way to update a classic. Holding you / Couldn’t be alone / Loving you / Couldn’t be alone / Kissing you..

10. Iron & Wine – Evening On The Ground (Lilith)

I think this song stuck its teeth into me when I travelled around South East Asia in 2005. About that time I also got really into Elliott Smith (check out this Best of Elliott Smith Mix I made). But back to this track, his voice and the music are pretty powerful. It also contains one of my favourite lyrics of all time “We were born to fuck each other, one way or another”. So true.

11. Sufjan Stevens – Too Much (Short Version)

One of my go-to zone out favourite albums is Illinois by Sufjan Stevens. I picked this one from a newer album just cuz. I think any of these lists might have some Sufjan on it. I don’t really know why I like this one so much. Write up fail – I guess this is one I hope others haven’t heard before, but fall in love with.

12. J Dilla – Nothing Like This

I admit I wasn’t a massive Dilla fan while he was alive. There was a lot of music out there vying for my attention. Plus I was a huge Tribe fan and thought at the time The Love Movement was a big fall off. Key words, at the time! I was really blown away by Donuts, but there wasn’t one stand out song over another, it worked together so well as an entire package. But this track from Ruff Draft, and it’s great video blew me away. Ok, ok, another love song. This one is so uniquely beautiful. I could listen forever. The staggered delivery is so fucking real. What more can I say, its a perfect song.

13. Jai Paul – BTSU

Another really new song, and I had to put it next to the Dilla, as it shares some obvious commonalities. The swing and the snares, the feel. This one one of those songs that you can’t copy, or duplicate if you tried to. Moments of brilliance. I’m back and I want what is mine!

14. The Chemical Brothers – Swoon (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix)

This is the most amazing ‘last song’ of the night ever, whenever possible I’d drop this as the lights come on. Yet another love song. And I’ll be honest, I’m not really a lyrics guy, or a song meanings kind of person, I really just love melodies. This untouchable remix happens to be another love song. Just remember to fall in love, there’s nothing else. There’s nothing else. Best advice ever.

15. Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence

Another moody song from the mid 60′s. It was such a cool time for music. It switches moods so effortlessly. Haunting vocals. At first, I meant for this to be the last song of the compilation, and then I remembered…

16. The Moody Blues – Knights in White Satin

Wow, what can I say about this song. I’ve always loved it. But I got my first car in 2002 I think. I flew from Vancouver to London, Ontario to co-sign a loan for my dad. Yeah, ironic. But as part of the deal, I got his old car, which had 400,000 kms on it, and I had to drive it back to Vancouver. I couldn’t have given a single fuck less though, I HAD MY OWN CAR!! So the night before I left at 6am, I burned a CD for the car, and this song was repeated so many times through that ride. Down through Michigan, west through North Dakota, Idaho, and Montana. The weather was some of the craziest I have ever driven through. I stopped just one night to sleep at a motel. I played slot machines and ate shitty steaks at the worst smalltown eateries. But this song would come on, and I would scream out the chorus at the top of my lungs, in some kind of exact key that would fit with the singer. It was really powerful. Which sounds ridiculous, but it was such an honest and real moment each time. I hope you burn this CD for a road trip, and feel the same way about one of these songs. Thanks for listening!

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Main Course is proud to unveil our first release from enigmatic band The Slow Waves. Recently acclaimed for their remix work for the likes of Crookers, Mary Epworth, and The Young Empires, this 2 track release is their first outing on the public stage. The Slow Waves’ sound is an ever evolving, synth-laden voyage taking listeners from the edge of the beach, to the edge of the galaxy. Underbelly evokes imagery of an cinematic night drive into the infinite, lead by a sinister bassline and arpeggios. Undertow feels just as at home on your playlist, as it would during the emotional climax of a movie. It’s the sound of bliss and wonderment; a minimal driving drum pattern with constantly building guitars and synths. Both Underbelly and Undertow are sublime, stirring pieces of mood music, and we are very proud to introduce you to the sounds of The Slow Waves.

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VIDEO: Underbelly (credit: Jeff Venida)

VIDEO: Undertow (credit: Nicholas Prados)