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The 97th Academy Awards were handed out on Sunday so gak rushes to recap the winners and sort through all the latest news as a lot of folks have passed away recently. 01. Electropoint: Razor Blades (2024) self-released 02. Daniel Blumberg: Intermission (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 03. Daniel Blumberg: Overture [Bus] (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 04. Daniel Blumberg: Construction (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 05. Daniel Blumberg: Monologue [w.Adrien Brody] (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 06. Daniel Blumberg: Jazz Club (The Brutalist OST, 2024) Milan 07. Zoe Saldaña: El Mal (Emilia Pérez OST, 2024) Sony Masterworks 08. Cynthia Erivo: Defying Gravity (Wicked: the Soundtrack, 2024) Republic/Universal 09. Hans Zimmer: Beginnings are Such Delicate Times (Dune: Part 2 OST, 2024) Watertower 10. Roberta Flack & Quincy Jones: When You're Smiling [the Whole World Smiles with You, End Title] (Dollar$ OST, 1971) Reprise 11. George & Gwen McCrae: The Rub (Together, 1975) RCA Victor 12. Don Ellis: Theme

For our fourth episode tied to nominees for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, we listen to the final two nominated songs and the nom'd score to the 2024 film Emilia Pérez with music by Camille & Clément Ducol. 01. Kyle MacLachlan & Angelo Badalamenti: Agent Cooper's February 24th Opening Monologue/Laura Palmer's Theme [Letter from Harold] (Diane...the Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper x Twin Peaks Archives, 1989) David Lynch 02. The Shapeshifters: Lola's Theme [w.Cookie, radio edit amongst other unintentional radio edits] (Lola's Theme single, 2004) Positiva/Nocturnal Groove 03. Regularfantasy's Rendezvous: Money [instrumental premix] (Alt House, 2024) Rendezvous 04. Suzy Q: Get On Up and Do It Again (Get On Up and Do It Again, 1981) Atlantic 05. Chic: I Want Your Love (C'est Chic, 1978) Atlantic 06. Tim Hecker: Sars Requiem (Shards, 2025) Kranky 07. Jackmaster: Ode 2 U (Don't You Want My Lovin' 12", 2024) Crosstown Rebels 08. Terror Danjah: Dark Crawler [w.Riko] (Hyperdub 10.1, 2014) Hyperdub 09. Er

For your Family Day programming, we continue on with our Oscars profiles with a nominated song from Elton John: Never Too Late and 2 nom'd scores: Kris Bowers' music from The Wild Robot along with John Powell & Stephen Schwartz and their score to the film adaptation of the musical Wicked. 01. Magazine: The Light Pours out of Me (Real Life, 1978) Virgin 02. Sebastiaan Hooft: Magazine (Modern Times, 2024) Taktschleife 03. Jex Opolis: This Ain't No Disco (Digital Magic, 2025) Bad Timin' 04. Let's Go to War: Burning Down the Disco (Karmageddon, 2009) Last Gang 05. Universal Energy: Disco Energy I (Universal Energy, 1977) EMI 06. Brenton Wood: The Oogum Boogum Song (Oogum Boogum, 1967) Double Shot 07. Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs: Stay (Stay, 1961) Herald 08. David Holmes: Gone [w.Sarah Cracknell, K&D session] (Kruder & Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions [25th Anniversary Edition], 2024) !K7 09. Oklou: Family & Friends (Choke Enough, 2025) True Panther 10. Family Band: Take Care (Family Band '15, 2015) Eg

Along with it being week 2 of our annual Oscars profile, it's Fundrive time again! Discorder Magazine, the print cousin of CITR 101.9FM, is reaching out in new ways and with whatever donation you can provide, you can help expand our physical archives & distribution throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. It'll be a disco inferno, hence why amidst two of the best original song nominees and two surprise snubs for the upcoming Oscars, we have lots of fiery disco songs. 01. [trailer] Disco 9000 (Super Bad, Super Black: Radio Spots from Blaxploitation, 1977) Waste Management 02. DD Sound: Burning Love (Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985, 2008) Strut 03. Mark Haney: Placentia Bay, 1st Movement - Tempest, Fire & Foe (Placentia Bay: Summer of 1941, 2024) self-released 04. Ghia: Keep Your House in Disorder (This Is, 2023) The Outer Edge 05. Kiefer: My Disorder (It's OK, B U, 2023) Stones Throw 06. Bryce Dessner: Sing Sing (Sing Sing OST, 2024) A24 07. Adrian Quesada & Abraham Al

gak's back from Japan and he's back in the thick of things as it's time for our annual Oscars profile series! The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced belatedly whilst he was away so with 4 weeks to tackle the nominees, our 1st profile looks at Volker Bertelmann's score from Conclave & Daniel Blumberg's music from The Brutalist, both up for best original score. We also talk about the Los Angeles fires that impacted the usual awards schedule as many artists have lost homes this January. 01. Fucked Up: Year of the Snake [Container remix] (Year of the Snake 12", 2017) Tankcrimes 02. IKSRE & Anthène: Cumulus (Seasons Shifting, 2023) Polar Seas 03. David Lynch: And Light Shines (The Big Dream [deluxe edition], 2013) Sacred Bones/Sunday Best 04. Marianne Faithfull: Last Song (Before the Poison, 2005) Naïve 05. Chad Allan & the Expressions: Made in England (Hey Ho: What You Do to Me, 1965) Quality/Legend/True North 06. Brave Belt: Crazy Arms, Crazy Eyes (Brave Belt, 1971) Reprise 07. Lennie de

gak remains on the road and he lacks the future vision to anticipate what, let alone when, the Oscar nominations will be, so you're getting an outsider Japan experience via John Williams' score to 2005's Memoirs of a Geisha amidst some older gems that never it to air despite years in waiting. For those unfamiliar with geisha, these are Japanese women trained in performing arts to entertain people with music, conversation & other skills. There's a misinterpretation that they also tackle less classy forms of entertainment due to mistranslations into English. 01. N.i.c.o.l.e: Geisha (2014) self-released 02. Phonogenic: Mizumono (Hobo Dots 12", 2015) Turquoise Blue 03. Forest Swords: Exalter (Compassion, 2017) Ninja Tune 04. Maria Minerva: The Sound (Will Happiness Find Me?, 2012) Not Not Fun 05. Blank Banshee: Enso (Gaia, 2020) Hologram Bay 06. Lucy Gooch: Stalagmites & Helictites (Rushing EP, 2020) Past Inside the Present 07. Tigerwing: Weight of Want [2.0] (I Want to Rip Your Heart Out, 2014) self-r

gak's on the road or in the air again so for the 15th episode in our all-ambient series, he recaps some of the music that fits under the ambiguous genre banner. 01. Voice of Hearing: Breathespace (Breathespace, 2024) self-released 02. Tsrono: Shift 01 (Shift, 2024) Not Yet Remembered 03. Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo: Voices of Nature (Kinishba, 2024) Spotted Peccary 04. Fhae: 2001 (2024) self-released 05. Adam Wiltzie: Tissue of Lies (Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal, 2024) Kranky 06. Laraaji: Ocean [Glimpse] (Glimpses of Infinity, 2024) Numero Group 07. Colonial Skyway: Rain Like Sixty (Until Satellites Collide, 2024) Submarine Broadcasting Company 08. God Body Disconnect: Nostalgia Park 1986 (Dreams to be Buried In, 2024) Cryo Chamber 09. Mark Hjorthoy: A Heart Full of Hollow Wounds (Anthology of Experimental Music from Canada, 2024) Unexplained Sound Group 10. Aphex Twin: Th1 [evnslower] (Selected Ambient Works: Volume II [expanded], 2024) Warp 11. Stefan Smulovitz: Maple Seed Pods (Bow & Br

25 shy of your standard BR selection, in celebration of the subatomic particle the quark, we offer six channels in six directions so make you listen to this with a couple friends and each of your ears can focus on different elements on this the 1 000 072nd birthday of art. TOP FLAVOUR t1. Au Vol: The Garden of Forking Paths (The Garden of Forking Paths, 2022) self-released t2. Bill Nace: Les Echos [Piece for Tuba] (Through a Room, 2022) Drag City t3. Body/Dilloway/Head: Body/Erase (Body/Dilloway/Head, 2021) Three Lobed t4. Alvin Lucier & the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus: Toshi Ichiyanagi's Extended Voices (Extended Voices, 1968) CBS t5. Coin Gutter: Asthmatics of Failure (Asthmatics of Failure, 2010) Panospria t6. Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck: Mycorrhizæ (Stardust, 2021) Touch t7. Annie Gosfield: EWA7 - Part 1, Rotation/The Rails to Fürth/From Lever to Wheel Revolution, Translation, Cylinders/The Unaflow Principle/Friction (Flying Sparks & Heavy Machinery, 2001) Tzadik t8. Dick Maaijmakers: Ach

In honour of gak's 17th anniversary on CITR 101.9FM Vancouver BC, we dive into a favourite film: 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension with a score by Michael Boddicker. 01. Mitzi Gaynor: Happy Anniversary (Happy Anniversary OST, 1959) Top Rank 02. Botany Bay: Winter Wolfpack Serenade (Thanksgiver, 2024) Submarine Broadcasting Co. 03. Abigail Lapell: Anniversary Song (Anniversary, 2024) Outside Music 04. Elephant Stone: The Spark (Back into the Dream, 2024) Fuzz Club 05. Juice Joint: Tortoise Shell (Juice Joint [cassette version], 2024) self-released 06. Destroyer: Bologna [w.Fiver] (Dan's Boogie, 2025) Merge 07. Japanese Breakfast: Orlando in Love (For Melancholy Brunettes & Sad Women, 2025) Dead Oceans 08. Hiromasa Suzuki: Romance (Wonderful Guys, 1975) Nippon Columbia 09. Devours: Sports Car Era (Sports Car Era, 2025) Surviving the Game 10. Dax Pierson: For the Angels (Nerve Bumps: A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction, 2021) Dark Entries/Ratskin 11. CFCF: Not Gonna Let Me

It is now 2025 and as we scan for fiction set in this once futuristic year, we'll profile bits from Ramin Djawadi's score to the 2013 kaiju film Pacific Rim. We also catch up on the recently deceased and some work that has now entered the public domain in some parts of the world. It was a matter of time we had to learn to fight monsters so lasso up your robots! 01. Dramatis: Oh! 2025 (For Future Reference [expanded edition], 2022) Rocket Record Co. 02. Contaqt/Bell Dreams: Red (Terroirs, 2024) People Places Records 03. Ann Savoy: Gabie's New Year's Lament (Another Heart, 2024) Smithsonian Folkways 04. Linda Lavin: Theme from Alice (Television's Greatest Hits: Volume 6, 1996) TVT 05, Jimmy Carter: 1976 Washington Political Campaign advert (Politicking: Volume 1, 2011) Funky Frolic 06. The Allman Brothers Band: In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Idlewild South, 1970) Capricorn 07. Nikki Giovanni: Ego Tripping (The Reason I Like Chocolate, 1976) Folkways 08. Nino Rota: O Happy Dagger [the Death of Juliet] (Ro

As this confounding year draws to a close, we'll do our annual recap of the past 12 months in review. Along with some of the artists & songs that defined 2024, we'll profile Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow's score to that year's film Civil War. 01. Jessica Pratt: The Last Year (Here in the Pitch, 2024) City Slang 02. Kristen Roos: Nova (Universal Synthesizer Interface: Volume III, 2024) Hotham Sound 03. Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee (Diamond Jubilee, 2024) Realistik Studios 04. Apollo Ghosts: No One Knows Your Mind (Amethyst, 2024) You've Changed 05. Jackson Ramsey: Tropical Drone (Tropical Drone, 2024) Fanta 06. P:ano: Days Swing (Ba Ba Ba, 2024) COQ 07. The Softies: California Highway 99 (The Bed I Made, 2024) Father/Daughter 08. Yoo Doo Right: Spirit's Heavy but Not Overthrown, Pt. I (From the Heights of Our Pastureland, 2024) Mothland 09. Waxahatchee: 3 Sisters (Tigers Blood, 2024) Anti- 10. MJ Lenderman: You Don't Know the Shape I'm In (Manning Fireworks, 2024) Anti- 11. Kilometre Club: Light [in T

For our 17th annual counter-Christmas carol episode, we plunge deep into some of Dimitri Tiomkin's score that was cut from the 1946 holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life as we mark the festive season with our usual mix of snark, candour, grief & joy. 01. Tito Jackson: Season's Greetings (Season's Greetings from Motown Records 7", 1973) Motown 02. En Attendant Ana: Close Your Mouth Because Christmas is the Day! (En Attendant Ana Sings Christmas, 2024) self-released 03. Fflwcs: Let Nothing You Dismay (Christmas Shopping 1989, 2024) self-released 04. Al Jarreau: Peggy Virginia (Smooth and Soulful Christmas, 2006) YMC 05. Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66: The Christmas Song (Something Festive, 1968) A&M 06. Quincy Jones: Greensleeves and All That Jazz (The Italian Job OST: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition, 1969) Paramount 07. Martin Mull: Santafly [w.the Sondra Baskin Glee Club] (Santafly 7", 1973) Capricorn 08. The Smothers Brothers: Swiss Christmas (Curb Your Tongue, Knave! 1963) Mercury 09. Khruangbin:

The drawing to the close a year allows us to look back a bit to the past 12 months but also ahead to the coming new calendar. We'll juggle mostly Canadian songs amidst all this reflection with a profile on Seth A Smith's scores from The Crescent and Tin Can. Warning: levels may be hot at the start so adjust volume accordingly. Not sure what changed on the board but feedback galore. 01. Freak Heat Waves: Music Has an Interesting Power (Mondo Tempo, 2023) Mood Hut 02. Stillwaves: I'm Haunted (Undiagnosed, 2023) Safe Sounds 03. Kristen Roos: Feight (Universal Synthesizer Interface: Volume III, 2024) Hotham Sound 04. Jody Glenham: The Local (Still Here EP, 2024) self-released 05. Kylie V: Golden (Crash Test Plane, 2024) Royal Mountain 06. Norman McLaren: Loops (Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren, 2024) Phantom Limb/We are Busy Bodies/NFB 07. ?Numb?Dame? Good Luck is for Suckers (This One is for You, 2024) self-released 08. Daft Punk: Aerodynamic (Discovery, 2001) Daft Life/ADA/Warner France

Stepping out of our 20th century rut a bit, we profile Mark Jenkin's score to the 2019 film Bait. We also start looking at 2024 in review and preview your Shindig finalists as part of CITR's annual battle of the bands competition here in Vancouver. 01. Taylor Swift: 'tis the Damn Season (Evermore, 2020) Republic 02. Kohellus: Kalanvihreä (Anthology of Electroacoustic Music from Finland, 2023) Unexplained Sounds Group 03. Kendrick Lamar: Squabble Up (GNX, 2024) PGLang/Interscope 04. Schoolboy Q: Ohio [w.Freddie Gibbs] (Blue Lips, 2024) TDE/Interscope 05. The Sabres of Paradise: Tow Truck [Depth Charge mix] (Versus, 1995) Warp 06. Depth Charge: Depth Charge [Han Do Jin] (Nine Deadly Venoms, 1994) Vinyl Solution 07. Philip Glass: It Was Always You, Helen (The Music of Candyman, 2001) Orange Mountain 08. Angèle Dubeau: Candyman Suite (Signature Philip Glass, 2023) Analekta 09. Brijean: Breathe (Macro, 2024) Ghostly International 10. Pearl & the Oysters: Cruise Control (Planet Pearl, 2024) Stones Throw

Actor Teri Garr (1944-2024) was a very funny person, so this episode will tread lightly amongst some of her famous film roles amidst some TV fare associated with some other recently departed folks. 01. Sade Adu: Young Lion (Transa, 2024) Red Hot 02. Christine Jensen: Here's That Rainy Day (Day Moon, 2023) Justin Time 03. James Darren: Gidget (Album N°1, 1959) Colpix 04. Jack Jones: The Love Boat Theme (TV's Greatest Hits, Volume 3: 70s & 80s, 1979) TVT 05. Charles Dumont: La Course D'Auto [from "Trafic"] (Stereo Ultra, 1998) Big Cheese 06. Edith Piaf: Les Flonflons du Bal (Potpourri par Piaf, 1961) Capitol 07. Vic Flick: Nightraider (Action!, 1973) Amphonic 08. James Horner: End Title (The Lady in Red OST, 2024) Intrada 09. Cold Specks: How It Feels (Wandering in the Wild EP, 2024) Mute/Secret City 10. Katie Tupper: Outside the Gate (2024) Arts & Crafts 11. Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt: Mercy (Forever Stories of Moving Parties, 2024) Earshift 12. Jamie XX: All You Children [w.the Avalanches] (In Wav

Quincy Jones (1933-2024) had a massive impact on pop culture in the service of music. We've been overdue on a profile on Q for ages so we'll skim across his various film scores, jazz sessions & other production work. Q0. Dream Warriors: My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style (And Now the Legacy Begins, 1991) 4th & B'way/Island/Polygram Q1. Loscil: Dusk Gale (Umbel, 2024) Frond Q2. Kathleen Edwards: Fools Ride (Total Freedom, 2020) Dualtone Q3. Nia Nadurata: Practice (Still Living with My Parents EP, 2025) Arts & Crafts Q4. White Poppy: Ataraxia (Ataraxia, 2024) Not Not Fun Q5. Busty & the Bass: Caribou (Karneval EP, 2023) Arts & Crafts Q6. Esthero: That Girl (Breath from Another, 1998) Work Q7. Colin Fisher: Sanctum (Reflections of the Invisible World, 2021) Halocline Trance Q8. Badbadnotgood & Tim Bernardes: Poeira Cosmica (2024) Innovative Leisure/XL Q9. Amy Winehouse: It's My Party [w.Quincy Jones] (Q Soul Bossa Nostra, 2010) Qwest/Interscope QA. Quincy Jones with Harry Arnold & his Swedish

Whether it's Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans' Day where you are, it's a time to think of wars. We're overdue on some Max Steiner and his music from the 1941 classic Casablanca as people seem to keep fleeing right wing extremists over the years. [Something's not right here; stand by if you did download this since it doesn't match went on air at present.] 01. Kay Starr: Holiday (Programming Aids from Capitol 7", 1964) Capitol 02. Speaker Music: African American Disillusionment with Northern Democracy Continues to Smolder in Every Negro who has Settled Up North after Knowing Life in the South (Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry, 2020) Planet Mu 03. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few: Amerikkka the Ugly (The World is on Fire, 2024) Division 81 04. The Dead Milkmen: Grandpa's Not a Racist [He Just Voted for One] (Quaker City Quiet Pills, 2023) The Giving Groove 05. Bobo Jenkins: Democrat Blues (1954) Chess 06. Tartamudo: Taking Democracy [by Strategy] (Respiro EP, 2020) Ouver 07. John Mulaney: There

With Hallowe'en over, we turn to lighter though somber topics. In honour of singer/actress/dancer Mitzi Gaynor (1931-2024), we breeze across some of her musicals, mostly focusing on her songs from the Rodgers/Hammerstein 1957 film adaptation of South Pacific. 01. Caterina Valente: Ol'Man River (Sweet Beat, 1968) Decca/London 02. Gohj-ji & Simple Machines: Seen (2020) self-released 03. Barbara Dane: Insubordination (FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance, 1970) Paredon/Smithsonian Folkways 04. Grateful Dead: Unbroken Chain (From the Mars Motel, 1974) Rhino/Warner 05. Bell Dreams: Daphnis [live] (Moons, 2023) self-released 06. Kacey Musgraves: Jade Green (Deeper Well, 2024) MCA Nashville/Interscope 07. Kaia Kater: Often as the Autumn (Strange Medicine, 2024) Free Dirt 08. Quincy Jones: The Eyes of Love [instrumental] (Banning OST, 1967) La-La Land 09. Jonah Yano: The Language of Coincidence (Jonah Yano & the Heavy Loop, 2024) Innovative Leisure 10. P:ano: Spani (Ba Ba Ba, 2024) COQ 11. Roy Hargrove: Kam

Hallowe'en Horror Month closes with a profile of Daniel Hart's score to the 2017 film A Ghost Story. There'll also be songs about gggghosts, wolfmen, bad vampires & what originally was ggggoing to be campiness but there was a backlogggg of dark music so you're ggggetting actual spookiness. 01. Ken Nordine & the Jacksons: Can You Feel It [w.video spoken intro] (Can You Feel It, 1980) Epic/CBS 02. The Jacksons: Can You Feel It (Triumph, 1980) Epic/CBS 03. Mount Shrine: Ghostly (Lost Loops Collection, 2023) Cryo Chamber 04. The Guess Who: Clap for the Wolfman (Road Food, 1974) RCA Victor 05. Randy Fuller: Wolfman (It's Love, Come What May 7", 1966) Mustang 06. The Ghouls: Voo Doo Juice (Dracula's Deuce, 1964) Capitol 07. Ronnie Cook & the Gaylads: Goo Goo Muck (1962) Audan 08. Count Floyd: Count Floyd is Back (Count Floyd 12", 1982) RCA 09. The Sabres of Paradise: Haunted Dancehall (Haunted Dancehall, 1994) Warp 10. cumgirl8: Hysteria! (The 8th Cumming, 2024) 4AD 11. Throbbing Gristle: Scabs & Saws

As Hallowe'en Horror Month continues, we'll double dip with selections from Pino Donaggio's score to the 1st ever Stephen King film adaptation, 1976's Carrie, then getting more recent, 2024's Longlegs by Zilgi. Twice the creepiness! 01. Paul Zaza & Carl Zittrer: Tonight is Prom Night (Prom Night OST, 1980) RCA 02. Sarah Davachi: The Crier's Choir (The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir, 2024) Late Music 03. Kris Kristofferson: The Kelly's Keep Comin' (Ned Kelly OST, 1970) United Artists 04. Johnny Cash: Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down (The Johnny Cash Show, 1970) Columbia 05. Golden Brown: October (Golden Brown plays Golden Brown EP, 2020) self-released 06. Nemahsis: I Borrow Happiness from Tomorrow (Verbathim, 2024) self-released 07. Mustafa the Poet: Gaza is Calling (Dunya, 2024) Jagjaguwar 08. Ava Rasti: Wound (The River, 2024) 130701 09. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Broken Spires at Dead Kapital (No Title as of 13 February 2024; 28 340 Dead, 2024) Constellation 10. We are Winter's Blue and Radiant