radio  Slipstream

This site is a record of my indie university radio thing.

Radio Slipstream broadcast in various timeslots on 93.3 CFMU — McMaster's campus station from 2004-2007, then continued as increasingly sporadic self-released episodes/mixes. history.

January 2022: It's been years since anything has happened here, but I've been tinkering away at playlists for a while and I'm now posting them here via Spotify playlists under “The Slip”, because radio is dead and streaming is redundant. All the lists combined.

Clearer Air

For flushing the system out.
Maybe that's what all music is about.
Ambient, jazz, electronic, the occasional song.

  1. Ana Roxanne - Suite Pour L'invisible
  2. Claire Rousay - discrete (the market)
  3. Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive
  4. Fred again.. - Kyle (I Found You)
  5. Sam Gendel - Sometimes I Feel So Good
  6. Rosie Lowe, Duval Timothy - Gonna Be
  7. L'Rain - Find It
  8. Carmen Villain - Gestures (with Arve Henriksen)
  9. Julianna Barwick - Inspirit
  10. Javier Segura - Malagueñas 2
  11. Wormwood - Harptree
  12. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1
  13. Nala Sinephro - Space 1
  14. Jon Hassell - Last Night The Moon Came
  15. Arushi Jain - My People Have Deep Roots
  16. Arooj Aftab, Darian Donovan Thomas - Baghon Main
  17. Kelly Moran - Autowave
  18. Agnes Obel - Familiär
  19. Eartheater - Below The Clavicle
  20. Arca - Piel
  21. Lyra Pramuk - Witness
  22. SOPHIE - Is It Cold In The Water?
  23. ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me
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Heath Magic

Witches on the moor under the full moon, but the witches are connected to the internet. A set of darker, atmospheric but fairly intense stuff.

  1. DEBBY FRIDAY - Runnin
  2. Backxwash; Devi McCallion - Spells
  3. Smerz - Believer
  4. JPEGMAFIA - REBOUND!
  5. Jenny Hval - High Alice
  6. The Notwist - Into Love / Stars
  7. DARKSIDE - The Limit
  8. Moor Mother and billy woods - The Blues Remembers Everything the Country Forgot (feat. Wolf Weston)
  9. Madlib - Road Of The Lonely Ones
  10. Boldy James; Real Bad Man - Held Me Down
  11. FKA twigs; Headie One; Fred again.. - Don't Judge Me
  12. Sampha - Blood on Me
  13. Chromatics - Light As A Feather
  14. Vallens - While You Are Still Waiting
  15. Circuit des Yeux - Dogma
  16. John Glacier - Some Other Thing
  17. MATTIE; Black Taffy - Human Thing
  18. Georgia - Move Systems
  19. Ela Minus - el cielo no es de nadie
  20. Kae Tempest - Perfect Coffee
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March 2020, 2020

A quarantuned tribute to being locked inside. This was originally put together in the wide eyed early days of the demic when 2 months of COVID protocols seemed like a long time. Some are thematically related, some just felt right.

  1. Against All Logic - This Old House Is All I Have
  2. Caribou - Home
  3. Durand Jones & The Indications - Morning in America
  4. Anderson .Paak - Lockdown
  5. Tyler, The Creator - GONE, GONE / THANK YOU
  6. Desire Marea - Tavern Kween
  7. Moses Sumney - Conveyor / boxes
  8. Owen Pallett - A Bloody Morning
  9. The Weeknd - Initiation
  10. billy woods; Kenny Segal - Spider Hole
  11. Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me
  12. Quelle Chris - Obamacare
  13. Yves Tumor - Gospel For A New Century
  14. Fiona Apple - Heavy Balloon
  15. Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
  16. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
  17. The National - Apartment Story
  18. R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows
  19. Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End
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Phase Baubles

Disco dancing and then relaxing and then getting introspective.

  1. Jessie Ware - Spotlight
  2. Shura - religion (u can lay your hands on me)
  3. Magdalena Bay - Secrets (Your Fire)
  4. Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law - Edit
  5. Solange - Stay Flo
  6. Tinashe - Bouncin
  7. Amber Mark - Mixer
  8. Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
  9. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
  10. Charli XCX - forever
  11. Tei Shi - Go Slow
  12. Frøkedal - First Friend
  13. POLIÇA - Lime Habit
  14. Kacy Hill - Dinner
  15. Half Waif - Blinking Light
  16. Kelly Lee Owens - On
  17. KROY - Hull
  18. Fatima Yamaha - What's a Girl to Do
  19. Todd Terje; Bryan Ferry - Johnny and Mary
  20. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
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Dreamt sideways

A long festering delight, this playlist is dreamy and a little bit lush and wistful, before getting a little sultrier toward the end once the sun goes down (plays real nice in before #145)

  1. Camille - Seeds
  2. Apparat; Soap&Skin - Goodbye
  3. PJ Harvey; Harry Escott - An Acre of Land - Edit
  4. Mary Lattimore - It Feels Like Floating
  5. AKUA - Offering
  6. FKA twigs - cellophane
  7. Jenny Hval - Ashes to Ashes
  8. Caroline Polachek - Door
  9. Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
  10. U.S. Girls - Rosebud
  11. Hundred Waters - Wave to Anchor
  12. Beach House - Lemon Glow
  13. 0171 - SMTHN RL
  14. Real Lies - You Were in Love - Unreal Mix
  15. Channel Tres - Topdown
  16. Masego - Big Girls
  17. Valee; Jeremih - Womp Womp
  18. ABRA - Roses
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Hands up; Fists up

A conflagration of several works in progress involving music relating to black identity (and a few ahem bangers). Maybe it's the coda to the never-completed history of hip hop series (which can never happen on Spotify/streaming due to the lack of availability of some pretty important artists).

Starts off jazzy and bouncy and femme (1-3), moves into politics (4-6) and pop (-9) before some straight ass kicking (11-13) back to hard politics and then jazz (14-19).

  1. Little Simz - Offence
  2. Noname - Blaxploitation
  3. Simpson - I Got It!
  4. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People....
  5. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry
  6. Saul Williams - The Noise Came from Here
  7. Jamila Woods - Blk Girl Soldier
  8. Beyoncé - Formation
  9. Childish Gambino - This Is America
  10. Genesis Owusu - I Don't See Colour
  11. Run The Jewels - Panther Like a Panther (Miracle Mix) (feat. Trina)
  12. Danny Brown - Really Doe (feat. Kendrick Lamar; Ab-Soul; Earl Sweatshirt)
  13. ScHoolboy Q; Jadakiss - Groovy Tony / Eddie Kane
  14. Vince Staples - BagBak
  15. Terrace Martin; Denzel Curry - Pig Feet (feat. Kamasi Washington, G Perico & Daylyt)
  16. Sons Of Kemet; Kojey Radical - Hustle
  17. SAULT - Strong
  18. Angel Bat Dawid; Tha Brothahood - Black Family - Live
  19. Kamasi Washington - The Rhythm Changes
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