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Art of Beatz is CFRO 102.7 FM's premiere electronic music show. Featuring local and international DJ's, the show covers everything from house, techno and trance, to drum'n'bass, IDM and ambient, and everything in between! You can hear the show live Fridays at 0800 GMT at coopradio.org Primary Format : Electronica Also Listed as: Electronica City : Vancouver State/Province : BC Country : Unknown Country : UN User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: New music | Local | House | trance | Music | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Art of Beatz Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Art of Beatz Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Art of Beatz Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Jun 12, 2008 with Jay Auto Considered by many to be one of the hardest working men in Vancouver show business, Jay auto has been a mainstay of the city's jungle scene for as long as we can remember. Whilst being a resident of the longest running jungle night in the city, Jay is also a master of funking it up and breaking beats for you. We have coerced him into coming out of hiding to provide us with a selection of his favorite tunes of the minute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jun. 05, 2008 with Martin Turenne Martin Turenne's name should be recognizable to anyone who reads Vancouver's Georgia Straight. As the publication's specialist in electronic dance music for many year's, Martin has interviewed some of the best and brightest in the game and made quite a name for himself. Constantly searching for the next hot beat, we've invited Martin to join us in studio to play some of his favorite tracks of the moment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 29, 2008 AoB Mutek Special Seeing as we can't make it out to Mutek this, we'll celebrate another year of Canada's finest music festival with a selection beats from Muteks past and present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 22, 2008 with Kuma An evening of modern folk for robots and downtempo, so down, you'll wanna get on up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 15, 2008 with Truth Addict "I grew up in Vancouver having moved here shortly after my birth in Toronto. Music was always my passion from a very you age. I fashioned my own home made instruments and was formally trained as a brass player in a local orchestra. At ten I purchased a Fender Strat and was engrossed in the guitar until the age of 15 when after holding down my first job for three months I bought a set of decks from Bassix. I started to play house, hard house and hip hop. I soon moved on to jungle and dnb aft ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 8, 2008 with Kuma and Lady Eve Ambient all night long...say what?! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 1, 2008 with DJ Lau Reppin the annual Youth Week celebration, JLAU is a force to be reckoned with. Hailing out of Richmond, BC, Lau has the massive screaming for hard style and doin the Melbourne Shuffle. Watch out for him at ELEV8 on May 2nd in Richmond BC Youth Week I hear it's going to be one heck of an art zoo! In his own words "I started DJing about 3 years ago on and off and I started because I loved trance music and it just seemed right to head into that direction. For the past year or so I've been rea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apr. 24, 2008 with Poobah A veteran of the southern electronic dance scene, Poobah has a treat for us tonight: TECHNO To quote Outkast. "Its that southerplayalisticcaddilac funky music Now Players if you choose it You better make sure you don't abuse it " An hour of dirty south techno that pulls from crunk to funk to blazing detroit love. "I have 3 releases on Aerotecnica recordings and releases under the Daydream outfit which are both based in Atlanta. I started dj'ing in 1993. Brian Wills (Hippy B) and Jeff Car ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apr. 17, 2008 with Nima From humble beginnings playing records with friends at a local industry night, Nima has quickly established himself as a staple of the Vancouver club scene. An ardent lover of many styles, Nimaâs diverse taste and keen attention to the mechanics of mixing have quickly earned him the respect of the sceneâs top selectors. With a collection spanning house, electro and progressive, his sound is eclectic yet congruent, favoring tightly programmed beats and bold basslines. With a night at Vanco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apr. 10, 2008 AoB Roundtable Panel A Roundtable on Vancouver's Nightclub Scene. Featuring guests from every corner of the electronic music industry, discussing issues that affect the progression and image of clubbing in our city. From creativity and budding musical movements to the 2010 games and policing. If you missed this one live, you have to get the podcast! Our guests had a spirited, and enlightening discussion for the whole 2 hours. Our panel members: One of Vancouver's best-known DJ's, who is also a part of 2gueril ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SPECIAL BONUS MIX by MOTOMASA Just some party favorites I slammed together in a spring mix that is probably more apt for the parties of the summer. I'm only going to keep this mix up on the podcast list for a short time, so get it while you can! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar. 27, 2008 with Trevor Walker Credited as the primary catalyst and pioneer of the soul jazz and house movement in Ottawa, Trevor has been involved in the industry for the last 15 years. Walker brings a surrealness to his sets that take listeners on a journey. Jazz remains the binding influence behind the music he plays, giving him the flexibility to incorporate and investigate different sounds in his sets. A stalwart on the radio waves until just recently, Trevor hosted long running radio shows at both Ottawa and Carelt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar. 20, 2008 with Tomas Jirku Tomas Jirku likes music, art, mountains and rivers. Tomas has quickly established himself on the international electronic music scene. From his humble beginnings of independently released MP3s, first by No Type in 1999, and CDRs, his unpredictable explorations of techno have since been released on prestigious record labels around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar. 13, 2008 with Secret Agent Gel Secret Agent Gel has spent ten years producing and performing electronic music, concentrating on the perfect mix of danceable and interesting. His mix of genres have lead to releases as diverse as DubWar001 (dubstep, 2006) tracks on Recordcamp's "Brooklyn Keeps On Takin' It" compilation (idm, 2003) and Badd Inc's first Electroclash compilation (electrohouse, 2004). He's toured the UK, Europe and around the US, playing with Kode 9, Hank ShockLee, Chicks on Speed, Datach'i and many more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mar. 6, 2008 AoB Exclusives and Rarities So, it's the first show of our birthday month and we have something wonderful lined up. An evening of rarities and exclusives! Dubstep plates fresh from London, Mo' Wax rarities, and an Orb extravaganza. We'd like to thank all of you that have supported us over the last four years. We have always done this for the community and it has been a pleasure to host so many of you on the show. Vancouver is truly a bright spot full of amazing DJs and producers and it's been a joy to present them to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 28, 2008 with Nicky Delgado There is little one can say about Nicky Delgado that hasn't already been said. Creator of one of the most successful club nights in Vancouver, "Believe" has been going strong for 5 years with no end in sight. Now with their own recording studio and label, Believe is set to become a launching platform for artists from across the Pacific Northwest! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 21, 2008 with Binhex Do not be lulled by the honeyed vibes of Binhex's secret ambient and downtempo frequencies. Like some oversexed African python, Team Lounge's first lady of the fish uses musical hypnosis to better take liberties with her victims (often small defenseless animals). In the past, she has used her sorcery to pull off such sordid capers as Centre Neptune, XMAS 2, and Devolution, as well as ruling Victoria's Temple of Sound. Watch as she takes pleasure from the snake that once corrupted man by usi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 14, 2008 with Jaxpratt In the mid-90's, influenced by his friends who were early pioneers of the electronic scene, Jaxpratt found his calling. A regular on the dj circuit, playing numerous events and venues, Jaxpratt quickly made a name for himself thru his unique selection, mixing and feel for the room. He has gained a dedicated following and has since landed the Friday night residency at Mercury Lounge, undoubtedly one of Ottawa's top venues. His style is defined thru the pulsating 4/4 rhythm of house, dirty el ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feb. 7, 2008 with Inkwell Inkwell is the product of two minds from vastly different backgrounds; cinch and sidetrack bring their musical flavours together to produce a unique live set that is improvised and composed of entirely original material. Rocking mostly homemade gear, their live performance centers around a battle ready PC built into a turntable flight case and a knob box that looks like it?s from 1902. Minimal Techno is the backbone of their set, but it often veers in other more diverse territory without wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 31, 2008 with Lady Eve B-Day Steez Bounce with us folks, as we celebrate the birthday of the first lady of the Art Of Beatz. It's a full hour of Evebeat as she goes wherever the hell she wants across the dance music spectrum. If you don't know, you better ask somebody. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 24, 2008 - a Tim Hill Benefit Preview The "Tropic of Cancer" Rim Benefit Concert is a fundraiser to support and honour our good friend Tim (Rim) Hill. Rim has made a name for himself in both the music and visuals scene here in Vancouver over the past 20 years. He has done visuals for Soundwave, Skinny Puppy and Longwalkshortdock to name a few aswell as many talented others. He has put out music on his own as well as with Phil Western (Download, Frozen Rabbit, Kone) Rim is a wonderful man who has unfortunately recently been diag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 17, 2008 with Love and Electrik Helping to lead Vancouver's broken beat and future jazz revolution, the Function area a reminder that the talkbox can be funky. Kevin Mah and Roxanne Alston drop mad future beats, lyrics and rhythms like there's no tomorrow, melding P-Funk with Domu and the Politik with Diana Ross in a soul/funk/beat fusion that looks to shatter your speakers in 08? Did we mention they're playing live too? This podcast is a special re-creation by L and E since something happened, preventing transmission of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jan. 10, 2008 with Hebegebe Noted Vancity purveyor of all things phunk like; Bobby brings his shoegazing breakbeat house to our studios for a debut like none other. Expect to be housed, broken and funked up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jan. 3, 2008 with Submerged Kurt Gluck is Submerged. He is the founder of the Ohm Resistance and co founder of Obliterati, 2 of the US' most respected, creative and genre jarring drum n bass labels. A creator and arranger of electronic music of all types, he focuses mainly on blasting the boundaries of drum n bass wide open. Whether it is thru jagged breakbeat/blast beat structures, collaborations in the studio with musicians such as Bill Laswell, Pharoah Sanders, Enduser, and Corrupt Souls, or his confrontational art ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec. 27, 2007 - Best of 2007 The Art Of Beatz Best of 2007 Show Tonight, we pay homage to the best jams that have rocked our studio and your speakers over the last year. From house and techno through to dubstep, jungle, ambient, downtempo and broken beat, we cram a little of everything that has been killing it for us into the last AOB of 2007. As we come up on four years of AOB, we'd like to big up all of you for guesting, listening in and helping AOB continue to be the beast that it is. 2008 is already looking like it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec. 20, 2007 with AoB DJs Eve, Kuma, Motomasa With it being the second to last show of 2007, we've decided to reach deep and deliver you one, final back to back session from your AOB residents. It's been a huge year for all of us so what better way to cap it off prior to our best of 2007 show with one last session from the three of us. You can expect a world exclusive airing of the Horsepwoer Productions remix of Kuma's Dawn Stepped Outside 12" as well as an airing of Eve's latest Holiday mix and a neck snapping selection of beats from ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec 14, 2006 with Hasselhoff Beware of the cute blond ones as they are usually the most suspicious ones in the crowd. With over a decade's time logged behind the turntables, this hot tub frogman, political activist, and all-around bad man can be found all over Western North America pimping his filthy brand of electronic funk to unsuspecting young people everywhere. A founder of Vancouver electroniculture collective and downtempo legends, Team Lounge, and former co-owner of Victoria's Temple Of Sound record store, Quent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec. 13, 2007 with Kristina Childs Kristina Childs is one of the hardest working DJs in the Northwest. As well as being a guest DJ at nearly every club in Seattle, Kristina has performed in Frankfurt, Bogotá, Medellin and various major US cities, sharing the stage with such notable artists as John Tejada, Joel Mull, Dan Bell, Speedy J, Thomas Fehlmann, Alex Under, Akufen, Kevin Saunderson, Bassnectar, Alex Smoke, Lusine, Jeff Samuel and Marcus Nicolai. She has held over 8 residencies since picking up her first record in 199 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec. 6, 2007 with Shadow Jugglers With modern radio going the way of the conglomerate, campus and community radio remain the torch bearers for fresh underground sounds. CiTR @ UBC has kept an ear to the ground, and features tons of quality programming in all genres. Shadow Jugglers has held down the fort by mixing up jungle, drum'n'bass, dubstep, downtempo, reggae, dancehall, funk, hip hop, and breaks. Soo and MP come representing Shadow Jugglers in this yearly exchange between our shows (two days later, Eve and Motomasa ap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov 30, 2006 - Lady Eve Freshly returned from the dirty south, she's got a whole new bag of choice drum'n'bass. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov. 29, 2007 with Betti Forde BETTI FORDE (Stacked Tuesays/Stinkmitt) is the undisputed queen of Vancouver's underground music scene, holding residencies at the biggest and best underground parties in Vancouver including Stacked Tuesdays @ Celebrities Nightclub, Sin City Fetish Night @ 23 West Cordova, and Flygirl events such as Hershe Bar @ Sonar. She is also a featured DJ for Girl4Girl in Seattle and Double Down in Portland, in addition to playing throughout the world in places like Paris, Berlin and Rome. With over a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov. 22, 2007 with Sharmaji Rolling like a ten ton juggernaut of desi bass nastiness, Sharmaji creates a bass-heavy, post-desi sound for the dancefloor that is as consistently powerful as it is diverse in background-- and completely NYC. His productions have been spun all through the states and UK by DJ's like Bobby Friction and Nihal, DaveQ, Shiva Soundsystem, Boomnoise, the Avaaz/G.O.O.N.D.A. crews, DJ Rekha, Mary Anne Hobbs, and countless others. As a DJ and percussionist he's brought his riddims to artists as dive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov. 15, 2007 with Geoff Pye Geoff (Popkiller) became involved with electronic music in the mid-90s through his exposure to the Calgary rave scene and to artists such as Daft Punk and Bjork. Inspired by the sounds of house and techno music, and by local DJs Anwar, and Jon Delerious, he decided to take up deejaying as a hobby. Since then, he has gone on to play for many dancefloors, from small intimate events, to packed afterhours parties. Highlights of his career include headlining Vancouver's legendary Deepen night at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov. 8, 2007 with Robin Banks An evening of dub techno, ghost bass and other things that bump wantonly all over your dance floor. A former resident at Wanted!, Vancouver's pioneering techno fusion evening, Robin promises to bring it like it ain't ever been brought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov. 1, 2007 - Signal invades AoB Take two Male Model Machines. Add a pinch of Abasi. Stir liberally with Clockwork. Garnish with Woodhead. Serve on a G-Rock. Add an Ollie Ple at the end. A recipe for signaling trouble as all the residents of leading Vancouver club night Signal Saturdays join us in studio. Seven DJs and two promoters enter. One man leaves. Whose Signal Styles will reign Supreme as Art of Beatz takes you beyond Thunderdome!!!!!? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Oct. 25, 2007 Beatz and Signals Warmup Tonight we are giving you a preview of the funky flavours you'll hear at our upcoming benefit show at Signal Saturdays (Lotus Sound Lounge) on Nov. 3rd 2007. The three of us will be joining Abasi and Woodhead for a jam and a half. It'll be big, come on down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Oct. 18, 2007 with Mr. Tunes I have a story, and although it's nothing extraordinary. I think my story is fairly simple. I am just a normal guy born in Toronto who loves making music and working on all types of experiments in sound. Many nights I can't sleep cause I have so much on my mind and so many ideas for how I think I can change how people listen to music, but im taking it one step at a time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Oct. 11, 2007 - Aklimatize If you've ever lost yourself on a tropical dance floor, amid a haze of smoke and hypnotic riddims, chances are you were flexing to the Aklimatize bounce. Vancouver provides a solid home base of flourishing vocalists and musicians for this quickly maturing artist and producer. "I spent a couple months in Amsterdam tucked away writing beats, those songs came home with me to track vocals and and arrange at my studio mostly with local talents..." Like any movement, it starts with a few amazing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Oct. 4, 2007 with R. Demon Macabre Unit started as an outfit about 5 years ago and was originally started by 9ner, then known as k-9. He started it out to be a Grime outfit, 2-3 producers, and a handful of mc's. As time went on, the unit started to change its sound, becoming darker and more technical, this went down well with a lot of people, but naturally it didn't go down to well with some of the diehard fans. In the last 2 years they've been developing a sound which is darker than any kind of 140bpm music, we call ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Sep. 27, 2007 with Eve and Motomasa We bring you some vintage tag team action, in addition to a selection of new cuts. All over the road, expect the unexpected and enjoy the ride! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Sep. 20, 2007 with Kid Kut Founder of Immerse Records, the vinyl based continuation of the music policy of Bristol, UK based club night, Noir. Like the label, his DJ sets, although centered around D and B or Dubstep can frequently be found diverting into other forms of music. Immerse's vision is true representation of breakbeat and subbass culture, choosing not to be held down by any constraint whatsoever as this guest mix will represent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Sep. 13, 2007 with Ekeem the Burly Beat Farmer AKA Mike Bodnar has been an active DJ since 1993. Ekeem's selection of House, Techno and other styles of dance floor friendly music, has been lighting fires under the feet of even the most wallflower dancers in and around western Canada. Ekeem has gained the reputation as one of the best underground DJ's on the west coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Sep. 6, 2007 with Opolopo and Amalia Townsend Separately, they are major forces in the broken beat scene. Together, they slip into scattered beats and soulful grooves like they are one. Amalia Townsend is best known in Vancouver as the front-woman for Sekoya. Opolopo's 2003 debut album, Omnifarious, summed up the various elements that made up his musical universe to that point. Their music is best described through a quote by Herbie Hancock: "As much as I kept trying to make it funk, it kept integrating with these jazz elements, so aft ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Aug. 30, 2007 with Chris Lima From his 14+ years of playing at some of the Westcoast's most legendary nights and events to managing both of the world-renowned record stores Otis Music, Chris Lima has been passionate and driven from the start. Now, DJs from Ibiza to San Francisco, Costa Rica to Philadelphia are dropping his tracks and asking him to simply keep them coming. There's rawness to his style of music that people can't help but get in to and his skills on the turntables have left crowds scratching their heads an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aug. 30, 2007 with Chris Lima From his 14+ years of playing at some of the Westcoast's most legendary nights and events to managing both of the world-renowned record stores Otis Music, Chris Lima has been passionate and driven from the start. Now, DJs from Ibiza to San Francisco, Costa Rica to Philadelphia are dropping his tracks and asking him to simply keep them coming. There's rawness to his style of music that people can't help but get in to and his skills on the turntables have left crowds scratching their heads an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Aug. 23, 2007 with Code Blue Heavyweight jungle sounds from one of Canada's more prolific purveyors of angry drums and angrier bass. Having decamped to Vancouver from his Toronto home alongside fellow producer Queensyze, Code Blue can be found scoring films and commercials, adding that cinematic edge to a brand of jungle that will already be sucking out your blood by the time you've noticed what's going on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Aug. 16, 2007 with Jesse Proudfoot Bringing the bass of garage and drum'n'bass together with the feel of electro and Miami booty shake, the passion of Bhangra and the madness of downtown Vancouver. Jesse was resident at the late, lamented Grime Sessions and is one of our favorite DJs. Expect the unexpected and then some and we let him loose to play whatever he damn well wants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aug. 16, 2007 with Jesse Proudfoot Bringing the bass of garage and drum'n'bass together with the feel of electro and Miami booty shake, the passion of Bhangra and the madness of downtown Vancouver. Jesse was resident at the late, lamented Grime Sessions and is one of our favorite DJs. Expect the unexpected and then some and we let him loose to play whatever he damn well wants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Aug. 9, 2007 with Motomasa As we break out the second AOB birthday of the summer, it makes sense to let Motomasa take over the show and see what happens, as you can never be quite sure what he'll pull out on a week to week basis. A veteran of the dance music scene and pioneer in Ottawa's underground, he has hosted radio shows on CKCU Ottawa, CJAM Windsor, and been a featured guest on numerous stations in and around Atlanta, GA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Aug. 2, 2007 with DJ Pandemonium Promoter and resident DJ at Vancouver's longest running all-alternative dance party, Pandemonium could very well be the Vancouver equivalent to James Brown. Sanctuary is celebrating not only ten years of stomping the dance floor but a new move to Friday night at the Lotus Sound Lounge, so Pandemonium will be joining us in studio to cause, just a little bit of trouble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jul. 26, 2007 with Evilbear The infamous tag team Kuma and Eve (written up in URB 2005 for their dedication to ambient and sonic adventures), bring a four turntable session to the airwaves. The two produce cross-genre tunes together under the name Abunaii and Gunshae, but their excursions in ambience steer the great dub ship. They've performed up and down the west coast and in Japan, and continue to journey into sound with The Konspiracy Group's Pan Ambient series (4th installment set for 2008 in San Francisco). It's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jul. 19, 2007 with FWDSound 004 The Konspiracy Group take over the airwaves. Watch your bassbins...this ship has landed! Hour 1: KID KAMELEON (XLR8R : San Francisco) mixed live at FWDSound 004 in Vancouver then Hour 2: KUMA (TKG/AOB : Vancouver) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jul. 19, 2007 with FWDSound 004 The Konspiracy Group take over the airwaves. Watch your bassbins...this ship has landed! Hour 1: KID KAMELEON (XLR8R : San Francisco) mixed live at FWDSound 004 in Vancouver then Hour 2: KUMA (TKG/AOB : Vancouver) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jul. 12, 2007 with Eve and Kuma Tonight! The duo of ambient, chill your world for 2 hours: KUMA AND EVE (The Konspiracy Group/AOB). In the tradition of this summer's Soundwave festival and the force of Sunn and Earth, it's gonna be a beautiful time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jul. 5, 2007 with Paul Langley Paul Langley started djing in 85 playing Hip-Hop/Soul and mixed his way into the DMC mixing championships in 88. In late 88 started buying House, and Techno in 93 which was a major turning point, musically. Since then, he has gigged all over Europe. It's nothing less than world domination for this man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jun. 28, 2007 - Vaccine vs. Intex Systems Vaccine is the production alias of Christine Clements. Having been involved with the promotions end of the industrial rock and IDM music scenes since she was a teenager, and running a drum and bass record label with her husband, ASC. Intex Systems is the pseudonym of producer James Clements; best known for his production under the ASC name, the Intex moniker became a melting pot for avante garde musical experiments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jun. 21, 2007 with Red Clover Our favorite lady of the Vancouver door. She's started out on her own, with micro korg/vocorder, accordian, korg kaos pad, toshiba satellite, ableton, acid, voice, fingers, thoughts, and emotions, and whatever is around to tinker with or smash together. AOB *hearts* Red Clover and if you've been to the club when she's working, you do too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jun. 14, 2007 with Dan Kearley When not guiding the studio science and sonic wizardry of Vancouver broken beat/nu-jazz favorites Sekoya, Dan continues to explore the local audio industry and remix the science of sound. His prior projects have included programming for Nickelback and editing for Zimmer's Hole and Strapping Young Lad. Just a week prior to Sekoya playing the Vancouver International Jazz Festival with Bebel Gilberto, Dan will join us to talk about the band as well as debut slices of his own solo work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jun. 7, 2007 with Pan Ambient Bento Selections from the artists that contributed to The Konspiracy Group's ambient session in Tokyo this spring. Local Japanese talent include Mu-Tanz, Hataken, Yoshio Machida and AEN, as well as Vancouver's Gunshae. Lush synths, drifting steel drum, droning oboe, and siren vocals over flowing beatz... enjoy the chill out sounds of the Pacific Rim. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - May 31, 2007 with Crown Vic Addicted to music from a very young age, Graham Hicks has fed his habit constantly through performance, production and a never-ending search for funky sounds both new and old. Behind the decks as Crown Vic, Graham plays a mix of 70s/80s/90s/00s mashup, shameless, ass-shaking funky breaks and dirty electro. A firm believer that music requires a sense of humour, his mixes often run new, fresh-off-the-boat tracks together with forgotten classics from the early days of dance music, with the odd ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - May 24, 2007 with Connect_icut CONNECT_ICUT, the recording alias of Sam Macklin, an English abstract electronica artist living in Vancouver Canada, Connect_icut has released one CD ("Moss", Dehausset, January 2005) and one vinyl LP ("LA - An Apology", CSAF, March 2007). Sam is also involved with free-folk ensemble The Bastion Mews andcan be frequently found blogging his heart out at blogglebumcage.blogspot.com. Sam joined us for a live set as well as an chat and a few tunes off the new LP. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - May 17, 2007 with DJ John Cougar Joining us tonight will be Nordic Trax man, DJ JOHN COUGAR as we celebrate a decade of making music from Canada's premiere underground house label here in Vancouver. John's gonna swing by, have a chat, tell us about ten years of NT, talk about cake (c'mon, it's birthday week) and give us a couple of Nordic exclusives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - May 10, 2007 with Loetech LOETECH hail from Toronto, Canada, and are comprised of XI and Matt Carl, two charming lads that make tunes for you to skank to. Owners of a broken keyboard, they have survived this to become the leaders of the Toronto dubstep revolution, taking no prisoners, drinking too many beers and maintaining the low-end theory. It's an exclusive mix that's almost entirely CanCon, reppin' the Ontario massive to the fullest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - May 3, 2007 - AoB Takeover! The AOB DJ's (Motomasa, Kuma, and Eve) take you on an ever expanding journey through sound. It only happens a few times a year, so tune in to hear the real art of beatz takeover their own show. With over 30 years combined experience in the electronic scene, these selectors know how to groove. Expect the unexpected, and enjoy the ride! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Apr. 26, 2007 with Vinyl Ritchie The man who defined breakbeat in all its many formats in Vancouver and a guy who has spent more years DJing than most kids today have had hot breakfasts. All the way back to ’91, from his Zoo Boogaloo night at the Starfish Room , Cherry Bombs at Sonar during the latter half of the ’90s (both with DJ Czech) to the Big Sexy Funk night at Shine today, Scotty's been spinning records trying to find that combination of different sounds that all revolve around one word: funk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Apr. 19, 2007 with Danjel van Tijn Danjel van Tijn is a minimal techno enthusiast and synth/fx building geek, originally from Toronto but resident of Vancouver for the past 5 years. He's currently involved with the label Rivers of Recordings and collaborating with Tomas Jirku and Rob Warren. This past year has been spent a little under the radar building gear and finishing off new material. As CFRO's engineer, the Art of Beatz gives him full reign over the entire show! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Apr. 12, 2007 with The Peverilist Carrying on a long tradition of Bristol bass science that runs from Mark Stewart through DJ Pinch, the Peverilst has brought dubstep to a new level with beats that make dubstep heads and techno lovers foam at the mouth with equal abandon. Whether its releasing tunes from the likes of Rob Smith and Monkeysteak or slinging wax behind the counter of Bristol's Rooted Records, Tom is an unsung hero of dubstep and we are honoured to have him sling an exlusive set of Bristol bassweight on the show ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Apr. 5, 2007 with Jim Rebel Striding gallantly across genres and throwing all caution to the wind like there's no tomorrow, Jim Rebel is the kind of DJ you want your kids to grow up to be like. Connecting the dots from legendary reggae keyboardist Jackie Mittoo to minimal and across to hardcore junglism, he has the beats, the beats that go boom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Mar. 29, 2007 with Tyler Johnson With over 10 years of DJ experience, Tyler J knows how to bring a crowd to its feet and keep the hands in the air. Holding down Residencies with many of the top Night Club and Rave promoters in Vancouver, Tyler has had the opportunity to craft his style next to some of the worlds most prolific DJs and producers. Weekly, you can find Tyler pushing "the black crack" for Boomtown Records and since opening night (Oct 03/03) holding down Gorg-O-Mish Afterhours. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Mar. 8, 2007 with Dickey Doo Dickey Doo has played up and down both coasts, from New York, to Montreal, from Vancouver to L.A, and has been recruited to play for the likes of Chanel, Miss Universe, Queer as Folk and Fashion Cares. Dickey has been handpicked to play alongside djs such as Peter Rauhofer, Roger Sanchez, Deep Dish, Derrick Carter, Lil Louie Vega, Junior Vasquez and many many more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Mar. 1, 2007 Live from Wanted! The AoB turns 3 this March, so we wanted to do something different. With a little help from our friends at Wanted (Thursdays at the Lotus Sound Lounge), we're dropping this week's show live from Wanted! Eve and Kuma rip up the dance floor as Motomasa mans the chair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Feb. 22, 2007 with DJ Steve Brown Based in west Tennessee, DJ Steve Brown was a DJ and Music Director at WSMU, U. Mass-Dartmouth (1999-2001), and also founded the electronic music format at WKNC, NCSU, Raleigh, North Carolina in 1997 (called After Hours). Since graduation, his yearly pilgrimages for reunion shows at WKNC have become legendary. Steve's preferred styles are idm, tech-house, and electro. College radio gave him an appreciation of versatile styles in mixing, and he holds it down every time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Feb. 15, 2007 with Motomasa and Kuma The gentlemen of AoB get to frolic during the full 2-hours this week. Motomasa bringing the soulful grooves, and Kuma bringing out the grimey dubstep... enjoy as they bring you 2 very different styles of the AoB! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Feb. 8, 2007 with Kim Cascone We are pleased to help Vancouver New Music, by presenting a legend in North American ambient music, Kim Cascone. On Feb. 10 2007 at Video In Studios (1965 Main St.) he brought his new work 'Spectral Space' to the city. This performance focuses on the omnipresent din of our media culture, which provides a security blanket for many: when noise is present, we feel at ease; when it stops, we feel unease. In this paradoxical development of our cognitive apparatus we are now better able to assimi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Feb. 1, 2007 - Art of Beatz Tag-team It's our Lady Eve's birthday tonight, and her birthday wish was to tag-team with her co-hosts. Well, we can't deny our Lady, especially on her birthday, so here are all 3 of us, running down the metronome over the course of the show... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jan. 25, 2007 with DJ Ripley Ripley's fierce intellect and raw energy spark new uprisings and unseat preconceptions in the company of artists like Hrvatski, Kid606, Blevin Blectum, Dizzee Rascal, Kaffe Matthews, Bong-Ra, Criterion, Drop The Lime, and Dr. Israel. Her wreckstep raggaphonics spill over and rumble under into dubdownbreak sound experiments and bounce back into nastybeast beats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jan. 18, 2007 with m:cast m:cast is Matt Acornley, based in London, England. His musical journey started with the discovery of his Dad's record collection and the likes of Chic, Herbie Hancock, Average White Band, Steely Dan, Marvin Gaye and early Michael Jackson. The journey continued through Soul, Funk, Rare Groove, early Hip Hop and Electro. In 1988 came Acid House, then Techno, Ambient, Electronica and Chill...The journey continues... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jan. 11, 2007 with Kuma and Eve Tonight, the snow kept our regularly scheduled guests from appearing, so KUMA and EVE gave it their all! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Jan. 4, 2007 with Transit Kings The Transit Kings album is probably a once-in-a-lifetime combination of talents coming together to make a studio album. With talent including LX Paterson, Jimmy Cauty, Guy Pratt and Dom Beken, there was little doubt the album would defy typical categorization. Well for a new year exclusive, AoB has received a custom-mix from the Transit Kings... remember you heard it here! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec. 28, 2006 with Wilson Hart and Best of '06 3 hour show! Locals remember Wilson Hart for all the soul his nights brought to downtown. Well he's been at school in Montreal, and is home for the holidays, so we couldn't resist bringing him in for an hour of Hart love. Once he's done, the AoB Triad bring forth their faves of 2006 - as we always do at this time of year! Let the music flow as AoB takes over the airwaves for 3 hours... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec. 21, 2006 with Dee Banse What a better way to spend Winter Solstice, than with some warm island vibes. Raised in Fiji, Dee Banse made his way from New Zealand to Japan where he fell in love with DJing. These days, he's taking his piano skills into the studio to create beautiful electronic music. Since 2002, he has been the second half of The Lava Project (with Jacob James Henry), making a lot of soulful electronic music. "Coming from the South Pacific, have always been into the laid back dubby/funky sounds." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Dec 7, 2006 with Woodhead Dirty minds make dirty beats and Darren Woodhead is no exception. A man of many sonic talents, he holds residencies at Signal Saturdays at the Lotus, Lucy Mae Brown and the infamous Backstage Lounge on Granville Island. Bringing cutting edge electro and tech-house to the fore, he's not only good in the club, as one of the evil masterminds involved with the Sauna Sessions, he can be found dropping heavyweight beats in an actual mobile sauna. Hot eh? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov. 23, 2006 with Mike McSuede A staple of the early Vancouver house scene, Mike Mccuaig aka McSuede boasts an impressive resume from days long past. Mike has embraced new technologies to enhance the "DJ" experience. A loyal user of Abelton Live for the last 4 yrs, He weaves and layers an intricate mix of German techno, electro pop and dark house grooves alongside his own original productions. Like a true artist, Mike has managed to keep his sound fresh having not forgotten his roots and Vancouver's rich electronic herit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Nov. 16, 2006 withNick Argon Leading the North American charge into the pit of bass that is the dubstep experience, Nick Argon has turned the genre on its ear with a distinct take on the soundsystem music that's sweeping dance floors worldwide. Junglists may remember Argon Records as the label that helped unleash the notorious neurofunk stylings of Stratus, back in the heyday or North American jungle in the early naughties. Now, re-inspired by drums and bass he's dropping mad records and making dancefloors quake once a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Oct 12, 2006 with Deadbeat Montreal's dub-techno master Deadbeat returns after missing his prior engagement due to circumstances beyond everyone's control. He returns in virtual form to AoB with an exclusive recording from his live show at the New Forms Festival here in Vancouver. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Aug. 31, 2006 with Dangamouse Recent transplant from Scotland, and a member of the Tongue n Groove family, Dangamouse is known for throwing down virtually any form of breakbeat you can imagine. Hip-hop, dubstep, broken beats, drum'n'bass... it's all about the mashup to Dangamouse. You can hear more of him on Nu Skool Breaks Radio, and Subcity Radio (both available on the web). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Beatz - Aug 24, 2006 with Robin Judge An electronic artist from Canada, Robin carefully constructs scenarios that explore processes within the digital realm. She likes to focus on the subtle relationships between rhythm and texture, shaping auditory space. This show features a heap of new music that Tomas Jirku collaborated on from their new joint release. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website