April 2025 Spin Challenge – Well, this is puzzling…

Day 11 - Spin an artist with an upcoming release you have on pre-order. Or, spin any record that you pre-ordered.


City Girl - Neon Impasse

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Preordered on Bandcamp thanks to word of mouth from N&G back in 2019. Lo-fi hip hop/beats. I rarely preorder records now; too easy to get burned from at least one factor. Looking back now, kinda glad I did here as this fetches high on resale market.

 
Day 12 - April 12 is RSD! Show us your haul or spin any RSD release from any year that you own


Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom EP

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Huge thank you to Ericj32 for saving the day on RSD 2020. I dislike RSD greatly in general, but there might be the occasional one release every year that might be interesting to me; this event is generally unhelpful to DJs with everything priced out the ass.
Now that I think about it, RSD 2020 has been my only RSD.



Charli got that trophy (three Grammies, in fact!) 🥲
 
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Day 20 - It’s 4/20. Spin a release by an artist known to partake, a song that mentions smoking or a record that has smoke in its cover art

Bran Van 3000 "Glee" (1997 Audiogram; 2018 reissue)
"Mama don't smoke that much dope, don't you worry about me" sings Montreal's James Di Salvio on Bran Van 3000's first album Glee, covering today's prompt. The album is a mish mash of various influences and sounds which somehow manages to gel together as a whole. Hip-Hop, rock, jazz and funk collide. The iconic hit "Drinking In LA" brought the audience, but other great tracks abound: "Everywhere", "Afrodiziak", "Rainshine" and the zany cover of "Cum On Feel The Noise", notably. An essential 90's Canadian alternative record. 🍁

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Day 16 - The Temple of the Dog album is released on April 16, 1991. Spin any supergroup or collaboration, a song that is a tribute to another artist, or any artist who appeared at a tribute concert.

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

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Day 21 - Band / Song that you heard played at a record store or anywhere in public, or one that you’ve had stuck in your head recently.

Feist "Let It Die" (2004 Arts & Craft; 2018 club reissue)
When I decided I was going to do a Canadian month, I looked through my collection to inventory what I had and obviously Feist was on the short list. At that moment, her song 1234 came into my head immediately (love the rendition of that she did on Sesame Street!). And then soon after, the "pa pa pa pa pa pa pa" hum from One Evening off this record stuck with me for a while. Love that track so much. This album is one of the keepers from my VMP years. You can hear Paris (it was recorded there) in these jazzy pop songs, notwithstanding the fact that she sings a few in French. An aside: the rendition of It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken she did with the surviving Tragically Hip members at the 2021 Juno awards is sublime and so touching. I'm not sure anyone else could have done Gord justice like this. Feist comes from Nova Scotia and was raised in Saskatchewan and Alberta. 🍁

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