SIGNING OFF

So ends the Electric Sound Basement, in its current form. This week was out last show. I'm relocating for a while, so I won't be able to continue on CIUT. I will, however, try to get some DJ sets out there, and will more than likely have a brand new blog going in a couple of months time, with perhaps a podcast. Please check back for more info in the coming weeks and months.

It's been a blast sharing tracks with you over the airwaves over the past few years, and I'll miss the thrill of walking into the studio every Tuesday at 5pm, waiting to press the buttons as the preceding show comes to an end. To all of you who called me to give props, or sent me emails, and especially those who sent in some hard earned cash during our fundraising drives, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

- Guy Stevos



ESB PODCAST 9/16/09

PONY PONY RUN RUN - Hey You (NROTB Remix)
KIDS ON TV - Raw Raw Raw (Kids On TV vs Glamour Soundsystem Remix)
THE VIRGINS - Rich Girl (Hemingway Remix)
YACHT - Psychic City (Joe Goddard Remix)
ROVE DOGS - Innocence Lost
EROL ALKAN & BOYS NOIZE - Waves
VILLENEUVE - Oh No (Puzique Remix)
MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker
LA ROUX - Bulletproof
DIGITALISM - Taken Away
PETER, BJORN & JOHN - Nothing To Worry About (Woodhands Remix)

Lot's of stuff to check out the next couple of weeks. First thing's first...

Our old friends from the sadly defunct and sorely missed Keep Six Gallery are bringing their Explicit Fantastic series to the Metro Porn Theatre!



EXPLICIT FANTASTIC presents 80s GLAM PORNO SLAM
Metro Theatre, Friday Sept 18
ft. Kids On TV, Henri Faberge & The Adorables,Maylee Todd's Sweatshop Hop, Mellee Fresh, Vaneska, and Spyda Brown

We had John from the Kids On TV drop by the show this week to play some new tracks. See below!

Also, this weekend, the TIFF edition of More Proof at the Drake Underground! Featuring an unprecedented conglomeration of EVERY More Proof DJ, including Pilotpriest,who's just been added to the bill! CFCF and Scott Seewhale of Nacho Lovers in the lounge upstairs! Last call at 4am!!! Aw, hellz yeah!



ESB PODCAST 9/9/8

WALTER JONES - Living Without Your Love
JAMES CURD - We Just Won't Stop
CANYONS - Fire Eyes
SALLY SHAPIRO - Moonlight Dance
PELIFICS - Forever (Hemingway Remix)
KIDS ON TV - Poison (Siquemu Remix)
KIDS ON TV - Still On About Keith Cole
KIDS ON TV - Goodbye Horses
KIDS ON TV ft. Angie Reed - Breakdance Chix (Firsalon Remix)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT******

The time has come to let y'all know...

The Electric Sound Basement will be doing its final show on CIUT at the end of this month. Your host, Guy Stevos, is moving to France for an indefinite period. While I'm thrilled to be exploring new places, and meet new people, I will most certainly miss, with a deep langour, the environs of CIUT, and its beloved listeners. Thus, with a heavy heart, I announce my departure from this show that has been a weekly staple in my life, and hopefully for some of you as well, since 2003.

As for the content of this month's shows, there will be no goodbye-style broadcasts of favourite moments, or best-of selections. ESB was never about that. We'll end the show exactly how we've been doing it since it began: with new tracks that you've never heard before.

I will continue, from my abode in rural France, to do a monthly DJ set, and if I can get it together, a podcast may be in the works...and as tempted as I am to make you that promise, I won't, for fear of breaking it. BUT...The Electric Sound Basement will still exist in some form, and this blog will by all means live on, even if for a while it's merely on a sporadic basis.

In any case, we've got one show left so let's make the most of it.

No ESB this week...last week's show has been rebroadcast instead.

We'll be back as normal next week.

Finally got a chance to chill with Dan Haid in the studio today. It was really cool to hear his take on some of the more cerebral aspects of track making. He's classically trained, and from what I gather, he wandered into electronic music through film score work, finding himself saving time and money by working with synthesizers in lieu of live instruments. We got to listen to a brand new track as well, and some collabo work with his friend Pete Huang. They go by the name Banger and Mash, not to be confused with the UK's Bangers & Mash, or for that matter the delicious breakfast.


ESB 09/8/25

TIGA - Shoes (A Bang Gang Hot Shoe Remix)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - 45:33 (Prins Thomas Discomiks)
FARE SOLDI - Il Vecchio E Il Mullet (Rodion Remix)
DON CASH - Take It To The Top

(Dan Haid Guest Segment)

DAN HAID - Listen And Learn
DAN HAID - Deja Vu
DAN HAID - No Coincidence
WHITE STRIPES - Seven Nation Army (Dan Haid + Pete Huang Remix)

Checked out the last Bush League show under a bridge.



Nothing says Toronto summer like a good Extermination-style troll party.



Lots of sweat and moshin'.



Long live summer!



More pics here, here, and here.

ESB PODCAST 8/18/09

BOSTRO PESOPEO - Falls (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR - I Can't Wait
TIGA - Beep Beep Beep (The Emperor Machine Remix)
DOWNTOWN PARTY NETWORK - Walk On Ice
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
COLIN MUNROE ft. Joell Ortiz - Piano Lessons
FAN DEATH - The Constellations (CFCF Remix)
FAN DEATH - Cannibal
TAKEN BY TREES - Sweetness of Air France
MIIKE SNOW - Animal (Peter, Bjorn & John Remix)

ESB PODCAST 8/11/09

MYLO - Macrobiotic
EROBIQUE - Endorphinmachine
MOCK & TOOF - Underwater
WOOLFY - Odyssey
BLACK METEORIC STAR - Death Tunnel
FAN DEATH - The Constellations (Brassica Remix)
DELPHIC - This Momentary (Parallels Remix)
THE CANSECOS - Raised By Wolves (Parallels Remix)
THE UNITS - High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix)
COLIN MUNROE - Start A War
THE VERY BEST - Warm Heart Of Africa (Metronomy Remix)

Last Thursday, we broadcasted live from Hart House's Craft Beer BBQ. Everyone got really shitfaced on free Ontario beer and ate lots of sausage. Kenny Hotz of Kenny vs. Spenny dropped by our tent, and I told him about the time Spenny was a total dick to our radio station. Live sets by Bonjay, Everything All The Time and Grahmzilla of Thunderheist were all amazing. Download their sets:

Everything All The Time
Grahmzilla
Bonjay





ESB PODCAST 8/4/09

TIGA - Beep Beep Beep
CASSIUS - Youth Speed Trouble Cigarettes
VITALIC - Your Disco Song
DUCK SAUCE - Anyway
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO ft. Beth Ditto - Cruel Intentions
SUBWAY - XAM
SALLY SHAPIRO - Love In July (CFCF Remix)
MOCK & TOOF - Brown Bred
GUILLAUME & THE COUTU DUMONTS - Night In Kage
EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME - Lazy Days