SoundWave Music: April 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Soundwave Music Live on CFUR! Now on 7-8PM (Local Time) Wednesday

Starting next week, I'll finally have my radio show again all Summer. The tennatively confirmed time is 6-7PM (BC time) Wednesday's. I'm told there's another electronica show on the air too which has House music. My show deals with Trance and DnB with some House music as well as other genre's. So anything along the lines of those genre's is what I'll be playing.

As per usual, I'll be posting the playlists every week (hopefully beforehand or, at least, during) here on the blog so if you are interested in this kind of music (particularly if you've heard it for the first time and would like to know more about the genre), you have an ever expanding blog of referenced music right here in one convenient location.

In an effort to keep the music fresh, I generally play things only once a year (unless it shows up on my "Best Of..." shows) so it keeps the music extremely fresh and new for listeners in the area and you can look at this blog as a massive collection of song titles and artists rather than a small collection of tunes that just repeats every week or so.

Since this particular set of shows is about a year after my last shows, I'll be playing some old tunes, but trying to mix in some new tunes as well as there's a lot of tunes out there that I had wished I'd have played while on the air last time or during the time I was off the air. So, as always, let's see where this goes!

You can tune in locally at 88.7FM or listen to the internet feed found on the website at www.cfur.ca anywhere in the world! Enjoy the music! :)

-DJ Frozen IceCube

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Soundwave Could Return Next Week!

Yup, just spoke to the station manager and it's possible that the show could return as early as next week. The possibility sits at Wednesday evening, but please note that nothing is confirmed. Still, if I do make it on there and forget to post about it right before then, tune in to CFUR 88.7FM or on the web at cfur.ca. Really exciting stuff! I have been expanding my music collection and I've got some great new tunes that I can't wait to put on the air! :)

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Soundwave to Make a Comeback?

It could be true. Over this Summer, CFUR could once again have that well known DJ, DJ Frozen IceCube, returning to the airwaves.

I'm currently about to work with the station management to give this show a chance to be put back on the air. I'm hoping for by the end of April that I'll get my first show on the air, but who knows what'll happen?

The fascinating part is that I actually still get people telling me that the show was quite interesting. I asked them about mainstream radio and I get told that they hate it. Heheh. :)

Anyway, I thought I'd leak some news about this radio show since it's kind of been on the backburner for quite a while. If I get my show back, it'll be an all-Summer long show. As usual, weekly for an hour long. The format will be the same - Trance and DnB as the main genres with a few side genre's along the way - all electronica. All this kind of hinges on my ability to get back on the airwaves of course. I don't anticipate it being too much of a problem given the surprising popularity of such an indie-type radio show.

Anyway,
DJ Frozen IceCube signing out. :)

What is Soundwave Music?

This blog was set up because the URL for my other (now "master" blog) was a tad too complicated to say over the air. This whole concept was also put together with the idea of promoting artists - particularly unsigned artists as they are linked on each playlist - via the powerful promotional tool that is the internet. If you are a listener to the show, you'll know that I have mentioned this blog on the air a couple of times now. Guess what - you found it! Yay! All the music I play on the air is listed in this blog so you can check out the entire history of what was aired on the show. I personally had a problem way back in the day when mainstream radio actually played a half decent song or two and they only quickly mention the name of the track and move on so I have a good chance of forgetting the track. Rather than just forewarding the problem today on potential listeners of my show, I decided to make a dedicated blog which features the list (and links) to the music I played on the air so if you have that moment where you ask yourself, "Wait, that song was what again?" I got ya covered with this! :) This blog also features interesting things that happen during the shows (rarely a show where nothing interesting happens after all) For those who randomly stumbled onto this page via Google (or even found the link on my master blog and was led to this page... OK, or even possibly found the radio station, found the link on the schedual and now somehow managed to surf here still unsure what the heck this is all about) This is a blog dedicated for the radio show called 'SoundWave' It's a radio show on a campus station known as CFUR. In the time zone I'm in, it airs 6-7PM on Thursdays with a rebroadcasting at 3-4AM on Fridays. This is the time zone that British Columbia is in. If you're more familiar with the US map instead, it's the same time zone as California. It's a show dedicated to various genre's of electronica with it's chief genres in Trance and Drum N' Bass. The show also explores other genre's of electronica from time to time including psychadelic/goa-trance, hard trance, happy hard-core, experimental, dance, and much much more (at least one can only hope ;) ) I host the show and sometimes am able to pass comments along from the artists straight to the listeners. While CFUR is a station on the FM channel as well as on the Cable system, CFUR also has a live internet stream so anyone from around the world can listen in whenever they want. Just check out the CFUR website and you'll see the feature on the main page (top right corner of the page) A lot of the artists I promote post their own music online for free. I try and actively find musicians who do this because I think that they offer their music for free, therefore someone should be recognising the hard work they put in. Listeners can download the songs that are linked on this blog so they can listen to the music whenever they want. For the more commercial tracks, you can find most of the songs via www.beatport.com. Beatport also features a sample system where you can hear a portion of the song as well. I hope you enjoy the show though. Be sure to tune into my show. For those not really interested in electronica, CFUR also offers a huge variety of music including indie rock, pop, Hip Hop, Death Metal, Metal, etc. Just check out the schedual and click on the days of the week to see the descriptions of the music. It's unlikely you'll see a genre your interested that isn't already being aired at least once a week.

SoundWave Music