- Grimes* - Butterfly
- Mozart's Sister* - Enjoy
- minimalviolence* - Body as Landscape
- Francesca Belcourt* - Kinda Bad
- Mourning Coup* - Baby Blue
- Tigerwing* - Frail Thing
- Bjork - lionsong
- Imogen Heap - Lifeline
- Kerli - Feral Hearts
- Astronautica - PNW
- Gavin Turek & TOKiMONSTA - Surrender
- Empress Of - Icon
- Låpsley - Hurt Me
- Georgia - Kombine
- FKA twigs - In Time
- Alison Wonderland - I Want U
It's International Women's Day on March 8! To prepare ourselves for the big day, this episode showcases female-identified artists who produce or co-produce their own work. While there's a bit more focus on the better-known producers, I've also managed to squeeze in a handful of emerging and relatively underground artists as well.
A lot of these artists have inspired me to take on the challenge of producing my own content...and also because previously I used to be very much into songwriting but couldn't find any collaborators for playing with and recording. :P So far I've been more of a producer for radio public service announcements and show promos, but I have also started producing more music-related stuff as well. I actually composed and produced the show intro track myself!
I also mention briefly that I've lived in Uganda and China, when I talk about how I came about discovering Bjork's music. I'll talk about my international and musical background some other time, in a separate episode.
As for discovering Bjork's music, I mention that my father got Bjork's CDs Post (which is actualy not her *second* full-length album, but third...sorry for the mistake!!) and Homogenic from the Icelandic ambassador in Uganda. That was when I was in middle school, but I didn't start listening to it until after my family and I moved to China and I went to high school there. I was more of an alternative rock fan back then, but while I was there I started listening to her and Kerli (who I've also played in this episode), which started the shift in my musical tastes towards a more electronic, more experimental, less guitar-driven direction.
In university, I started to get more into the electronic pop/indietronica that artists like Imogen Heap and Hot Chip were making - which explains my inclusion of Imogen Heap there. Most of the other artists in this episode, however, I didn't find out about until I started hosting radio at CJSF.
I personally can't help but wonder though: why does there still seem to be a lack of female representation in science and technology, despite changing times and attitudes towards gender? It could just be an interest issue, but there's also discouragement from others as well. I'm lucky to have parents who are encouraging me to go in a more technical direction career-wise; some others aren't as fortunate.
Next week I won't be hosting PulsarSounds live. Tune in March 19 for the next new episode; I'm hoping to do a mostly Francophone episode. I'll see if I have enough tracks! See you then.
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