Music, musings and miscellanea

Last winter I got the chance to speak with Toronto mash-up wizard, Josh Raskin, AKA Kids & Explosions. His record, Shit Computer built off the pop song mashes of Girl Talk, ditching Greg Gillis’s club-set party jams for songs  that stood on their own.

Now Raskin, an Oscar nominated filmmaker (for doc short I Met the Walrus) has teamed up with Justin Broadbent andAlex Kurina to create “Canadian Song Contest” an audio-visual tribute to this year’s Polaris Prize shortlist nominees. Taking one track from eight of the ten nominated albums, Raskin created a new 3:44 track. You can check it out below, and at the bottom is a list of the songs he used.

Sources:

“Lemonade” from Native Speaker by Braids

“Diesel” from Tigre et Diesel by Galaxie

“Parson Brown” from Seeds by Hey Rosetta!

“Red Horse (Judges II)” from New History Warfare Vol. II: Judges by Colin Stetson

“Darken Her Horse” from Feel It Break by Austra

“Love Shines” from Long Player Late Bloomer by Ron Sexsmith

“Sprawl II” from the Suburbs by Arcade Fire

“Black Water” from Creep on Creepin’ On by Timber Timbre