Urban is a State of Mind : Droppin' Science and the MixSometimes it's better when you have to try harderBy Magnus Thyvold  DJ Daemon Lethbridge isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of urban culture. It’s a small town in Alberta, after all. But committed music fans are found everywhere and sometimes when you have to try a little harder, the passion runs a little deeper. That’s the story with a couple of great hip hop shows on Lethbridge’s campus station CKXU 88.1FM. 
There’s nothing in this music and culture that doesn’t get me excited.- DJ Booda 
Droppin’ Science with DJ Booda and The Mix with DJ Daemon spin a mix of underground hip hop and old school every Tuesday night. Each show has it’s individual flavour, with Science (7:30 P.M to 9 P.M. MT) mixing in funk and soul, while the Mix (10:30 P.M.- 12 A.M. MT) adds in the tricksters of turntablism. If that’s not enough hip hop for you, sandwiched in between is another 90 minutes of beats with Oborn'n the Norm. That’s 4½ solid hours of hip hop. For DJ Booda the radio show is a respite from the more conservative fare he has to spin as a DJ in city nightclubs. “After playing so much of the ‘mainstream’ pop and hip hop, it is such a release to play some real hip hop and to have that freedom to express your love for the type of music you want to listen to!” For Daemon, there’s nothing he’d rather be doing; “I spend way too much time on my turntables...there’s nothing in this music and culture that doesn’t get me excited.” Whenever possible, Booda and Daemon try to incorporate interviews into their programs and have talked to the likes of Moka Only, Choclair, Brockway Biggs, Q-Bert, Red 1, Sweatshop Union and more. They are both trying a little harder and the listeners are the winners. DJ Daemon: http://www.myspace.com/dj_daemonDJ Booda: http://www.myspace.com/djbooda More hip hip radio gold: Straight, No Chaser on CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver, BC Dirty Needles on CJSW 90.9 FM in Calgary AB Sound Check Show w/ DJ Grouch on CHRY in Toronto ON Jeep Beats on CHUO 89.1 FM Live and Direct on CFMU 93.3 FM in Hamilton, ON |
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This Month
!earshot Top 200 of 2021For January to December 2021
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| TW | Artist - Title - (Label) | ||
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| 1 | TEKE::TEKE 
Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars) |
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| 2 | The Halluci Nation
One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) |
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| 3 | Chad VanGaalen
World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye) |
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| 4 | The Weather Station
Ignorance - (Next Door) |
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| 5 | Kiwi Jr.
Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club) |
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| 6 | Arlo Parks
Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive) |
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| 7 | Ada Lea
one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door) |
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| 8 | Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz
jooj two - (Mint) |
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| 9 | Suuns
The Witness - (Secret City) |
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| 10 | Andy Shauf
Wilds - (Arts & Crafts) |
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| Specialty Charts #1s | |||
| Electronic: | The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized) | ||
| Hip Hop: | Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released) | ||
| International: | Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep) | ||
| Jazz: | Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead) | ||
| Loud: | Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact) | ||
| Folk/Roots/Blues: | Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy) | ||
