This is the very last episode of my show on my local college radio station....CJSW 90.9FM....I've been doing this show..in and out...for 5 decades...And over the years it moved through Tuesday Sunday and Thursday before being moved to Friday evening in 1993 to helm a night of groove that started at 6pm and ended well into the early hours of Saturday. That Friday became the envy of many a station in North America and still continues to this day. I lasted just short of 20 years, when I left for a long weekend and returned in 2017 to do a drive home show on Monday from 4 to 6. Unlike the Friday show, this particular incarnation of the Musiquarium was flawed....mainly because of the 35% Canadian Content regulations...it just sounded like two different shows. So feeling that I could take it no further...and with commitments that far outweighed the show...I thought I would end it at the end of March 2020 with a show that was what I really envisioned the Musiquarium to be all along....just an eclectic mash of sounds and styles that stimulate and confound in equal measure. Thanks to all for all the love over the years.
Tracklist:

1Bill Taylor I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Tower 
2Ian Dury Billericay Dickie New Boots & Panties Stiff
3Adriano Celatano Prisencolinensinainciusol Super Best Clan Celantano
Nature Stinger
4The Bees A Minha Menina Sunshine Hit Me We Love You
5EZ Rollers Walk This Land Storm From The East Moving Shadow
6Portugal The Man Feel It Still Medasin Remix mp3 Self-released
Breaking The Tethers Promo
7Doja Cat Say So Hot Pink RCA
Full Rotation Sample
8The Blackbyrds Rock Creek Park 12” Streetwave
9Tune Yards Bizness Whokill 4AD
Dirty Needles 
10ESG Make No Sense Come Away With ESG Soul Jazz
11Public Image Ltd Public Image 45 Virgin
12Pablo & Fay Bedroom Mazurka Skankin With Pablo Trojan
13Harry J All Stars Liquidator 45 Trojan
14Floyd James & The G.T.’s Green Onions 45 Original Gravity
15Spiral Staircase More Today Than Yesterday 45 Columbia
CJSW Four Letters Stinger
16Solange I Decided Part 1 Sol-Angel And The Hadley St. Dreams Geffen
17Lucifer & Co Eden 45 Disques Superfriends
18Japan Ghosts 45 Virgin
Lets Have Some Music Sample
19Ray Conniff & The Singers Windmills Of My Mind Franka Edit mp3 Self-released 
20Modern Jazz Quartet & The Swingle Singers Sascha Place Vendome Mercury
21Seelenluft Manila 10” Back Yard
22Kings Of Pressure Tales Of The Dark Side 12” Next Plateau
Knotted Roots Promo
23Bomb The Bass Bug Powder Dust Le Funk Mob Remix Rebirth Of Cool Phive 4th&Bdwy
24New Radicals You Get What You Give Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too MCA
Magic Stinger
25James Laid Laid Fontana
South Louisiana Gumbo Promo
26David Bowie Oh You Pretty Things Hunky Dory RCA
27Roxy Music Both Ends Burning Viva Island
28The Buzzcocks Moving Away From The Pulsebeat Another Music In A Different Kitchen UA
29Ralfi Pagan Make It With You 45 Wand
30Peter Cook & Dudley Moore Goodbye mp3 Self-released

Musiquarium

Sideshow Sid's Musiquarium - The End (1987-2020)

Byron Fredrick (aka Suncatjah) is a musician/producer from Calgary Alberta, Canada.  Playing keyboards and bass in local bands since the mid 1990’s, Fredrick’s musical projects have taken him over a wide musical landscape including Reggae, Soca, Rock, Funk, and Electronic.

In 2002, Fredrick committed to becoming more involved in production blending the styles he grew up playing with contemporary electronic music sensibilities.  With one foot in old world techniques and the other in the new, he explores the musical terrains of synth-driven dub & down tempo (as Suncatjah) and Deep/Tech-House (as Byron Fredrick).

Currently Fredrick continues to compose and play at live at events he helps curate in Calgary (as a founding member of the Oscill8 collective) showcasing artists he’s met locally and playing festivals in Western Canada including AEMCON (AB), Inshala (AB), Motion Notion (BC), Bulkley Valley Music festival (Smithers BC), Sequential Circus (Vancouver), Beakernight (Calgary) and VEMF (BC). 

Over the past 2 years, Fredrick has released music on Oscill8 (a label he helps co-manage) and other boutique labels (most notably Eyethought Records). For 2022, Fredrick plans to contribute to Oscill8’s volume 4 compilation and will release EPs under his Byron Fredrick and Suncatjah monikers.


At performances, audiences can expect a mixed tempo set starting deeply dubbed out gradually reaching a deep tech house destination. Expect both broken and 4 on the floor beats, a Rhodes lick here, a TB 303 groove there, bass... lots of bass... with deep synthpads from Operator's [Ableton’s] soundbank to bridge the gap between the old school and the new. All the while channeling his inner Lee "Scratch" Perry riding feedback loops created by delay upon delay.

For bookings or more information please contact: byronfredrick@telus.net

Producer/DJ hailing from Calgary, Canada.
Founder/Promoter at Team Awesome

Sideshow Sid's Musiquarium - The End (1987-2020)

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