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Plan Omega is composer-conductor Pierre Simard's electronic music project.

Guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and mandolinist from Vancouver Island, Canada. Attempting to translate my own labyrinthine thoughts, visceral feelings and otherworldly experiences into sound.

Riverside is a way of expressing reflections, dreams and fantasies through music. It is an idea for exposing emotions, for an escape from the grey or unnaturally overcoloured reality. It is music inspired by a time, a place, a thought and a word, a figment of their own and other people's imagination. It is joy and sadness, a whisper and a scream.

hard.times writes jazz grooves, lo-fi tracks, and hip-hop beats and records them to tape. Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada.

The campus-community radio station of Nanaimo BC. Run mostly by a small staff and volunteers from Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo and the mid-island community. Broadcasting over the Salish Sea from the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw.

Music listeners have always had a craving for modern music to take cues from the past. It takes a special musician to revive certain sounds and mesh them seamlessly with modern stylings within the twenty-first-century. Artemiy Orlov does it with ease. The twenty-one-year-old Ukrainian/Canadian producer fell in love with the electronic scene of his native European country, and upon moving to Ontario and the United States, he quickly became enthralled by the culture of the 1980s. Whether it was the flashy lights or the bursting colors, he knew he wanted his music to feel like it jumped straight out of a time machine while still capturing today’s essence. His synth-wave production meshes in distorted key progressions with grainy audio to give his record the age of a classic vinyl record. His 80s nostalgia shows as the beats craft an image of the time period, and Artemiy hopes to deliver the same feeling America delivered to him with every new release.

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