"Imagine un guitariste qui, tout à coup, commence à jouer des mélodies profondes et envoûtantes. Chaque accord, chaque note, semble vibrer dans l’air comme un appel. Les sons sont doux, remplis de tendresse, mais aussi un peu mystérieux, comme si la guitare elle-même était en train de raconter une histoire d’amour secrète. Ce sont des mélodies qui touchent et qui envahissent l’espace.

Mais voilà, les voisins, qui entendent ce flot musical, n’hésitent pas à réagir à leur manière : ils prennent leurs tambours et commencent à taper en rythme, comme pour ajouter une dimension festive, une sorte de percussion qui pousse le guitariste à oser davantage. C’est comme si la musique devenait un langage partagé, un signal, une invitation. L’un pousse l’autre à descendre de son appartement, à se laisser emporter par la musique, pour retrouver ce type inconnu qui attend quelque part en bas, dans une situation presque surréaliste.

Les Ombres d’un Passé Lointain

Writer/Director of the award winning documentary, "Wilfred Buck", Lisa Jackson joined Char on the Morning Show to chat about the film and what she hopes people take away from this inspiring elder from Manitoba. 

Lisa Jackson - Wilfred Buck Intvu Final Full

reefa w/ alias prod. d8cember

Since making a splash on our Shades Of Summer compilation in 2023, we have invited Cree for his first full original EP on the label comprising of two original tracks inspired by '90s Italian deep house alongside two remixes by Joe Morris. Altostratus captures the ethereal essence of the dream house genre, characterised by lush melodies and hypnotic rhythms. Joe Morris reimagines the tracks into slower, more laid-back versions, perfect for relaxed dance floors. Influenced by the soulful and atmospheric sounds of early Italian house sound, this release reflects a dedication to reviving and reinterpreting the genre for today's audience

https://shadesofsoundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/altostratus

https://soundcloud.com/joemorris

PREMIERE: Cree - Altostratus (Joe Morris Mix) [Shades Of Sound Recordings]

sampled from ethel cain’s a house in nebraska. 
made in fl studios.

ethelcain.chop

Trump's annexationist designs on Canada were the central issue in the country's elections this past week, which saw a victory for the intransigently anti-Trump candidate, Mark Carney. While this seems surreal after a generation of economic integration under NAFTA, the vast resources of Canada—especially hydrocarbons, water and energy—provide a long-term goad of conflict between the two giants of North America. The Pentagon does in fact have a contigency plan for an invasion of Canada, dating back to the 1930s. In Episode 276 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg explores the strategic and corporate agendas behind Trump's bellicose bluster.

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MAGA-fascism and the struggle in Canada

here's sort of part2 to my previous mix : LIKE THIS...
👉🏻https://soundcloud.com/jon_gray/like-this

yet more melodic, organic, deep, techy house, made for headphones

... it's LIKE THAT, and that's the way it is 
🔊 🎶 🎧 🎶 🔊

1. Massive Attack - Teardrop (Simon Doty Remix)
2. Lost Desert, Amari & Lee Burridge - Half An Hour
3. Death On The Balcony - Many Different Ways 
4. Pumbum - Retreat (PROFF's Extended Respray)
5. Danny Howells & Matt Masters - Elevate
6. Oh Wonder - All We Do (Simon Doty Remix)
7. Spieltape - Inside Out (Death On The Balcony Remix)
8. Andrea Oliva & Moeaike - I Love You So
9. Philippa - Blue Skies (Fouk Remix Instrumental)
10. Hollis P. Monroe - I'm Lonely (Laura Jones Remix)
11. Ivan Dbri - Debonair Brooklyn Ways
12. Love Unlimited Vibes - Luv.Five A1
13. Hipp-E & Lefthook - Satya SFD008
14. South Bloom - Let Me In (Volen Sentir Secret Technique)
15. Retza - Satya SFD006
16. Danny Howells - Shortwave (Mihai Popoviciu Remix) 
17. MiNNt Edit - Right On
18. Philippa & Jimpster feat MON - All I Wanted
19. Pandar - Carried By The Currents
20. M.ono - The Dreikaesehoch
21. Yoko O - 100%
22. Ivan Dbri - The Love I Own
23. Santos - Someone
24. COEO - Timid Dancer
25. Cree - Summertime
26. Emotional Tourist - Midnight Date

MAY 2025

more mixes @jon_gray

Like That

A cover of "No Where to Run" by Adrian Sutherland in dedication to my cousin Autumn Shaganash, missing since June 10 2023.

Nowhere to Run

"Starstruck" delivers a hard-hitting critique of greed, hypocrisy, and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples. D$ and Real Juan confront the legacy of stolen land, broken treaties, residential school trauma, and the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. They expose religious and political corruption, challenge shallow fame-chasing, and call for courage, truth, and spiritual integrity. It’s both a condemnation of injustice and a declaration of cultural resilience.

Twisted up prophets’ gold lined inner pockets
You even hide when they come collecting door knockin
We walking on stolen land justice system broken
No talkin residential school’s grammas soul stolen
Murdered Missing Indigenous Women it’s sickening
To think a pure infant grows to be a sinner killin 
Nurture verse nature God verse Creator
Love verses hatred your sermon is theater
Growin up biracial never conversations
Blame it on the vein who reign distain for validation
You shamed us shipped us off to reservations
Keep us in a box like the Blacks with segregation
A game? Not playin I’m standin here sayin
We are here never going away no makin us
Cause the trust that was had has long since rust
Busted and shattered by you a glutton for lust

By the fame and the fortune, they were Starstruck
They in it to be praised not the love
Their life priorities are twisted up
Once they’ve made a hit it was not enough
Breath of life breathed into the dust
They had a soul they could not corrupt
Who for or against only Yah could trust
By the fame and the fortune, they were Starstruck

Prayers over our grandmothers and our grandfathers
Teachings passed down to our sons and our daughters
Poverty and poisons the firewater
Agreements of the four fathers that were never honored
Not done in love Respect and honesty
Treat my heritage like somethings wrong with me
Rent is due this land belongs to me
They incarcerate us in the penitentiaries
Been happening for a couple hundred centuries
War on our culture and our families
So, it’ll take courage respect and bravery
Sacred wisdom truth and humility
In our spirits and minds and our bodies
Truth is we are dying in the streets
Our voice isn’t heard either or our needs
They came with Jesus and democracy

By the fame and the fortune, they were Starstruck
They in it to be praised not the love
Their life priorities are twisted up
Once they’ve made a hit it was not enough
Breath of life breathed into the dust
They had a soul they could not corrupt
Who for or against only Yah could trust
By the fame and the fortune, they were Starstruck

Written/recorded by D$, Real Juan
Produced by Profit Money Beats
Mixed/mastered by D$

The Reckoning

Starstruck (Prod Profit Money Beats)

"The Reckoning" — the EP’s title track — captures the heart of the project, fusing emotional honesty with spiritual fire. D$ and Real Juan wrestle with love’s dual nature, faith’s refining heat, and the personal battles that shape who we are, turning vulnerability into strength and clarity.

You bring out the best and worst in me
Is it your love that’s hurtin me
I treat this like an emergency
Face my feelings the reckoning

Feel you in my soul whole hearted dearly departed
Auctioned off my thoughts “Lost” Mathew Fox honoured
Rearranged the stranger things in my mind
“No Time 2 Die” the wire walk in life is something of the wild
The anger bubbles trouble cause I’ll put you in check
You bet best believe this vet of depression
Is teachin lessons cherished visions of the past fade in time
But your love shines clearly two faces of the same coin two different minds

You bring out the best and worst in me
Is it your love that’s hurtin me
I treat this like an emergency
Face my feelings the reckoning

That I am what I am Yah gets the credit
With the tough love so you don’t forget it
Ruah Ha Qodesh steps in if you let it
Want something real well come get it
Love filled with passion that sparks a reaction
Fire in your bosom falls into your lappin
Believe in miracles waiting for it to happen
Satisfaction of seeing love in action

You bring out the best and worst in me
Is it your love that’s hurtin me
I treat this like an emergency
Face my feelings the reckoning
You bring out the best and worst in me
Is it your love that’s hurtin me
I treat this like an emergency
Face my feelings the reckoning
You bring out the best and worst in me
Is it your love that’s hurtin me
I treat this like an emergency
Face my feelings the reckoning

Written/recorded by D$, Real Juan
Produced by D$, Real Juan
Mixed/mastered by D$

Award-Winning Writer/Director Hayley Morin joins us on the day that her documentary, "Under the Arbor" debuts on CBC Gem. In the interview, Hayley shares why she wanted to make the doc, which highlights the lives of several Cree dancers and Singers on the Treaty 6 Pow Wow circuit. 

Award-Winning Writer Director Hayley Morin talks with Char about her "Under the Arbor" doc

Courage

This is a love song sung half in English and half in Cree with melodic techno, deep house and progressive vibes.  Please like and repost and let me know what you think of this track.  Thank you for your support.

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Mistahi Kisâkihitin (I Love You So Much)

An interpretation of a Cree / Ojibwe song, from Manitoba Canada.  The new arrangement is preserving original song structure and phrases.  This song is part of an EP or essay of sorts taking songs of my people and bringing them into an electronic music context.

This song was recorded off the studio mixer and involved the following instruments:
- Soma Terra
- Roland SH-101
- Erica Synths Perkons
- Moog DFAM
- Roland RE-201

Gathering Song (jTear Sunrise Version)

What lives in the spaces between dreams and apocalypse? Two authors discuss their books on Indigenous media: Karrmen Crey, whose Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada considers the political and cultural conditions that enabled the proliferation of Indigenous media across Canada in the early 1990s. The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, William Lempert’s Dreaming Down the Track delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a transformative community process. Crey and Lempert are joined in conversation here about the process of preserving community stories and enacting sovereign futures.



Karrmen Crey is associate professor of Aboriginal communication and media studies in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Crey is author of Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada and coeditor (with Joanna Hearne) of By Their Work: Indigenous Women’s Digital Media in North America.


William Lempert is Osterweis Family Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College and author of Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema.




REFERENCES/MEDIA:
Donna’s Story (film)
Indians + Aliens (reality television series)
The Visit (animated documentary short)
Tjawa Tjawa (film)
Rutherford Falls (sitcom)


REFERENCES/PEOPLE:
Mark Moora
Faye Ginsburg
Jesse Wente
Doug Cuthand
Donna Gamble
Lisa Jackson
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Jeff Barnaby
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Cynthia Lickers-Sage
Taiko Waititi
Foucault
Coulthard
Audra Simpson


REFERENCES/OTHER
Mark Rifkin / Beyond Settler Time
ImagiNATIVE Australia


Karrmen Crey’s Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada and By Their Work: Indigenous Women’s Digital Media in North America (a collection co-edited with Joanna Hearne) are available from University of Minnesota Press. Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema by William Lempert is available from University of Minnesota Press, and has an open-access edition through Manifold.

Indigenous filmmaking and futures

"cree"

ella viene cuando le conviene
ser gentil contigo te conviene
perdon por no poder contestar dm
no siempre te va a gustar lo que se obtiene
igual yo lo voy a hacer
ya no hay mas excusas yo lo hago para crecer
aunque quieras verme nunca mas me podras ver
siempre estoy cambiando ahora lo puedes creer,cree
aunque ya no quede nadie, cree
aunque solo queden dos, cree
cuando te quedes sin aire, cree
cuando escuches mi voz, cree
escucha tu interior
no me hagas caso, hazle caso a tu yo
no hay nada afuera, todo esta adentro
no me pongas peros siempre puede ser mejor
ella viene cuando le conviene
ser gentil contigo te conviene
perdon por no poder contestar dm
no siempre te va a gustar lo que se obtiene
igual yo lo voy a hacer
ya no hay mas excusas yo lo hago para crecer
aunque quieras verme nunca mas me podras ver
siempre estoy cambiando ahora lo puedes creer,cree
cree,cree,cree,cree
cre,cree,cree,cree
cree,cree,cree,cree
cree,cree,cree,cree.

cree - single

cree

cree!

CreeLife

MC/producer D$ (formerly Endangered Logik) creates honest, introspective hip-hop shaped by underground roots and raw life experience. Influenced by 2Pac’s truth and Will Smith’s storytelling, he crafts music that hits deeper. From Today’s Yesterday to In Business, and now Greatest Hits, it’s always been growth over gimmicks.

 My name is Jeremy Moore, I am from Timmins, ON, Canada. Here I post recordings my wife and I do, as well as, stuff I record with my friends, enjoy! 

Not a single sensible Track made. 
You might want headphones Ngl

“music gives a soul to the universe, 
wings to the mind, flight to the imagination 
and breathes life into fucking everything bruv"
― Plato

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My name is Moskalus and i run a YouTube channel and upload music regularly.
Booking/Contact/Promo/Submissions
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Just a guy that REALLY loves music!

Resident DJ for We Get Lifted, Club Rmx Radio and Profound Radio.

I mix House, D&B, Hip Hop, Trance, and Techno. Check out my 2 YouTube channels, Instagram & Facebook by clicking the link. 👇
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