This month’s Farmboy Podcast comes from JP Blanchet, who was born in New York but grew up in the Caribbean. He moved to Madison, WI in 1992 and promptly fell in love in with rave music. Seventeen years later and he’s still rockin’ the decks, having played in clubs all over Madison and Milwaukee. Enjoy a little sample his music in a special mix for this month’s Farmboy Podcast!

This month’s Farmboy Podcast comes from Tyler Quarles, a Vancouver based multi-disciplinary graphic designer working out of the Cartelera Talent House. He currently splits his time working with various clients, Dj-ing whenever he gets the chance and as Art Director of ION Magazine [www.ionmagazine.ca http://www.ionmagazine.ca] His work can be seen on coffee tables, clothing, snowboards, skateboards, business cards, store fronts, toilets, telephone poles, and online.

You can catch Tyler every Saturday night at the Granville Room in Vancouver, playing everything from indie rock to nu disco and everything in between. Stay tuned for upcoming gigs and graphic work at www.tylerquarles.com.

This month we are bringing a whole new flavour to the Farmboy Podcast with a special mix by DJ Degree One - recorded all in one take at a recent LIVE show!

Hailing from Victoria B.C. by way of Salt Spring Island, DJ Degree One has been a fundamental figure in the West Coast hip hop scene since 1990. Starting off in Victoria’s first recognized hip hop group, ‘Sound Advice’ as an M.C., he then launched the original ‘Spittin’ Rhymes’ radio show, broadcast on CFUV 101.9fm, a much listened to weekly radio show before the age of internet music! Degree made the move to rockin’ the turntables out at parties and clubs in ‘97. Progressing through the years he also became Victoria’s premier hip-hop concert promoter. He has shared the stage with some incredible DJ’s and now plays over 150 shows a year! For upcoming events and shows go to Degree’s blog here.

After a brief hiatus the Farmboy Podcast is back, bigger and better than ever! This month’s featured DJ is Rob Caruk.

He is part of the Low Motion crew which holds down one of Vancouver’s most forward thinking weeklies (Low Motion @ Back Room of Shine Thursdays). He’s been collecting dance music of all genres since the early 90’s. Speaking about this month’s Farmboy podcast he says, “I’ve created an eclectic mix of some of the styles I’m really into. A balance of downtempo disco for patient listeners with a dose of cosmic space groove and some New York infused house.”

This mix is definitely not to be missed!

Jamie Ward is an artist and musician from Austin, Texas. His silkscreened rockposters have been featured in print and film, and he can be heard DJing with Ken X as AIMLESS. For more information, please visit www.freedompuncher.com

This month’s podcast features DJ ToXiK. Now living in Vancouver Canada, he’s played some of the hottest clubs in India, Hong Kong and Kuala Lampur. It’s no wonder he’s garnered such a warm reception. This month he created a special blend of tribal progressive house just for our listeners. Check it out!

As always, our monthly Podcast also features an interview with one of our Farmboy contributing artists. Led by our “hostess-with-the-mostess” Fatima Travassos, this month’s featured artist is Trevor Cooper. With over 30 years in the photography world, Trevor started with Standard 8 movie cameras and has since progressed through technologies into the digital format he now explores. His work has been published in Powder Magazine, Ski Canada and a range of tourism magazines. According to Trevor, “Photography is about viewing the world through the lens of a camera. It’s all about creating images that tell a story. Whether it’s the opportunity of seizing a spectacular moment in time or the thrill of catching nature at its best. In one brief second, I have the opportunity to experience that moment, the excitement is sharing that with you.”

This Month DJ Mike Cross starts the mix resampling a request from our president Todd Towers (Todd’s current favourite Morrissey track). Enjoy Cross’ distinctive electro minimal sound.

This month we talk with Farmboy FIne Artist Stephen Wilde. Born in Vanderhoof, a city located in northern British Columbia, Canada, Stephen Wilde was raised milking cows but really just wanted to sit and draw. After spending a Summer in New York City with Annie Leibovitz he learned how to study humans and learned how to record their actions. That’s what Wilde loves to do. Study human actions in all types of situations. All types of countries. He’s been fortunate enough to have stockpiled maybe two lives worth of human studies from strange and lovely countries that one-day will be volumes of useful information. He now lives in Vancouver with his lovely wife Jet and really cute son, Ed. Despite the rain he still loves Vancouver. He doesn’t have to milk any cows or shovel any snow. See Stephen Wilde’s work at FarmboyFineArts.com

This month’s cast: An interview with Farmboy Featured Artist, photographer Laura Boston-Thek on her facinating nomaitc lifestyle, and a Glitch Pop music mix from the famed DJ Ill-esha.

DJ ill-esha is a vocallist, MC and DJ. She has headlined alongside artists such as De La Soul, Klute, Dieselboy, LTJ Bukem, and has performed in over 42 cities across North America and Europe, DJed on major television networks, and released top-selling vinyls on labels like Breakbeat Science, Outsider & Whisper Audio. Currently she represents drum & bass weekly on Bassdrive.com and performs with the Integrated Grime Unit. Ill-Esha.com

Photographer Laura Boston-Thek is perpetually reinventing a visual world. Born in New Jersey, she and her husband have been blessed to live most of their married life in Europe. rarely seen without her camera or her beloved Wheaten Terrier “Clover”. Laura creates a visual record of the amazing world and landscapes that surround her. See Laura Boston-Thek’s work featured at FarmboyFineArts.com

DJ Wyatt Agard sends us another eclectic electric music mix, and your host Fatima interviews this month’s Podcast, famed Farmboy Fine Arts artist/photographer…

Melissa Gidney,
“I like to photograph that which gets overlooked, or the everyday in such a way it warrants appreciation again. I like to open eyes, to inspire, just as my viewfinder does for me.”