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Operation Manatee Music Prize 2022: The Long List

The amount of excellent new music being produced these days is staggering. I’m sure COVID played no small part in this: musicians on lockdown collaborating over email and dropbox for months or years, then suddenly being able to go out and play again. I know I’ve said it before but if nothing else, the past 2+ years have provided us with a lot of great music!

The long-running, highly-coveted Operation Manatee Music Prize Long List is here!

This is my own wrap up on 2022! This is a list of stuff that got repeat listens or deep dives from me. I figure I’ve listened to around 249 days x 9 hours = 2241 hours of almost entirely new music(based on listening during work days – not counting any other listening, ie, car, morning, evening, etc.)!

With that in mind, in an attempt to keep this list from growing out of control (as it’s been known to do in the past), there are so many really good albums that just aren’t listed here. That said, the ones below are my faves. Have a listen. Anything great you heard this year that I missed?

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Operation Manatee #375

  1. Melted Bodies – Therapy
  2. Bierbabes – Partytram
  3. Akawui – Breath of Fire
  4. Kid Koala – Jump & Shuffle (live at the Hardware Store)
  5. Ada Rook – Gravity Weapon
  6. Killer Mike – TALK’N THAT SHIT!
  7. Gonemage – Father Times Grandfather Clock
  8. Men I Trust – Billie Toppy
  9. Ofdrykkja – Hårgalåten
  10. Loxy & Resound – Divine Light
  11. Carl Sanders – Skullfuck Ritual

Operation Manatee #374

Tune in from 11:00 to Midnight tonight for the good stuff!

  1. Run The Jewels – Ju$t (Toy Selecta remix)
  2. Royce Wood Junior – Slush
  3. Alestorm – P.A.R.T.Y.
  4. Hubert Lenoir – VILLE MARIE a
  5. Propter Hawk – Theatre of the Whole World
  6. Andy Shauf – Wasted On You
  7. Sparta – Spiders
  8. Ela Minus – P​á​jaros en Verano
  9. Keys n Krates – Get Up
  10. Twin Carbon / Incognito
  11. SW2 ft Yoni Mayraz – Incognito (ZeroFG Remix)

Operation Manatee #372

We made it! We’re back from that weird otherworld, just in time for Operation Manatee. Tune in from 11:00 to midnight for some music and good times.

  1. The Beaches – My People
  2. David Myles – Mystery
  3. Mobley – Themesong
  4. The Beths – Silence is Golden
  5. Baby Mullet – Tea
  6. Theon Cross – Wings
  7. Death From Above 1979 – Don’t Stop Believing
  8. Rich Aucoin – Algorithm
  9. The Steadies – Can’t Stop Dancin
  10. Avantdale Bowling Club – F(r)iends

BEEP BOOP ZORK! OPERATION MANATEE #371 FFFradiothonZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZspecialSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH

I’d better type this quickly. I don’t know how much time I have until the next “event”.

Not even sure what happened! We seem to have entered a fourth dimension or alternate universe! Cory and I have been turned into some kind of robotic monsters! What bizarre force caused this weird calamity? More importantly, can we use weird music to get back?

Tune in tonight from 11:00 to midnight to find out.

Operation Manatee #370

Hey we’re back! Another Tuesday night in the Queen City – sans “queen” now. Maybe we should also retire that nickname now. Back to the “City that Rhymes with Fun” I guess.

It’s almost Radiothon time again, but before we jump into the annual CJTR fundraiser, we have another episode of new, top-of-mind radio goodness. Tune in at 11:00 pm MST on 91.3 FM within city limits or online at http://www.cjtr.ca/listen.

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Operation Manatee #368

Two in a row is always an accomplishment these days!

We’re on the air, live at 11:00 pm in Regina or online at http://www.cjtr.ca/listen. You can catch us doing the radio thing – we play the music, we thank the sponsors, we try not to fall asleep and most importantly, we try to put the words in a witty order as engaging as we can!

Now THAT’s a hype line!

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