Episode 75 ~ The Breakdown Episode

Sometime things don't go your way. Sometimes things fall apart, literally. But sometimes this leads to random reconnections with ur extended podcast fam, the opportunity to party down with a DJ from a bigger radio station and a chance encounter with a formerly sponsored surfer. Plus I remix the situation for your techno enjoyment. 17:03 - Breaking (Local) News: -We're the first to drop the news that our main local bar, which shut down last year for renos (Jack's), is now back in business (as "the Hatch"). http://tofinoresortandmarina.com/ 28:20 - So the centrepiece of this week's episode is our techno-doc about an early-90s Toyota Tercel breaking down in Nanaimo just as CHLY's (@radio-malapsina)'s the Massive (themassive.ca/) comes to a close. Turns out I would get picked up by a dude who I put on the Frequency Horizon a few months back. He sounded stoked (although admittedly he was probably just happy to deal with a customer who wasn't completely pissed off for once). Hope you my sound design contribution: like the field recordings of birds, the background music and how I remixed conversation with Jack into a trippy electronic number. 48:38 - This week was not my week. Turned out the car was total garbage (the friendly Toyota dealership folks broke the bad news that the timing belt had gone). So I decided to focus on fixing my truck. In the process I got to meet AJ, a gearhead who, it turns out, is a surfer once sponsored by the illustrious Sitka (https://sitka.ca/). Hearing about AJ's journey to finish school and get back out to Tofino at some point helped make the bitter wrecked automobile pill that much easier to swallow. 59:54 - We tell you about how we took it upon our Frequency Horizon selves to put Tofino on the radar of the dude who foiled that giant ransomware attack. It was a huge success. Afterall a British surfer like him would absolutely love the West Coast -- I'm sure of it! 1:02:17 - Sadly, our station's mixer strikes again, and our plan to deliver a dope dubbed-out techno mix (or would it have been a tech'd-out dubstep mix... we'll never know) from Toronto ex-pat Laina was stymied. And for this I am truly sorry. But at least it fit with the theme of the episode, eh? Music: @jamie-xx-official @jonhopkins @zinc @tokimonsta @dimondsaints @oizo-mr-3000 @sylvanesso