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Hello friends and welcome back to BORP. For EP 53 Mickey and Tristan collectively accepted the demoralizing transition from summer to fall is in full swing. Mickey is handling this metamorphosis with the grace and dignity he is known for and Tristan is... coping. So really everyone is maturing.  Moving onto the show, for our album pick (11:50)  we listened to the 1996 snarling and pugilistic hip hop opus Wrath of the Math by Jeru The Damaja. For movie time with Tristan and Mick (1:18:20) we watched the psychedelic sci fi fantasy erotica of a trip, Heavy Metal. For New and Noteworthy (2:00:00) we check out some cool stuff from Cannons,  Sassy 009, Stereolab, and Circuit des Yeux. For Three Questions for Tristan (2:22:03), Mickey makes Tristan channel his inner hair metal fan and really just a bunch of other weird stuff. Find the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also find our EP 53 playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. Thanks for listening, don't forget to rate & subscribe and follow our IG page @beatsonrepeatpod for more from the show. 

Hello friends and welcome back to BORP.  Between adjusting to semi post pandemic summer activities, Mickey's continued furtherance of scholastic studies, and Tristan essentially moving to the beach to teach surfing to unsuspecting passers by despite barely being able to swim himself, it's been a while since we were able to get an episode finished. Luckily, what an episode it is for you all. Tristan is still at it nagging everyone with Covid regulation PSAs and Mickey busted out some truly stellar Chinese greet tea for this one. Our album pick this episode (15:36) is  Metric's 2003 debut LP,  Old World Underground Where Are You Now? Mickey and Tristan discuss the post 9/11 surveillance state and ever expanding millennial income gap that contributes to the anxiety and cynicism that permeates the album. For our film pick (1:11:15) we watched the 2018 Lars Von Trier film The House That Jack Built. Is it a bitting satire that critiques our normalization of violence, or is it self important pretension that delusionaly conflates fetishized abuse with high art? For New and Noteworthy (1:56:30) we check out music from Koreless, Rhye, Sleater Kinney, and Sau Poler. For Three Questions (2:22:48) Mickey tries to go easy on Tristan but Tristan bombs anyways. Find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and our website Midrange. Follow us at Beats On Repeat Pod for more content from the show. You can also find our episode playlist featuring all of the songs we discussed on Spotify and Apple Music. Thanks for listening! 

Hello friends, welcome to BORP EP 51 and get ready for some fun- sorry about the lame rhyme there. It's great to be back in the studio and sharing our hot, occasionally silly takes on music and film. Mickey is fully immersed in that micro dosing life but if you thought that would calm him down a little think again. Tristan had just returned from the mountains before recording so he's still shaking that Shining-esque cabin fever (note- we recorded this episode before the current pandemic travel restrictions).  For our album pick (12:30) we listened to the masterful and ambitious Dots & Loops by Stereolab. Tristan and Mick get into some heated discussions about what actually constitutes pop music in doing so- it's spicy! For our film pick (1:28:14)  we watched the 2015 art house (maybe) horror (definitely) film Green Room, and dive into the ideological implications of the characters in it. For New & Noteworthy (2:00:28) we checked out music from Nick Hakim & Roy Nathanson, Tkay Maidza, Sun June, and Spirit Of The Beehive. For Three Questions (2:20:38) Mickey takes Tristan on a trip down memory lane, but also makes him talk about hockey. Rude! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website Midrange. Do your thing with the likes, subscribes, and comments as the algorithm demands it. You can also find all of the tracks we discuss on our EP 51 playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. Thanks so much for listening! 

Hello friends and at last welcome back to BORP! after a long pandemic safety related hiatus we are finally back with the big EP 50! We're super excited to be back and have missed you all very much. After so long of not being able to record together Mick and Tristan spend time catching up on their newly hermetic life styles. Mick is drinking a lot more tea and Tristan mostly just wants to play with Pete The Cat. Because we've hit one of those fun mile stone episodes (where's our congratulatory letter from the queen?) we went with some extra special topics for this round. For our album pick (18:05) we listen to the colossal break up record, and Tristan's favourite album of the 2010s, Take Me Apart by Kelela. For our film pick (1:14:50) we watched the seminal, monumental, and towering anime epic Akira. We're equal parts mollified by the technical wizardry and the convoluted thematics but what a ride. For New and Noteworthy (1:57:20) we checked out tracks my Rósín Murphy, Jerry Paper, Playboi Carti, and Jeff Bryant. Moving on to Three Questions (2:25:02) Tristan reveals himself as the uncultured swine that he is but at least he likes trees. We had tons of fun recording in Mick's newly flexed out studio space and are pumped to be making new episodes again. Find the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our site Midrange. Also find our episode playlist featuring every track we cover in detail on Apple Music and Spotify. Thanks friends!

Hello friends, welcome to EP 49 of BORP- we are very excited to have you joining us today! As we transition firmly into Autumn, Tristan fills more and more with existential dread as the onset of winter approaches. However he does get to show off more of his sweaters. Mickey has elected to take a brief sabbatical from drinking in hopes of living his best life and having a shinier beard. You can't see because it's a podcast but it is absolutely working, oh wow. As such, it was just Tristan that brought a beer this time (9:20) which was an Xtra Pale Ale from one of the newer Vancouver spots, Academy Brewing. For our album pick (21:05) Mickey selected perhaps the most atypical and out there album we've ever had on the show. We listen to the minimalist piano ballad, spoken word collaboration by Chilly Gonzales and Jarvis Cocker titled Room 29. We debate if the album, focusing on the excesses of Hollywood, is deeply funny or morbidly sad. We landed on it being a lot of both. For movie time (1:20:35) Tristan selected one of the very best and progressive comedies of 2019, Booksmart. Our New and Noteworthy (1:48:25) selections cover tracks from Max D, No Joy, Molly Birch, and Nubya Garcia. For Three Questions (2:19:27) Mickey attempts to commune with Winter Tristan and it goes about as well as expected. Find the show on Apple podcasts and Spotify. You can also find our EP49 playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. Don't forget to check out our website Midrange, where we host all of our podcasts, and sign up for the newsletter. Follow us on IG to stay up to date on new episodes and learn what's good in music. Thanks for listening!

Hello friends and welcome to EP 48 of BORP! What a time to be alive, yes? Maybe don't think too hard about that. In this episode Tristan and Mick ponder yet again the coming Nickleback reckoning that all Canadians must one day endure. Mickey reminisces on the good old days of the east coast house scene in the 80s while Tristan tries to preemptively prevent Drake from suing us. Not today Drake! Mickey makes the mistake of bringing up Star Trek which segues, obviously, into Tristan discussing an essay he read about how earl grey tea is trash. Our beer picks this episode (7:10) had us checking out the Slow Hand Galaxy Pilsner and an exotic raspberry sour from Brewhall and we had a heck of a time with both of them. For album time with Tristan and Mick (22:54) we listened to -err- It's Album Time With Todd Terje, the nerdy as heck space disco fantasy from the Scandinavian DJ. Things took a turn for surreal and ridiculous paranoia for movie time (1:29:50), as we watched the 1988 John Carpenter cult classic They Live. We're here to to watch that never-ending fight scene and chew bubblegum; and we're all out of bubblegum. For new and noteworthy (2:12:48) we checked out stuff from Washed Out, Seu Jorge, Bully, and Khruangbin. For Three Questions (2:44:18) Micky busts out his hardest rapid fire yet and Tristan is still shaken. Find the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Midrange. Don't forget to rate and subscribe in exchange for good karma. You can also find our episode playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. Follow us on IG to stay up to date on all our episodes and the occasional pic of Pete The Cat. Hang in there kitties!