Day 63: Bande A Part FM

My Best Guess: The very best in French-Canadian and electronic and dance music awaits you. From the latest techno beats rocking Montreal to the club music shaking Quebec City to all hours of the morning, we have it here on ???.

According to Sirius: A Radio-Canada channel dedicated to the best emerging Francophone pop, rock, electonica, hip-hop, punk and world music.

Curt's Rebuttal: First off, I wasn't able to read the logo on my Sirius receiver (it was too small and complex), so I had no idea what the name of this channel was. Secondly, I didn't hear any rock or pop...just electronic and dance (and maybe a little hip-hop). But...I did recognize it as French, so I have that going for me.

Sample Playlist:

• "Ecrivez-nous/Feedback": This is all the receiver said on my ride into work, although several French/Franglish songs were playing. Dusting off my four years of high school French, I knew that "Ecrivez-nous" meant "Write us," or...well..."feedback." Wasn't sure what that had to do with the music I was listening to, though.
• The music on the way home was pretty much all electronic and dance, with catchy titles such as:
• Still in Love, by The Stills
• J'te comprend, by Catburglaz
• Je sais mentir (maintenant), by Noemie Smith
• Plage 03, by Yomul Yuk
• Smily Walking Corpse 3, by Helico Bacter

High Point: Knowing there's a French musical group called "Catburglaz" and a song called Smily Walking Corpse 3. In a perfect world, the former would have performed the latter. Ah, well...now to find MP3s of Smily Walking Corpse and Smily Walking Corpse 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Verdict: Although I stood a better chance of understanding this station than the two previous Spanish-language stations, I still have to say that I've enjoyed the upbeat rhythms of Rumbon more than this...and if I didn't bookmark that one, this one will have to be passed up, too.