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The Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) is just around the corner, running from April 17–27, and this week, your show host Cosm is diving headfirst into the lineup to bring you his top ten must-see films at this year’s fest. Whether you're a long-time CUFF-goer or brand new to the weird and wonderful world of underground cinema, Cosm’s picks will help you navigate the boldest, quirkiest, and most unforgettable titles on offer.

From cult-worthy horror to groundbreaking docs and offbeat comedies, he’s covering the full spectrum of what makes CUFF one of Calgary’s most beloved cultural gems. Plus, you'll get the inside scoop on some of the fest’s other can't-miss events and screenings.

Tune in, take notes, and get ready to fill your watchlist. For the full lineup and to snag your tickets, head to calgaryundergroundfilm.org.

Timeless

Instrumental album showcase: Bradford Thomas - Bradventure 13

Playlist:

• 14KT, featuring Buff 1 - What Chu Mean?
• Tha Alkaholiks - At It Again
• Awon & J Brom - Learn to Love
• R.A.P. Ferreira - Rather Difficult
• ScienZe - Beautiful Love
• Midan, Mr Käfer - Cachasamba
• 1999 WRITE THE FUTURE, The Pharcyde - Timeless
• Aesop Rock - Checkers
• Raz Fresco & Futurewave, featuring Daniel Son - Steve Austin
• FuHandz, featuring Rim - Wrong Formula
• Neak & Cam Be - Live Like It's No Tomorrow (It's Time To Live)
• Sonnyjim & Kong the Artisan, featuring Lord Sko - Idiot Savant
• Stan Ipcus & Jason Griff, featuring Marcus Pinn - Stand Back
• Crunch Calhoun, Mike & Keys - Breaking News
• Vitamin D, featuring I Self Divine - Negus Suit
• Illpo x Kev Kaous - Cheers
• Verbz & Zar - Is It Really?
• Pawz One, Mister CR, & Blu, featuring Note the Rydah - Talkin Restless
• uMaNg & Melvin Junko - The Natural
• Chill Rob G - Shots Fired
• Milano Constantine - Moon Dancin
• Jinnahcide, featuring Masta Ace & Wordsworth - Remain Strong
• North Side Will, featuring Ghostface Killah - Dopeman
• MC Wicks, featuring Planet Asia & Equipto - Punch Ya Face
• Sargeant & Comrade - Old Familiar Feelin'
• Jeff the Fool, featuring Phat Kat - Cool Uncle
• Sayzee & Kardinal Official - Verbal Intercourse
• Breathless & nODDyODD - Understand
• Grand Official, featuring KRS One - Respect
• Death At the Derby - Hechos En Mexico
• Ghostboyrj - Black & Blue

Fire At The Philharmonic

Instrumental Album Showcase: Ant - Collection Of Sounds Vol. 4

Playlist:

• Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, featuring Posnous - Stand Well Well (Grand Stand Version)
• Create-A-Mess, featuring Ghettosocks & Nilla - Fly Humans
• Errol Eats Everything, featuring K-Riz - Be Out
• J-Live - Recognize Real
• Godfather Don & Jazz Spastiks - Straight From the Gutter
• MindsOne, featuring DJ Iron - It's All Family
• Moka Only & Recognize Real - Same Ol' Song
• Blame One & Preed One - Go Time
• Lex, featuring Apani - Kill It With Love
• Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point - Doing What I Gotta Do
• Redman, featuring Method Man - Lalala (DJ Premier Remix)
• J-Live - Back to the Essence
• Mike Flips - Coasting
• Es - Maintain
• BusCrates, featuring Princess Nostalgia - The Prize
• Droogie Otis (Madlib & Your Old Droog), featuring Boldy James - Everything Designer
• The High & Mighty, featuring Your Old Droog & Geebag - Rose Bowl (Jim Sharp Remix)
• Henry Canyons & Fresh Kils, featuring Shrapknel - PulseCheque
• Shylow - Ya Timez Up
• Thrust OG & Frankenstein - Set It Off (Frankenstein Deluxe Mix)
• Len-Dor & Pro Logic, featuring FRaction & Pro Logic - Bullpen
• Krohme, featuring Backwood Sweetie, Kenilworth Katrina, & Indigo Phoenyx - LiveFromTheBasement
• HDXMM (Honey Dinero & Mura Megz) - Soul Assassins
• J Scienide, featuring Opio & DJ Jon Doe - Krush Groove Kangol
• Hus Kingpin - Flashing Life
• Lord Sko, featuring Grand Puba - Girbaud Talk
• Ill Clinton, featuring Daniel Son - One Way Ticket
• Fuzzy Ed, featuring Lu Chin Chen - The Talking Forrest
• Bishop Brigante - That's The Way
• Fresh Daily - Made With Love (For Aya)
• Blu & August Fanon, featuring Kota The Friend & R.A.P. Ferreira - Happy
• Coast Contra & Marco Polo - Shanghai Tower
• Junclassic - Sacrifices
• Moka Only - Do U A Solid
• PremRock, featuring Pink Siifu - Steel Wool

A Galactic Love Supreme

Instrumental album showcase: Lord Finesse - The SP 1200 Project: Sounds and Frequencies in Technicolor

Playlist:

• Wu-Tang Clan & Mathematics - Mandingo
• Talib Kweli & J. Rawls, featuring Black Thought, Posdnuos, Mike G, Afrika, & Busta Rhymes - Native Sons Pt. 2
• Murs - Flowers For Will.I.Am
• Godfather Don & Jazz Spastiks - Kick the Ballistics
• BusCrates, featuring T.R.A.C. - For All Those
• Len-Dor & Pro Logic, featuring Shark the S.O.B. - Soup
• Sankofa, featuring ACT-1 - 2Pop Shakur
• Harry Shotta, featuring Fliptrix & Verb T - Legendary
• Blame One & Preed One - I And I
• Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point - Life or Death
• Len-Dor & Pro Logic, featuring Shua James - Lies of Life
• Coast Contra x Marco Polo - Been a Minute
• Amazing Maze , featuring Smif-N-Wessun & Sean Price - All Time Great
• RA7KNG x DJ Kawon - 92 (The Year I Was Born)
• Hairline Brothers (Supervisor x North$ide Dro) - What They're For
• Andreas Haley & Custom Made, featuring Philmore Green & Vic Spencer - Bob Barker
• The Musalini & DJ Skizz, featuring Fashawn & Planet Asia - Gold
• Odario, featuring Mad Professor & Yolanda Sargeant - The Situation
• Smif-N-Wessun, featuring Pharoahe Monch - Medina
• Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist - LLC
• Previous Industries (Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave & Still Rift), featuring Pep Love - West Coast Video
• Fly Anakin, featuring $ilkmoney, Quelle Chris, & Big Kahuna OG - My N****
• Bloo Azul & Sherman - Fund A Mental
• Che Noir & Superior - Revelation
• Tona, featuring Sayzee - Wave Grease
• DNTE - Lucky You
• Doodlebug & 80 Empire, featuring Shabazz Palaces - Deliveries
• Da Flyy Hooligan - Poppin
• J Scienide - Ain't Shit
• Create-A-Mess, featuring Oxygen & Emskee - Planet People
• Create-A-Mess, featuring Jack Jones & Eddie Meeks - Gramaticals
• Daniel Son & Ghost Notes - T.O.
• Tom Caruana, featuring Jehst - Hits Hits Hits
• DJ Design, featuring Gennessee - I Wanna Be Free

Dracula's Piano

Instrumental Album Showcase: Blockhead - It's Only A Midlife Crisis If Your Life Is Mid

Playlist:

• N/A - The Main Ingredient Intro
• Fuzzy Ed - Memories on VHS
• Thrust OG & Bofaat - Set It Off
• Black Milk & Fat Ray - Talcum
• Illpo x Kev Kaous - Hot Saki
• DJ Premier & Roc Marciano - Armani Section
• Doam Peace & William Bostick - Booking Rooms
• The Bad Seed & Murda Megz, featuring LR Blitzkrieg - Watermelon Chunx
• Queen Herawin, featuring Apathy & Mickey Factz - Manifest
• Thrust OG, featuring Frankenstein - Reminisce (Remix)
• The High & Mighty, featuring Mad Skillz - Sixers & Squiers
• Brutal Ceasar & Reks, featuring Tone Spliff - Dominate
• Shylow, featuring Franchise - Opportunism
• Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point, featuring Jay Royale - Life or Death
• Create-A-Mess, featuring J Scienide & Eddie Meeks - Denmark Hill
• Sadat X - Sun
• Grand Official, featuring Teflon, Lil Fame, & Adlife - Supreme
• Seven Da Pantha x D.R.U.G.S. Beats - Itz On Me
• Recognize Ali & Stu Bangaz, featuring Verbal Kent & A-F-R-O - Dope Peddling
• Le Zeppo & Detales - Go & Get It
• AlumNY (Dynas x Kil Ripkin x Jah Freedom) - Chosen
• Smif-N-Wessun - Elephant In The Room
• Tone Chop & Frost Gable - Raising The Bar VIII
• Create-A-Mess, featuring Emskee & Jesus Mason - Clues
• Le Zeppo, featuring Roshin & JD Era - 3 Kings
• Slik Jack & Vincent Pryce - Dirty Gins x Fly Garments
• Showrocka & Tragedy Khadafi - Reality Rap
• Divine Crime, featuring 7xthegenius & Che Noir - The Vision
• Indigo Phoenyx & True Cipher - Emotional Embers
• Cousin Howie, featuring Rome Streetz - Namaste
• Chekar Kareem, featuring Illpo & Poncho - Raw Ish
• UFO Fev x Royal Flush x Body Bag Ben - G Code
• JD Era & Fredro Starr, featuring Ricky Bats, Jonny Vulgar, Asun Eastwood, & Harrd Luck - Dracula's Piano
• DNTE, featuring Wyze Wonda - Featherweight
• AceWonda & Slimline Mutha - Champion
• Doam Peace & William Bostick - Day To Day
• Jay Exodus & Camouflage Monk, featuring Conway The Machine - Pray For The Eastside
• Indigo Phoenyx & Adwerdz - Broken Ballerina
• OT The Real - Highland
• Trilly Trill x Prince AK x Tru Trilla - Losses

RIP Roy Ayers

Today's show features a tribute mix to the late, great, Roy Ayers. Particularly, hip hop songs that sampled Roy, plus collaborations he had with hip hop artists.

Playlist:

• Roy Ayers - Running Away
• A Tribe Called Quest - Description Of A Fool
• Roy Ayers - He's A Superstar
• Ghostface Killah, featuring Busta Rhymes - Super Star
• Roy Ayers - Red, Black & Green
• X-Clan - Raise the Flag
• Jungle Brothers, featuring Jeff Fox - Sunshine
• Smif-N-Wessun - Home Sweet Home
• Roy Ayers - We Live In Brooklyn, Baby
• Digable Planets - Borough Check
• Digable Planets, featuring Jeru Da Damaja - Graffiti
• The Legion - Legion Groove
• Roy Ayers - The Black Five
• One Be Lo - Decepticons
• Black Star - Little Brother
• RAMP - Daylight
• A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
• Roy Ayers - Holiday (DJ Spinna Mix)
• Souls of Mischief - Times Ain't Fair
• The Pharcyde - The Hustle
• Jeru Da Damaja, featuring Afu Ra - Mental Stamina
• The Roots, featuring Roy Ayers - Proceed II
• Large Professor - Sewin' Love
• Erule - Listen Up
• Funkdoobiest - Dedicated
• Roy Ayers - Mystic Voyage
• Coolio - Mama I'm In Love With A Gangsta
• Zion I & The Grouch, featuring Roy Ayers - Be A Father To Your Child
• Roy Ayers - Searching
• Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Searchin'
• Common - Nag Champa
• RAMP - Come Into Knowledge
• Mad Skillz - Doin' Time In The Cypha
• Casual - Thoughts Of The Thoughtful
• Das EFX - No Diggedy
• A Tribe Called Quest, featuring Large Professor - Keep It Rolling
• The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By (Fly As A Pie Remix)
• Erykah Badu, featuring Roy Ayers - Cleva
• Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Roy Ayers - Synchronize Vibration
• Madlib & Talib Kweli, featuring Roy Ayers - Something Special
• Tyler The Creator, featuring Roy Ayers, Kali Uchis & Sydney Bennett - Find Your Wings
• Pro Era - K.I.N.G.S.
• Prodigy & The Alchemist - Give Em Hell
• Jazz Spastiks, featuring Apani B Fly - Move
• Guru, featuring Roy Ayers - Take A Look (At Yourself)
• Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everyone Loves The Sunshine (Jorun Bombay Remix)
• Roy Ayers - Vibrations

The Undeniable

Instrumental Album Showcase: DJ Spinna - Eye G Flips Beat Tape

Playlist:

• Phill Most Chill & Djar One - Deal With It
• Blu - LA 2020 (Illien Rosewell Remix)
• Finsta Bundy & Recluse Crew, featuring Fraction & Mike C.O.X. - One Life
• Fliptrix - Make It Rain
• Heaven Razah - Killa Bee Hive 2
• Tall Black Guy - Solo Summer
• Smif-N-Wessun - Enjoy Ya Life
• Shylow - The Fam Jam
• 90sFlav - S t e p u p
• Blazy Green, featuring Jamar Equity & Henry B - Move Swiftly
• Coast Contra x Marco Polo - Shanghai Tower
• Sparkz & Pitch 92 - Full Circle
• Mike Flips & Seize, featuring English Harry - How It's Done
• Blame One & Preed One, featuring DJ TMB - Reach the Dust
• Blame One & Preed One - Feeling Blessed
• Errol Eats Everything - Errol Eats Everything
• ScienZe - Easy
• MindsOne - Blank Slate
• Queen Herawin, featuring Pretty Bulli & Illa Ghee - Denial
• Ol' Burger Beats, featuring Illl Camille - Out of Life
• Ivan Ave - Ughhh (4 Sam)
• Brother Ali & Ant - Deep Cuts
• Funki Flava - Whut? Whut?
• Cookin Soul, Keith Murray - Rhyme
• A-F-R-O - Wild Style
• Dan-E-O - Barsmen & Barswomen
• Es, featuring DJ Merciless - It's Cold Outside
• Confucius MC & Bastien Keb - Toulouse
• Fu Handz & Eddie Kaine - The Undeniable
• Honey Deniro & Murda Megz - Chitty Bang
• The Bad Seed & Murda Megz - Almighty Mighty
• Jansport J, featuring Bellez - Str8
• BoFaat, featuring Hus Kingpin & Eddie Kaine - Here For the Rap Killin
• Moka Only & Recognize Real, featuring Deff Cutz - Late Evening
• Touch182 - Homework
• Yy, featuring Birdapres - Tape Surgery
• Nestor Wynrush - Surrey Skytrains
• K-Rec x Checkmate x Moka Only - Walking Away