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Bande à part was the name of a
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, a radio show on Radio-Canada and
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station in
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, active from 1996 to 2013, that were devoted primarily to
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arts and music. Operated by the
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(SRC), Bande à part was the
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counterpart to
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. Bande à part also broadcast on
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channel 87. Some of its content also aired as a late-night program on
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, and the service produced a weekly
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and several
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streams, each devoted to a particular genre of music. The service was discontinued in May 2013, with its content and staff integrated into espace.mu, Radio-Canada's online music streaming service. Its space on Sirius XM was taken over by Sonica, an
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stream produced by
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."SiriusXM Canada spruces up its Canadian line-up"
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'', May 6, 2013.
At the same time, two new channels, Influence Franco and Attitude Franco, launched to broadcast artists who had been part of Bande à part's playlist. Several past staffers of the station went on to create parlabande.fm, an unaffiliated music blog which seeks to serve as a promotional venue for independent music in Quebec.


Roots

Like its counterpart CBC Radio 3, Bande à part had roots in radio programming that predated widespread use of either the internet or satellite radio. It originally aired as a national radio program devoted to francophone alternative music, airing from Radio-Canada's studios in
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."Bande à part fête ses 10 ans"
'' La Presse'', January 19, 2011.
In the late 1990s, the CBC announced tentative plans to open a third radio network, devoted to youth culture. Although the original radio network proposal was abandoned, the CBC launched Radio 3 as a pilot project through its new media division in 2000, and Bande à part followed in early 2001. In the fall of 2001, Bande à part also produced a short run television series, ''bandeapart.tv'', for
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. In 2004, Bande à part began airing on
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in a weekend timeslot. The network launched its podcast in 2005, a few months after the debut of Radio 3's podcast. Both Radio 3 and Bande à part became satellite radio stations with the launch of
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in December 2005. The station aired on Sirius 93 from its launch until June 24, 2008, when it moved to Sirius 87 as part of a major realignment of the Sirius lineup.


Programming

Personalities associated with the network included Catherine Pogonat, Alexandre Bernard, Alexandre Courteau, Yuani Fragata, Élodie Gagnon, François Lemay, Natalie Poirier,
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. Courteau, Fragata and Gagnon also made occasional appearances on Radio 3 as band interviewers or correspondents promoting the Quebec music scene for English listeners. The network primarily aired
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music, although some English Canadian and international music aired as well. The network aired a freeform mix of rock, pop, folk, hip hop, punk and electronic music — however, because
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has a particularly prominent electronic and
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music scene, Bande à part's playlist leaned somewhat more toward experimental genres than Radio 3's. In January 2011, the network celebrated its tenth anniversary with a twelve-hour marathon broadcast featuring live performances by
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.


Concerts

The network also sometimes sponsored concerts. Tour Tournée in the winter of 2006, jointly sponsored by CBC Radio 3 and Bande à part, included bands such as
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. Each of the eight locations had a different lineup of predominantly local bands. On March 24, 2006, the network staged a fifth anniversary show at the Spectrum in Montreal, featuring Les Dale Hawerchuk,
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Karkwa Karkwa is an indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formed in 1998. History Formed in 1998, the group consists of vocalist and guitarist Louis-Jean Cormier, keyboardist François Lafontaine, bass guitarist Martin Lamontagne, percussionist ...
and
Malajube Malajube is a Canadian francophone indie rock band formed in Montreal, Quebec. History Formed by a group of friends in Sorel-Tracy, Québec, the band made itself known in 2004 with the release of its first album, ''Le Compte complet''. Critics ...
. On October 1, 2006, Radio 3 and Bande à part again jointly sponsored See Vous Play, a show in
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featuring
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and
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. On April 27, 2007, Bande à part and CBC Radio 3 jointly presented Quebec Scene, an Ottawa concert featuring
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and Mahjor Bidet."Sounds great, in any language; Francophone music groups are finding accepting audiences outside La Belle Province". ''
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'', April 23, 2007.


Collaborative music projects

In 2007, the network was also involved in several collaborative music projects.


Vauvandalou

In 2007, Bande à part gathered a number of Quebec rock musicians for a one-off supergroup single. The group, Vauvandalou, consisted of
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of
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, Jean-Philippe Fréchette of Navet Confit and Vincent Peake of
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.The French Connection: Vauvandalou "not a real band"
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, July 23, 2007.
The single, "0.99$", debuted on Bande à part's podcast, and its video debuted on SRC Television's ''
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''. The band has not produced or released any further collaborations.


''93 tours''

In the fall of 2007, Bande à part worked with 27 unsigned hip hop musicians from Quebec to produce the
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''93 tours''."Hip-hop: 93 tours et puis reviennent"
''
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'', October 26, 2007.
Each of the album's nine tracks features different rappers collaborating with producers Mash,
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and DJ Horg. The album was distributed as a free download from Bande à part's website. Several of the musicians involved in the project went on to form the musical collective
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, Imposs, Samian and SP, "93 tours" #
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and Maybe Watson, "Malice au pays des merveilles" # Cheak 13, Confus and Paranoize, "Courir de gauche à droite" # Dialekt, D-Track and Sola, "Hors du temps" # Ale Dee,
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and Nino Malo, "Tout le monde descend" # Malkay, Prolific and Tatou, "Mémoire" # Dramatik,
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and Monk-E, "Résistance spirituelle" # Webster, Eman and KenLo, "Mouvements" # Dupuis, Radical and
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, "D'ici ou d'ailleurs"


References

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