Dig Your Roots/Découvre tes racines is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 series of compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

s, released by the National Campus and Community Radio Association

National Campus and Community Radio Association

The National Campus and Community Radio Association/L'Association nationale des radios étudiantes et communautaires is a non-profit organization of campus radio and community radio stations in Canada....

 (NCRA/ANREC) to promote new and emerging artists.

The project was launched in 2002, utilizing development funding that Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment Inc. is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment conglomerate.Corus is a leading Canadian specialty television and radio producer, with additional assets in pay television, advertising services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's...

 provided to the NCRA/ANREC as part of a benefits package relating to a major radio acquisition transaction.

Each year's Dig Your Roots compilation focuses on a particular genre of music. Submissions are judged by a panel that first chooses up to 100 artists to be featured through streaming audio on the project's website

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. It then chooses the 15 best entries for the CD compilation. The albums are also promoted by a series of live concert

Concert

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 broadcasts which air on participating campus

Campus radio

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 and community radio

Community radio

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 stations across Canada.

Project 1: Hip Hop (2003)

1. Vandal (Toronto) – Urban Camper (3:51)
2. First Words
   First Words
   First Words is a Canadian hip hop group, consisting of Halifax beatmaker Jorun, DJ STV and emcees Sean One & Above. Their pre-release peaked at #1 on the top 30 and hip hop charts of Fredericton, New Brunswick's CHSR, which landed them at #13 on cumshots national hip hop charts in December, 2004...
   
    featuring Cess (Rothesay) – Down With Putting Raps Down (3:51)
3. Wyzah (Montreal) – Three Angels (3:42)
4. The Goods (Halifax) – Monkey Motion Shuffle (2:52)
5. War Party
   War Party (band)
   War Party is an award-winning Cree hip-hop group from Hobbema, Alberta.Founded in 1995 by Rex Smallboy, the group won the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for Best Rap Album in 2001, and was nominated again in 2002 and 2003...
   
    (Hobbema) – Feeling Reserved (3:26)
6. Illa Brown/Kutcorners (Vancouver) – Rock On Ya Block (3:37)
7. Classified
   Classified (rapper)
   Luke Boyd , professionally known as Classified, is a Canadian rapper and producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia.-Career:...
   
    (Halifax) – Unexpected (3:49)
8. Dangerous Goods Collective (Edmonton) – No More Nice Guy (4:10)
9. Kamau (Toronto) – Brain Storming (2:04)
10. Frek Sho (Winnipeg) – Fort Rouge (2:42)
11. Les Architekts (Montreal) – le diable joue un jeu (4:45) ¹
12. Half Life (Montreal) – Secrets of Society (4:45)
13. Ink Operated (Surrey) – Chant It Ooh Ah Oh (3:06)
14. Josh Martinez (Vancouver) – Another Day (4:10)
15. Eye + Eye (Toronto) – Snapshots (5:52)

Project 2: Spoken Word (2004)

1. Steph Berntson (Sackville) – Barreling Madly (2:07)
2. Kevin Matthews (Winnipeg) – Arsenic and Boldface (3:05)
3. Derek Bradford (Halifax) – I Spy (1:53)
4. Ève Langevin (Montréal) – Bulletin de nouvelles en bref, version 1 (1:09)
5. Gein Wong (Toronto) – A Paper Son (2:35)
6. Khyro (Montréal) – Fragment de Réflection du Mirroir 2: Forêt Vierge (1:55)
7. Jeremy Gorman (Fredericton) – Pussycat Pussycat (1:29)
8. Barbara Adler (Coquitlam) – In the Time Before (3:50)
9. Nico Rogers (Winnipeg) – Hard to choke your artichoke heart (1:22)
10. Julie Parrell (Winnipeg) – Untitled (2:23)
11. Odessa Thornhill (Montréal) – I Sold My Wealth (1:02)
12. T.L. Cowan (Edmonton) – homebody/homegirl (4:40)
13. Heather Majaury (Waterloo) – Mother’s Song (4:25)
14. Janet Marie Rogers (Victoria) – Make Me / Sombrio Spirit (4:18)
15. Unblind (North York) – Mythology (1:43)

Project 3: Electronic Dance/Danse électronique (2004)

1. Alexandre (La Butte) – Qu'elle a dit (3:58)
2. D_MON (Dartmouth) – Don't Listen (3:51)
3. Chinese Jetpilot (London) – Return of the Phat Dragon (DYR Edit) (3:28)
4. Blackjwell (Montréal) – Falls (4:38)
5. East Coast Disaster Complex (Victoria) – Robbiemart (3:38)
6. Balboa (Winnipeg) – Ballad of the Lonely Mogwai (3:56)
7. Alucard (Winnipeg) – Triple Wave (edit) (4:27)
8. DĀV (Montréal) – Parisian Dream (4:31)
9. d*rogers (Ottawa) – Did 2 Much (Grooveboy Remix) (4:46)
10. Big Phat McNasty (Kamloops) – Rogue State (4:15)
11. Gary Flanagan (Rothesay) – Driver (3:16)
12. DJ Oxide (Winnipeg) – Sundae (4:05)
13. Zenobia Salik & the United ElectroSoul Underground (Vancouver) – Headphones (Vegas Lounge Mix) (5:04)
14. Guru-shishya (Hamilton) – Cagian 3 (3:56)
15. vitaminsforyou
    Vitaminsforyou
    Vitaminsforyou is a Canadian electronic music project led by Bryce Kushnier, a pioneer of the “lo-fi bedroom electronics” genre of music. Originally based in Winnipeg, the band currently operates from Toronto....
    
     (Montréal) – quand peanut fait dodo (3:24)

Project 4: Roots (2005)

1. The Cracker Cats (Saskatoon) –Darkness (2:45)
2. D. Rangers (Winnipeg) – Coughin Up Blood (2:55)
3. Paul Paulin (St. Joseph du Lac) – J'ai pas n'cent su moé (3:47)
4. Anne Louise Genest (Whitehorse) – Paradise Road (3:38)
5. John Wort Hannam
   John Wort Hannam
   John Wort Hannam is a Canadian Folk Music musician, from Fort Macleod, Alberta. He was born on the Isle of Jersey of the British Channel Islands. John Wort Hannam is known for his story telling through music. Themes which are central to his music include life in Western Canada, and the human...
   
    (Fort Macleod) – Church of the Long Grass (4:06)
6. Penny Lang (Montréal) – Prairie Sky (3:08)
7. Jory Nash
   Jory Nash
   Jory Nash is a folk music-oriented Canadian singer-songwriter and musician.-Albums:* One Way Down * Tangle With the Ghost * Lo-Fi Northern Blues * Spaz Loves Weezie * Folk, Jazz, Blues & Soul...
   
    (Willowdale) – Citizen's Waltz (3:49)
8. Glen Reid (Burk's Falls) – Lifeline to the Heartland (4:04)
9. The Flummies (Happy Valley - Goose Bay) – Comb Your Hair Flat Down (3:06)
10. Les Chauffeurs à pieds (Québec) – Marie la chamelle & reel du poteau blanc (5:31)
11. Barley Wik (Victoria) – View of the Station (2:23)
12. Jane Eamon (Kelowna) – Ruckus in the Henhouse (4:26)
13. Tim Harrison (Toronto) – Elizabeth's Lament (3:38)
14. Petunia (Fredericton) – The Lonesome Pine Hollows (3:56)
15. Rob Currie (Halifax) – Rape of Grand Pré (3:23)

Project 5: Aboriginal/Autochtones (2006)

1. Sandy Scofield (Vancouver BC) – Faith (feat. Kinnie Starr
   Kinnie Starr
   Alida Kinnie Starr Pierre is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary, Alberta. Her music, which blends hip hop and alternative rock, has been described as "hip hop aggro groove". Her songs have been included on the soundtracks for the TV series The L Word and the movie Thirteen...
   
   ) (4:49)
2. Shirley Montague (Norris Point NL) – Ijiatsuk (3:54)
3. The Pappy Johns Band
   The Pappy Johns Band
   The Pappy Johns Band is a Canadian blues band whose core members have been performing together for over 30 years. Don Powless , Murray Porter and Oren Doxtator , met in 1978, and played together in the Bar Road Band...
   
    with Murray Porter (Ohsweken ON) – Going Back (5:02)
4. Elaine Jakesta (Watson Lake YT) – Healed Heroes (2:20)
5. Ed Peekeekoot (Crofton BC) – Wild Lilies to Wheat Fields (3:12)
6. Jef Tremblay et les Éléments (Québec QC) – Tanite Etuteiak (3:48)
7. X-STATUS (Winnipeg MB) – Still Around (2:55)
8. Sinuupa (Kuujjuag QC) – Simple Man (Explicit Language) (4:46)
9. Eekwol (Saskatoon SK) – Too Sick (4:15)
10. Tagaq (Cambridge Bay NU) – Breather (5:27)
11. Rez Villain (Bedford NS) – Charismatic Manner (Explicit Language) (3:45)
12. Leela Gilday
    Leela Gilday
    Leela Gilday is a Dene/Canadian singer and songwriter born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. From a very young age, Leela was immersed in music, and by the age of 8 had already begun her singing career. Today she is one of the North's better known performing artists.-Career:Ms....
    
    (Yellowknife NT) – Rage (4:12)
13. Richard M. Gloade (Fredericton NB) – The Mean Song (3:11)
14. Graeme Jonez (Toronto ON) – Black Magic Goldmine (3:18)
15. DiggingRoots (Barrie ON) – Going Back (4:48)

Project 6: Creative Jazz/Jazz créatif (2007)

Please visit the website for further details. Artists will be announced in the coming months.