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VIA's Polaris Music Project: The Renaissance Man on Caribou's "Swim"

Have you entered Vancouver is Awesome 's giveaway for one copy of every album shortlisted for the Polaris Prize ? Go HERE to find out more and enter. Read about Tegan and Sara 's album Sainthood HERE .

Have you entered Vancouver is Awesome's giveaway for one copy of every album shortlisted for the Polaris Prize? Go HERE to find out more and enter.

Read about Tegan and Sara's album Sainthood HERE.

Listen to Veda Hille's musical thoughts on Owen Pallett's album Heartland HERE.

Read TJ Dawe's thoughts (and see inside his brain!) on The Besnard Lakes album The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night HERE.

Watch Bif Naked get all girly-girl gushy-gush over this year's Polaris Prize Winner Karkwa's album Les Chemins de Verre HERE.

See what happens when Damian Abraham (lead singer of 2009's Polaris Prize winning band F**ked Up) unleashes his inner-music nerd with The Sadies' Dallas Good over their album Darker Circles HERE.

The Renaissance Man. Photo by Jeff Petry.

Paul Anthony does double duty as both the host and creator of Paul Anthony's Talent Time.The live show can be experienced on the first Wednesday of every month at the Biltmore Cabaret (including this Wednesday!) and every day on channel 4 on the Novus Network. He is the inaugural recipient of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame Award for the most promising newcomer and as an actor has appeared in over thirty film and television projects including Blade Trinity and Traffic. Additionally Paul has starred in several independent features including Eighteen with Alan Cumming and Ian McKellen, the horror comedy SUCK opposite Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper and Malcolm McDowell and director Blaine Thurier's dark comedy A Gun To The Head.

Kevin James Maher (Kevvy Mental) is a musician, producer and entertainer. He is the vocalist of the Puke Rawk band Fake Shark-Real Zombie! and in the past year has remixed and or worked on albums by Fan Death, Birthday Massacre and Hot Hot Heat (among others). He also composed the score for the Sarah Slean film Last Flowers.

Caribou, Swim.

When I was listening to the Caribou album I couldn't help but think that if it was made in the 90's it would have probably sounded a lot more like Nine Inch Nails. For me there are so many gentle clues leaning that way. So I took his song Kaili and got together with my friend Kevvy Mental and made this "alternate universe mix". Its kinda like Caribou as produced by Trent Reznor, recorded in the house where Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family. Is that a music category?

Kaili

Paul Anthony and Kevvy Mental, "Kaili."