Anyone unconvinced of the potency of the Calgary and area music scene owes it to themselves to check out CJSW’s Live Project CD, available for pledges of $150 or more during the radio station’s annual funding drive (October 19 to 26). The 26 songs contained on these two discs are a thorough document of the city’s musical vitality.

The first disc features the heavier side of the city’s scene, kicking off with the math-rock fury of Gunther’s “The Ratchet Effect” and working its way to the rockabilly swagger of the Smokin’ 45s by way of heavy-hitters like Bogart, Rum Runner and Antisocial Club. “Nothin’” from mod revivalists Gaye Rage is a particular highlight, brimming with barely contained garage fury — which isn’t to discount the screeching madness of The Ostrich’s contribution, “Mt. Fuji in Red,” or the Medicine Hat-based Mount Royal’s grim, pulsating “Eye Lights.”

In terms of sheer variety, though, the second disc blows the first out of the water. With Kris Ellestad’s spare, haunting “The Secret,” the pretty chamber-pop of The Consonant C and Jay Crocker’s genre-bending soul, not to mention Dan Vacon and Chris Vail’s surprisingly sweet “Let’s Misbehave” and the hypnotic closing dirge of local proggers Lint’s “Seawall,” it’s difficult to pin any particular sound on the disc. What unites all the acts is a sense of adventurousness, regardless of the style of music being performed.