ATSIC S05E25 - Festivity
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There’s a spreadsheet below with the entire track listing, along with my best guess at which city each artists is repping. It’s an easy way to see what you’re hearing, but so is having the Mixcloud app.
This week it’s music to move masses and asses. I’ve been saving dance stuff in a vault for a while now, a few of these tracks are from last year, but most is new release, and it’s all indie artists across Canada. I’ll try to write more about it, but for now I’ll just say that I hope yall have as much fun listening to it as I did mixing it. My struggles with DJing continue, but doing it in slow motion on Ableton piece by piece is forgiving enough that I think the mix came out great anyways.
There’s a “Making of #ATSIC” video from this episode posted below. A couple of them actually. They’re boring but if you want to see my process putting this thing together, feel free to click through. I do those things hoping people might stop by to talk about the new songs as I work, but one way or the other I’m doing the work so I might as well cut the cameras on and document the process while we build community week by week. Come through and say hi.
The music is followed by another episode of my podcast interview series Fly in Formation, this time I talked with Big Tones, an emcee from Saskatoon who has a new album out now, “Existence”. It’s a really solid body of work that covers a lot of important topics, some that we spoke about in this interview. Check the FiF playlist for an archive of all the past guests. Mixcloud is the only spot to listen to the audio only interviews each week, grab the app, it’s free and there’s all sorts of dope DJ mixes from curators who care about the music much more than an algorithm cares about your playlists on streaming platforms.
Every week, I buy every song I play, unless the artist sent it to me, saving me a buck. I believe in buying music to support independent artists. Making music is time-consuming and expensive. Streaming doesn’t pay much at all, and since streaming has become the way most people consume music, it’s even more important to make sure to buy tickets, buy music (physical or digital), and buy merch from artists you want to hear more from. Streaming pays next to nothing, so if you want artists working on more music instead of working more shifts at their day job, you need to show them love by opening your wallet and giving them financial support.
Season 3 of my interview series Fly in Formation is soaring along in style, with 30 interviews down since January. I’m taking the summer off to enjoy life a little, but I’ll be back for September with weekly talks featuring artists across the country talking about the craft and the industry grind. Make sure to hit follow on Twitch or subscribe so you don’t have to watch the ad breaks during interviews when I’m back in September. I love seeing the community pop up in chat to say hi even if just while I’m gaming or working on my own music. Next week I’ll be up in Edmonton working with my homie Deez Waxx on new music, and I’m hoping I can stream the sessions while various artists come through to cook with us, so don’t sleep on the streams.
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