ATSIC S05E27 - Closing
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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.
Last weekend I sent Dice the usual folder of new boom bap stuff, featuring the expected 2 or 3 hours of unplayed music that I’d enjoyed and picked up/been sent over the past few weeks. He went ahead and did 2 mixes in the same day, nearly emptying the vaults for the subgenre. There’s a bit of everything in both mixes, as the intent was more just playing everything we’d had stockpiled than it was to compile a thematic playlist. It’s all lyrical boom bap, but the topics vary - brag raps to street raps to activist raps to summer anthems that needed airing before the leaves start changing.
This one has all sorts of talent on display from across the country, with Quake Matthews, SAYZEE, and Lotus James all making two separate appearances during this hour. Plenty besides them tho - Lee Reed says what needed saying on “River to the Sea” with fellow Hamiltonian Danny Miles. Tone Chop & Frost Gamble keep putting in the work with “Raising the Bar VII”, with Frost flexing a beat swap every 8 bars and Tone rhyming for 48 straight. Edmonton’s Saskatoon Folk Rap Records representative Epic teams with Winnipeg producer/emcee Rob Crooks to reminisce about a sad white rapper he used to know for the lead single from their “Nassau Manor” album. Sweatshop Union front man and Vancouver rap veteran Kyprios is back in action, linking with Toronto’s Ivason Black on “All They Do” - the new single from Ivason’s new album “Internal Monologue”. G4 Jag channels Beanie Seigle on his new Imperetiv produced single “Stopped Chillan”. Doc T raps 2 verses about fatherhood before rapping a 3rd verse written by his kid about him on the touching new track “Wherever You Are”. There’s a bunch more. Take a listen for yourself.
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, hear me talk about the music, 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 King Jus, an emcee/producer with deep roots in Toronto. We talk about his recent tour through AB with Fresh Kils, his upcoming self produced album “Pradayama” - which he actually named during this conversation, his history, and a lot more. I cut the chat off at the hour mark here, but if you want to hear the rest, you can find it on Youtube along with all the other interviews in the series. 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 September 10 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. 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.
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