ATSIC S05E32 - Booming

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Plenty more boombap for you this week, as DJ Dice once again delivers a mix of the best new Hip Hop we could collect. It’s 100 percent Canadian for the second week in a row, which means that each track features at least one artist from the frozen North - there’s still some Americans in the mix. Ottawa’s Aspects recruited Killah Priest for a single, so that starts things off and counts as a Wu feature in my books. After that it’s new music from Ivason Black, Ayoo Bigz, Che Uno, ThisIsHipHopp, Chubs with Asun Eastwood, Daniel Son & Finn, Dope Sasquatch with Mickey Factz & Halfcut, K.O. Strat, New Villain & Onaje Jordan, The Guardians of Boombap, Hungry, OldBoy Rhymes with Lee Reed, Wordburglar, and new new from Mickey O’Brien & Uncle Fester.

To finish out the mix, there’s an #ATSIC EXCLUSIVE called “Knee High” from Fester & Stephen Hero’s upcoming “The Squeeze” album that you can’t hear elsewhere until the whole project drops on Oct 11!

There’s a “Making of #ATSIC” video posted lower down the page. Come through on Twitch weekday afternoons to hang out and hear new release rap as I dig through piles to find gems, game, record my own rhymes, make these episodes, or do interviews.

Season 3 of Fly in Formation is back to weekly episodes, with new guests calling in to talk on Twitch every Tuesday as I continue the quest to learn more about each local scenes. You can Subscribe on Twitch, skip the ads and join the community in chat while the interviews happen - ask questions or whatever else, I try and read it.

After the music this time, we’ve got a new episode of Fly in Formation, where I talk with Deuce Fantastick, yet another well established emcee from Edmonton. We spoke about his upcoming album “Soul Not 4 Sale”, his history with Peep Game selling 30k mixtapes hand to hand on the streets of YEG, his influences, collaborators, opinions, and a bunch of other important stuff. You can also find the interview on YouTube in the FiF playlist, along with past episodes.

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