ATSIC S06E04 - Active
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Below this write-up, you’ll find the track list, complete with artists and their hometowns. You can listen here and follow along, or if you’re using the Mixcloud app, hit the “…” to check out the track list while you listen.
I don’t have time right now to type much about this one, but it’s what you’d expect - brand new bars and boom bap from across the country featuring a who’s who of Canada’s best. I was honoured to receive the intro track for the mix last week from Touch 182 - when I moved to Edmonton in 2005, he was one of the only local emcees I was aware of, and he had his own show airing from the UofA, so it feels like a bit of a torch pass to get a cosign from him 20 years later!
If I get a chance later, I’ll type more about the rest of the songs in the mix. Just listen to them.
If you want to check out what I had to say about this music as I was making the episode, I posted the “Making Of ATSIC” stream below - feel free to chop a clip of me saying things about your favourite artists music if that’s the sort of thing you do.
Fly in Formation is flying high. This week I talked with Dialect Sosa, and for now, Mixcloud is the only place to listen to it in audio only podcast format. He has a new project out called “Ultra Violence: Decline of a Beautiful Mind”, available on all the platforms (*except Bandcamp). Tune in every Tuesday for interviews with artists across the country as I learn more about local scenes and artists creative processes, talking to artists we play regularly on ATSIC. I’m looking forward to my next interview for FiF - Def3, a legendary west coast based artist who has ascended the ranks and found himself rhyming to huge crowds at festivals where his bass music blended with boom bap lyricism is making waves. We talk Feb 18, and we’ve been talking some politics recently on threads, so we might get into that whole dumpster fire situation, his recent step back from social media, his visual art, the journey into EDM areans, and a bunch of other important stuff. Come through, hit subscribe on Twitch, skip the ads, and chat live while we stream.
I buy every track I play on ATSIC unless it’s sent to me directly. Streaming barely pays, so it’s essential to support indie artists by buying their music, tickets, or merch to keep them creating. Listening to #ATSIC on Mixcloud is free for you, and makes sure that each song you hear pays the artist at least SOMETHING. Spotify pays 0.006 CAD per stream, and only if the song hits 1000 plays in 3 months. Assuming a song gets 1000 spins, that means it takes around 125 Spotify plays to earn an artist the same .76 cents they earn from my 1.29 cent purchase on iTunes.
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Stay up.
