ATSIC S06E11 - For Grant Ed.
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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. There’s also a video below from the stream where I slapped this mix together. I’m having fun week to week.
This mix is boom bap and bars, all sorts of clever lines and head nod beats throughout. There’s an exclusive you can’t hear anywhere else until it drops later this month - Sayzee & KNG Bondalero dropped off “Angelica” from their upcoming April album “2 Way Mirror”, and it’s a full on fire ball. Make sure you have something ready to burn when the full album drops, I got to hear it all and it’s not something you want to miss.
The rest of the mix has new music from across the country - GR0M, B1 The Architect & Eddy Jones, Kaboom Atomic & The Dirty Sample, TMG & Gritfall, Chris Camp, HarveyDent & Moka Only, J Scienide, Cookin Soul & Mike Shabb, Kalateral, The Inglorious Poet & ThisisHiphopp, Dan-e-o & Masta Ace, Tone Chop & Frost Gamble, AR Paisley, Black Silver with A.F.R.O. & Navi the North, DeusGod, Fuzzy Ed, Hoopaloop & Kairo, and Lotus James. If you don’t recognize all the names, you’re missing out.
If I get time to, I’ll type something up about the individual songs, but suffice it to say that it’s got you covered from coast to coast with that new new. Check the playlist at the bottom if you want to know what’s included!
If you want to check out what I had to say about this music as I was making the episode, you can typically find a “Making of ATSIC” stream in these posts, but this time there isn’t one because tech was annoying me and I didn’t want to waste time messing around to fix my settings. Next time.
Fly in Formation is flying high. On the episode attached to this ATSIC, I talked with Arlo Maverick, and for now, Mixcloud is the only place to listen to it in audio only podcast format. We spoke almost entirely about grant writing and award shows, and it was extremely informative and worth a watch for anyone interested in getting paid to make art in Canada. 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 - Dan-e-o! He’s a Toronto based emcee who should have plenty of knowledge to share about the indie grind! 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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