ATSIC S06E14 - Out Here
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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.
Trap music this week, with me, your loyal host, Doobyis on the 1s and 2s. I didn’t do anything fancy with the mix, but I did manage for the first week ever to put this mix together start to finish on the fly, which felt like some sort of achievement in my slow progress, since up until now I’ve usually had to stop and punch in a few times when I wasn’t quick enough to find and set a new que point to bring in the next track before the one playing finished.
I buy digital singles each week and organize them into playlists like “Unplayed Boom Bap” or “Unplayed Trap”, and trap usually takes longer to fill up to a point where I can make a full mix from it. This week there’s some from the Trap vault that go back to 2024, but they were purchased and never aired, just waiting for the right moment. That moment has arrived.
Rest assured some of the songs are fresh from recent weeks, like Reflectionz “Chopper” off his new “Bang!” album; Tough Dumplin’s new one “EASY (feat. Private name, Private number); “Gold Heart” from Leggy17 & Prest; and a banger from Junk and Kryple off of Junk’s new album “No Water In Hell Vol 2” called “Push It” to start the mix.
This is the first week I’ve decided to chop the intro talking section from the show. I’m thinking I’ll probably include it on some episodes if I have something worth saying, but otherwise I’m going to cut them and let the music shine without me chasing people away with a bunch of links. I figure if people are already online listening on Mixcloud they at the very least don’t need me yelling at them about where they can listen free online. We’ll see if it sticks, because it did take a few extra minutes for me to chop the talk and make it blend from the theme song into the first track in the mix, and some weeks it’s all I can do to knock the mix out, bounce it, and upload it. This week I had time, so I hope you enjoy a smaller helping of my ranting about my various websites and live streams. The radio will still get that version, cuz if radio is good for anything at this point, it’s free promo to unsuspecting listeners.
At this point I’ve had the chance to interview a majority of the artist we play on the show, it’s been a hell of a ride!
If I get time to, I’ll type more 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 find a “Making of ATSIC” stream below! I didn’t have to do much work this time, no turntables since Dice handled the mix duty this week, so it’s just me listening to the mix and yelling between tracks as I enjoy the music. Tap in on weekdays over on Twitch, I’m on all the time either working on ATSIC, listening to the new releases each week to make picks, or workin gon my own music.
Fly in Formation is flying high. On the episode attached to this ATSIC, I talked with Ezza of Choom Gang, and for now, Mixcloud is the only place to listen to it in audio only podcast format. We spoke about his last album “Just Call Me E”, and a bunch of other important stuff. 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 - Kryple! He’s a return guest and Edmonton based emcee who is taking off on tour starting May 1, but we’re making an exception to do an interview on a Sunday afternoon to talk about his new album “Johnny Rich” which just dropped at #1 on the itunes charts! Come through, hit subscribe on Twitch, skip the ads, and chat live while we stream.
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