ATSIC S06E25 - Know By Now
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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.
You already know what the fuck it is, but if you don’t - it’s a bunch of new Canadian Hip Hop, selected and mixed for your listening pleasures. This one ranges through a bunch of different vibes smoothly cascading from the opening track - my dudes Jimmy & Self’s new one “Promise”, a track that marks the first time I’ve heard one of my Fly In Formation interviews sampled and used on a song, something I consider a great honour considering that both of these guys are among my favourite emcees in the country - both are very technically gifted while maintaining their artistic integrity and blazing their own trail out here on the prairies.
There’s all sorts of good stuff on here, so if you’re not feeling the vibe for a song or two, make sure you push through, because you never know what’s coming up next.
Anyways.. I’m once again heading back out into the wilderness for the long weekend to camp with some homies, so I don’t have much time to type this morning, I should be packing up the car right now. Catch yal next week. I’ll have more time to put to this stuff through August, then it’s back to the weekly interview grind in September when Fly In Formation flies back from vacation.
This week there’s no “Making of ATSIC” video from Twitch, I slapped this together before and after my 2-10 shift on Thursday, so I was dead eyed and not in any mood to ham it up for a camera as I finished this into the wee hours of Friday morning. I’m normally on Twitch all the time either working on ATSIC, listening to the new releases each week to make picks, or working on my own music.
Fly in Formation is officially on hiatus for the summer, I’m taking July & August off from weekly interviews for holiday time. I’ll keep doing ATSIC, but one less thing on the schedule frees up a lot of free time. On the episode attached to this ATSIC, I talked with Junk, a Vancouver artist who knows his way around the Canadian indie scene and well beyond. We talked about his newest projects, his recent escape to Italy/Europe (he was calling in from Germany), his ability to rhyme intricately and cleverly while also saying things that matter, and a bunch of other important stuff. You can watch it on Youtube below as well. Tune in every Tuesday for interviews with artists across the country starting back up in September as I continue to endeavor to learn more about local scenes and artists creative processes, talking to artists we play regularly on ATSIC. Come through, hit subscribe on Twitch, skip the ads, and chat live while I stream, I’ll still be active on there making ATSIC, listening to new releases on Fridays, or working on my own music.
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 purchase on iTunes.
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