ATSIC S06E26 - Together
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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.
I took a week off to relax but came back with a scorcher of an episode this week. I was playing songs from my trap vault this time around, but I beg of the boom bap heads to give this mix a shot - there’s still plenty of barsmen and women on this mix, they just choose to bar out over top of snapping hi hats and 808s. It’s all Hip Hop to me, but I notice less numbers and feedback on the trap episodes, and the artists making this music are typically less receptive/supportive to ATSIC on social media, so I sometimes think I should just do trap mixes, say nothing about the switch up, and let people click without any pre determined bias from the title, tags, or description. But it probably isn’t that deep.
Lock in and enjoy, there’s a bunch of new stuff plus a few older cuts that hadn’t made it onto a show yet - tracks from Nate Husser, SNRK, Ceschi & Factor Chandelier, Wolf Castle, and LolaBunz & TAAYLEE G that were overlooked picks that have been sitting around since 2024. These artists probably have newer music out now, but I bought these tracks, so I’m playing them. It always takes me longer to stack up a vault full of enough trap to make a mix out of, and then when I do, if I don’t include a song from the pile, it might be another long while til I do another trap mix.
Midway through there’s a track call “Whim Whammiee” by PLUTO & YKNIECE, and in retrospect I’m not sure how it ended up in my library. I have the feeling it was a remix by a Canadian, but the file I have looks like it’s just the original.. so I checked the original on Youtube, for research purposes, and it sounds like that’s what I played. Oh well, I’m only 96 percent Canadian Content this week on CKXU.
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. This is the first episode in a while that I didn’t have an interview to attach after the music, but you can watch every interview I’ve done up until now on Youtube. Leave a comment, hit like over there, show some love and run up the playlist on a muted tab - it’ll help get the algorithm to show my content to more people more often, which will get more Canadians music in more ears.
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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If you can’t donate, that’s all good — people who can afford it are paying, and you get to enjoy a free show while I earn a living. Do me a favour though, and help spread the word to other people who love Hip Hop! Shoutout to everyone who is already supporting financially, by sharing the show, or by coming through in comments and chat to help build community.
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