ATSIC S06E29 - What It Is
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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.
Pressed for time to type again this week, I actually uploaded this episode off the work wifi after bringing the laptop in for a shift so that I could export the mix and get it online for Thursday. Today there’s new music for me to listen through, so I’m going to do that and let this mix speak for itself - you know what it is - 100 percent new release rap from across the country, as usual!
There’s another Chadio exclusive on this one, this time from his upcoming Handsolo remix project “Chadiohead 2” - Thomas, head of the legendary Handsolo imprint sent over “Sail Racists to the Moon” (I feel like he really knows me) - a Chadio track featuring bars from Hed 3 aka DJ Moves. I didn’t even know the Halifax legend rapped, but I’m told he was part of a group/project called 5 Headed Monster - apparently, on that project he picked up the mic and took the moniker Hed 3, then ran with it for a solo project and some feature work like this track. Big fan.
There’s new new from the Sayzee & Lupara album Word on the Street is God Wants You Dead. that he told me about last time he was on FiF; more new music from Lotus James’ new one Wordplay King; a track from Timbuktu’s new THUNDERDOME project with T.O. Huxtable featuring his Back Burner homies More Or Les & Wordburglar; a certified bop from Haviah Mighty; some meditative vibes from Tough Dumplin & Shark; a worker man anthem from Spenny; and a closing song this week in the shape of an ode to hating school from Maky Lavender, which I thought was fitting as students get back to the grind.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think in the comments on Mixcloud.
This week there was a “Making of ATSIC” video from Twitch - it’s posted above if you’re bored. 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 back to weekly episodes! I’ve already talked to Chadio & The Gumshoe Strut, and Wordburglar in the past weeks since returning from my annual summer break. You can also 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 the algorithm show my content to more people, which will get more Canadian music in more ears.
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