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Below this write-up, you’ll find the track list, complete with artists, albums, and the city they represent. 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. Above this there’s usually also a video from the Twitch stream where I slapped this mix together. If I streamed while spinning the mix, the stream should be posted right under this. Most weeks I go live on Thursdays to DJ thought. Come through and say hi, hang out and listen to music. I’m streaming often on weekday afternoons, either working on ATSIC, listening to the new releases on the radar each Friday or Saturday to make picks, doing Fly In Formation interviews on Tuesdays, or working on my own music when I can find time.
This week there’s a bunch of new releases, and an exclusive from Pretty.Ugly, B1 The Architect, Legit & Le Zeppo - a track called “Trial By Fire” that won’t be available on streaming until later this fall. Ugly sent it over and told me to get the people hype! I do what I can.
I’ll type more if I get the time to. This is a solid mix though, always so much good shit to include on these mixes week by week.
Fly in Formation is keeping up with weekly episodes every Tuesday through til the end of June. The interview with Halfcut & Cole the God just went live! Coming up next is episode 142 with Edmonton emcee Deuce Fantastick. You can watch every interview I’ve done up until this point on Youtube - Leave a comment, hit like, or show some love and run up the playlist - it’ll help the algorithm show this content to more people, which will get more Canadian music in more ears.
Tune in every Tuesday for interviews with artists across the country as I continue to learn more about local scenes and artist’s creative processes, talking to artists we play regularly on ATSIC. Come through, hit subscribe on Twitch to skip the ads, and hang out and listen to Hip Hop.
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 that’s 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. Spotify is also now investing the billions they earn into weaponized AI drones, which is just awful, frankly. Fuck those guys - I use it because it’s the only realistic way to keep up with all these drops from all these artists, but I never listen to anything more than twice on there - because I go buy a digital single of anything I like that much. You could to, and the musicians would thank you.
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Stay up.
1. Fresh Kils, Myer Clarity & OC/DC - The Assignment (feat. Moka Only & Uncle Fester) (OCDC)
2. Sayzee, Alchemist - PURPLE RAIN FEAT TONA & J.O. MAIRS (S.T.A.W.D.A.T. 4)
3. Noah23 x Fresh Kils - Who Framed Roger Rabbit ft. PremRock
4. Awol - JUMP
5. The Gumshoe Strut - Who R U Against (TGS remix) - Bazooka Joe & The Gumshoe Strut (Variants of Concern 2)
6. Paisteez & emprime - Forgive Me For Moving On (Paint It Loud)
7. Saint - Getaway/Amnesia (feat. Gritfall) (May Tricks, Vol. 3)
8. Malone the Chemist - FASHO
9. Junk & Chase Moore - Down Here
10. New Villain - The Beyonder prod by. Nagashi (The Mind of Hugo Strange 3)
11. Troy Dunnit & Planet Asia - Loss for Words
12. Noqh - Oppenheimer (feat. Raz Fresco & Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon) (White Roses)
13. Ezza of Choom Gang - Canvas (feat. B1 the Architect)
14. Skizza & AK Productions - Fool's Gold (feat. The Mighty Rhino & Es) (Spring Training)
15. Pretty.Ugly x B1 The Architect x Legit x Le Zeppo - Trial By Fire Single (Cuts By Strakt) (Trial By Fire EP)
16. Eric Gordon - Orchid (feat. Fa$) (Loose Ends)
17. Ashton Francis - TRUTH HURTS (OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR)
18. Quackish Swayze & Leftfield Keele - Fitted 6 and 3 Quarters
