After The Smoke Is Clear 725
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Below this write-up, you’ll find the track list, complete with artists, albums, and the city they represent. If you’re using the Mixcloud app to listen, hit the “…” to check out the track list. Above this there’s usually also a video from the Twitch stream where I slapped the mix together.
Most weeks I go live on Thursdays to DJ on Twitch. 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 Canadian new releases each Friday or Saturday to make picks for the show, talking with artists for Fly In Formation interviews on Tuesdays, or working on my own music when I can find time. The Thursday Making of ATSIC stream where I spun this week’s mix is posted under this.
Turn that American bullshit off. Bunch of tough talk from guys who let their country be taken over by Nazis for the most part, and frankly I’m not trying to hear it. Canada has plenty of emcees and DJs and it’s about time we look towards ourselves. When I talked to Touch182 a few nights ago he said something I really felt about how at this point he’s satisfied to be rapping to rappers, because at this point there are so many rappers and ex-rappers and wanna be rappers that it’s a viable market. This show is for rappers too, it always has been. Of course if other people want to enjoy the mixes that’s great, and hopefully they share it far and wide - but I don’t entertain any real chances of this show blowing up to the mainstream. The masses want to hear what sells, being part of the pack makes them feel safe and accepted. I’m over here just playing stuff I like, but I think there’s gotta be a whole lane of people who are looking for the same things.
Anyways, enjoy the mix, its 100% Can Con as usual. Support your own. Don’t wait for the drone strikes to begin before you start treating America as our enemy. They’re the enemy - and it’s only because they’re still standing behind a guy who keeps telling us we’re their enemy.
Fly in Formation is back for weekly interviews now until December. This week’s episode 148 with Touch182 will be online on Monday Sept 14 at 3pm MT on Youtube! Coming up next is still a surprise - but I’ll be talking with someone worth talking with. 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.
I buy every track I play on ATSIC (unless it’s sent to me). 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.
Shows like After the Smoke is Clearalso need support. If you appreciate discovering new music without the algorithm, or if you appreciate my efforts to get indie artist’s music in more ears, consider donating via PayPal to help me buy the tracks and keep the show going. Every dollar helps indie artists and ATSIC alike.
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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