Hello, it's Tom Robinson with the tracklist for our End Of Year 成人论坛 Introducing Mixtape - broadcast on Monday 27 December 2021 on 成人论坛 Radio 6 Music. You can listen again for 30 days after broadcast via this link. It features a very small selection of our favourite tunes tunes from 2021:
LE BLEAK, THE HOME COUNTIES, CABLE STREET COLLECTIVE, ELMZ XIX, WILDEST, BUFFET LUNCH, MOLLY, WASSAILER, DEEP TAN, SWINE TAX, NEL UNLIT, TOM HOUSTON, RHONA STEVENS, SCOTT LAVENE, GABRIELLE SEY, COLOUR FORMATION, SWAMI BARACUS, PARISH, DEAD ANYWAY, NWANDO EBIZIE, and FLO PERLIN
Why Subscribe?
This mixtape drops every Monday morning across all podcast platforms. If you subscribe on 成人论坛 Sounds via this link (or by searching "成人论坛 Introducing Mixtape" on any podcast app) the show will automatically be waiting on your phone at the start of each week.
Why buy?
If you fall in love any of these tunes why not lash out a pound or two and buy them direct from the artist pages below where possible. The last 18 months have been tough for everyone involved in making independent musicand bills still have to be paid. For many of the artists in this show, literally every quid you can spare will make a difference.
Playlist
LE BLEAK - Listen to This If [starts 00:10]
THE HOME COUNTIES - The Home Counties [starts 05:35]
CABLE STREET COLLECTIVE - Bells & Whistles [starts 08:20]
ELMZ XIX - Transition [starts 10:45]
WILDEST - Sugar (The Choice Is Yours) [starts 12:20]
BUFFET LUNCH - Snap! [starts 15:50]
MOLLY - Bad [starts 17:35]
WASSAILER - Trad [starts 19:15]
DEEP TAN - Camelot [starts 21:55]
SWINE TAX - Kestrel Of Sticking Dreams [starts 24:55]
NEL UNLIT - Six Nights [starts 26:50]
TOM HOUSTON - Sonic Deviance [starts 29:05]
RHONA STEVENS - Lay It Down [starts 30:10]
SCOTT LAVENE - The First Time [starts 34:15]
GABRIELLE SEY - Patterns [starts 35:25]
COLOUR FORMATION - I Like Your Shoes [starts 41:00]
SWAMI BARACUS - The Native Immigrants [starts 42:40]
PARISH - 7 Days [starts 46:00]
DEAD ANYWAY - Space Dust [starts 48:35]
NWANDO EBIZIE - I Seduce [starts 50:00]
OYA PAYA - Pretty Slick [starts 53:15]
FLO PERLIN - Baghdad [starts 56:55)
PS FOR ARTISTS:
What happens next? Radio airplay is a great affirmation of your work. It's great to be able to mention it on your CV and social media. But radio play won't make as much longterm difference as you may think - it comes, and then it goes. The trouble is that radio can accellerate a career that's already got momentum - but it can't kickstart a career from scratch.
Bulding an audience for your music (and continuing to write great songs) takes time and effort. The good news is that, unlike radio play, it's entirely within your own power to achieve and costs next to nothing. And although this only one man's opinion, you'll find a few suggestions about how to do this this in my closing talk for .
Hiring a radio plugger in the hope of getting more airplay is an expensive gamble - and only worth considering when there's already a buzz about your latest song and a growing audience for your music. But early on in their career, most emerging artists get MUCH better results themselves than by hiring a plugger. For suggestions on how to do your own music promotion see the free advice section at my Fresh On The Net blog ().
Once an artist's career does start building momentumn - with views, plays and comments growing measurably each week - that's when an expertly run radio campaign can be a great way of putting a foot on the accelerator. Once you do choose to go down that route, the next problem is how to find a trustworthy promo company? One possibility might be to copy and keep the weekly playlists published by your target radio stations every week, and look up which small labels are regularly getting featured. Then google those labels, drop them an email, and ask which radio pluggers they use. [NB bigger labels tend to have their own in-house promo teams.]
And however things pan out, don't forget to carry on uploading your new releases to 成人论坛 Introducing so that we can carry on supporting you as your career unfolds.
AND FINALLY...
We only get enough airtime on this show to feature artists - even our absolute favourites - about four times a year, however much we love their work. So after you've been been on the Mixtape, please wait 12 weeks before sending me your next brilliant track. This leaves us time to help a load of other deserving artists meanwhile.
The best way of getting a tune direct to me is via using Soundcloud. From 10m on Monday mornings anybody is welcome to send us a track and we keep the inbox open until 200 submissions have arrived - so it's best to get in early. We publish all 200 tunes each week, and a dozen of us then listen to every single track. And be sure to also upload your tune to 成人论坛 Introducing, to make it eligible for Introducing airplay...
Tom Robinson