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Afterglow Echoplex
The process of making an analog mixtape is something of a lost art these day. Today, anyone can create a playlist of easily-available songs without digging through piles of vinyl records, cassettes or CD's, worrying about time constraints, or painstakingly writing out the bands and songs featured on these cassette mixes on a J-card.
My name is Anthony King and I am the host of Afterglow Echoplex. I love independent, underground music sub-genres like shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, post-rock, post-punk, jangle, twee, goth, darkwave, indie hip-hop, etc. Much like the compilation cassettes and CD-R's of yore, the mixtapes on each of these episodes were painstakingly handcrafted just for you; yes, YOU! I hope you enjoy 'em!
Every episode of the Afterglow Echoplex podcast is not a playlist, but rather a virtual mixtape featuring back-to-back songs by independent, self-funded artists you might not be privy to... yet. Each episode's 60-minute mixtape is produced in direct collaboration with the bands and musicians featured on the show. The basic tenet of this podcast is to highlight the incredibly talented artists you're hearing here, while getting their staggeringly amazing music out to a wider audience.
It's my hope that, in listening to the carefully crafted mixtapes on each of these podcast episodes, you, the listener, will seek out and support the talented and hard-working artists you discovered here. Buy some records! Go to their shows! Wear their T-shirts! Show 'em some love!
If you are in a band and create music similar to the hazy, swaying, feedback-drenched gossamer sounds you've heard here, why not send in one of your songs for consideration on a future Afterglow Echoplex mixtape episode? Please email WAV or FLAC files of your song(s) to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com.
As with the bands featured here, this podcast would not be possible without you. Thank you for listening.
Afterglow Echoplex
Afterglow Echoplex - Special Episode: Lilys - More Than That Is Deserved (B-Sides and Rarities)
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast! On this very special episode of the show we invite you to enjoy the unearthed soundz of the one... the only... the Lilys!
Or, more notably, rare, previously unreleased*, compilation appearance, and alternate take Lilys tracks produced by Kurt Heasley and his roving band of variously assembled merry makers.
Side One
- Any Several Sundays *
- Salad Bar *
- Tra-La-La (Live) *
- Excelsior Plainside
- Won’t Make You (Sleepy) *
Side Two
- Touch the Water *
- More Than That is Deserved
- Kodiak *
- Right Thing to Do *
- The Berated Escape
- Dreams Never End
- Well Traveled is Protest
- Good King Wenceslas
This podcast would not be possible without the contributions, insights and generosity of one Mr. Kurt Heasley. Thanks, Wally!
Links-a-plenty:
- Frontier Records' Lilys Bandcamp page.
- Sundazed Records' Lilys page.
- File 13 Records’ Selected EP Bandcamp page.
- Speakertree Records' "Well Traveled is Protest" SoundCloud page.
- Lilys - Live in Amsterdam at VPRO Studios.
- Colorful Acts, In the Presence of the Lilys tribute compilation on Bandcamp.
- Kestrels' album, Better Wonder, featuring the song "Lilys."
- Everything Wrong Is Imaginary trailer.
- Returns Every Morning Geocities site.
Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV file or Bandcamp code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com
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Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!
(((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))