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 - Episode 8
Happy (belated) New Year! Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, and shoegaze-adjecent collaborative mixtape podcast. Today's episode features Sorry Hurts, Januarius, Spunsugar, American Motors, Skymender, and much more!
Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent bands you hear here.
Side One
1. Tomorrow Comes Early "Halfway 'Round the Sun"
2. American Motors "(A Billboard Reading) Dissolve Jefferson"
3. Sorry Hurts & Grimm "Saturn's Devouring"
4. Skymender "Long Shadows"
5. rain cloud nine "Ephemeral"
6. Januarius "A Wishbone In the Rye"
7. Waking Sophia "Fruit On the Tree" (interview link)
Side Two
1. Distance Is A Way Of Life "The Journey (In My Dreams)"
2. Dust Bunny "Dear Bunny, Where Are You?"
3. Spunsugar "A Flicker In My Lights"
4. The Virgina Planes "Kiss In the Morning"
5. Tears Run Rings "Within"
6. Future/Modern "Promising Illness"
7. Machray "Set it Aside"
This podcast would not be possible without the generous contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to purchase their music.
Cover photography by BlueCalypso Photographs.
Please consider contributing what you can afford for Los Angeles fire relief efforts. Here are the links to the relief agencies mentioned in today's show:
The American Red Cross
Pasadena Humane Society
California Fire Foundation
Billboard’s list of fire relief funds for music industry workers
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Please rate and review this podcast. If you're in a band and would like to contribute a song for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV file or BC download code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com
Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!
(((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))