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.
Just 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!
Eech episode of the Afterglow Echoplex podcast is a virtual mixtape featuring back-to-back songs by independent artists you might not be privy to... yet. These episode's 60-minute mixtapes are produced in direct collaboration with the bands and musicians featured on the show.
As with the bands featured here, this podcast would not be possible without you. Thank you for listening.
Afterglow Echoplex
Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Eight
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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