Peanut Snake: Music Thrombosis

A wee mix to clear my mental hard drive (with a focus on Bandcamp releases - appallingly, I stole this idea from these people and their podcast series: https://www.mixcloud.com/isitbandcampday/1-september-2020/). Two versions, first with talking, second is just the music. Confusing!

So What's The Jatz?

Well, Bandcamp has been doing these fee-free Fridays, where they forego their cut, so all money goes directly to the musicians. It's meant that musicians and labels - who are obviously struggling, with many having lost most if not all of their immediate income - have been inspired to dig deep into the archives, or else record entirely new music to take advantage of these fee-free days, but the result has also been a tidal wave of new music for fans to try and keep up with (already a struggle these days!). My Bandcamp Fridays usually end up with me melting down at my keyboard, 34 Bandcamp tabs open simultaneously in my browser, and an ominous hollow echo coming from inside of my bank account.

The plus side to these (honestly, for me, quite stressful) days has been a ton of new music. Usually I am fortunate enough to get to DJ once or twice a year at Lost Map events, which provides a great opportunity for me to vent my perverted & niche musical interests on a wider audience, but that has obviously not happened this year. Last month, I noticed that a bunch of the tracks I'd downloaded would work well together in a mix. A friend or two had put together podcasts of their Bandcamp Day recommendations, and so I decided to nick this idea for myself.

I also decided to try presenting this in a podcast format - with my own actual speaking voice (urgh). It felt like there was extra information to convey, but it's a new thing for me, so this has been an experiment. I'm not sure it's been a successful one, but not having to worry so much about songs mixing/flowing directly into each other has actually been helpful in getting me over my mix-block (I have three or four unfinished years-old mixes on my hard drive).

After recording the "radio version", and pronouncing every single foreign band name/song title wrong, I realised that I could still use this freer radio format but just using the little jingles and cheesy-DJ-noises I'd made for it as ways to bridge transitions. So I made another version, with none of my stupid voice, and an extra track (the audio levels between songs are hopefully a bit better balanced too). So I might just stick with that format in future. But I dunno. Maybe my voice sounds less irritating and boring to people who aren't me? It seems improbable. But do let me know, in the unlikely event that you care or have an opinion! And in any case, I hope you enjoy some of the tunes, and perhaps discover some new gems.

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Music Thrombosis _ Episode 1

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