Hello, I'm Tom Robinson and here are the tracklistings for The BBC Introducing Mixtape - a podcast and radio show broadcast every Monday from 2-3am on BBC Radio 6 Music. This week we're featuring some of my favourite artists performing on the BBC Introducing stage at the Latitude Festival this year. In this episode you can hear:
FLYING MACHINES, SINK, SEFO KANUTEH, LUMI HD, IONA FORTUNE, OMALOMA, FISHCLAW, SOLOMONS GARDEN, NEIL MARCH, ADWAITH, BLACK THORN, AMANDA BROWN AND THE COMMON EARS, BANWO THE POET and TINDERBOX ORCHESTRA.
How to Listen...
This is the episode broadcast on Monday 10th July 2017. You can listen again for 30 days (until Wed 9th August) on our programme page via this link, using the BBC iPlayer Radio App on your mobile device, or as a rich playlist on the BBC Music app and web pages.
Best of all...
You can receive the show automatically every week as a podcast by subscribing via iTunes or direct from the Podcasts app on your mobile device. Our podcast is also downloadable direct from the 6 Music website. All music has been sourced from the BBC Introducing Uploader and start times below are for the podcast version of the show...
FLYING MACHINES - Emotional Math Metal [starts 00:11]
http://flyingmachinesband.com
SINK - The Knife [starts 05:53]
https://www.facebook.com/sinktheplughole
SEFO KANUTEH - Foday Kunda [starts 11:07]
http://www.sefokanuteh.com
LUMI HD - Lighter [starts 17:03]
http://www.soundcloud.com/lumihd
IONA FORTUNE - Sieben Tage V [starts 20:37]
http://ionafortune
OMALOMA - Aros O Gwmpas [starts 25:12]
https://omaloma.bandcamp.com
FISHCLAW - Kings's Barrow [starts 28:17]
http://www.fishclaw.uk
SOLOMONS GARDEN - Ego [starts 30:32]
https://www.facebook.com/solomonsgardenmusic
NEIL MARCH - Music To Plan Towns By - I [starts 35:36]
https://www.soundcloud.com/trust-the-doc
ADWAITH - Pwysau [starts 40:20]
http://www.facebook.com/adwaithband
BLACK THORN - Fat Freddy [starts 42:16]
https://www.blackthornofficial.co.uk
AMANDA BROWN AND THE COMMON EARS - Spinning Top [starts 45:53]
https://www.facebook.com/thecommonears
BANWO THE POET - Family Business [starts 48:29]
https://soundcloud.com/banwo-the-poet
TINDERBOX ORCHESTRA - Quetzalcoatl [starts 54:19]
https://tinderboxcollective.org
ARTISTS…
After being featured by BBC Introducing you may receive emails from PR companies with impressive client lists, saying they like your music and want to help you get further radio airplay. Please be aware this doesn't make you unique or special - lots of our artists receive these emails from companies who are simply seeking new customers for their paid services. Hiring a professional radio promotion team - just because they happen to send you an email - isn't neccessarily the best use of your money at this point.
In our experience emerging artists often achieve the same results as a plugger - sometimes very much better - by simply contacting radio shows and DJs themselves via social media. For suggestions on how to do your own music promotion see the free advice section at my Fresh On The Net blog (freshonthenet.co.uk)
If you do decide to pay a PR firm to do this work for you, there are over a hundred to choose from in the UK. Most of them have impressive-looking client lists - but not all of them deliver good value for money. Before paying anybody for promotional services of any kind, always contact at least two of their clients first to ask if they'd recommend that particular company. You can find the management, record company or booking agent for most artists using Google.
Further down the line - as your career gathers momentum - you may decide to invest serious money in a professional PR campaign. The most effective pluggers do charge a lot of money because they're good. But the ones that charge the most money aren't neccessarily the best, so do some research. Check which indie labels are regularly getting their artists played on national radio - then make a friendly phone call to their offices and ask which PR company they would recommend.
And whatever route you choose, don't forget to carry on uploading your new releases to BBC Introducing so that we can carry on supporting you as your future career unfolds.
Tom Robinson
