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. Each week we showcase some of my favourite new tunes by emerging and independent artists, and in this epidode you can hear:
GHOSTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS, TALK IN COLOUR, GRAHAM GRAHAM BECK, SAM FENDER, QUEEN ZEE AND THE SASSTONES, MICHAEL TIMMONS, BLANK FICTION, IRASCIBLE F4CK BRIGADE, TALMA, ANDY ZUK, EMMA MILLER, ARMS & HEARTS, JOE HOLTAWAY, TWO DAY COMA, THE EMPIRE POLICE and THE GREAT CURVE
How to Listen...
This is the episode broadcast on Monday 29th May 2017. You can listen again for 30 days (until Wed 28th June) 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...
GHOSTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - Outside The Wheel [starts 00:07]
https://www.facebook.com/GhostsOfSocialNetworks
TALK IN COLOUR - Roses [starts 03:57]
http://www.talkincolour.com
GRAHAM GRAHAM BECK - HipHopSkipJump [starts 07:30]
https://www.graham-graham-beck.co.uk/
SAM FENDER - Play God [starts 10:11]
http://samfender.com
QUEEN ZEE AND THE SASSTONES - Sissy Fists [starts 13:47]
http://queenzeeandthesasstones.com
MICHAEL TIMMONS - Painting [starts 16:57]
http://www.facebook.com/MichaelTimmonsMusic
BLANK FICTION - Wide [starts 19:50]
http://blankfiction.co.uk
IRASCIBLE F4CK BRIGADE - Daily News [starts 24:30]
https://www.facebook.com/IrascibleF4ckBrigade
TALMA - Heads Down [starts 27:56]
http://www.talmasounds.com
ANDY ZUK - Jack Nicholson [starts 30:51]
https://andyzuk.bandcamp.com
EMMA MILLER - Burning Out [starts 33:46]
http://www.emmamillermusic.com
ARMS & HEARTS - Racketeers [starts 38:50]
https://www.facebook.com/ArmsandHearts
JOE HOLTAWAY - A Little Love [starts 41:30]
https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway
TWO DAY COMA - If I Wasn't [starts 45:00]
https://www.facebook.com/twodaycoma
THE EMPIRE POLICE - Taxi Rank [starts 48:38]
https://www.facebook.com/theempirepolice
THE GREAT CURVE - Run For Your Lives... [starts 53:56]
https://thegreatcurve.bandcamp.com
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
