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 episode you can hear:
SLOWLIGHTS, ANIMAL NOISE, ECKOES featuring MAYA ANGELOU, REIGEN, K. ANDERSON, NOTHING ABOUT ME, FIGHTING PILOT , HIZZLE, THE BEELIPS,THE FEDERATION OF SALVATION , CIARAN AUSTIN , JEMMA FREEMAN+THE COSMIC SOMETHING , WHITE KITE ,THE EMPIRE POLICE , RICHARD MICHAEL DALY , SØLV and FLOWERMOUTH featuring WES PARHAM.
How to Listen...
This is the episode broadcast on Monday 20 November 2017. You can listen again for 30 days (until Wed 20th December) 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.
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All music has been sourced from the BBC Introducing Uploader and start times below are for the podcast version of the show...
SLOWLIGHTS - Wide Eyed [starts 00:10]
http://facebook.com/slowlightsband
ANIMAL NOISE - Fly [starts 04:16]
http://www.animalnoise.co.uk
ECKOES featuring MAYA ANGELOU - Human [starts 07:00]
http://www.iameckoes.com
REIGEN - Rollin [starts 10:57]
http://reigenmusic.com
K. ANDERSON - Cluttered [starts 13:33]
http://www.kandersonmusic.com
NOTHING ABOUT ME - Me Too [starts 17:19]
https://www.facebook.com/NothingAboutMeMusic
FIGHTING PILOT - Open Wide [starts 20:22]
https://www.facebook.com/solskjaerband
HIZZLE - Web Spinnin [starts 24:14]
https://soundcloud.com/user-225385103
THE BEELIPS - Hooligan Hologram [starts 27:10]
https://thebeelips.bandcamp.com
THE FEDERATION OF SALVATION - Him [starts 31:41]
http://www.thefederationofsalvation.com
CIARAN AUSTIN - Arise [starts 34:37]
https://www.facebook.com/cantaloupeislandmusic
JEMMA FREEMAN & THE COSMIC SOMETHING - Someone Else To Blame [starts 37:45]
https://jemmafreemanandthecosmicsomething.bandcamp.com
WHITE KITE - Devil's Pact [starts 40:35]
http://www.whitekitemusic.com
THE EMPIRE POLICE - Heaven's Discrepancies [starts 44:46]
https://facebook.com/theempirepolice
RICHARD MICHAEL DALY - Digging For Sound [starts 47:24]
https://soundcloud.com/rmdaly82
SØLV - All To You [starts 50:22]
http://www.solvofficial.com
FLOWERMOUTH feat WES PARHAM - Moon's Ending [starts 53:45]
http://www.flowermouth.nl
https://hellopoetry.com/wesparham
PS from TR
ARTISTS! Some important words of warning... After being featured by BBC Introducing you may receive emails from PR companies with impressive client lists. These emails will say they like your music and want to help you get further radio airplay. Please be aware this does NOT make you unique or special - it simply means they want your money. Large numbers of artists we play receive these emails from companies seeking new customers for their paid services.
Hiring a professional radio promotion team - just because they happen to send you an email - isn't necessarily the best use of your money at this point in your career. 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 just because somebody once did promotion on a record by a famous artist doesn't mean they did a great job. Before paying for promotional services of any kind, ALWAYS get an independent endorsement from a couple of their clients before parting with you hard-earned cash. You can find the management, record company or booking agent for most artists using Google.
It's true that further down the line - as your career gathers momentum - you may want to invest serious money in a professional PR campaign. The most effective pluggers charge a lot of money because they're good - these things can't be done on the cheap. But once again - be careful! All effective pluggers charge a lot of money, but not all pluggers who charge a lot of money are effective.
So if you do plan to invest several thousand quid on radio promotion at some point in the future, here's my advice. Do some research and find out which indie labels regularly get their artists played on your favourite radio stations. Then make friendly contact with whoever runs that record company to find out which PR company they would recommend.
Finally, 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
