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.
My name is Anthony King and I am the host of Afterglow Echoplex. I love independent, underground music sub-genres like shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, post-rock, post-punk, jangle, twee, goth, darkwave, indie hip-hop, etc. Much 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!
Every episode of the Afterglow Echoplex podcast is not a playlist, but rather a virtual mixtape featuring back-to-back songs by independent, self-funded artists you might not be privy to... yet. Each episode's 60-minute mixtape is produced in direct collaboration with the bands and musicians featured on the show. The basic tenet of this podcast is to highlight the incredibly talented artists you're hearing here, while getting their staggeringly amazing music out to a wider audience.
It's my hope that, in listening to the carefully crafted mixtapes on each of these podcast episodes, you, the listener, will seek out and support the talented and hard-working artists you discovered here. Buy some records! Go to their shows! Wear their T-shirts! Show 'em some love!
If you are in a band and create music similar to the hazy, swaying, feedback-drenched gossamer sounds you've heard here, why not send in one of your songs for consideration on a future Afterglow Echoplex mixtape episode? Please email WAV or FLAC files of your song(s) to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com.
As with the bands featured here, this podcast would not be possible without you. Thank you for listening.
Afterglow Echoplex
Afterglow Echoplex - Episode 2
Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent collaborative mixtape podcast featuring shock waves of distortion, sublime chimes and terminal glacial bliss! Today's episode features Shadow Pattern, Lost Space Department, Iceblynk, Blair Miller, Mental Map, and much, much more!
Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent bands you hear here.
Side One
1. Iceblynk "Enter the Sky"
2. Films On Song "Ritual Day"
3. Slow Thrills "Lyra"
4. Maud Anyways "It Won't Last"
5. Lost Space Department "Lost Space Jam #1"
6. Mental Map "Snow In June"
7. Sterile Cuckoo "Coming Up Roses"
Side Two
1. Shadow Pattern "By Day By Night"
2. Blair Miller "Hit the Ground"
3. bloom effect "Year Zero"
4. THE SEA-JAYS "007 and Counting"
5. Shutdown Shipyard "A Great Ship"
6. In the Afterglow "Transform (Extended Distortion Mix)"
7. Waves Of Dread "Twilight"
This podcast would not be possible without the contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved X's and O's in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.
Speaking of live shows...
Are you going to be in Portland, Oregon on the weekend of September 28th and the 29th? Well, talk about luck! Swing by the Fixin' To in North Portland for Dreamgaze PDX, a two-day shoegazestravaganza featuring performances by The Veldt, Dead Leaf Echo, Soft Science, Kallai, Waking Sophia, Mint Field, and many more! Get your tickets here!
If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. All donations will go directly back into the podcast to upgrade recording equipment and editing software. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
Please rate and review this podcast on the podcast catcher of your choice. If you're in a band and would like to contribute one of your songs for consideration on a future episode of Afterglow Echoplex, please email a WAV or FLAC file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com
Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!
Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast.