Afterglow Echoplex

By: Various Artists
  • Summary

  • 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.

    © 2024 Afterglow Echoplex
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Episodes
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Seven (Xmas Bonus!)
    Dec 15 2024

    Seasons Greetings and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring snow-storms of feedback, blissed-out merriment and Rudolph-guided melodies! Everyone deserves a Christmas bonus, and this episode of the podcast is yours! This episode features Iceblynk, Films On Song, The First Eloi, The Prids, Kallai, Stubai, and much more!

    Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent bands you hear here.

    Side One
    1. The Prids "You Drive, I'll Shoot"
    2. Stubai "Another Way"
    3. Moon Void "Is It True"
    4. Iceblynk "Tragic"
    5. Pacific Latitudes "Every Bad Beat"
    6. Lester O'Shea "Gun Fighting in a Small Enclosed Space"
    7. Films On Song "Venus Sickness (Demo)"

    Side Two
    1. Reviser "Burn it Out
    2. then there were blackbirds "Horizon"
    3. Kallai "Always Never"
    4. new burglars "Far from Perfect"
    5. The First Eloi "Shoe Button Eyes"
    6. The Hydrogen Trees "Sylvia"
    7. A Reminder "Tonal Wakeup"

    This podcast would not be possible without the generous contributions of the bands listed above. Please visit their BandCamp pages to show them some much deserved appreciation in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

    As mentioned in today's episode, you can find my friend Amy Abshier's Etsy page here. Amy's hubby, Krysztof Nemeth's page can be found here! Their amazing artwork makes for great Christmas gifts (hint, hint!)

    If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated. Tis the season of giving, after all!

    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 file or Bandcamp code to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

    Follow Afterglow Echoplex now on Bluesky and Threads, for ways to best waste your precious time on the Earth.

    Look for not one, but TWO very special episode of the Afterglow Echoplex at the end of this month! It's the podcast's first foray into a luminary band's B-Sides and rarities that you will not want to miss.

    Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

    Support the show

    (((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Six
    Nov 30 2024

    Seasons Greetings and welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, and whathaveyou collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring three tremolo-infused sleigh bells, two little drummer boyz drum looping and a partridge in a pedal board! This month's episode of the show contains nary a reindeer game, but it does feature Yndling, Two Fields Over, Kelly Slusher, Duelectrum, Indoor Voices, Wybercron, and much more!

    Each episode of the Afterglow Echoplex is a virtual 60-minute dubbed cassette tape made in direct collaboration with the underground, independent bands you hear here.

    Side One
    1. Pacific Latitudes "Set Yr Eyes Aglow"
    2. They Need Machines To Fly? "Party Safari"
    3. Two Fields Over "We Have"
    4. new burglars "Noom"
    5. The Light Dreams "Aspects"
    6. Yindling "Mood Booster" (video)
    7. then there were black birds "Spiral Song" (link to comp)

    Side Two
    1. Duelectrum "Eisbär"
    2. TideBound "The Outsider"
    3. Kelly Slusher "Warm Hearts Don't Break"
    4. Indoor Voices "Care Too Much"
    5. Great Ghosts "Good Morning, Sunshine"
    6. Moon Void "No Sound Remains"
    7. Wybercron "Imprint"

    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 fawning praise in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

    You can find Pips Original, the purveyors of the best donuts and chai in all the Ported Land, online here!

    If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

    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, if yer all super tech savvy about it, a FLAC) file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

    Follow Afterglow Echoplex now on the ol' new socials, Bluesky and Threads, for whatever that's worth...

    Look for the "X-Mas Bonus" episode of the Afterglow Echoplex later this month, on the 15th of December! You've definitely earned it. We all have...

    Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

    Support the show

    (((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Five
    Nov 8 2024

    Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze, dreampop, noise-rock, et al. and etc. collaborative mixtape podcast, featuring walls of squalls, seas of dreams and forests of feedback! This month's episode of the show features Soft No, Paper Shipwrecks, Yearn, Sofa City Sweetheart, The Hydrogen Trees, and much, 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. Sofa City Sweetheart "The Thing She Do"
    2. Waves Crashing "Wish"
    3. Darkswoon "Bloom Decay"
    4. A Reminder "Another Day" (video)
    5. The Hydrogen Trees "Afternoon Subsidence"
    6. The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland "Mystery Song"
    7. Paper Shipwrecks "It Comes in Waves"
    8. KUZbeats "The Way Back When"
    9. Lester O'Shea "The Queen and Her Fool"
    10. Vernons Future "Waxwings"

    Side Two
    1. Zenxith "Oh Hello, It's Me"
    2. Bright Islands "Kick the Past"
    3. The Silver Doors "Redeemer"
    4. Ten Million Lights "Never Let Go" (video)
    5. Mannequin Flowers "Heartbeat"
    6. Soft No "Faker"
    7. Yearn "Blackhole"
    8. The First Eloi "Hide & Seek"

    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 fawning praise in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

    If you enjoyed what you've heard here today and want to help the podcast grow, please consider visiting our Patreon page. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.

    Cover photography for this month's episode by BlueCalypso Photographs.

    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, if yer all super tech savvy about it, a FLAC) file to: afterglowechoplex@gmail.com

    Until next time, keep celebrating the scene!

    Support the show

    (((Afterglow Echoplex: A Shoegaze Mixtape Podcast!)))

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    1 hr and 17 mins

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