Every week we say it in our submission advice and on our upload page when people send their music to Fresh On The Net: “For airplay you MUST also upload the track to BBC Introducing. NO UPLOAD = NO AIRPLAY.”

Every week people send excellent new tunes to our inbox which I can’t include on my BBC Introducing Mixtape because they haven’t been uploaded to, erm… BBC Introducing. Obviously – since you need a valid UK postcode and IP address to upload tracks – this does make things a bit hard for non-UK artists.

But mostly we’re talking about UK artists who simply don’t read the instructions. We receive hundreds of tracks a week – so if we come looking for your tune and isn’t already on the BBC Uploader, then your slot will go to someone else’s track that is. The following week will be too late – hundreds more tunes will have arrived by then, and the opportunity will have been missed.

As mentioned elsewhere, I choose tracks for the BBC Introducing Mixtape from our entire inbox – not just songs featured on our Listening Post. So here are 14 personal favourites from last week which I would certainly have featured on 6 Music this month… if only they’d been uploaded in the first place 🙁

IAN KNOWLES – Kadabada
GEETARCHURCHY – Ghosts
KACY CARMEN – Luxury Dreams
THE LOW COUNTRIES – We’re All On The Verge Of Something
EINAR STRAY ORCHESTRA – Pockets Full Of Holes
LONDON SOUNDKLASH – Godzilla Flow
WES FINCH – Jackie’s Stone
LIGHTHOUSE – Bye Summer
R.i.D – Smile
RICHARD MAULE – How You See Me
NUTONE ft. BRUCE BANG – Lost In My Mind
OCTOPUSES – Cool Story Bro
DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON & JUICE – In Service
CSOLARWORKS – Head On