Glance through Robjn's website and you'll very quickly realise that this man is all about the music. No cheesy bios, vacuous press blurb or cheeky celebrity selfies, just creativity by the bucketload. So, if the music does the talking, what does Robjn's latest album Post-mortem have to say? Bringing a mix of aspiration, fantasy and despair, through both musical and lyrical arrangements, Post-mortem is a…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by guest writer, Sunny Stuart Winter this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. CHASIN VEGAS - Blue Eyed Skies Anthemic rock with a nod to BritPop-era Indie, Blue Eyed Skies not only features the Essex Symphony Orchestra, but a guitar solo fit for the…
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I'm currently halfway through a solo acoustic tour of the UK - on which fellow FOTN moderator Benji Tranter is looking after backline and merchandise for us. On Saturday night our entire touring party of ended up sitting around in the rather unwelcoming lobby of a hotel on the outskirts of Selby called The Wishing Well. The night manager was a bit surly and unhelpful,…
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This week's free downloadable BBC Introducing Mixtape features handpicked tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader by FREE SWIM, ESTHER JOY LANE, KID 85, SANDTIMER, NO PLATO, THE AUTOCLAUS, NICE PLACE, MELANIE CREW, SEAN GRANT & THE WOLFGANG, BABY STRANGE, FIFI RONG, DENISE, FERAL LOVE, SUZERAIN, ETCHES, WARMDUSCHER and YLLWSHRK. The BBC Introducing Mixtape is a 60 minute radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music…
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These Fresh Faves were chosen by our readers on our Listening Post from a shortlist of 25 tracks over the weekend. They are reviewed this week by vocalist, pianist, flautist, composer, improviser, FOTN moderator and proud mother Ola Szmidt. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. ALEV LENZ - Eggshell Alev Lenz proved to be very popular with the Freshnet…
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This week's free downloadable BBC Introducing Mixtape features handpicked tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader by ATLAS EYES, LAIL ARAD, SHIELDS, KEVIN P GILDAY+THE SEA KINGS, PUMAROSA, FIREWOODISLAND, LANRE, PANAMA PAPERS, RED CABLE SUNDAY, SHINERS, THE KING'S PARADE, INSTITUTES, LAZYREVS, SLEUTH, VICTORIA PEARCE, CRUDE OIL INC and NUCLEAR LULLABY. The BBC Introducing Mixtape is a 60 minute radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music…
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These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed this week by longstanding mod, vintage dress wearer, DJ and Amazing Radio presenter extraordinaire, Shell Zenner. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. FIELD STUDIES - Listener While one Midlands city was sat on the edge of its football seat this bank holiday weekend (YES, LEICESTER, YES!), another…
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This week's free downloadable BBC Introducing Mixtape features handpicked tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader by CULTURAL STUDIES, TEN FÉ, ESTRONS, PADDY GARRIGAN+THE STROLLER PRIESTS, GOLD SPECTACLES, FALSE ADVERTISING, SURGERY WITHOUT KNIVES, ZEETEAH MASSIAH, ARMS & HEARTS, THE RPMs, STEREO KELA, THE SELF HELP GROUP, JAMES HOLT, STRAY DOG, ANNEXE THE MOON, NEVERLND and BROOKE BENTHAM. The BBC Introducing Mixtape is a 60 minute radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2-3am every Sunday night/Monday morning. Each programme is…
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Many dozens of excellent tunes arrive every week in our inbox here at Fresh On The Net. And every week there are excellent tunes I can't even consider for my BBC Introducing Mixtape because they haven't been uploaded to, well... BBC Introducing. Sometimes of course these are by non-UK residents, but usually they're by British artists who simply didn't read the instructions. Since we get…
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No Upload = No Airplay
Folks, BBC Introducing is a free service designed to help emerging UK artists get heard. But we at the BBC can't help you unless you help us too - by actually sending us your music via bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/uploader... Between 150-200 tracks arrive in our Soundcloud dropbox here at Fresh On The Net each Mon - Thur and our entire moderation team, including me, listens to every…
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