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…
Read MoreEvery week we say it on our upload page when people send their music to Fresh On The Net: "For radio play your track must be uploaded 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 -…
Read MoreA dozen friends of Fresh On The Net - all of whose work we've enjoyed here in recent months - sent excellent new tunes to our Listening Post this week. But if we'd included them on this week's Listening Post, there'd have been 12 less spaces for other artists who haven't recently been supported by us - and those people deserve to get heard too.…
Read MoreHere are 6 great tracks - sent to our Fresh On The Net inbox last week - that I adored, even though there wasn't room to include them on our Listening Post. I earmarked every one of them for airplay on my BBC Introducing Mixtape. But guess what. Five of them hadn't uploaded the tunes to BBC Introducing. I've said it before, let's say it…
Read MoreToo much music, too little airtime... This week we decided to raise the bar a little and reduce the number of tracks presented on our listening post, to make the task a little easier for our readers. But here are another 14 tracks submitted this week - in a variety of styles - that also tickled my fancy, even though we didn't have room to…
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