You can now submit your tracks to the Playlist Mix using SoundCloud.com and their dropbox feature. To upload a track, simply click on the dropbox button on the right of page, or use this link here.

Tip: When uploading an MP3, please name the track in the format of ARTIST NAME – TRACK NAME.mp3 e.g. Coldplay – Clocks.mp3.

Submissions for tracks are stacked up of May / June / July thanks to the break for touring and theatre and while you can still submit tracks via email we thought it nice to offer you the possibility of uploading tracks through the site. Plus we get to hold them all in the one spot online.

While SoundCloud.com will support a number of formats (AIFF / WAVE / FLAC / AAC / OGG / MP3), it’s only MP3 we’re looking for with a minimum quality of 128kpbs stereo. Uploading the track doesn’t guarantee that it will get played on the podcast but we can say that if and when the track does get an airing, you’ll be the first to know.

Have you been keeping up to date? If you’ve been following the Twitter stream you’ll have picked up (recently) that we’re in the throws of returning with the podcast following a prolonged summer break. Four months is a long time.

Taking time to arrange some licensing and syndication matters (as well as build up a wealth of new music), the PLM is set to return, next week, for the run to the end of the year.

I’ve been looking forward to this for too long…

Fear no, oh Playlist Mix listener, we’ve not gone away, merely having an extended afternoon nap. Truth is, we’ve been up the walls here since last night with a new project – My Music – that’s slowly but surely taking off. We’ve just finished working one tour, have two more lined up for the summer for artists that you would have heard on previous podcasts (like Jeff Lang, Clive Barnes, South, The Lions Mane, Empire Social etc.).

Normal programming will resume in June when the wheels on the bus slow down enough for us to catch up.

In the mean time, don’t forget you can still access any and all previous shows from this year right here on PlaylistMix.com and via iTunes.

Sundays come around too regularly at this stage of the proceedings. We’re just off two back-to-back short weeks, or at least I think they were back-to-back short weeks anyway as the days appear to be flying. We hit the 19th of April for 2009 and the 54th Playlist Mix podcast. While next week’s show is going to feature a selection (says he in hope) of Northern Irish acts, this week sees a blend of tracks from Ireland with some of the featured acts for the month along with talent from both sides of the water.

1. Valentine Black – A Song From The Underground
2. Dogs Bollocks – Rebel Reload
3. The Free Design – Bubbles (Buy at Amazon MP3)
4. Beirut – My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille (Buy at Rhapsody)
5. Ebo – Paper Planes
6. Diarmuid Comerford – Skit Show

While I’m here, I should also plug a competition I’m involved in running, Busker 2009. One of my other hats with Kilkenny Music sees the promoting of a lot of music, at every level, including street-level. Busker 2009 kicked off yesterday with acts competing for a prize each da of 200 Euro. From tomorrow onwards, we’re looking for people to vote for their favourite act out of three from yesterday, the voting available here at KilkennyMusic.com.

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Sunday rolls right ’round again so it’s time for another helping of the Playlist Mix. It’s also Easter Sunday here (and pretty much everywhere else for that matter), time to stuff yourself with chocolate, enjoy an extra day or two out of the office and generally chill out. That’s what’s been happening here in the past few days, a lot of chilling out. It might also be worth mentioning again at this time that if you’re not already following the Playlist Mix on Twitter, now might be a good time to do so. Regular listeners will know I wear all kinds of musical hats, but one particular startup I’m involved in has built up a nice collection of CDs to give away to listeners of the podcast and followers on Twitter – if you’re not in, you can’t win, so follow us here today.

This week’s mix features tracks from

1. Hundred Year Storm – ‘Look To The Skys’
2. Star Crossed Enemies – ‘Imagine Me As I Am’
3. Pearse McGloughlin (Walkperson) – ‘Partings Day One’
4. Max Greenwood – ‘Faces In The Water’
5. The Velodrome – ‘Fascination On Easter Sunday’
6. Hero In Error – ‘Under My Sky’

Until next week and show 54,

Enjoy.

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ODi are one of the four featured acts for April 2009.

For more on ODi, visit ODi on MySpace.

This page will be updated following Playlist Mix 53 on Sunday April 12th.

Star Crossed Enemies are one of the four featured acts for April 2009.

For more on Star Crossed Enemies, visit Star Crossed Enemies on MySpace.

Star Crossed Enemies are a semi-acoustic pop duo, gigging around Ireland and giving away free biscuits to anybody that will watch them. Live, they both play guitar and drums, and they both sing. Brian does the ‘oooooooh’s and Gary does the ‘ahhhhhhh’s. It just works well that way. Many of their shows are acoustic. Their first CD, beautifully titled ‘D.E.P’ is sold at all of their shows, it’s only 2 euro. The band have played shows in front of 100 people and shows in front of 3 people… “it’s a fun ride”.

A few things have been said about Star Crossed Enemies, this one makes the lads smile -

“Bloody fantastic! Beautiful music. A band we can expect huge things from in 2009″ – Alan Jacques, Green and Live.

Check them out on MySpace

We’re back on track for another Sunday!

Last week saw a handy spin in a plane all the way to Amsterdam with the best of intentions of getting show 52 out from Amsterdam last Sunday. As it happens, well, it didn’t happen, so now you’ve got the 52nd podcast for Sunday April 5th, 2009.

This week’s mix brings a host of new Irish acts to the podcast as well as a favourite around the offices in the form of Australia’s multi award-winning and award-nominated virtuoso guitarists, Jeff Lang.

We’ve got tracks from

1. The Resistance – Half The Burden
2. ODi – What You Deserve
3. Ilya K – She’s Got The Loneliest Eyes (In The World)
4. Ten Past Seven – Conjunctivitis
5. Emmet Scanlan & What The Good Thought – Under The Weather
6. Jeff Lang – The Road Is Not Your Only Friend

As usual, if you want to get in touch during the week with a track or some news for the podcast, drop me a line on podcast [at] playlistmix.com or via Twitter here. You can also stop by and send your requests, bios and links to the Playlist Mix MySpace.

Until show 53…

Enjoy.

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Last month saw the featured artists in the form of The Very Most, Heritage Centre, The Funeral Suits and Serial Twin bag some extra plays on the podcast.

This month it’s the turn of ODi, Star Crossed Enemies, Valentine Black and Chucky’s River, four UK/Irish acts who will get a few additional plays on the podcast over the course of April and plugs throughout the web.

The latest podcast, Playlist Mix 52 also goes out this week. I would love to say it was found under a pile of Wonderland and Wasteland episodes, much like the fabled lost pilot to Clerks, but I’d by lying. I would also like to say that it was supposed to air in Amsterdam last weekend (hence the gap), but it didn’t. It also didn’t make the web on Tuesday so it’s been held over until tonight.

It’s April, it’s the first podcast of the month and PLM 52 is up around 10pm GMT tonight.

We’re trucking on past the 50 mark and bring you Playlist Mix 51 with another six tracks from another six fine acts. Outside of the music world it’s been a great weekend here in Ireland – United lost, Chelsea lost, Liverpool hammered Aston Villa, Ireland won the Grand Slam, Bernard Dunne took a world boxing title so the podcast comes to you this weekend on a bit of a high.

I also made it along to the launch gig for Myp Et Jeep’s Blood Is Not Enough debut album release in Kilkenny tonight, the album hitting the shops this coming weekend, so there’s a track for you there in tonight’s mix.

All in all you’ve got music from

1. The Aftermath – All I Want Is For You To Be Happy
2. Reemo – Turn
3. Deerfoot – Hyperion
4. The Lions Mane – DNA 4
5. 4D Model – Rethink
6. Myp Et Jeep – Beware Of Sound

Next week’s podcast comes from Amsterdam, should be an interesting one. If you want to get in touch, drop me a line on Twitter or via email to podcast@playlistmix.com.

Until next week,

Enjoy.

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