Afterglow Echoplex

A podcast from the outskirts of inner-space, featuring 60-minute collaborative shoegaze, dreampop & ethereal noise-rock "virtual mixtapes."

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Afterglow Echoplex - Episode Two

September 01, 2024 • Featuring: Blair Miller, bloom effect, Films On Song, Iceblynk, In The Afterglow, Lost Space Department, Maud Anyways, Mental Map, THE SEA-JAYS, Shadow Pattern, Shutdown Shipyard, Slow Thrills, Sterile Cuckoo, and Waves Of Dread • Season 1 • Episode 2

Welcome back to the Afterglow Echoplex, a shoegaze and shoegaze-adjacent collaborative mixtape podcast featuring shock waves of distortion, sublime chimes and terminal glacial bliss! Today's episode features Shadow Pattern, Lost Space Department, Iceblynk, Blair Miller, Mental Map, and 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. Iceblynk "Enter the Sky"
2. Films On Song "Ritual Day"
3. Slow Thrills "Lyra"
4. Maud Anyways "It Won't Last"
5. Lost Space Department "Lost Space Jam #1"
6. Mental Map "Snow In June"
7. Sterile Cuckoo "Coming Up Roses"

Side Two
1. Shadow Pattern "By Day By Night"
2. Blair Miller "Hit the Ground"
3. bloom effect "Year Zero"
4. THE SEA-JAYS "007 and Counting"
5. Shutdown Shipyard "A Great Ship"
6. In the Afterglow "Transform (Extended Distortion Mix)"
7. Waves Of Dread "Twilight"

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 X's and O's in the form of purchasing their music, following their links, and (when possible) seeing them play live.

Speaking of live shows...

Are you going to be in Portland, Oregon on the weekend of September 28th and the 29th? Well, talk about luck! Swing by the Fixin' To in North Portland for Dreamgaze PDX, a two-day shoegazestravaganza featuring performances by The Veldt, Dead Leaf Echo, Soft Science, Kallai, Waking Sophia, Mint Field, and many more! Get your tickets here!

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