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Want fresh music on the regular? Want eclectic music discovery without resorting to algorithms? Do you think I have good taste?
Well, if you sign up here you will get access to my semi-monthly mixtapes without depending on social media algorithms to inform you. Get them in your email inbox. Hoorah!
Who am I?
I am Alec Hanley Bemis, an American person who manages & curates creative projects, primarily in music. I try to help artists. In 2001, I co-founded the Brassland label. (Here’s our website!)
Simultaneous with founding the label, I had a decade long career as a writer publishing in LA Weekly, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. I don’t do that much anymore. However, a 2020 piece I published in The Creative Independent went sorta viral. That was nice! So I decided I should try sharing things again in a more public forum that was not social media.
Coming soon…
I am toeing into the paid-subscription side of Substack. At first I plan to post new playlists, roughly every other month, to anyone that signs up to get my Substack emails. For free!
If anyone subscribes, I aspire to share all my archival playlists as subscriber-only posts.
Huh, what?
This is all about playlists. To kick off my Substack blog thing, I have posted a half-dozen older playlists I made at the request of other people or organizations—or as personal research. Here is a sampling:
The Testaments playlist: something I pulled together inspired by this new(ish) novel for its paperback launch — link
Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson & Anita Lane primers: a selection of non-conventional introductions to iconic artists, for my own enjoyment — link
Sounds of Saving playlist: downbeat songs that relieve dark moods, created for a music & mental health non-profit - link
Find more over yonder. These are all Spotify-only, but new playlists will be simulcast (simulposted?) to Apple Music.
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The playlists I’m publishing here are better expressions of the world I want to live in than anything I post to social media sites. Starting this Substack is, in many ways, an experiment in connecting with people more directly while using the diffuse tools of social media a little bit less.
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