Expressway

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2012-01-01

Label: Bathetic Records

"2012 is right around the corner, and now looking back on this crazy year in music a lot has happened, with the majority in a extremely positive ordeal in my opinion. Every band, and artist featured here on this compilation are linked to each other in a symbiotic way or another: For starters, Shawn Reed from Night People Records has been a catalyst over the past few years cultivating, and encouraging weirdos, outsiders, bedroom recording artists, bums, people with burnt dreams, to take a leap of faith into the unknown and help them unheard voices broadcast over the underground tape movement on car stereos/tape decks, for those curious adventurous listeners out there in the mist that we know not exist. But after a few years the cultivation and hard work resulted in tours, adventures, links, meet ups, letters, hardship, friendship, relationship, kinship, and so forth. Time cumulated that shit for us.

Whether its years spent on the road, relocating to another town, working to pay the rent, playing numerous gigs underpaid or with zero pay, writing until eyes crossed, recording until ears decay, dying in a Tibetan sense, or simply living, this compilation is a collective meditation of our personal travels. One of love, of hate, of wander, and of mileage.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say that we are truly grateful and thank you all for your support this past year. Let this compilation be a signifier of more fucking bad ass music thats to come in 2012 from our crew and family. We hope you enjoy this FREE compilation as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Work hard, play hard, get paid, fund new project, write, record, repeat until you succeed. Cumulate and cumulate and cumulate.

Happy New Year everybody.

Alex Zhang Hungtai
Dec 23, 2011

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2011 has been a great year for music. and especially, it's been a great year for us at Bathetic. We couldn't be happier to help release such a wonderful collection of songs for this mixtape gift. Like Alex mentioned, you start out with people like Shawn and Night-People, people working diligently in their zone, spending long hours working to push a product for a select clique of people. Why? Because we love it.

Bathetic loves to continue to push the boundaries of exploratory music, regardless of the genre and sub-genre boundaries of 2000s blog market. We just love good music. That's our main reason for backing this project. We wanted to reach out to artists we've worked with, artists we've connected with socially, artists we've never even spoken with; yet the connection is always there. That's a beautiful thing.

Some of these artists we've done releases for, some of them are new friends, but it goes to show there's still a community in all this.

So here we present to you... This cruise... We're all fucking friends, here. So let's take a ride.

This is the expressway.

No reason not to live fast.

William Cody Watson
Dec 23, 2011

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Thank you to Jon, Omar, & Bathetic Records. Thank you to all the artists involved."

Tracks 2, 6, 11 to 14 are encoded at 320 kbps.
Tracks 1, 8 are encoded at 192 kbps.
Tracks 3, 5, 7, 9 are encoded at 160 kbps.
Track 4 is encoded at 128 kbps.
Track 10 is encoded at VBR.