You're going to want to copy and paste this URL or bookmark it because from now on, it will be my archive of content from my old internet radio station about film scores:

https://hearthis.at/dj-afos-ny/

For a few years, I thought my Mixcloud account would be fine as an archive of highlights from my station.

My favorite moment on Mixcloud was finding out that one of the people who listened to the show I did in 2008 about United Artists movies ("The Inmates Are Taking Over the Asylum"), which I archived on this account, was animator Joe Horne ( https://www.mixcloud.com/joe-horne2/ ). He created the Stevie Washington, The Angry Youth animated shorts, which MTV used as interstitials between music videos and commercial breaks in the late '80s. It was a spy spoof done in very limited animation and narrated by an announcer who kept blowing his lines. (The announcer was voiced by Russell Johnson—the Professor from Gilligan's Island.) I was obsessed with Stevie and Zoya, man. (Zoya is pictured above.) I used to draw doodles of Stevie in his shades and black turtleneck atop his red, white, and blue skateboard on a Big Apple street, where "New York's New York. The turn of the century. All crime."

But after Mixcloud announced in December that it would start limiting "basic tier" accounts to 10 mixes per account ( https://5mag.net/news/mixcloud-imposes-dj-mix-limits-amid-lack-of-profitability/ ), I said two words: "Nah, B."

That means a lot of content from the years 2004 to 2008 will be moved over to my HearThis account, which I've had since 2017 because I realized that Mixcloud falls short in a few areas as a SoundCloud alternative, and HearThis, a platform from Germany, is a good alternative to both Mixcloud and SoundCloud. Though my audience is much smaller over there, I've had zero problems with HearThis. Mixcloud is a different story.

In the next few months, I'll be moving a lot of mixes over to HearThis and doing a bunch of tweaks to this Mixcloud account so that there will be less than 10 mixes. "New Jack State of Mind," which is also part of my HearThis account, is one particular mix that will remain on this Mixcloud account. I had a lot of fun with "New Jack State of Mind." It's not at all like "The Inmates Are Taking Over the Asylum" or "Zero Churn" from 2005, and it has nothing to do with film scores. It's closer in style to mixes by Cutso, DJ Phatrick, Cosmo Baker, and DJ Jazzy Jeff—mixes I'm a big fan of—and I just edited together a version of it that doesn't have a clip of Justin Roiland's voice anymore (I booted his toxic ass just like Adult Swim and 20th Television Animation did). It took me less than 10 minutes to delete his voice. I also deleted Beyoncé, André 3000, and Kanye's "Party" from "New Jack State of Mind" (I like "Party," but I don't want to hear Kanye's voice anymore). That 2023 version will be up on my HearThis account in the future.

I had to switch to Pro status just to post a new mix on Mixcloud. And that's one of the many reasons why I intend to cancel my Pro membership in the near future.

I won't be deleting this account, but it's not going to be my primary hub for my mixes like it was previously.

If you're wondering why there were no new mixes on my Mixcloud account after 2018, the 2018 passing of Beth Krakower, a film music publicist I corresponded with ever since my time as an unpaid (of course) college radio host in the late '90s, took some of the fun out of both compiling instrumentals from score albums I like and building mixes out of them. Also, I was busy writing and self-publishing my first non-fiction book and then I attempted to start work on a second one. After two book ideas that went nowhere, I came up with a third idea for the second book, and since July, that's what I've been writing.

While I was putting the finishing touches on the first book, I became active in the comments section at The Solute, and that site's discussions of films and TV shows recently made me want to get back into making a mix full of music from original scores again.

That Solute-related mix can be heard on my HearThis account, and I have a second Solute-related mix in the works. In the meantime, get acquainted with my HearThis account. I have a few surprises in store over there.

- Jim