I get sent a lot of music submissions on SubmitHub. A good chunk of those songs are available on Soundcloud, which got me thinking…
… maybe I should resurrect my Soundcloud account and start putting together monthly collections of all the tracks I approved on SubmitHub that were submitted over on the cloud? This particular playlist will be where you can find all the Soundcloud submissions approved for blahging in June 2019 (tracks added throughout the month).
* Providing the A's to the 5 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Q's today is Day Joy— a music-maker from Florida whose sophomore album ‘Great Satan, Mass Appeal’ is coming soon, but in the meantime you can catch the latest singles over on Spotify (including the most recent to drop, ‘White’, which you can also find on the HI54 Mix CD ‘NOT LOST / NOT FOUND’)
I've been really digging Faye Webster's new album, Atlanta Millionaires Club. It's catchy and somber with a child-like simplicity in the lyrics.
The album also has a special place in my heart because I used to tour with the pedal steel player featured on the record.
I've really enjoyed the Showtime series, The Chi. It's raw, has great characters, and features good music.
The creators do a great job at building multiple story lines while drawing you to invest emotionally in a variety of characters in drastically different circumstances.
I don't read a lot of fiction in my adult life but I do have a long list of must-read fiction from my earlier years. Lately, I'm more into religious, scientific, and philosophical literature. If I were to recommend a book to a total stranger, I would implore them to explore the world of psychedelics, contemporary shamanism, and psychonautics.
A great book to start with is Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception or Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open The Head.
I'm going to reveal myself as a nerd, but I'm really into Lumosity. It's an app/game that helps you develop cognitively in various domains.
Basically, you start by taking a cognitive aptitude test to figure out where you stand. Then the app analyzes your strengths and weaknesses and offers you puzzles, games, etc to help you improve. It's fun and quite addictive. And no, they aren't paying me.
Try to take as much responsibility as you can in life. Be honest with yourself and start as small as you must. Don't waste your time comparing yourself to others. Remember that the race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
…and if you like what you’re hearing, go do some further day-joy-flavoured audio exploring over on the Spotify / Soundcloud.
Well, it finally happened: the episode count for the Mix Tape Radio Show is now in the triple digits. I considered doing something different for the 100th episode, but since the theme for every show is to just carefully place a bunch of nice songs together in an order that sounds even nicer one after the other, I figured why mess with a winning formula ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Mix Tape Radio Show is a series of digital mix tapes that I’ve been putting together for years over on Mixcloud; sometimes there were new episodes every other week, sometimes there was nothing for months. Us bloggers are sketch like that.
But, as inconsistent as the posting schedule of these mix tapes can sometimes get, the quality of the music featured on every episode always sounds consistently nice in the ol’ headphones (click the play button below to check for yrself) —
featuring:— so if you find your ears are enjoying what they’re hearing on the latest episode, there are some pretty decent odds that following HI54LOFI over on Mixcloud for future episodes would not be the worst use of one of your internet clicks today. Also, if/when you hear a track you like, check out the artists further & maybe use one of the handy track embeds above to support the making of even more music you’ll like?
“Supporting direct action on climate change AND getting an audio diary of OK Computer is likely the most sensible thing I've ever spent money on.”
If you like what you hear, consider adding this record to your own Bandcamp Collection, where you can write your own little review. You should also check the Bandcamp Collection of the above fan that's saying the above words (their name is linked), odds are good you'll discover even more gems.
Words & Playlist by - JEREMY / @HI54LOFI
Originally posted December 2017, because that's when they stop making 2017 tunes.
I told myself I wasn't going to do it in 2017.
In fact, I'd even overwritten all the past 20x year end playlists I had laboured over on previous calendar years (which, in hindsight, was a dumb move because I ended up making them over again). It had become clear that putting these year end playlists together was a whole lot of work for the very brief time that people were actually interested in looking at / listening to them.
So why then are you reading a sentence that will eventually be contradicted with an embedded 2017 year end Spotify playlist?
I don't know. I guess there is something that I find both comforting and addicting when it comes to putting playlists together. It's probably some sort of undiagnosed OCD (side note: is it still undiagnosed if I diagnose it?).
The truth is, putting together an end of year playlist based on the math that happens when you put an X between the 20 and the 17 is a really good (albeit, slightly daunting) way to do a deep dive on the year that was. And for me, this year had been my most "checked-out-of-music-industry-society" stretch of calendar for some time. So trying to find 340 good songs from 340 different artists became my own little musical Everest. Having completed the task a few times before, I knew the brief but intense feeling of accomplishment that waited for me at the end; sometimes that's enough for me.
And no, this is not a playlist of 'The 340 BEST Songs of 2017'—because it would be mental to have a strong opinion of 340anythings. And no, there is not any order of preference to this playlist. It's just 340 songs/artists from the year 2017 that my ears got around to and liked a little more than some of the other things that made it into my headphones (don't @ me, unless of course it is with praise and or quality 2017 recommendations I may have missed).
Now, bring on 20X18 (and every “whatever year this is now” that follows).