I’ve had the idea of making Mixcloud mixes based on a ‘19 from Year / 20 from Year’ format for awhile (as there’s a good ring to that + it makes for a perfect mix cd length), but it wasn’t until participating in one of those “post 4 albums that came out when you were 14” social media things…

…when it occurred to me that it’d be a fun project to go back through EVERY YEAR that I’ve been alive and make a mix out of the music that came out during that calendar timeframe. And not only would it be a nice mix of nostalgia & discovery/rediscovery for my ears, but it would also give me a new recurring blog post / Mixcloud topic that I could run with for a good stretch of blahg time. Because I’m an old.

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So, let’s jump back to the year when we all f*cked around with Y2K and found out that none of the stuff they said would happen happened. The year 2000. They say that the internet existed back then, and maybe it did for some, but I grew up in rural Alberta and I can promise you that the internet did not exist in my orbit (I guess the rabbit ears on our tv were not strong enough). Best you could do for finding “new” music that the radio wasn’t trying to replay into your subconscious forever was find out about bands the radio wasn’t playing (and those albums were usually from a few years back, because news about “indie” bands moved A LOT slower back then)…

…so this mix is a mix between stuff I was listening to back around the year two thousand + a bunch more stuff that I did not get an opportunity to get into until much later (but I think ‘00 me would very much have loved for my local radio stations The Bear or Power 92 to have been playing more music like this ‘20 FROM 2000’ mix instead of some of the tracks I totally remember them using like kryptonite on our ears):

Now, I wouldn’t necessarily say these are “THE 20 BEST” of 2000, but based on my recent deep dive + past listening experiences, I would say that these are definitely some of the best tracks/albums. Also, just like every other year since forever, there was A LOT of nice music that came out in 2000 and it’d be impossible to perfectly capture it all in 20 tracks anyways. So the artists featured in this mix are a good combo of music I personally have nostalgic feelings for + tunes that I was feeling while putting things together last night. But, as always, the main focus is on creating a mix that flows nicely from one track to another, which means tracks I had intentions of trying to fit in & albums which you might think “how could you not include?!” just never fit in before the 20-track limit was hit and the mix was done.

But if you’d like to dive a bit deeper into 2000 than the 20-track digital mix tape provided (for example, you may reach the end and think “I’d like more of that vibe, sir”), well, I’ve also had the realization that it’d be a good time for both me and you if we extended the 2000 musical exploring into something more than just the 20 tracks/artists that made the mixtape cut. And since I have stopped taking on the work of dealing with music submissions and now have a bit more time/energy for doing more #blahgstuff, I figured this would be a good time to follow through on the idea of putting together a 54-track digital mix cd (aka: a playlist) for even further 2000 vibing (the first 20 tracks in the playlist are the tracks from this week YEARBOOK mix tape).

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And if you’d ever like to extend the ‘soundtrack-by-HI54-mixtape’ vibes all day, go press the play button over on MOUN.TOWN/RADIO (which’ll play one HI54 mix tape after another, all day — with new/old HI54 Mixcloud mixes like the mix tape above added to the top of ‘MTR - SIDE A’ and ‘MTR - SIDE B’ every Wednesday). Or you can also listen to all the HI54 Yearbook Mixes one-after-the-other with this Mixcloud playlist or check out the individual episodes below:

ALSO also: HI54LOFI is in the Mixcloud Select program, which means you can now support the making of these mix tapes & the artists included on them with a monthly subscription (while also unlocking offline listening of hundreds of HI54 mix tapes for yourself) — y’know, if you’d be interested in something like that (or nobody would be mad at you if you wanted to make a one-time “thanks for the stuff” donation of your choice to HI54LOFI over here, or even if you just told someone else that they might like what they’d find over on the ol’ HI54.BLOG… that stuff helps too!).

And, final finally… if you hear something you like in this latest episode (or just in general out on the internets today), make sure to check out the people making the stuff you like and show them a little bit of love / support / appreciation (in whatever ways you can) — because everybody wins if we all start sharing some more metaphorical coffees/beers/cheers with the people making the things that make things a little bit better (and maybe we can also start giving way less to the people out there always trying to keep things shitty?).

Put good things in, good things come out.

Put good things out, good things come in.

Put good things on loop.

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JEREMY / @HI54LOFI

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