Since my iPhone 6 battery decided to completely go dead at the official start of summer, and since my 3 nieces were coming for a mountain town visit for the last week of June, I decided to announce a bit of a ‘no new blog content until my uncle-ing duties are over AND my diy iPhone battery replacement goes well and I have a functioning smart phone again’ break. Oh yeah, and I guess I now live under something called a “Heat Dome” (which, in layman terms, seems to mean that EVERY DAY is now +30°​C), so that has also factored in the need for taking a break from working in my non-AC’d office.

Luckily, as far as keeping my 'post a Mixcloud mix EVERY Monday & Thursday' plan for 2021 goes, I still had some "lost episodes" from when I was making mix tapes for Folk Radio UK metaphorically sitting in a shoe box under my desk. So, before I started living like a 2001-model uncle with no cellphone for a week of record-setting heat/sweat waves, I pulled a real futuristic move and pre-scheduled a few dusty MTR episodes from twenty-fourteen to be uploaded to Mixcloud while I was living a more offline/outside life.

So, I hope you enjoy/enjoyed this headphone jump in time all the way back to a much cooler March 2014, when Episode 32 first came out of the digital-mix-tape-oven I was baking from back in Nottingham…

…and now that my nieces have headed back over the Rocky Mountains in the present day, I have time to jump on my trusty ol’ computer (the same one that I was making mix tapes on in ‘14) and finish putting together a blog post to accompany the mixes past-me scheduled to post on the HI54 Mixcloud while I was out there rotating between lakes, pools, and creeks sans smartphone for AN ENTIRE WEEK!

Episode 032's Playable Track Listing

If you find your ears enjoying what they’re hearing, there’s some pretty decent odds that following HI54LOFI over on Mixcloud for future/more episodes would not be the worst use of one of your internet clicks today, nor would following HI54LOFI out on the other parts of the internet where it is normal for people to follow other people on:

And if you ever want to shuffle thru every track that’s ever been played on an MTR episode (well, all the tracks currently available on Spotify – which is still A LOT) you can do so at anytime OVER HERE +++++ PLUS, if you’d like to extend the ‘soundtrack-by-HI54-mixtape’ vibe all day, just go press the play button over on MTR | FRESH TAPES, which is a place where you can get one HI54 mix tape to play after the other *ALL DAY* with just an internet connection and a click of a button.

ALSO also: HI54LOFI was accepted into the Mixcloud Select program a while back, 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 EVERY HI54 MIX for yourself) — y’know, if you’d be interested in something like that (or nobody would be mad at you if you’d prefer 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… it all helps keep the wheels moving!).

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 some 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 while we’re at it we can also start giving way less to the people out there always trying to keep things shitty?

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