HIGH FIVE FOR… THE 1950s | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
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LAST “SHUFFLE UP'd 8” UPDATE: 24FEB2023
Sometimes, the easiest way to go back in time is to just put a time capsule collection of musical vibes in the headphones, close your eyes and drift away. You might even say that this is the only way to travel back in time. I don't know much about time travel, if I'm being honest.
This playlist features a handpicked range of 50s jams that’ll literally make your socks hop (not that kind of “literally”), and the selection is tweaked on the regular, with new additions added near the top & older tracks removed from the bottom to keep the total count at a nice, even 95.
Which means you can also find this playlist in the daily programming options for the ‘pretend, for real’ mountain town DIY radio station MOUN.TOWN/FM that HI54.BLOG collaborates on with mountain town internet cousin 95EH.CA (and all 3 signals get broadcast from the same small HWY 95a apartment “office”… hence the 95 total tracks/artists gimmick, eh).
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And if your ears are liking what they’re hearing in the above digital mix cd, it would probably be a good idea to like/follow/listen over on Spotify so you can get future updates auto-magically appearing on your listening device. And, as always, when you hear something you like, do the universe some good and support/check those artists out further (or have a think about the current artists they’ve had an influence on).
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And, while we’re reflecting on timeless music made over 70 years ago, I should mention that I don’t keep an ongoing Buy Music Club list going for all the tracks that are available on Bandcamp like I do with a lot of my other Spotify playlists (believe it or not… a lot of albums/artists from the 1950s are not available on Bandcamp) — BUT — let’s not forget to remember that you can always pop a Spotify playlist link into Hype Machine’s handy Merch Table if you ever come across a Spotify playlist that has a bunch of tracks/artists you’d be interested in supporting directly (ie. the Merch Table will try & automagically find which Spotify tracks in a playlist are available on Bandcamp for you). Sometimes you’d be surprised which tracks/albums are actually available on the better-for-artists music site that is Bandcamp — and here’s the fifties that the Merch Table spit out for this playlist:
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But there are other ways to show support for the music/artists you love than buying on Bandcamp, no matter what era the magic was recorded in, SO, sometimes it’s best to not overthink EVERYTHING and just enjoy listening to some of the endless amazing music that artists have been making despite everything that works against that work. And then let’s work on fixing the things that work against it.
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Anyways, I HOPE YOU HEAR A FEW THINGS YOU’LL LIKE ENOUGH TO GO INVEST MORE TIME WITH BACK IN YOUR PERSONAL ORBIT, BUT IF YOU FIND YOU’RE ACTuALLY IN THE MOOD FOR A DIFFERENT ‘95 TRACKs from 95 different artists’ SOUNDTRACK THAN THE ONE ABOVE, have a flick thru this carousel of MOUN.TOWN/FM diy programming & give a listen to whatever catches your fancy:
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OR SEARCH “MOUN.TOWN/FM” ON SPOTIFY TO BROWSE THE FULL COLLECTION OF #MOUNTOWNFM PLAYLISTS AVAILABLE (BECAUSE THERE’S MORE THAN WHAT THE ABOVE CAROUSEL CAN HANDLE)
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And here’s hoping this year we’ll be better than the last \m/
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JEREMY / @HI54LOFI
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