The Mix Tape Radio Show was a series of digital mix tapes that I put together on Mixcloud for more than few sporadic years (according to internet records, it all started sometime back in 2012). Sometimes there were new episodes every week, sometimes there were no episodes for months. Eventually I hit 200 episodes and put the series on pause (but that’s also because I started 2 other Mixcloud series called ‘Mix Tape Radio Mix CDs’ + ‘HI54 Yearbook Mixes’). And because my website has gone through as many changes as a small child over it’s 10-ish years of existing, some of my older Mixcloud mixes never got a proper HI54.BLOG blahg post setup. Having an ongoing music blog is sketch like that.

But, since I’m on a partial music blog break until the start of November, I figured I’d go dig into the ol’ HI54LOFI Halloween Mixes bag and grab out an older, but still very edible, candy-apple flavoured mix from about 4 years back — EPISODE 086, to be exact:

So press play on the player above or jump over to Mixcloud to listen over there, (or tune-in to MTR | FRESH TAPES for an all-day-string of HI54 mix tapes playing one after the other) AND make sure to have a browse thru the listenable/clickable track listing below — I bet there’s a track/artist or two that your headphones are going to want to spend more time with:

Episode 086'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 (I’ll be back to posting new mixes when I return to accepting music submissions on November 1st), nor would following HI54LOFI out on the other parts of the internet where it is normal for people to follow other people on:

PLUS, if you’d ever like to extend the “soundtrack by HI54 mixtape” vibe all day, 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 (and EVERY Thursday a couple different mix tapes get put at the front of the queue).

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 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?

\M/