EPISODE 118 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
In search of a routine more likely to get a HI54 Mix Tape out the door every week, I started combining a few different music blog tasks together and *holy shit* this is like the 11th week in a row that there’s been a new "SHUFFLE UP'D EIGHT" mix tape to kick off your Monday morning soundtrack (whether you be in a mountown like me or not).
And as I mentioned in my ‘End Of Year / End Of Decade Confluence’ post, these last couple months of the Twenty-10s is going to see a few more blog tasks combined. Because shit is getting a pinch more efficient around these parts, a little bit every year.
So, without any further ado-ing, here is…
MTR: EPISODE 118
Episode 118 was created while shuffling around in the massive HI54 Mix CD ‘20X19’ — which is a Spotify playlist bursting with 380 nice tracks from the year 2019 *from 380 different releases* because 20X19 equals 380 (follow that playlist on Spotify for future updates/repeat shuffles). And hot damn if it wasn’t another great year for owning headphones.
So listen to MTR 118 on the player above or jump over to Mixcloud— and don’t forget to have a browse thru the listenable/clickable track listing below (and make sure to go explore anything/anyone that catches your ear):
The Shuffle Up’d Eight // EPS 118
Track 1
(00:16) Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
Track 2
(4:30) Craig Finn - Something To Hope For
Track 3
(9:07) Derek Senn - How Could a Man
Track 4
(13:02) Better Oblivion Community Center - Didn't Know What I Was In For
Track 5
(17:00) Hallelujah The Hills - My Name Sounds Sinister
Track 6
(23:08) Boy Scouts - Expiration Date
Track 7
(27:08) The Harmaleighs - Sorry, I'm busy
Track 8
(30:06) Jordan Moser - Love Is Gonna Test You
If you find yourself enjoying any of the above, there are some pretty decent odds that following HI54LOFI out on the internets would not be the worst use of one of your internet clicks today (I tend to share things like the above on the regular-ish… so maybe we operate on similar wavelengths?)…
…and it probably wouldn’t be too bad of an idea to follow/shuffle thru the rest of the ‘20X19’ Mix CD that this week’s episode of MTR was pulled from, because something tells me if you liked the 8 songs featured in the latest mix, chances are good you’ll like a good chunk of the 372 other tracks from 2019 found in the full Spotify playlist.
And stay tuned for more HI54 ‘End Of Year / End Of Decade’ goodness over this last stretch of 2019 as we take a bit of time to get mildly nostalgic for the not too distant past. And speaking of the past, if you ever want to shuffle thru every track that’s ever been played on a MTR episode (well, all those available on Spotify) you can do so OVER HERE.
ALSO: HI54LOFI was recently accepted into 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 — 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 over here instead, or even if you just told someone else that might like what they’d find over on the HI54 BLOG).
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 out further 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 start giving a little less to the people out there trying to keep things shitty). Every little bit counts.
