EPISODE 119 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 119 was created while shuffling around in the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… XMAS’ — which is a Spotify playlist I keep stocked with 95 tracks that pair nicely with that small window of time leading up to Jesus' birthday where listening to Christmas music is bearable, if not even just a little bit desirable (so follow on Spotify for future updates/extended listening) — because, once those presents get opened on the 25th and everybody has asked their relatives what the weather’s been like where they’re living these days, that ‘listening to kris kringle jingles’ window closes pretty fast.
So make sure you press play on this episode while there’s still some Xmas spirit in your lungs — and make sure to have a browse thru the track listing below (which has been made listenable/clickable so that it’s easier for you to check out & support anyone that catches your fancy):
The Shuffle Up’d Eight // EPS 119
Track 1
(00:16) John Prine - Christmas In Prison
Track 2
(3:21) Kevin Morby - Blue Christmas
Track 3
(5:21) Low - Just Like Christmas
Track 4
(8:18) The Emotions - What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas
Track 5
(11:38) Wilder Maker - No Xmas in Bushwick
Track 6
(15:35) Mountain Man - White Christmas
Track 7
(19:22) Mt. Joy - Every Holiday
Track 8
(23:01) Paul Simon - Getting Ready for Christmas Day
And f 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 (tend to share things like the above on the regular-ish)…
…and it probably wouldn’t be too bad of an idea to follow/shuffle thru the rest of the ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… XMAS’ Mix CD that this week’s Mix Tape was pulled from, because something tells me if you liked the 8 songs featured in the latest MTR episode, chances are good you’ll probably like the extended Xmas-vibes on the full 95 track Spotify playlist.
And speaking of extended listening vibes, if you’d ever like to extend the ‘soundtrack-by-HI54-mixtape’ vibes all day, go press a 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 front of both the ‘MTR - SIDE A’ and ‘MTR - SIDE B’ players every Wednesday).
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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