EPISODE 131 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Since Bandcamp is making this Friday, March 20th a very special day to show your support for artists/bands/labels during the Covid-19 Pandemic (ie. Bandcamp is waiving their revenue shares on any purchase made on March 20th, so all money will go directly to the artists, read more here) I figured I would break from the usual pattern of basing my weekly Mix Tape Radio episode on a HI54 Mix CD and, instead, I would compile this week’s mix tape from the long-running HI54 series Fandcamp (which is where I share albums with reviews from people who liked an album so much they actually purchased it directly from the artist).
I mean, I always try to use Bandcamp embeds first whenever I put together one of these episodes, but sometimes I use tracks that aren’t available on Bandcamp (usually because they are old releases, but also sometimes current bands still don’t have their music available on Bandcamp, which is something I still don’t understand), but this week in particular I want to start off with the criteria that track had to be available on Bandcamp, so I went digging through the blog’s massive Fandcamp archive.
So if you hear anything you like on the latest MTR episode, make sure to make a note to go support the artist directly on Bandcamp this Friday, March 20th.
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MTR - EPISODE 131
{an ‘Available-on-Bandcamp-Flavoured’ episode}Press play on the player above or jump over to Mixcloud to listen— and make sure to have a browse thru the listenable/clickable track listing of below (as odds are good that there’ll be a track/artist or two that your ears are gonna want to spend more time with — and Friday March 20th would be a nice day to do that):
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 if the 8 Available-on-Bandcamp tracks included in this week’s mix tape are not enough to fill your shopping cart wishlist for Bandcamp this Friday, March 20th, well there’s whole bunch more Bandcamp gems to be unearthed in the HI54 Fandcamp archives.
And if that’s not enough, you could also check out the HI54 Bandcamp Shuffle archives— which is where you’ll find a bunch of Playmoss playlists where every track is linked directly to an artists Bandcamp page, including this massive 20X19 end of year mix featuring 295 great Bandcamp tracks:
And speaking of extended listening vibes, 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-mixtape’ vibes all day, I hi54lofi-ly recommend you go press the play button over on MOUN.TOWN/AM (which is a mountain town “collaboration” project I am currently doing with myself — but more importantly it’ll play one HI54 mix tape after another all day for you once you press play).
ALSO also: HI54LOFI was accepted into the Mixcloud Select program a little while ago, 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 to HI54LOFI over here instead, 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 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 (especially purchases made on Bandcamp on March 20th, 2020).