EPISODE 180 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
In search of a routine more likely to get a fresh HI54 Mix Tape out the door every week, I started mixing my mix tape making headphone time with my HI54 Mix CD updating headspace near the end of 2019 and I’ll be damned if it didn’t turn out to be one those rare “this seems like a good idea” ideas that actually turned out to be a good idea… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ … who knows, maybe the rumours are true and one does get better at things if they just keep plugging along?
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MTR - EPISODE 180
{a ‘Lost-In-Thought-Flavoured’ episode}Episode 180 was created while shuffling around in the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘STOP TALKING… I'M TRYING TO THINK’ — which is a Spotify playlist I keep stocked with 95 lovely instrumental/ambient tracks for those moments in the day when you want some sounds in your ears but you also want everyone to shut-up with all the lyrics so you can string a few of your own thoughts together (and you can follow that playlist on Spotify for future repeat shuffle updates).
So press play on the player above or jump over to Mixcloud to listen (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 think there’s a track/artist or two that your headphones are gonna want to spend more time with:
The Shuffle Up’d Eight // EPS 180
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 ‘STOP TALKING… I'M TRYING TO THINK’ 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 tape, chances are good you’ll like a good chunk of the 87 other instrumental tracks found in the full Spotify playlist.
And since Spotify/streaming is great for discovering, sharing & keeping track of music but not so very good in the way creators are paid for their work, especially in comparison to what others are making off renting out access to their work, I’ve started keeping a Buy Music Club list going for all the ‘available on Bandcamp’ tracks that get added to the above Spotify playlist — so check that out whenever you find yourself wanting to reward your ears while also directly sending out support/compensation to those who help keep our lives nicely soundtracked (and here’s an article on the topic of making streaming better/fairer if interested, because there’s no good reason why we can’t be doing better with all this stuff).
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And, finally, if you’d like to extend the HI54 Mix Tape Radio listening further, you can shuffle thru EVERY track that’s EVER been played on an MTR episode over all these years OVER HERE +++++ PLUS, if you’d like to extend the ‘soundtrack-by-HI54-mixtape’ vibe all day, just 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.
ALSO also: HI54LOFI was accepted into the Mixcloud Select program a awhile back, 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 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 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 while we’re at it, maybe we can also start giving way less to the people out there always trying to keep things shitty?