EPISODE 198 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Since Bandcamp is making this Friday, August 6th another special day to show your support for artists/bands/labels during the Covid-19 Pandemic (ie. Bandcamp is continuing to waive their revenue shares on any purchase made on the first Friday of the month until the end 2021, so all money spent that day will go directly to the artists, read more here) I figured I would compile this week’s mix tape from one of my many ‘available on Bandcamp’ Buy Music Club lists (which are ongoing collections of all the tracks that get added to a HI54 Mix CD that can also be found on Bandcamp).
So if you hear anything you like on this latest Mix Tape Radio episode, make sure to make a note to go support the artist directly on Bandcamp this Friday, August 6th, 2021 (or, really, any day is a good day to support an artist directly on Bandcamp).
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MTR - EPISODE 198
{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):
Track 1
(00:16) V.V. Lightbody - Really Do Care
Track 2
(6:09) Orions Belte - 2009 (Cover of Mac Miller)
Track 3
(10:37) Breathe Owl Breathe - Ferns Move
Track 4
(14:42) Wild Cat Strike - Toothcutter (Part 1)
Track 5
(17:45) Rose City Band - Only Lonely
Track 6
(21:42) Jake Xerxes Fussell - Hills of Mexico
Track 7
(27:29) Poise - Show Me Your Love
Track 8
(29:33) Steady Holiday - Sunny In The Making
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 on Bandcamp this Friday, August 6th, well there’s a whole bunch more Bandcamp gems to be unearthed in my personal Bandcamp Collection + over in the ongoing HI54 blog series FANDCAMP (aka ‘short album reviews from people who still buy music’) + there’s a massive collection of BC gems in my ‘available on Bandcamp’ lists over on Buy Music Club for all my ongoing Spotify playlists/mix cds, including those from the 420 ALL DAY list that this mix tape was made from:
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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 the 100s of HI54 mixes already on Mixcloud + future mixes that arrive every week) — 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, even it’s not monetary) — 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?
