EPISODE 200 | 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)_/¯ … and now we’ve finally made it to EPISODE 200!
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MTR - EPISODE 200
{a ‘Backyard-BBQ-Flavoured’ episode}Episode 200 was created while shuffling around in the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘BACKYARD BBQ’ — which is a Spotify playlist I keep stocked with 95 tracks/artists that make for a nice soundtrack for those times when you’re talking weather & potato salad with a friend of a stranger who happened to be sitting next to the only empty lawn chair (so follow/like that playlist on Spotify for easy future repeat shuffle updates). And since I’m planning on putting a pause on these 8-track ‘mix tape radio show’ episodes for awhile and move into a one-new-mix-per-week Mixcloud posting schedule, I figured a little metaphorical backyard headphone mixer would be the best way to celebrate the that we at least made it to 200 :)
But for now, press play on the player above or jump over to Mixcloud to listen to this 200th mix tape radio episode (or tune-in to MTR | FRESH TAPES for an all-day-string of HI54 mixes 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 200
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 wouldn’t be the worst idea to browse thru the rest of the ‘BACKYARD BBQ’ 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 lawn/patio hang tunes found in the full HI54 Mix CD / 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 of renting out access to the work of artists (here’s an article on the topic of making streaming better/fairer if interested in something like that)—I’ve started keeping a Buy Music Club list going for all the ‘available on Bandcamp’ tracks that get added to my BACKYARD BBQ Spotify playlist. So make sure to check that out whenever you find yourself wanting to reward your ears while also sending some support/compensation/appreciation directly to those who help keep our lives nicely soundtracked:
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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 ON THIS PLAYLIST +++++ PLUS, if you’d like to extend the soundtrack-by-HI54-mixtape vibes all day, go bookmark & 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 & the click of a play button (and the selection is updated EVERY week with new & previously archived mixes).
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 of over 200+ HI54 mixes 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 heard something you liked 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 we can also start giving way less to the people out there always trying to keep things shitty?