This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in EVENS
“Haunting and profoundly moving work. One of the most important albums of the 21st century. Makes you feel alone, isolated, confused and aimless. As if you're cluelessly drifting through an empty ballroom from the past, desperately clinging onto the memories you hold dearest before everything expires.”
“Reach out to your homies - make sure they’re doing ok. It’s rough out there and the best thing we can do is stick together <3”
Episode 168 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… WINTER’ - ft. cassette spence, Blake Mills, Echoflex, Townes Van Zandt + a bunch more winter-flavoured headphone goodness.
10 more retro titles that I’d recommend adding to your hacked Sega Mini if you’re an old millennial like me who pretty much stopped playing video games in the late 90s but is now looking to revisit that golden era of gaming with hard-to-impress 2020 glasses on (PS1, GBA, N64, GBA edition).
After re-stumbling upon a site called Buy Music Club last night that lets you make ‘Available on Bandcamp’ lists, I figured I’d go all the way back to episode 101 of The Mix Tape Radio Show and start putting together BMC lists for all the ‘available on Bandcamp’ tracks that have been featured on the last 65 MTR episodes.
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of November 2020.
I’ve got HI54 ‘decade playlists’ going all the way back to the 1950s, but this 2010s mix is the first one where I actually had some kind of a music blog going for every year in the decade. Which means there’s a whole lot of tracks to choose from whenever I update what’s currently in the 95 track shuffle. -> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
The HI54 Monthly Sunday Mass Email for November 2020 was sent out to subscribed inboxes today. Not subscribed? Well, you can still read the newsletter + maybe if that sounds interesting it wouldn’t be the worst idea to sign-up for future monthly newsletters?
Every second Monday, I go back to the iTunes organizational system I had setup back when I used to run a 24/7 internet radio station and create an 18-track HI54 Mix CD out of my 'Mix Tape Radio approved' library. These are all the tracks featured so far.
“Such sensitivity, such grace captured by the preeminent poet of our days... the guitar playing is stellar and cellular... a timeless relic of the pandemic.”
In search of way to start uploading more + longer mixes to Mixcloud, I ended up rediscovering some iTunes organizational tools I had setup back when ‘Mix Tape Radio’ was a 24/7 internet radio stream, which eventually led to a new mix series idea called THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs —and here’s DISC 05.
“This fantastic band offers the best aspects of math rock and folk music. Interesting! Eloquent! Technical! Innovative! Sincere! Relatable! These people are genius.”
