Some music sounds better in places with broken toilets and uneven pool tables. That's just science.
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in MIXES
HI54… SUMMER | #HI54MIXCDS on Moun.Town/fm
“When trying to put together a playlist that ‘sounds like summer’, sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels ‘summer-ish’. This mix is full of those kinda tracks.”
20 from '15 | THE HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES
The ‘HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES’ series continues with a 20-track digital mix tape (+ 300 track playlist) from the year 2015 — featuring tunes from Bully, OPEZ, Twerps, Katie Von Schleicher + a whole bunch more… basically, it’s a nice ‘15 vintage to pour down your headphones.
REGGAE, EH | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
I realize it's a bit cliche to make a reggae playlist for 4/20 — BUT — I've also been meaning to dive into making a 95-track reggae playlist for awhile now, SO, the fact that April 20th + Reggae are both associated with marijuana, let's just say everything kinda happened organically.
HI54… THE 90s @ HOURGLASS KIMBERLEY | A HI54 SOCIALLY DISTANT DJ SET (14042022)
I asked a local cocktail lounge if they’d be interested in playing a 4hr 1990s mix cd and they said ‘ya!’ and then on April 14th, 2022 this 4hr 90s soundtrack was pressed play on at Hourglass in Kimberley, BC. And now you can press play on it too, whenever/wherever you are.
THE HI54 HOT 95, EH | <10k MONTHLY LISTENERS
I started playing around with the idea of sorting my Spotify ‘liked’ music by the artists monthly listener counts, and since I’ve accumulated + continue to accumulate a lot of ‘liked’ music, I thought it might be interesting to keep ongoing 95-track playlists for certain listener thresholds. This one is for those with less than 10k monthly listeners.
THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs | DISC 36
Here's the 36th instalment of the (mostly) bi-weekly Mixcloud series where I go back to the iTunes organizational system I had setup when I used to run a 24/7 internet radio station, and then I shuffle up a selection of 'Mix Tape Radio approved' tracks and put together an 18-track HI54 Mixed CD.
HI54… THE 90s | #HI54MIXCDS ON MOUN.TOWN/FM
This playlist is partially made up of the music I spent countless hours listening intently to in the actual 90s and partially made up of a bunch of “discovered after the nineties” 90s music (ie. things I would have liked if we had the internet in the 90s instead of the local area FM radio stations & Columbia House mail orders for new music discovery). |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
19 from '98 | THE HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES
The ‘HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES’ series continues with a 19-track digital mix tape + 54-track digital mix cd from the year 1998 — featuring tunes from Sloan, Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z, Local H, You Am I + a whole bunch more… basically, it’s a nice ‘98 vintage to pour down your headphones.
HI54… THE 70s @ HOURGLASS KIMBERLEY | A HI54 SOCIALLY DISTANT DJ SET (24032022)
I asked a local cocktail lounge if they’d be interested in playing a 54-track 1970s mix cd (aka: a 3hr-ish playlist) and they said ‘ya!’ and then on Thursday March 24th, 2022 this 54-track 70s soundtrack was pressed play on at Hourglass in Kimberley, BC. And now you can press play on it too, whenever/wherever you are.
THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs | DISC 35
Here's the 35th instalment of the (mostly) bi-weekly Mixcloud series where I go back to the iTunes organizational system I had setup when I used to run a 24/7 internet radio station, and then I shuffle up a selection of 'Mix Tape Radio approved' tracks and put together an 18-track HI54 Mixed CD.
NOT LOST / NOT FOUND | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
Some music sounds better suited for those times when you're walking around lost in your thoughts, looking for some peace of mind. Maybe it's dusk, maybe it's dawn, maybe it doesn't matter.