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"One of the best albums from MF Doom. You get a handful of legendary MCs doing their best on awesome prods, and you get an awesome album which is still as good today as when it came out.”
Episode 147 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. Hannah Lee Thompson, R.A.P. Ferreira, Katie Von Schleicher, Megadead + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
“We should all appreciate the incredible moon in our orbit, a friend that returns in form — if the clouds allow — every 29 days; does not float away; does not get too close; and stays right where we can just see, wonder, and enjoy.”
“Everything is always in motion, coming and going, be it what we see, hear, smell, taste or feel, and our thoughts are the same. Learning to let them come and go and not identifying with them so much has been hugely beneficial to me and to many other people before me.”
“From the first second I heard this album I was hooked, every song is terrific. I've already bought your cassette, after hearing it only yesterday and I don't even own a cassette player! If that doesn't say something, then I don't know what does.”
Episode 145 of The Mix Tape Radio Show was inspired by the important Black Lives Matter movement happening right now and features A Tribe Called Quest, SAULT, J. B. Lenoir, Solange + more.
“If the thoughts and choices that originally flowed unobstructed now bring up red flags or hard questions, invest some time in trying to figure them out. We can’t go back to how it was. ‘Back to normal’ doesn’t exist any more. Embrace the change, it’s for the better.”
“This a great collection of power pop tunes written by a genius gone too soon, performed by a mix of artists who do the songs justice.”
“Your job is not your life. Your boss is not your friend. Try and find a healthy balance when you can and be willing to make changes when you can't.”
Episode 143 of The Mix Tape Radio Show was inspired by the important Black Lives Matter movement happening right now and contains 8 Black voices, including Harry Belafonte, Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield and Kendrick Lamar.
“Noname has everything going for her. Unique beats that you can get cozy with. Poetic lyrics that whack you with truth and fill you with hope. And an earnestness that will continue to carry her to amazing places.”
My personal list of 10 games 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.
