This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in ODDS
Episode 170 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the giant end of year HI54 Mix CD ‘20X20’ - ft. Adrianne Lenker, Skyway Man, Open Mike Eagle, bobsled team + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
2020 has been a shitty year for a lot of different reasons, but music released has not been one of them. So here’s my 10 fave LPs + 5 ace EPs + 1 really big f*cking playlist because 20X20=400 wrap-up for this year of 2020.
Even though I am a rubbish whistler, I still tend to whistle songs every now and again (especially when walking up and down stairs for some reason). Now I know that whistling is pretty annoying to everyone except the person whistling, but F everyone else, right?
Since this Thursday is Christmas Eve, I figured I’d take a one-week hiatus from posting a new mix tapes and instead post another "lost episode" from back in the day when I was making mixes for Folk Radio UK and for a 13 episode stretch mixes were posted on the FRUK Mixcloud instead of on mine. So here’s EPS 025 from NOV 2013.
“Getting older, wiser and living in the now. That's what i get from this amazing body of work.”
Episode 169 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… XMAS’ - ft. JulMat (Julia Rakel & Matilda Wiezell), Roger Miller, Jenn Grant, Vince Guaraldi Trio + a bunch more Christmas-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 + GAME BOY / COLOR edition).
“One of, if not the best pieces of advice I've ever been given (and one that has become an inner mantra) is to ‘remain teachable.’“
Episode 167 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. TK & The Holy Know-Nothings, Owen Steel, deer scout, Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: this Friday, December 4th is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
“I was so mad at this EP when I first heard it years ago - it had no right to be this good. Now I'm not mad, now I'm just happy it's getting the love it deserves.”
Since I have a blog that shares things I like, I figured I would start compiling monthly lists of available-on-Tubi titles that I think are worth adding to your own Watchlist, just in case anyone else out there is also looking to fish from the same free-to-stream waters. So here’s five for November…
“I actually like getting up at 6, when the world is still asleep. In this darkness and silence, I feel like it's easier to hear my own mind and I can get into this great creative flow. But I guess not everyone is a morning person.”
