This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in ODDS
“This record is just pure emotion for me. From the subtle background sounds to the swells of the tracks. Everything about this album is perfect to me and I will always throw it on and come back to it.”
“Meditation in any of its forms, but for me, specifically: a sitting, “choiceness awareness” meditation. It can actually be fun to sit and be with yourself and watch the thoughts come up and dissipate…to see what happens!”
Episode 173 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. R.A.P. Ferreira, Madlib, The Weather Station, Buck Meek + a bunch more 2021-flavoured headphone goodness.
“BUY THIS POETRY! An ode to Bob Kaufman, who coined the term Beat Poet, is intrinsic to Rory's music. This is REQUIRED listening and has already kicked 2021 off with a stellar instant contender for AOTY.”
“Guaranteed to be another stunning collection of ambient washed-out space country instrumental music from the masters of the craft.”
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).
