This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in ODDS
A house party is a special breed. Usually the sound is selected by an amateur committee of a real mixed bag of tastes. If you're not too careful, the music can get extra cheesy and lame and things get sloppy way too fast. It can also get too cool for school and no fun. It's a fine line. This mix is made with those two worries in mind.
“Move to another country (preferably one that uses a different primary language than your own) for an extended amount of time. Sounds crazy, I know! But the benefits and life-enriching possibilities are endless. And it may be more do-able than you think.”
Here's the 18th instalment of the 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 95-tracks that have been rated as 'Mix Tape Radio approved' and put together an 18-track HI54 Mixed CD.
Episode 191 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘420=ALLDAY’ - ft. Bob Dylan, Abram Shook, Irma Thomas, Bobby Dove + a bunch more all-day-flavoured headphone goodness.
“We loved watching it in the original French, with subtitles so that we could feel our French was improving. You’ll start talking around the breakfast table in hushed French accents as if you are spies.”
Episode 190 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘ONTARIO’ - ft. The Tragically Hip, Julie Arsenault, dan edmonds, Deux Trois + a bunch more ontario-flavoured headphone goodness.
“Spring has sprung with another collection from the freshest ambient jazz ensemble out there.”
“I also highly recommend trying out baking, it's a stress reliever for me and it makes the house smell great.”
Episode 188 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘FROM THE SUBMITHUB ARCHIVES’ - ft. Stevie Weinstein-Foner, Aloa Input, Unwed Sailor, Eve Adams + a bunch more headphone goodness found on Submithub.
“A sumptuous silk lined chocolate box of a record. Evocative of The Association, the Mamas & the Papas, and a swath of their swinging Continental contemporaries, but not an exercise in nostalgia. Glorious harmonic pop, to bask and burrow in in the Now.”
Episode 187 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. Blithe Field, Sad Souls, Microwolf, Das Racist + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: this Friday, May 7th is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
