“The guitar work on display here is just phenomenal. little waterfalls and whirlpools swirling around your head for 40 minutes. You can't beat that!”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in ODDS
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ COLE MITCHEK OF SMALLSONGS
“Keep doing your art. Share it with the world. Even if you're not making a living from it. Most of us aren't. Stay inspired. It's important.”
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.”
FANDCAMP: Stars
“Ryan's albums have been great comfort lately as my family has had more than it's fair share of tragedy. Beautiful sounds, most comforting. Thank you for your art.”
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.
FANDCAMP: Summer At Land's End
“Every song is just gorgeous, the best of Indie-pop distilled into this album. Imagine Pulp-Jarvis Cocker singing Morrissey lyrics with Belle & Sebastian as the backing band... thats halfway as good as this.”
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.
Fandcamp: 9 Tracks
“The song titles alone were enough to purchase these 9 little tracks. In all seriousness though, a really nice find from Asheville and a sound not so commonly found in that music rich blue ridge city.”
HI:54 / LO:5 — I'M ALL THAT
“After taking a beat to go from 'wow I can't believe that Will Smith thing happened' to 'ok but nothing to do with me', now all I can think is how I've been working on a 90s mix & listening to 'I'm All That' all weekend *LITERALLY* saying to myself "dang this song slaps".”
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ PRINCESS CENTURY
“Sounds simple but most people are walking around totally dehydrated. We drink sweet, salty, caffeinated, alcoholic drinks without question, but water is always like, meh. Iʼm making an effort of drinking more water every day and it helps me feel better in my mind and body.”
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.