“cheekface pulling thru once again with a collection of songs that make anxiety, bagels, elections and noodles seem cool af”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in ODDS
EVERYTHING LIKED IN < INSERT CURRENT YEAR > | #HI54MIXCDS
This ongoing yearly tracker archive gets filled with everything I like throughout the current calendar year (rule: only 1 track per artist). And then, at the end of the year, a '20 X YEAR' playlist is put together and then this playlist goes back to 0 to do it all over again the next year.
ONTARIO | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Ontario for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
FANDCAMP: Could Have Done Anything
“Char's writing here mines memory for the sweetness only reckoning and forgiveness can bring. Her strongest suite to date, she sings with more confidence than ever on themes of certain fallibility and radical acceptance. She conveys courageously the beauty of not knowing what's next or what any of it ought to mean. With every song she sounds grateful for each breath and experience.”
THINGS YOU COULD DO, 95 WORDS MORE/LESS: Listen to Grist & Mash owner talk about a different way to structure businesses on this Next Economy Now podcast
The latest entry into this HWY 95 localized recommendations project is a Next Economy Now podcast episode featuring one of Kimberley BC’s Grist & Mash owners talking smartly about a different way to structure businesses (and it’s a timely conversation that just becomes more timely the more ‘business as usual’ our society continues being in spite of all the evidence shouting for us to do stuff differently).
BACKYARD BBQ | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
A good backyard bbq playlist should consist of the kind of songs that get heads nodding and toes tapping and maybe a few booties thinking about shaking, but it should also not be so overpowering with the 'party vibes' that it makes it hard to carry a conversation on while you go for a second helping of 'slaw. This playlist is 5+ hours of that.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ CARLOTA FLÂNEUR + SMALLSONGS SESSION
“We live in a world in which almost everyone expects us to act like a machine and it’s so beautiful to actually be aware that we’ll never reach that because we’re made of other stuff, human stuff!”
FANDCAMP: a tape called component system with the auto reverse
“This album's got me going down Wikipedia rabbit holes about college radio stations.”
HIP • STIR • HOP | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
“I started off with the mix title of 'Hipster Hip Hop'—because I thought that was a good dumb way to describe a hip hop playlist made by a white guy from a small Canadian town.”
20 from '11 | THE HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES
The ‘HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES’ series continues with a mix from the year 2011 — featuring tunes from Caveman, Tiny Ruins, Mount Moriah, Milo, Teenage Cool Kids + a whole bunch more… it’s a nice ‘11 vintage to stick in your headphones.
Fandcamp: a-sides
“Beautiful interplay of twin guitars, two wonderfully harmonised voices delivering songs with something to say. ‘a-sides’ has much to discover, cleverly crafted by so little. An amazing achievement.”
FANDCAMP: Sunday Coming
“Alton Ellis just has a way about him. Joyful and melancholy all the same.”