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"One of the best albums from MF Doom. You get a handful of legendary MCs doing their best on awesome prods, and you get an awesome album which is still as good today as when it came out.”
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Episode 147 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. Hannah Lee Thompson, R.A.P. Ferreira, Katie Von Schleicher, Megadead + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
“All of these songs make having to stay inside constantly a whole lot better.”
Episode 146 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from the long-running HI54 blog series ‘FANDCAMP’ - ft. Kevin Devine, William Ryan Fritch, PHOX, Hello Shark + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: Friday, July 3rd is ‘Buy On Bandcamp Day’ again).
“From the first second I heard this album I was hooked, every song is terrific. I've already bought your cassette, after hearing it only yesterday and I don't even own a cassette player! If that doesn't say something, then I don't know what does.”
“Great cause of course, but a record well worth your dollars regardless. Large and disparate collection incorporating many music styles and genres, and every track seems to have a fair amount of merit.”
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of June 2020.
Episode 145 of The Mix Tape Radio Show was inspired by the important Black Lives Matter movement happening right now and features A Tribe Called Quest, SAULT, J. B. Lenoir, Solange + more.
“L'Orange's sampled vaudeville and Solemn Brigham's jettisoning lyrics make for an ambitious and striking album. Each track is unique, yet come together into the story of the whole. It's both comedic and thought provoking, and every verse feels like a brushstroke filling in an artist's magnum opus.”
“Kicks off differently than previous WRF releases, more upbeat & jazzy, and really caught my headphones off guard (in a good way). Amazing front-to-back listen as always, but really dug the unexpected smokey jazz club vibes which *spoiler alert* eventually transform into something dark & haunted. A 'letdown' this record most definitely is not.”
Episode 144 of The Mix Tape Radio Show was inspired by the important Black Lives Matter movement happening right now and contains 8 Black voices, including milo, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Young Fathers, Little Simz + more.
