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Here is my annual ‘20X Current Year’ feature— which features 400 great tracks from 400 different releases, all from the year 2020. Because 20 x 20 = 400 and I am a crazy music blog person.
Since the week between Christmas and New Years Eve kinda feels like days that don't actually exist, and because I'm currently knee-deep in trying to wrap-up my End Of Year posts for later this week, I figured I would post one more "lost episode" from back in the day when I was making mixes for Folk Radio UK… So here’s EPS 026 from DEC 2013.
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.
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of December 2020.
“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.
“Haunting and profoundly moving work. One of the most important albums of the 21st century. Makes you feel alone, isolated, confused and aimless. As if you're cluelessly drifting through an empty ballroom from the past, desperately clinging onto the memories you hold dearest before everything expires.”
Episode 168 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… WINTER’ - ft. cassette spence, Blake Mills, Echoflex, Townes Van Zandt + a bunch more winter-flavoured headphone goodness.
After re-stumbling upon a site called Buy Music Club last night that lets you make ‘Available on Bandcamp’ lists, I figured I’d go all the way back to episode 101 of The Mix Tape Radio Show and start putting together BMC lists for all the ‘available on Bandcamp’ tracks that have been featured on the last 65 MTR episodes.
Episode 167 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. TK & The Holy Know-Nothings, Owen Steel, deer scout, Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: this Friday, December 4th is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
