“Incredible work like always. Serious head nodder. Boom bap married with the ill flows.”
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EPISODE 173 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 173 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. R.A.P. Ferreira, Madlib, The Weather Station, Buck Meek + a bunch more 2021-flavoured headphone goodness.
EPISODE 172 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 172 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘420 ALL DAY’ - ft. Ari Árelíus, Eric's Trip, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jess Williamson + a bunch more all-day-flavoured headphone goodness.
SubmitCloud | January 2021
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of January 2021.
FANDCAMP: bob's son - R.A.P. Ferreira in the garden level cafe of the scallops hotel
“BUY THIS POETRY! An ode to Bob Kaufman, who coined the term Beat Poet, is intrinsic to Rory's music. This is REQUIRED listening and has already kicked 2021 off with a stellar instant contender for AOTY.”
EPISODE 171 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 171 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the giant end of year HI54 Mix CD ‘20X20’ - ft. Gia Margaret, Junior Mesa, W. Cryderman, Significant Other + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
FANDCAMP: Promise
“Guaranteed to be another stunning collection of ambient washed-out space country instrumental music from the masters of the craft.”
FANDCAMP: Madvillainy
“Madlib and MF Doom join forces and talent on this awesome album, where everything just feels like it is where it belongs. A must have for any person who has interest in Hip Hop music.”
EPISODE 170 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 170 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the giant end of year HI54 Mix CD ‘20X20’ - ft. Adrianne Lenker, Skyway Man, Open Mike Eagle, bobsled team + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
HI! here's FIVE things FOR consideration… | DECEMBER 2020
The HI54 Monthly Sunday Mass Email for December 2020 was sent out to subscribed inboxes today. Not subscribed? Well, you can still read the newsletter + maybe if that sounds interesting it wouldn’t be the worst idea to sign-up for future monthly newsletters?
20X20 | 400 TUNES FROM 2020
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.
ARCHIVES | MIX TAPE RADIO on FRUK - EPISODE 026
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.