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EPISODE 184 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 184 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘UNDER THE COVERS’ - ft. Okey Dokey, Shovels & Rope, Bonny Light Horseman, Three Queens in Mourning + a bunch more covers-flavoured headphone goodness.
HI! here's FIVE things FOR consideration… | Q1 2021
The HI54 Monthly Sunday Mass Email is now a quarterly newsletter, and since Q1 2021 is officially in the books, a new batch of ‘hi here’s five things for…’ has been sent out to subscribed inboxes. Not subscribed? Well, you can still read the newsletter here + sign up for future quarterly updates if that sounds like not the worst thing.
EPISODE 183 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 183 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘FROM THE SUBMITHUB ARCHIVES’ - ft. Joe Kaplow, Goodparley, Why Dogs Why, Johanna Samuels + a bunch more headphone goodness found on Submithub.
Fandcamp: Have You Ever Done Something Evil?
“I've loved this band from the git-go, but this is probably their best recorded performance to date. Earworms galore, and well-recorded to boot.”
FANDCAMP: Bushido
“A massive collaboration compilation featuring a whole bunch of my favourite hip hop artists? Ok, just let me go grab my samurai sword and then I'm all in.”
EPISODE 182 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 182 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from the ongoing blahg series ‘Fandcamp’ - ft. Floating Points, Chad VanGaalen, Madvillain, Phoebe Bridgers + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: this Friday, April 2nd is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
FANDCAMP: WHATEVERLAND
"Sad but in a cosy, reassuring way – like being alone in an empty room on a rainy afternoon."
EPISODE 181 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 181 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. Valerie June, Hiss Golden Messenger, Madeline Kenney, Minor Moon + a bunch more 2021-flavoured headphone goodness.
ARCHIVES | MIX TAPE RADIO on FRUK - EPISODE 028
Since yesterday was my birthday, I figured I’d postpone jumping back on the grind of creating new content and rather than make a new episode of the Mix Tape Radio Show I’d upload another "lost episode" from back in the day when I was making mixes for Folk Radio UK. So here’s a taste of my headphones from January 2014 \m/
FANDCAMP: Yaral Sa Doom
“Boundlessly free, euphoric? There is a grace to this music which perhaps owes a little to the fishing village in Senegal where the Wau Wau Collective congregated. If I want to feel in love with the world again, I play music like this.”
EPISODE 180 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 180 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘STOP TALKING… I’M TRYING TO THINK’ - ft. Haraldur Thrastarson, Michael A. Muller, Emily A. Sprague, A Winged Victory for the Sullen + a bunch more lost-in-thought-flavoured headphone goodness.