“Kool Keith is in the zone on this one. L'Orange has been in the zone for years. Nothing but win.”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in QUICK HITS
DO YOU ¿ YOGA | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
Sometimes it's nice to just freestyle your own yoga routine, one that you make up with whatever yogi pose knowledge you currently have + whatever feels right with the music you're listening to. This playlist is chock-full of music that is good for that vibe.
SubmitCloud | January 2022
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of January 2022.
NOVA SCOTIA | #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 Nova Scotia for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
FANDCAMP: tragedy reel
“Every Fog Lake album is the best album, but this one might be the best of the best.”
HI:54 / LO:5 — Sorry To Bother You
“If ‘Get Out’ was a surreal comedy about capitalism.”
HI54… WINTER | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
When trying to put together a playlist that "sounds like winter", sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels "winter-like". These songs feel like that to me.
20X21 | 420 TUNES FROM 2021
Here is my annual ‘20X Current Year’ feature— which features 420 great tracks from 420 different releases, all from the year 2021. Because 20 x 21 = 420 and I am a crazy music blog person.
UNDER THE COVERS | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
Sometimes you don't want the wheel reinvented, you just want someone else to do their version of an already solid wheel so you can take that new version of the same old wheel out for some fresh new spins around the block. Or maybe that's a rubbish analogy about cover songs and I should have just said something like "Who doesn't like a big ol' playlist full of cover songs?"
SubmitCloud | December 2021
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of December 2021.
THE HI54 HOT 95, EH | >1 MILLION MONTHLY LISTENERS
I started playing around with sorting my Spotify ‘liked’ music by monthly listener counts, and since I’ve accumulated + continue to accumulate a lot of ‘liked’ music, I thought it might be interesting to keep ongoing 95-track playlists for certain listener thresholds. This one is for those with more than 1 million monthly listeners.
SubmitCloud | November 2021
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of November 2021.