This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
All in QUICK HITS
DIVE BAR | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
Some music sounds better in places with broken toilets and uneven pool tables. That's just science.
HI54… SUMMER | #HI54MIXCDS on Moun.Town/fm
“When trying to put together a playlist that ‘sounds like summer’, sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels ‘summer-ish’. This mix is full of those kinda tracks.”
FANDCAMP: El Mar Convertido en Oceano
“Swirling guitar textures that burn like blue fire in my chest cavity.”
FANDCAMP: Stars
“Ryan's albums have been great comfort lately as my family has had more than it's fair share of tragedy. Beautiful sounds, most comforting. Thank you for your art.”
HI54LO5: Close Enough
“Can't believe I just found out about Close Enough — it's all the best parts of Regular Show, except now the characters are actual old human millennials and not talking blue jays or raccoons or gumball machines that act like old human millennials. Extra relatable, highly recommend.”
FANDCAMP: Born to Love
“Jamaica has been blessed with great singers so you might have missed him. Used to sing lead in The Techniques (check them out!) and these solo sides are more than welcome.”
REGGAE, EH | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
I realize it's a bit cliche to make a reggae playlist for 4/20 — BUT — I've also been meaning to dive into making a 95-track reggae playlist for awhile now, SO, the fact that April 20th + Reggae are both associated with marijuana, let's just say everything kinda happened organically.
FANDCAMP: Ignorance
“There's always a new layer to discover from Tamara's writing. Album after album it's continually building to a beautiful end whatever that may be. Love this music.”
FANDCAMP: Summer At Land's End
“Every song is just gorgeous, the best of Indie-pop distilled into this album. Imagine Pulp-Jarvis Cocker singing Morrissey lyrics with Belle & Sebastian as the backing band... thats halfway as good as this.”
THE HI54 HOT 95, EH | <10k MONTHLY LISTENERS
I started playing around with the idea of sorting my Spotify ‘liked’ music by the artists 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 less than 10k monthly listeners.
FANDCAMP: Warm Chris
“This album is a reminder that one can have many different faces and voices, and yet be completely genuine.”