“Find something you enjoy doing, whether you’re good at it or not, and make time for that. It’s a self-prescription for your mental health. I’d recommend making music!“
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
HI54LO5: Tiger King
“Tiger King is Making A Murderer + Wild Wild Country + The Jerry Springer Show + Siegfried & Roy + We Bought A Zoo. And unless you’re a completely different person than I, then that sounds like something worth watching.”
FANDCAMP: Colour Green
“German actress & folk singer recorded a capella (voice & guitar) these songs on a home tape recorder in the early 70s, they were never intended for commercial release. That explains the personal intimate nature of the songs, imagine a Leonard Cohen without the bible or literary allusions, about her friends and her own personal life at the time. Delightful.”
EPISODE 132 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 132 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… SPRING’ - ft. Jesse Blake Rundle, M. Ward, Vilde, Florist + a bunch more Spring-flavoured headphone goodness.
HACKING A SEGA GENESIS MINI FOR SELF-QUARANTINE PURPOSES
The long story short is that if you’re looking for a good self-quarantine project to take on, as it seems like society is going to be doing the opposite of our parents telling us to “turn off that video game and go play outside” for the next few weeks/months at least— I HI54LOFI-LY RECOMMEND that you look into hacking a Sega Mini.
HI54… GUEST MIX CD W/ MUTE FOREST
“Every summer my father would drive my sisters and I from Denver to Phoenix to stay with my grandparents. It’s a 14 hour trip and we listened to tons of music. My dad had insanely good taste. He’d play us Kraftwerk, Big Audio Dynamite, Massive Attack, The Beatles, Neil Young. It shaped me forever. So an ode to him with a mix you can drive at night to.”
SubmitCloud | March 2020
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of March 2020.
Everyday Is A Good Day To Start Meditating
“In a way, meditating is kinda like micro-dosing the red pill everyday—so just think of sitting down to meditate as how you take your most important daily vitamin.”
EPISODE 131 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 131 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from the long-running HI54 blog series ‘FANDCAMP’ - ft. Caleb R.K. Williams, Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover, ScotDrakula, Miya Folick + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: Friday, March 20th is ‘Buy On Bandcamp Day’).
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ MERCE LEMON
“Talk to the cats on your walk home.”
EPISODE 130 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 130 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘HIP (STIR) IRISH STEW’ - ft. Lisa O'Neill, Anna Mieke, The Cranberries, hal + a bunch more Irish-flavoured headphone goodness (just in time for St. Patrick’s Day being right around the corner).
FANDCAMP: Printer's Devil
“Ratboys are honest to god the best band in the world right now. Great lyrics, melodies to die for, and they rock live. This is what rock and roll has the potential to be if you do it right, it was our greatest gift from the 20th century and it will never die as long as bands like Ratboys exist.”