This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
This ongoing playlist contains all the top shelf recommendations that people have given over the years of running the HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ q&a — and seeing as how we’re in the triple digits of different creatives who have done the Q&A, the mix of tips is quite large and eclectic.
“Shout out to Phoebe for the cancer season release, this was the perfect thing to listen to as I hit rock bottom and worked through trauma. This album will forever hold a special place in my heart. An absolute work of art from start to finish.”
Episode 148 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘MORNINGS’ - ft. State Park Ranger, Khruangbin, Laura Gibson, Lightnin' Luke + a bunch more morning-flavoured headphone goodness.
"One of the best albums from MF Doom. You get a handful of legendary MCs doing their best on awesome prods, and you get an awesome album which is still as good today as when it came out.”
“There’s definitely something different about listening to an album all the way through, having the physical copy with J-card/liner notes to check out and learn about the artist, and knowing I’m supporting the artist more directly.”
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Episode 147 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. Hannah Lee Thompson, R.A.P. Ferreira, Katie Von Schleicher, Megadead + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
“All of these songs make having to stay inside constantly a whole lot better.”
“We should all appreciate the incredible moon in our orbit, a friend that returns in form — if the clouds allow — every 29 days; does not float away; does not get too close; and stays right where we can just see, wonder, and enjoy.”
“Everything is always in motion, coming and going, be it what we see, hear, smell, taste or feel, and our thoughts are the same. Learning to let them come and go and not identifying with them so much has been hugely beneficial to me and to many other people before me.”
Episode 146 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from the long-running HI54 blog series ‘FANDCAMP’ - ft. Kevin Devine, William Ryan Fritch, PHOX, Hello Shark + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: Friday, July 3rd is ‘Buy On Bandcamp Day’ again).
