This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
Because finding & adding retro consoles/games to your hacked Sega Mini is sometimes more enticing than actually playing the games — I started looking into whether I could add Sega Master System and Turbo Grafx-16 / PC Engine titles to my collection of nostalgia (spoiler: I could).
“No matter what time of year I listen to Cut Worms, the music sends me to summer and to a back porch with a cold beer in hand. Can't ask for much better than that.”
“So the next time you're reading another depressing article about how everything is fucked, just remember that isn't totally true. Sure, A LOT of things are fucked — but A LOT of things are less fucked than before. And the tools for unfucking even more shit are sitting right in front of us.”
Episode 158 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. Fair Mothers, Marlowe, Magana, Misty Moon + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: Friday, October 2nd is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
“Rather than recommending to do something, I recommend to avoid two things. If you’re struggling with depression try to avoid: Pornography & Sugar.”
The 2000s is one of those weird transition decades, where we slowly moved out of our pre-internet media consumption, some of us more slowly than others, and then, all of sudden, we started moving exponentially less slowly & suddenly everyone can download/listen/stream ANYTHING online & carry it all around in our own dang pockets! — this playlist is from that era |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of September 2020.
“Listening makes my ears feel like they are getting hugged by a big, warm, burly lumberjack in the dead of winter and suddenly the seasons change to spring. The band continues to perfect their sound while refining what makes their sound so unique and special.”
Episode 157 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘HIGH FIVE FOR… AUTUMN’ - ft. Western Skies Motel ,Evan Dando, Hand Habits, Yo La Tengo + a bunch more autumn-flavoured headphone goodness.
In search of way to start uploading more + longer mixes to Mixcloud, I ended up rediscovering some iTunes organizational tools I had setup back when ‘Mix Tape Radio’ was a 24/7 internet radio stream, which eventually led to a new mix series idea called THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs —and here’s DISC 01.
