“Idle Ray is the band I wish I had grown up with and the band I know I will grow old with.”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
SubmitCloud | May 2021
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of May 2021.
EPISODE 188 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 188 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘FROM THE SUBMITHUB ARCHIVES’ - ft. Stevie Weinstein-Foner, Aloa Input, Unwed Sailor, Eve Adams + a bunch more headphone goodness found on Submithub.
FANDCAMP: Architect
“A sumptuous silk lined chocolate box of a record. Evocative of The Association, the Mamas & the Papas, and a swath of their swinging Continental contemporaries, but not an exercise in nostalgia. Glorious harmonic pop, to bask and burrow in in the Now.”
EPISODE 187 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 187 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. Blithe Field, Sad Souls, Microwolf, Das Racist + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: this Friday, May 7th is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
FANDCAMP: Ice Melt
“Starts very strong, and then just gets better and better as it goes.”
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ MOLINO
“Go to bandcamp.com. Have a look around. Find some music you like. Buy the music. Revel in the fact that you are doing your small bit to support some original music.”
FANDCAMP: Summerlong
“Liquid gliding notes of charm that seem to be like rays of sunshine suffuse every track, and the up-beat country inspired twang adds to the sheer joy of being in the world created here. Put it on, go for a drive, and feel that West Coast sunshine warm your soul.”
EPISODE 186 | THE MIX TAPE RADIO SHOW
Episode 186 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. Future Museums, Kate Davis, B.J. Fisher, Fiver + a bunch more 2021-flavoured headphone goodness.
SubmitCloud | April 2021
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of April 2021.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ UNWED SAILOR
“Skateboarding videos on YouTube. They’ve become 85% of what I view on a screen.”
THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs | DISC 15
Here's the 15th instalment of the bi-weekly Mixcloud series where I go back to the iTunes organizational system I had setup when I used to run a 24/7 internet radio station, and then I shuffle up a selection of 95-tracks that have been rated as 'Mix Tape Radio approved' and put together an 18-track HI54 Mixed CD.