A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of October 2021.
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
ARCHIVES | NOTHING ON TV
In an attempt to free up some headspace for other work during these last couple weeks of October, I’ll be taking a break from creating new Mixcloud mixes EVERY Thursday and instead will be sharing some old mixes that were posted to Mixcloud before HI54.BLOG even existed. This one goes back 11 years :)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ JAMES WYATT CROSBY
“Eat extravagantly, quit smoking cigs and go swimming in the wintertime.”
ARCHIVES | IT ALL BEGAN WITH A BURST - MAR2012
In an attempt to free up some headspace for other work during these last couple weeks of October, I’ll be taking a break from creating new Mixcloud mixes EVERY Thursday and instead will be sharing some old mixes that were posted to Mixcloud before HI54.BLOG even existed. This one goes back to March 2012 :)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ PAUL BIDAULT
“Develop any skill you’ve always wished you had, be it learning a language, an instrument, getting fit, drawing or painting, it doesn’t really matter. Just make sure you really work at it.”
THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs | DISC 25
Here's the 25th 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.
FANDCAMP: Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology
“September 30th, 2021, was Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. October 1st, 2021, is another Bandcamp Friday. This seems like a sign to go buy/listen to some Indigenous music, eh? For example, do you have this great Willie Dunn collection in your collection?”
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ DENVER WILLIAMS
“I would say find an instrument you like to interact with and spend a little time with it as often as you feel like it. I mean, hell, get yourself a kazoo and hum on that sucker in the car on the way to work. We should all be remembering to have fun, while we still can.”
19 from '94 | THE HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES
The ‘HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES’ series continues with music from the year 1994 — featuring tunes from Pavement, Digable Planets, The Cranberries, The Halo Benders, Cake + a whole bunch more… it’s a nice 1994 vintage to stick in your headphones.
HI54… AUTUMN | #HI54MIXCDS
When trying to put together a playlist that "sounds like fall", sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means and just go with what feels fall-ish.
SubmitCloud | September 2021
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of September 2021.
HI:54 / LO:5 — Norm Macdonald on WTF Podcast 2011
“The thing about Norm for me—besides growing up in the 90s tv run that's become so rightfully beloved on Youtube—it's the small town Canada-ness of him. The Good & The Bad. Growing up rural & now living in a small mountown, you end up with a lot of different Norms in your life.”