“Kool Keith is in the zone on this one. L'Orange has been in the zone for years. Nothing but win.”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
DO YOU ¿ YOGA | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
Sometimes it's nice to just freestyle your own yoga routine, one that you make up with whatever yogi pose knowledge you currently have + whatever feels right with the music you're listening to. This playlist is chock-full of music that is good for that vibe.
SubmitCloud | January 2022
A monthly playlist for the Soundcloud-linked submissions that get approved on Submithub for a HI54 Mix CD feature during the month of January 2022.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ SANCTUARY
“I’m usually more interested in non-fiction and prefer to read about topics online, there's so much information. I think I’d just recommend finding a topic you’re interested in every week and scheduling 1hr a week to dive in.”
NOVA SCOTIA | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
FANDCAMP: tragedy reel
“Every Fog Lake album is the best album, but this one might be the best of the best.”
HI:54 / LO:5 — Sorry To Bother You
“If ‘Get Out’ was a surreal comedy about capitalism.”
THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs | DISC 30
Here's the 30th instalment of the (mostly) 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.
HI54… WINTER | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
When trying to put together a playlist that "sounds like winter", sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels "winter-like". These songs feel like that to me.
WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT WHEN I GET A SONG APPROVED BY YOU ON SUBMITHUB? | #HI54FAQU
“Submithub is like my ears Firewall, so once a track I like gets past that, it ends up in my regular rotations— because what’s the point of finding stuff you like if all you do is just keep looking for more stuff?”
20X21 | 420 TUNES FROM 2021
Here is my annual ‘20X Current Year’ feature— which features 420 great tracks from 420 different releases, all from the year 2021. Because 20 x 21 = 420 and I am a crazy music blog person.
UNDER THE COVERS | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
Sometimes you don't want the wheel reinvented, you just want someone else to do their version of an already solid wheel so you can take that new version of the same old wheel out for some fresh new spins around the block. Or maybe that's a rubbish analogy about cover songs and I should have just said something like "Who doesn't like a big ol' playlist full of cover songs?"