“Go metal detecting by yourself. Don't bring kids or partners or relatives. It’s fun and sometimes you find a treasure.”
This isn’t a competition. It’s a collaboration.
FANDCAMP: Stars
“Ryan's albums have been great comfort lately as my family has had more than it's fair share of tragedy. Beautiful sounds, most comforting. Thank you for your art.”
20 from '15 | THE HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES
The ‘HI54 YEARBOOK MIXES’ series continues with a 20-track digital mix tape (+ 300 track playlist) from the year 2015 — featuring tunes from Bully, OPEZ, Twerps, Katie Von Schleicher + a whole bunch more… basically, it’s a nice ‘15 vintage to pour down your headphones.
HI54LO5: Close Enough
“Can't believe I just found out about Close Enough — it's all the best parts of Regular Show, except now the characters are actual old human millennials and not talking blue jays or raccoons or gumball machines that act like old human millennials. Extra relatable, highly recommend.”
FANDCAMP: Born to Love
“Jamaica has been blessed with great singers so you might have missed him. Used to sing lead in The Techniques (check them out!) and these solo sides are more than welcome.”
REGGAE, EH | #HI54MIXCDS on MOUN.TOWN/FM
I realize it's a bit cliche to make a reggae playlist for 4/20 — BUT — I've also been meaning to dive into making a 95-track reggae playlist for awhile now, SO, the fact that April 20th + Reggae are both associated with marijuana, let's just say everything kinda happened organically.
FANDCAMP: Ignorance
“There's always a new layer to discover from Tamara's writing. Album after album it's continually building to a beautiful end whatever that may be. Love this music.”
HI54… THE 90s @ HOURGLASS KIMBERLEY | A HI54 SOCIALLY DISTANT DJ SET (14042022)
I asked a local cocktail lounge if they’d be interested in playing a 4hr 1990s mix cd and they said ‘ya!’ and then on April 14th, 2022 this 4hr 90s soundtrack was pressed play on at Hourglass in Kimberley, BC. And now you can press play on it too, whenever/wherever you are.
FANDCAMP: Summer At Land's End
“Every song is just gorgeous, the best of Indie-pop distilled into this album. Imagine Pulp-Jarvis Cocker singing Morrissey lyrics with Belle & Sebastian as the backing band... thats halfway as good as this.”
THE HI54 HOT 95, EH | <10k MONTHLY LISTENERS
I started playing around with the idea of sorting my Spotify ‘liked’ music by the artists monthly listener counts, and since I’ve accumulated + continue to accumulate a lot of ‘liked’ music, I thought it might be interesting to keep ongoing 95-track playlists for certain listener thresholds. This one is for those with less than 10k monthly listeners.
THE MIX TAPE RADIO MIX CDs | DISC 36
Here's the 36th 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 'Mix Tape Radio approved' tracks and put together an 18-track HI54 Mixed CD.
HI54… THE 90s | #HI54MIXCDS ON MOUN.TOWN/FM
This playlist is partially made up of the music I spent countless hours listening intently to in the actual 90s and partially made up of a bunch of “discovered after the nineties” 90s music (ie. things I would have liked if we had the internet in the 90s instead of the local area FM radio stations & Columbia House mail orders for new music discovery). |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY