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Sometimes it takes an Esther Phillips to walk into the room in order to break you out of the trance that Adrianne Lenker’s voice tends to put one in. This mix tape has both of those things. Plus more.
Since my iPhone battery decided to go dead, and since my 3 nieces were coming for a mountain town visit for the last week of June, I decided to take a ‘mostly offline’ break. BUT… since I had some “lost episodes” in the pocket, I scheduled some Mixcloud uploads for the usual Monday & Thursday mixes. So here’s MTR EPS 031.
Episode 163 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems pulled from my personal Bandcamp Collection - ft. Fred Thomas, Megadead, Cut Worms, Carver Baronda + a bunch more Available-on-Bandcamp-flavoured headphone goodness (ps: this Friday, November 6th is another special ‘Bandcamp Friday’).
“Another funny and sad electronic EP from my best pal Benjamin Shaw. I'm absolutely loving these Megadead releases.”
Episode 147 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘EVERYTHING LIKED IN: INSERT CURRENT YEAR’ - ft. Hannah Lee Thompson, R.A.P. Ferreira, Katie Von Schleicher, Megadead + a bunch more 2020-flavoured headphone goodness.
Episode 140 of The Mix Tape Radio Show features 8 gems shuffled out of the ongoing HI54 Mix CD ‘U…KAY?’ - ft. Benjamin Shaw, Hannah's Little Sister, Patchwork Guilt, Robert Chaney + a bunch more United-Kingdom-flavoured headphone goodness.
“In the movie Panic Room, Jodie Foster says to Kristen Stewart ‘it’s disgusting how much I love you,’ and that’s how I feel about this album and its subsequent remasters.”
“A classic from (a small corner of) the diy Myspace-era gets dusted off & touched up and my nostalgic heart/ears are very much here for this.”
“The back-to-back punch of the last two tracks had me 'I'm not crying your crying' in the mirror. If you've spent anytime with Ben's songs (or even Ben himself) in the past, there is a lot of really special moments in this live album.”
Episode 105 kicks off with Matt Dorrien feeling lost & before things close out with Evan Wright thinking that something might be wrong hear, you’ll hear artists like Young Jesus and Kiraiyzu, you’ll go from a mood to finer feelings and there’ll be a full moon lullaby for you & me.
"Since quitting our full-time jobs and getting part-time jobs, my other half and I have had much more time (and energy, oh man) to just “go for walks in nature” and it’s super nice. We are completely broke and careening towards bankruptcy, but NATURE DON’T CARE. So I guess my recommendation is quit your job."
“A record predominantly based around seemingly improvisational drone pieces incorporating judicious voice and atmospheric sampling, alternating manifestations of sublime beauty and extreme darkness and just general originality and uniqueness.”
