Throw this on shuffle when yr thinking, reading, studying, working, daydreaming, soundtracking a podcast, or general non-lyrical-etcing | Tweaked on the regular.

STOP TALKING… I'M TRYING TO THINK | #HI54MIXCDS on #MOUNTOWNFM

Arthrn - soundscape/ambient/chill

Stagne

An ongoing monthly collection of Soundcloud submissions I approved while going through the stacks of tracks HI54 was sent in August 2019 via the HI54 SubmitHub page (www.submithub.com/blog/high-five-for).

Not sure what SubmitHub is? hi54.blog/content/submithub-review-from-a-bloggers-perspective

Want more HI54 Soundcloud playlists? soundcloud.com/hi54lofi/sets

Cheers!
Jeremy
https://twitter.com/HI54LOFI

SubmitCloud - August 2019

Sleepy Jay-Jay

ovt and stagne

🧜‍♀️september🧜‍♀️19

September 2019

Prod. by @falls-2
Mixed by @Aux-Jennings



Money

42, 21

used to spleen

Gustav Ahr's Album

interlude (prod. brobak)

@rogerlagoon
@heurtcorp
artwork by hilste
<3

arthrn & roger lagoon - cřest

Ifwehavenothingtosay

the only thing i care about

At Sonrise, Someone Dies

Prod. by @choi-wav
Mixed by @3monthslater

Bleach

Preoccupations - “Disarray" from 'New Material', out March 23, 2018 on Jagjaguwar. 

Stream / download: https://preoccupations.lnk.to/newmaterial

Preoccupations - Disarray

Look around you 
I was tryin to find you
In the strangest places
Empty pages
There are many faces
In these strangest places

Come beside me 
let me take your hand
into these strangest places
Smellin daisies when the sun was shinin
And it melt our faces

All these things that
I could say to you 
Of these strangest places
Empty pages 
There are many faces
In the strangest places

Strangest Places (Demo)

Produced by @williamvanzandt

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#SCFirst

Alone

i dont wanna do anything anymore, im scared

In Parallel

Fuckstrated - Magic Shoppe

Roll Some Mo

visual: https://youtu.be/Ao86BXeI0Mc

I think that I’ve found
Nothing changes
But the view out our window
Looking perfect retrospect
But we both know
That’s just how it goes

Stop calling me at 6 in the morning
I don’t wanna see ur name
on my home screen
When it’s all said and done
It’s worth nothing
No one cares
about a thing but themselves
include me too
I wanna be numb too
I don’t wanna love you
Anymore

Anymore anymore anymore
I don’t wanna care anymore
I’m such a bore
I’ve got no cure for this head
On my shoulders

Stop telling me
Stop telling me nothing
Stop telling me
Stop telling me nothing
x2

I don’t care anymore

stop telling me nothing (video in desc)

Prada Aoyama / Down Bad

Buy on iTunes

✘O ✘V ✘T - Prada Aoyama / Down Bad

I Just Don't Believe You

✘O ✘V ✘T - 3(s)@1proderis

For Those Moments

Only You

4AM In NY

4AM In NY (feat. Anajah)

What If

While

Rest

Stream / Download: https://smarturl.it/elskavon-nerves

Nerves / Familiarity is the first official start to Elskavon’s next album era, and it’s a representation not only of composer Chris Bartels’ sound over the years, but also a metaphorical look inside his mind. That is, one of contrast.

With Elskavon’s sound, there’s always been a contrast, and marriage, of grandeur and intimacy. Nerves / Familiarity is no exception.

While it starts out quiet, the listener can immediately feel the enormity of Nerves. The sustained sound is that of Bartels slowly drawing a string of yarn across his old spinet piano’s strings. Only a minute and half in, the sound is thick and full, layered with falsetto vocals fed through modular synthesizers. It hasn’t taken long to be engulfed in the grandeur. 

However, as quickly as it arrives, there’s a departure. An intimate and rhythmic cassette texture, signaled by a slow tonic modulation, foreshadows a look at the second track - the contrast.

Familiarity begins with a bed of introspective notes and textures - mostly that of high piano notes and chopped up Rhodes improvisations. There’s a certain closeness with this sound, and a contrast to the large reverb-soaked fabric that leads Nerves. Then halfway through the song, there is a short build - an encore, if you will, to the grandeur of the first track.

Much like these songs and past Elskavon albums, there is a journey of contrasts with every creative turn for Bartels, finding himself deep in a whirlwind of excitement and fear, anticipation and anxiety, inspiration and frustration. And while being fully aware of the negative sides of that whirlwind, there’s an indescribable beauty and hope in the choice to keep writing, to keep moving. And to not simply run from the negatives, but to allow them to inspire, to motivate.

A creative journey should never be easy or comfortable. If it is, the other side will most certainly be lacking in the beauty and depth it so desires.

With this next album era, Bartels is choosing to embrace the contrast.

www.elskavon.com
www.twitter.com/elskavon
www.facebook.com/elskavon
www.instagram.com/chris_bartels
www.instagram.com/elskavon

Stream/Buy

Familiarity

Recorded in July and August of 2019 in an attic bedroom in Cumberland, R.I.

All songs written, performed, recorded, produced, and arranged by Patrick Higgins

Everything

Slid

Written, performed, produced and mixed by @iksremusic
Phoebe Dubar, 2019.

Mastered by Rob Masterton @supermagichats

Streaming now https://noisehive.lnk.to/Unfurl

Connect
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ALONE. AT PARADISE

Exit Ghost

Undertow

A soft but intense lullaby where the simple and moving melody is enriched by the special felted piano sound and by the intimacy of the recording, giving to the listener the impression of sitting very close to the piano itself. A song for chilling and falling asleep that despite it’s minimalism can calm and touch your heart and soul. 

International release date: October 18th, 2019