FROM AFRICA | #HI54MIXCDS
An ongoing mix of a bunch of great music coming out of the continent of Africa (and since I don’t get sent a lot of music from this area, this is a bit of musical blindspot for my ears & something I’ll be working on adding more to). So go grab the headphones and let’s take a metaphorical musical road trip.
This playlist gets refreshed with different tracks/artists from the continent of Africa on a somewhat regular basis, with new stuff added near the top as we work towards at a nice, even 95 total tracks/artists. Which means you can also find this playlist in the daily programming options for the ‘pretend, for real’ mountain town DIY radio station MOUN.TOWN/FM that HI54.BLOG collaborates on with mountain town internet cousin 95EH.CA (all 3 signals get broadcast from the same HWY 95a mountown tower… hence the 95 total tracks, eh).
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And if your ears are liking what they’re hearing in the above digital mix cds, it would probably be a good idea to like/follow/listen over on Spotify so you can get future updates auto-magically appearing on your listening device throughout the year. And, as always, when you hear something you like, do the universe some good and support/check those artists out further (every little bit helps).
Speaking of which, here’s a few ‘available-on-Bandcamp’ gems that have been recently featured in this ongoing playlist:
But they’re not the only tracks you could go from discovering on a streaming service that pays artists fractions of pennies to directly supporting on a site like Bandcamp, which is one of the many reasons why I keep a Buy Music Club list going for all the tracks that get added to my FROM AFRICA playlist that are also available on Bandcamp (at the time of me checking) — so go check that list of headphone treats out whenever you find yourself wanting to reward your ears while also sending out support to those who help keep our lives nicely soundtracked (comes in especially handy on Bandcamp Fridays fyi, for all those who celebrate):
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Because the Corporate Streamers™ of the world are great for discovering and keeping track of music + streaming tools allow us to easily choose better soundtracks throughout the day than what Corporate FM™ radio stations used to drill us into submission with before the internet arrived in everyone’s pocket, but the way creators are paid out with streaming is just not very good/fair at all —ESPECIALLY in comparison to what some are making off of providing access to other people’s art.
Ideally, smart artist/human-minded people will start making some more momentum towards coming up with a better/fairer streaming model (here’s my contribution to the dialogue), BUT, for now, us appreciators of creativity/good things need to start doing a better job of being a bit more mindful of making sure we’re continuing to show direct support to the creation of good things. And Bandcamp is still one of the best online places going for intentionally & directly supporting the makers of the music you like (and then you get to carry around your BC music collection in your pocket). Also… just spreading the news about what others are doing is a form of given labour/support, and it doesn’t take too much clicking around & digging into the creators-of-stuff-you-dig to figure out ways of being more than a passive consumer of the sutff-you-dig-the-most that easily goes unpaid for in our current society.
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And while we’re listing interconnected things…
[a part of my "shuffle update" process is trying to remember to see if any of the newly added tracks, like the one above, have accompanying music videos to add to HI54's ongoing FM/TV rotation].
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Anyways, I HOPE YOU HEAR A FEW THINGS YOU’LL LIKE ENOUGH TO GO INVEST MORE TIME WITH BACK IN YOUR PERSONAL ORBIT, BUT IF YOU FIND YOU’RE ACTuALLY IN THE MOOD FOR A DIFFERENT ‘95 TRACKs from 95 different artists’ SOUNDTRACK THAN THE ONE ABOVE, have a flick thru this carousel of MOUN.TOWN/FM diy programming & give a listen to whatever catches your fancy:
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OR SEARCH “MOUN.TOWN/FM” ON SPOTIFY TO BROWSE THE FULL COLLECTION OF #MOUNTOWNFM PLAYLISTS (BECAUSE THERE’S MORE THAN WHAT THE ABOVE CAROUSEL CAN HANDLE — AND EVERY ACCOMPANYING BLOG POST COMES WITH AVAILABLE-ON-BANDCAMP EMBEDS/ARCHIVES)
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And here’s hoping this year we’ll be better than the last \m/
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JEREMY / @HI54LOFI
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