This road trip playlist gets refreshed with different ‘hit the road’ tracks on a somewhat regular basis, with new additions added near the top & tracks removed from the bottom to keep the total count at a nice, even 95. You can also find this playlist in the daily programming options for the ‘pretend, for real’ mountain town DIY radio station MountownFM that HI54.BLOG collaborates on with mountown internet cousin 95EH.CA (hence the 95 total tracks).

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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:

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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 OPEN ROAD 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 the best online place going for intentionally & directly supporting the makers of the music you like besides buying from artists directly in person / thru their own sites (and this is still currently mostly true, even though Bandcamp recently got acquired by a mega corp, although I have recently share my complicated feelings about Spotify/Streaming/Blogging/etc over here if interested).

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And here’s hoping this year we’ll be better than the last \m/

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JEREMY / @HI54LOFI