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Remember Mix CDs?
Y’know, those things that replaced Mix Tapes, because damn it if it wasn't a lot easier to throw 20 songs into an iTunes playlist and hit the "Burn" button? Well, I like to think of / use streaming playlists a lot like those mix CDs of the past— except now it’s a super evolved and totally on steroids version that you don’t need to burn onto physical discs in order to pass on to somebody else. And since you’re not burning onto a CD-R, you don’t need to worry about keeping the song count under that 700mb threshold.
For example, every month I update my ‘420 ALL DAY’ playlist with a new 54 track selection of tunes/artists that have recently caught and/or re-caught my ears (fyi - a 54 track mix is kinda like the equivalent of getting 3 new mix cds every month).
And then I remove 54 tracks from the bottom of my 420 ALL DAY playlist to keep the whole thing at 420 different songs from 420 different projects (because 420 tracks will play for 24hrs straight without repeating). And then you can just carry all that music & more around in your pocket and pull it out whenever you’re in need of an alternative to the same stuff they still keep playing on the radio.
Or, every week for my ‘YOUR WEEKLY 9(t0)5 SHUFFLE’ update, I put together a fresh 19 track mix cd from a digital library of years spent music blahging instead of ladder climbing, and then I put that new mix cd at the top of the playlist and remove 19 from the bottom to keep everything at a nice even 95 (5 X 19 = 95, for those wondering how many mix cds a 95 track playlist is equivalent to — listen/follow on SPOTIFY). Speaking of which:
And, yes, I still put streaming playlists together like I did a mix tape/CD back in the day—which is to say I probably spend way too much time making sure each track selection sounds good with the others that follow + random things that affect #peak song order / overall feel, even though I know that most people, if they listen at all, will probably listen on shuffle and that’s ok because when you’re careful with song selection things will sound good on shuffle too.
But, instead of checking how many CD-R’s I have available to mail out to a small group of friends, like it’s pre-2010, now any playlist updates I make auto-magically appear in the back pocket of anyone who is following along. Secret stranger friends with musical benefits.
Speaking of which, here comes some 95-track HI54 Mix CDs now…
#HI54MIXCDS on Moun.Town/fm
An ongoing shuffle of 95 tracks that capture some of the vibes that bounce around the air when, like myself, you find yourself kicking about in a mountain town (or 'Mountown' for short / easier hashtagging).
Come take a musical trip thru Indie America, USA — an ongoing 95 song mixer featuring a bunch of great artists currently making some of my headphone’s favourite American “indie” music.
“There are certain songs that sound especially perfect when paired with an afternoon winding down, a cold beverage and having enough time to do nothing except enjoy that special bit of the day that comes before sleep (however you enjoy spending it with whoever).”
Every week, I shuffle the pot of what my ears have enjoyed over the years & put a new 19 track mix cd on top of this 95 track playlist. It’s the kind of playlist you can listen from start-to-finish and come back and listen again on shuffle (especially if you missed what was added the previous week).
As someone who lived in England for a good handful of years, I can tell you that it's not quite as grey & cloudy as everyone always says it is. But it almost is.
An ongoing 95-track mix of artists/music with Indigenous blood (mainly focused on North America as I live in Canada + I also have a playlist called SOUTH OF AMERICA which is mostly Indigenous too). And, yes, I also have been watching/enjoying Reservation Dogs.
An ongoing mix of a bunch of great music coming out of the continent of Africa. — so go grab the headphones and let’s take a metaphorical musical road trip to Africa (aka: by listening to music from Africa & closing our eyes).
“A soundtrack for when you're doing some thinking, reading, studying, working, daydreaming, soundtracking an audiobook and/or just ruminating out the living room window.”
A hearty mix of a bunch of great music coming out of Ireland (and for playlist purposes + my general lack of history, this includes Northern Ireland too). So go grab yourself a bowl, because there's a tasty collection of headphone ingredients in here.
When trying to put together a playlist that "sounds like spring", sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels "spring-like". Which, admittedly, might mostly mean songs that mention rain or melting.
Sometimes, the easiest way to go back in time is to just put a time capsule collection of musical vibes in the headphones, close your eyes and let the music drift you away. You might even say that this is the only way to travel back in time (tbh I don’t know much about time travel). So, with that in mind… let’s take the soundtrack back the 1950s! |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
An ongoing mix of 95 tracks from 95 artists coming out of the Canadian province that is British Columbia (with accompanying available-on-Bandcamp archive + other things). Why? Well, I live in BC. But also… other reasons (one being a bigger project called The Provincial Playlists).
A Valentines Day-ish playlist that you can throw on the speakers for Valentines Day or really just any day that you're feeling like feeling some Valentines-ish feelings.
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different bands/musicians being carefully exported from the Canadian province of New Brunswick (or with past roots there) for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different bands/musicians being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador (or with past roots there) for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different bands/musicians being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (or with past roots there) for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
Whenever you say that you like "country music", it is very important to clarify what you mean by "country music". The music on this playlist is what I am talking about when I profess my country liking and if you've ever listened to modern country radio, you should understand exactly why the clarification is needed.
Because I was born in the 80s, I feel a more nostalgic connection to the cartoons, movies and video games that come from that era than I do with some of the ‘polished in a uniquely 80s Capitalism/Consumerism way’ music, BUT, just like with any other decade, there’s a whole bunch of interesting gems worth discovering/revisiting — this eighties playlist being an example of that. |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
“I realize that Australia and New Zealand are totally different countries and the people don't like being confused with each other *BUT* I think we can all agree that they're very close in proximity on the map and their flags kinda look the same, so… here's a 95 track playlist featuring artists from both totally different countries.”
Just because we’re only a few years into the 20/20s, don’t think that doesn’t mean there hasn’t already been way too many nice songs from way too many nice artists to count — AND — we’ve currently got a nice mix of 95 of ‘em over on this MOUN.TOWN/FM mix cd playlist, with “shuffle updates” done on an imprecise timeline. |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
Some music sounds better in places with broken toilets and uneven pool tables. That's just science.
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
Some music sounds better suited for those times when you're walking around lost in your thoughts, looking for some peace of mind. Maybe it's dusk, maybe it's dawn, maybe it doesn't matter.
When trying to put together a playlist that "sounds like fall", sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means and just go with what feels fall-ish.
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Quebec for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
Just some tunes to throw on while the corrupt version of capitalism we’ve been sold for generations keeps crumbling all around us. Because change needs to start on the inside, and music can help speed up the process — or, as Jarvis so eloquently pointed out back in ‘06: “the c*nts are still running the world” ✊
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Alberta for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
An ongoing mix of artists from The Mediterranean (Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco; Malta and Cyprus islands + I’m also including Portugal because it’s so damn close in location & vibe).
“I have 3 little nieces. They are currently 12, 11 and 8. This is a playlist I keep updated with songs I think / hope they might like, that I also like. So, yeah, it is made for a very niche audience… but if you like the sounds of a non-bloke heavy mix, you might also dig it in your headphones too.”
I’ve got HI54 ‘decade playlists’ going all the way back to the 1950s, but this 2010s mix is the first one where I actually had some kind of a music blog going for every year in the decade. Which means there’s a whole lot of tracks to choose from whenever I update what’s currently in the 95 track shuffle. -> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
And that’s kinda the main idea behind this whole #HI54MIXCDS / MIX CD RADIO thing (which has also lead to an offshoot of the idea called MOUN.TOWN/FM):
I metaphorically burn a bunch of ‘playlists-as-mix-cds-as-radio-programs’ that I keep updating on the regular, and people can tune in to any one of those mix cds whenever they want, wherever they are (and hopefully pass them on to friends because I have an unproven theory that passing on good music leads to more good things happening).
At the very least, it sure beats lugging around a folder of scratched silver discs or putting on the radio and having to hear a bunch of commercials in between the radio still playing the same songs over and over again.
Oh look, here comes some more 95-track HI54 Mix CDs…
#HI54MIXCDS on Moun.Town/fm
I recently did a proper deep dive thru all 14 of The Tragically Hip's studio albums so I could officially figure out what my official subjective album rankings would be... and a part of that process resulted in the creation of a massive mix cd featuring 95 of my fave Hip songs. This is that mix cd.
An ongoing 95-track playlist of music/artists coming out of the The East AND West Kootenays (so… Kimberley, Cranbrook, Nelson, Kaslo, Revelstoke, Golden, Castlegar, Trail, Fernie, Rossland, Creston and the etc area).
There is a very small window leading up to Jesus' birthday where listening to Christmas music is bearable, if not even just a little bit desirable. But it's gotta be the good stuff.
Look, I am not claiming that me having a Danish girlfriend makes me better suited to put together a Nordic playlist than your next Joe Canada, but I'm also not saying that it doesn't. I guess you'll have to listen and hear for yourself.
Here's a halloween-ish mix of tunes for you to put on while you put your spooky face on or while you bop around the house feeling a little bit sinister. Your call if you only want to do that once a year.
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Saskatchewan for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Ontario for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
A good backyard bbq playlist should consist of the kind of songs that get heads nodding and toes tapping and maybe a few booties thinking about shaking, but it should also not be so overpowering with the 'party vibes' that it makes it hard to carry a conversation on while you go for a second helping of 'slaw. This playlist is 5+ hours of that.
“I started off with the mix title of 'Hipster Hip Hop'—because I thought that was a good dumb way to describe a hip hop playlist made by a white guy from a small Canadian town.”
The 60s is such a great mix of my favourite stuff from the 50s and my favourite stuff from the 70s, and then you throw in all the uniquely sixties stuff that was going on and, even if you’re not old enough to have ever experienced any of the sixties yourself, you can still close your eyes and get the message. |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
There are certain songs that sound especially perfect when paired with a quiet morning, a warm beverage, and having enough time to just sit and do nothing except enjoy that special bit of the day that exists before the actual day rears its demanding head again.
A mix cd of great music coming out ‘Far East Asia’ (and for playlist rules purposes this includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam, China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau). So go grab the headphones \m/
I’m not sure if it’s because I grew up in the 90s, so a lot of 70s culture was referenced in the movies I came of age to (aka: Dazed & Confused, Boogie Nights, etc), or if it’s just because there’s so much great timeless music from the 70s that it’ll make anyone nostalgic for the vibes, even for those who don’t have the actual fuzzy memories — this playlist captures some of that. |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Manitoba for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
A mix of a bunch of great music coming out ‘South of America’ (and for playlist purposes this includes Mexico and all the countries in Central America, South America and the Caribbean). So pack some loose, breathable fabrics and go grab the headphones.
Canada gets a lot of stick for our overt niceness, being obsessed with hockey and a bunch of other ‘simple folk’ stereotypes—but people often forget that in between the maple syrup free-basing we do to distract from our colonial past/present, we also make a lot of really good music. This playlist highlights some of it, from coast to unceded coast.
“If you have to drive any further than a few KMs (or miles for y’all south of the border, eh), you're gonna want to have a good mix for a little dashboard drumming and open window karaoke running man.”
“When trying to put together a playlist that ‘sounds like summer’, sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels ‘summer-ish’. This mix is full of those kinda tracks.”
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.
An ongoing mix of artists from Central Europe (which I'm classifying as Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Switzerland - not because it is 100% accurate geographically, but because it makes sense with some other regional playlists I have going).
Sometimes it's nice to just freestyle your own yoga routine, one that you make up with whatever yogi pose knowledge you currently have + whatever feels right with the music you're listening to. This playlist is chock-full of music that is good for that vibe.
The HI54 ‘Provincial Playlists’ idea continues, this time with 95 nice tracks from 95 different artists being carefully exported from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia for your listening pleasure / headphone tourism needs.
When trying to put together a playlist that "sounds like winter", sometimes it is best not to think too much about what *exactly* that means, and instead just go with what feels "winter-like". These songs feel like that to me.
Sometimes you don't want the wheel reinvented, you just want someone else to do their version of an already solid wheel so you can take that new version of the same old wheel out for some fresh new spins around the block. Or maybe that's a rubbish analogy about cover songs and I should have just said something like "Who doesn't like a big ol' playlist full of cover songs?"
A house party is a special breed. Usually the sound is selected by an amateur committee of a real mixed bag of tastes. If you're not too careful, the music can get extra cheesy and lame and things get sloppy way too fast. It can also get too cool for school and no fun. It's a fine line. This mix is made with those two worries in mind.
Nothing fires up the travel memories / fantasies like putting on some tunes that are in a language you don't fully understand. Close your eyes and all of the sudden you're in France or Spain or whatever language that one is. Works best if you're a philistine like me who can only speak one language.
Just a bunch of tasty beats to throw in the headphone blender whenever you need to mix up some late night study/writing vibes.
Even though I am a rubbish whistler, I still tend to whistle songs every now and again (especially when walking up and down stairs for some reason). Now I know that whistling is pretty annoying to everyone except the person whistling, but F everyone else, right?
The 2000s is one of those weird transition decades, where we slowly moved out of our pre-internet media consumption, some of us more slowly than others, and then, all of sudden, we started moving exponentially less slowly & suddenly everyone can download/listen/stream ANYTHING online & carry it all around in our own dang pockets! — this playlist is from that era |-> OPEN ON SPOTIFY
So… what’s with the #MountownFM thing?
When I get a HI54 Mix CD to the point where I can easily make a quality mix featuring 95 tracks from 95 different artists, that Spotify playlist becomes part of the mountain town radio collaboration I do with HI54’s mountain town cousin 95EH, called MOUN.TOWN/FM. You can flick through all the playlists that have made it to 95-track status above or scroll through them all over on the blahg (or find them all on Spotify by searching #MOUNTOWNFM).
(or go check out / bookmark MOUN.TOWN/FM for future tuning in)
what about the playlists that aren’t 95-tracks long?
All the HI54 Mix CDs still working their way up the mountain towards that 95 tracks/artists threshold—this is either because they are a fairly new playlist, or it’s a category I have blind spots in and/or don’t get sent a lot of music for, or maybe the playlist topic is a bit niche—all those playlists can be found in the 'Still Baking’ section of the HI54 blahg:
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A HI54 Mix CD made from all the cassette tapes I've found while dating someone who LOVES going to thrift stores A LOT. It can be slim picking in the cassette bins around here, but when you do find something, they're about a quarter each. And ain't nobody can complain about that.
For when you want to keep your body motivated while doing cardio but you also want to listen to an audiobook / podcast at the same time (or just straight-up read old school style if you're on a stationary bike). Also works good if you just want to do some undistracted thinking while you get a sweat on.
A mix cd featuring a bunch of nice tunes coming out ‘Eastern Europe’ (and for playlist rules purposes this includes Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belarus, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Serbia).
A mix cd of great music coming out ‘Mid East Asia’ (for playlist rules purposes this includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE, Yemen and the 'I stan' countries).
This is a rap playlist that works good for when you need something in your ears to help motivate your next set of intentionally lifting heavy things over and over again. So it’s a bit more agro than my other rap playlist, but not too agro as I only have a resistance band at home.
There are a lot of songs written about Carolines. To be honest, the amount feels disproportionate to the amount of actual Carolines I have met in real life. But some names just roll off the tongue better than others I guess.
Sometimes you’re in a hurry and only have 2 minutes or less to get a song down your ears before you have to get back to work. Well, this playlist is chock-full of quick headphones fixes like that.
You’ll never really understand how your body works, but it’s important to be reminded about all the parts so you don’t lose touch with the fact that, for the most part, your body does work. And one can only listen to ‘Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes. Knees. And. Toes’ so many times.
Time flies, especially when you're listening to a playlist that keeps mentioning the days of the week. Which means, by the time you've shuffled through this 54 track mix, it'll feel like a whole month has flown by. So be careful with this one, it might age you.
I’ve also got a bunch of playlists that are a lot bigger than 95 tracks/artists. For example, there’s that yearly end-of-year tradition I do where I put together playlists based on the math that happens when you put a multiplication ‘x’ in the middle of the year (so, for example, 2019 becomes 20X19 which becomes a playlist of 380 tracks from the year 2019):
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Here is my annual ‘20X Current Year’ feature— which features 440 great tracks from 440 different releases, all from the year 2022. Because 20 x 22 = 440 and I am a crazy music blog person that has been doing this bit too long to stop now.
Here is my annual ‘20X Current Year’ feature— which features 420 great tracks from 420 different releases, all from the year 2021. Because 20 x 21 = 420 and I am a crazy music blog person.
Here is my annual ‘20X Current Year’ feature— which features 400 great tracks from 400 different releases, all from the year 2020. Because 20 x 20 = 400 and I am a crazy music blog person.
So, with that in mind, what HI54 has to offer into the end of year hullabaloo is my 20X19 playlist — which features 380 great tracks, from 380 different releases, all from the year 2019. And, as ridiculous as a 380 track playlist sounds, I promise that the real ridiculous part is how good of a listen it is all the way thru.
Since the year in question is 2016, and since 20X16 = 320, this yearly summary playlist consists of 320 nice tunes released in the year 2016. From 320 different artists. Reshuffled on the regular for repeat shuffles. You can’t argue with that math.
“The truth is, putting together an end of year playlist based on the math that happens when you put an X between the 20 and the 17 is a really good (albeit, slightly daunting) way to do a deep dive on the year that was.”
Since the year in question is 2012, and since 20X12 = 240, this yearly summary playlist consists of 240 nice tunes released in the year 2012. From 240 different artists. Reshuffled on the regular for repeat shuffles. You can’t argue with that math.
Since the year in question is 2014, and since 20X14 = 280, this yearly summary playlist consists of 280 nice tunes released in the year 2014. From 280 different artists. Reshuffled on the regular for repeat shuffles. You can’t argue with that math.
Since the year was 2018, and since 20X18 = 360, this massive end of year playlist consists of 360 ace tunes released in the year 2018 (from 360 different artists/projects). I realize that’s a lot of music to take in, but the math is the math and I’ve been doing this bit too long to stop now.
Since the year in question is 2013, and since 20X13 = 260, this yearly summary playlist consists of 260 nice tunes released in the year 2013. From 260 different artists. Reshuffled on the regular for repeat shuffles. You can’t argue with that math.
Since the year in question is 2015, and since 20X15 = 300, this yearly summary playlist consists of 300 nice tunes released in the year 2015. From 300 different artists. Reshuffled on the regular for repeat shuffles. You can’t argue with that math.
Since the year in question is 2011, and since 20X11 = 220, this yearly summary playlist consists of 220 nice tunes released in the year 2011. From 220 different artists. Reshuffled on the regular for repeat shuffles. You can’t argue with that math.
Since the year in question is 2010, and since 20X10 = 200, this yearly summary playlist consists of 200 nice tunes released in the year 2010. From 200 different artists. Reshuffled on the regular for repeat shuffles. You can’t argue with that math.
And then there are the ‘HI54 archive’ playlists:
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This ongoing yearly tracker archive gets filled with everything I like throughout the current calendar year (rule: only 1 track per artist). And then, at the end of the year, a '20 X YEAR' playlist is put together and then this playlist goes back to 0 to do it all over again the next year.
It's not all broken hearts and rejections over on SubmitHub. For example, here's an ongoing collection of all the songs that have made it past the HI54 submission firewall and over onto the blog.
This playlist is an ongoing collection of all the songs that have ever been featured on an episode of The Mix Tape Radio Show. Well, all the songs available on Spotify, which is not quite all of them, but is still a heck of a lot of nice songs to throw on shuffle whenever the mood strikes.
Every second Monday, I go back to the iTunes organizational system I had setup back when I used to run a 24/7 internet radio station and create an 18-track HI54 Mix CD out of my 'Mix Tape Radio approved' library. These are all the tracks featured so far.
This ongoing playlist contains all the top shelf recommendations that people have given over the years of running the HIGHLY RECOMMENDED W/ q&a — and seeing as how we’re in the triple digits of different creatives who have done the Q&A, the mix of tips is quite large and eclectic.
And let’s not forget about the ‘Guest Mixes’ that have no set rules on song counts / song selection besides whatever the guest chooses:
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“Every summer my father would drive my sisters and I from Denver to Phoenix to stay with my grandparents. It’s a 14 hour trip and we listened to tons of music. My dad had insanely good taste. He’d play us Kraftwerk, Big Audio Dynamite, Massive Attack, The Beatles, Neil Young. It shaped me forever. So an ode to him with a mix you can drive at night to.”
“I think the reason why it sounds so good today is because the 70s were kind of a bummer time for the US with Nixon and the economy and such, and this music is just unbridled optimism despite all that.”
This guest mix (and accompanying words) came via Lauren Rearick from The Grey Estates (everybody’s favourite purple powered music blog) near the end of 2017.
“When Napster was a thing, I used it to collect these songs on my parent's computer. I played them loud and flung myself around the basement until dinner was ready. I can't claim to have been a part of a community that listened to this music in a group setting, so I guess thats what I want to do now…”
But what about…
Look, I 100% agree that streaming is currently not working properly for artists. And it’s a problem.
But, like most things in capitalism, the wrong hands got into the pie and now the group that should be earning the most (ie. the creators) are only getting crumbs. This, like most things in capitalism, sucks and is stupid that we keep letting things work that way.
But this is also way too big a topic to try and get into on a page where I am actively promoting streaming playlists. The conversation is important and we can do better (and should), but also:
I grew up pre-internet in a small town where the only access to “new music” was what they played on the corporate radio station. So as imperfect as streaming is working right now, on a whole I think the world is a better place the more accessible music is. Like, as broken as some things are, it really used to be way worse before the internet.
So, while we wait for better/fairer streaming options (still have my fingers crossed that Bandcamp will make some moves in this area), we have to at least use the streaming we have now to discover/listen to/share as much good music as we can and not let the Al Gore Rhythms decide who gets all the $treams..
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Because the world needs more human-generated shit and a hand-picked playlist done right (like the kind you'll find on #HI54MIXCDS / MIX CD RADIO) beats the hell out of the computer and actual payola generated versions you’ll find on the mainstream home pages. So if you hear something you like while checking out the Mix CDs on this site, hit the follow / subscribe buttons and tell a friend to do the same. And then go track down and support the artists outside of the streaming garden (ie. buy their music on Bandcamp, go to a live show, follow on socials, etc).
And if you’d like to submit your music for HI54 consideration, you can see what the latest submission details are over at hi54.blog/submit (although, the latest update to my ‘submission process’ is that I’m not accepting music submissions anymore)— and if you have any thoughts/compliments or etc, you can holler at me out on the socials: