Hi everybody, it's Mark Rushton.  I released 233 tracks under many different names throughout 2023.  2/3 were music and 1/3 were field recordings.  I pitched about 75 tracks to Spotify for Artists and got some placed into Spotify curated playlists, but nothing in Rap Caviar yet.  The data says I had a lot of random unknowns putting my tracks into their own public playlists and that always puts a smile on my face.  Spotify Radio was very kind to me.  I bought a couple of Spotify Marquees - one was very successful and the other was a dud.  I put a lot of tracks that qualified into Spotify Discovery Mode and that was a huge net positive.  I pitched tracks to Amazon Music for Artists for playlist consideration, but I've never gotten anything accepted there.  Some day, maybe.  Keep pitching!  I created about 300 new public playlists featuring my music and sounds on Spotify and distributed them to other streaming services via Soundiiz.  Most die on the vine, but some don't.  Never give up on your catalog.  I have about 70 tracks at Pond5, the stock music service, and actually made a little money there in 2023.  I submitted pitches to 17 carefully considered sync license agencies and was either rejected or ignored, but that's expected given that I work in ambient and in a very idiosyncratic way.

My web site is usually markrushton.com and say hi at markrushton@gmail.com - I have a weekly Substack mailing list at markrushton.substack.com where I ramble a bit more about music and art.  I have other sites for visual art, videos, making playlist, etc.

If you want to hear more than 5 seconds of each track, I have full track playlists at Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, and YouTube Music. 

Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59vmaJpV0XaQ6Am4rwru4K?si=cf9eede57d154b93

Apple Music:  https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/mark-rushton-audio-journal-2023-disquiet0626/pl.u-pMyDVojsKlymM2

Pandora:  https://pandora.app.link/jN8lN92gUFb

Deezer:  https://deezer.page.link/wYPmC9HpZWzPWUdX7

Tidal:  https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/39f29346-0103-445b-b0e1-b4d77d4b414c

YouTube Music:  https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLXjSBGQSr3MXyElUG9KDc3yw3dorqWMJ&si=6DOhpnzkYfhJqw7J

5 seconds of each track are:

1.  Mark Rushton featuring Aleodeology - "Forgetting and Forgetting"
2.  Calmer Feeling - "Technical Business"
3.  Mark Rushton featuring Aleodeology - "Processional"
4.  Meditative Drift - "Santa Dodges a Chinese Balloon"
5.  Mark Rushton - "Keep Your Mind Active"
6.  Aleodeology - "Explaining the Universe to a Child"
7.  Aleodeology - "Big Ears" 
8.  Vibrating Wires - "Driving Away in the Middle of the Night"
9.  Chillout Preservation Collective - "Details are Subject to Change at Any Time"
10.  Audio Historians - "Emergency Sirens Going Through Downtown"
11.  Ambient Matyk - "Inside the Graveyard"
12.  Rushton - "Midnight Tunnel"

More on this 626th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Audio Journal 2023 — The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at: https://disquiet.com/0626/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Mark Rushton Audio Journal 2023 Disquiet0626

I make way too much electronic music.  This account is solely for my contributions to the Disquiet Junto.  Follow me at Spotify, my mailing list, or my podcast, all linked here.

Mark Rushton Audio Journal 2023 Disquiet0626

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