Acts that are not on Spotify

Aalyiah's "One in a Million" and her S/T still not on there.

http://www.complex.com/music/2016/12/aaliyahs-music-isnt-online-and-her-uncle-barry-hankerson-is-the-reason-why

De La can't legally reissue those records due to all the samples.

Started to think the samples issue was a red herring given the availability of countless other sample-heavy hip hop albums from the same era.

Aw yeah, just noticed that what appears to be the original mix of Snooze 4 Love sneaked in recently via a compilation album! Previously they had only had some remixes (e.g. Dixon's), which is fine, but I prefer the original

the Angelica album is not on spotify. liberation's wasted on them

Felix Da Housecat's Kittenz And Thee Glitz and Devin Dazzle And The Neon Fever albums are finally up (listed as 2017 releases but aren't deluxe or different in any way from the originals).

Still no Smog/Bill Callahan other than a handful of tracks.

all the early X albums aren't on streaming

Started to think the samples issue was a red herring given the availability of countless other sample-heavy hip hop albums from the same era.

what was cleared vs. what was not cleared is totally random, number of samples has nothing to do with it

Beatles samples on Paul's Boutique for ex. = cleared

all the early X albums aren't on streaming

All of their albums are on Spotify, at least in Canada

yeah here, More Fun in the New World is the earliest one available on both Spotify & Tidal (assuming this is true for Google Music, Amazon and Apple)

acts

re: Smog
I dont think any Drag City records are on Spotify

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/08/21/longtime-label-holdout-drag-city-puts-catalog-on-apple-music

Yellow Magic Orchestra are up on the UK site now.

oh shi

tttttt

Up in USA too! Yay!

Fleetwood Mac's pre-Buckingham/Nicks catalog seems to have been added at some point. Which ones are worth checking out?

From the Bob Welch/Danny Kirwan era, I'd definitely recommend Future Games (there's good stuff on Bare Trees as well).

Mystery To Me as well.

THEN PLAY ON

Any remaining holdouts?

Spacemen 3

Peter Gabriel. Still the biggest name holdout?

King Crimson

Most of Drag City still?

King Crimson do at least have some recent live recordings. Slade only have three hits, and there's still next to nothing from Joanna Newsom and Garth Brooks.

Oh, and most Jay-Z is still absent.

Newsom is on Drag City...

I assume that at least part of the reason RTX have jumped to Fat Possum (after a lifetime on DC) is they want their stuff to be available on Spotify etc., and FP is doing “digital reissues” of the old albums.

Most of the releases on Tzadik. As far as I can tell, the only one on there is "Mayim Rabim" by Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and some stuff that's been available through other labels as well (e.g. Pharaoh's Daughter's "Out of the Reeds")
John Zorn in general, though at least that great Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet record is on there.

Diamanda Galas' back catalogue has disappeared somewhat recently -- now there's just the two 2017 records.
Devil Doll's never been available, but I guess they(/he) always made a point of limiting the availability of their records.

On the positive side: there's a ton of Magma on Spotify now. (Seventh Records editions, which I gather are the "proper" ones now, not the Charly releases)

There are various older acts who have received lavish career-spanning CD retrospectives from the like of Ace Records (UK), but who are represented on Spotify only via a few random compilation tracks (Reparata and the Delrons and The Goodees are a few examples).

Keiji Haino is basically absent.

aaliyah

Glad to announce that all my musical work out on Drag City is now available on all platforms, which includes Spotify! https://t.co/hYZJAQx3bW

— Lætitia Sadier (@SadierLae) April 1, 2018

Can't see anything else on Drag City yet.

I'm seeing some Six Organs of Admittance and Ty Segall stuff that wasn't there before.

Appears some stuff is available, but no Smog, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy etc

smog: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ajVJyxI4sHmTMtTA3ENko?si=kzDgr4UmSdOh3yTFwaV5yQ

silver jews: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ePunOqQbOYoQwd1298g3Z?si=8rFkVI3yRSSdmPUrD_TCzw

bill callahan: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7gqsi6aBSkRMJoL9psKqMr?si=-1TIruU_R9aXURnzyFfgGg

palace brothers: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Jg1WSoV27sDj7N2WRFPqo?si=vDwFLnf1RCuhaMNL4_kzlw

gastr del sol: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Xuaooorz7j46y1UrWxXMd?si=MHxq6h70QNaf_Puips4P6w

Weird, didn't show up for me on the desktop client but did through the web browser.

Poking into a little corner of stuff I'm interested in -- I find almost no Henry Cow (just a Peel Session), no Art Bears, very little Bob Drake, no Hail/Susanne Lewis, etc. A good amount of Fred Frith, but mostly albums from the 2000s. Is it possible that the ReR/Cuneiform scene is not generally represented on Spotify?

Btw - French Frith Kaiser Thompson's "Life, Love, Larf & Loaf" (one of my favorite albums!) is actually on here -- but credited to "By various artists," so hard to find unless you search one of the song titles...

Most of them seem to be on Apple Music.

iProg

Henry Cow would be a nice addition. They're a band I'd like to be more familiar with.

I am perpetually annoyed that I cannot put Wiley & Ms. D - "Heatwave" in my pop funtimes playlist.

Roger Miller's catalogue is very spotty. Mostly comps. Maybe it all got divvied up to different labels at some point?

Peter Gabriel albums arriving next week. https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/peter-gabriel-spotify/

o wau

I haven't been this excited since "Midnight Blue" on Lou Gramm's Ready or Not album, which was forever grayed out, became streamable. I'm not even kidding.

praise geir