My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

Gratuitous mentions of bayous, deltas, grits, cajun women, etc; telecaster funk, clav country, buttrock soul, variety show rave ups, psychedelic rednecks, etc; has-beens keepin' on, revivalists fakin' it, etc.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4135h0uHLl7WxL6DdUrjJt?si=gCRRo5StRQKyg7ZQ9xg2Sw

I made a couple of playlists of original (or sometimes well-known but not quite earliest) versions of the Banshees' Through The Looking Glass and the Badseeds' Kicking Against The Pricks covers albums

Looking Glass Uncovered

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Q0RWSRmJqSV81cpEFjLlJ?si=WHGQAEvjRTyduSyegfHcwg

Pricks Kicking Back

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JY6PL3pyjxjlFgIfybUn3?si=UQtS3fipSlS-LHrX02RvmQ

Playlist for a book I should have ready in a couple of days on pop music in movies and on TV:

http://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YSyDx0UeswlzpJ6toynJA

These are from an appendix of 108 songs covered in the book--longer pieces at the front, shorter comments at the back. Found all but three or four of them. I'll put a link for the book on whatever thread seems most suitable in a few days.

For a couple of years my friends and I ran a post-disco / new wave alternative night called SCIENCE!, concentrating on music from 1978-1987. For obvious reasons, we can't really operate right now, but this is a definitive playlist of just some of the key tunes we used to play out - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4DXsWEXWDClZphG5dvO2j8?si=8FSUwht3RIKrxSjDOApWRA

andy put together this playlist he simply called "dreamy r+b." it's really long, but it spans from the early 70s to present stuff. no real theme, but the running order seems to go pretty smoothly. we've really been enjoying it all evening: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0LKvxyEogFlkre7hUZMAER?si=ssIqYjedQD6RignN0lHzQw

I just put this together with some of my faves from 2020 so far (plus a few holdovers from last year). It's all pop and R&B... I've probably talked most of them up on here already.

Did we ever do a round of sharing our Discover Weekly playlists? I'm curious to see some of other people

Mine is at:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXcVOWzC0px15m?si=ew7EPJ92TZeYRbjWngwwrw

made a cop-hating playlist a while back and it's not getting any less relevant to my interests anytime soon so

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3j5YowOpG2fXCEUFUjYHaC?si=53aVcSHNSgm5NOyO8yN2jw

Starting a playlist with covers I like. Maybe I'll keep it private until I have at least 50 in there.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Qj3sYxRNmyfoBgDeFtNlq?si=yVQattbgTGu4uzZ0kKkHjA

A Saturday/Sunday drinking compilation. Montgolfier Brothers, Tarwater, Insides, Butterfly Child, Hood. That kind of thing.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XuPn3KgkUxBpDFBDI4K88

Because of widespread things, wasn't able to get my summer solstice psych playlist together until equinox.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/139nwlxZpUsX3BdXo1CuMK?si=ENbkt6enT-iI1C5PRPH7cg

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XSR1hFe8bvSrjlQaG80f3

over six hours of disco with no thought put to how it flows and no specific thematic or musical through-line (other than "disco")

Two quite similar playlists of where my head is at when I want to chill out these days:

WARM NIGHTS - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ODDwMMpnatOm0LrKhJN8M?si=ZuGEyq2WS46qhRcmvL-H7w
(beachy, Balearic, white-collar, tropical vibes)

AUTUMN DRIVES - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0NEcp59HO7Pw5iodc9yPvQ?si=1fmE6kikRo2GsGON8I4AtQ
(more of the same, but for raking through leaves and meditating in the trunk of an old tree)

Oh, Autumn Drives is getting played later.

Great! I'm listening to it now. might make some tweaks but it all flows nicely together for now. I recommend listening to these sans shuffle fwiw

I’m sort of proud of this one, it manages to kinda sustain some kind of consistent smooth disco/AOR feel... inspiration was a tiny dark dive bar with red lighting I used to patronize. Behold.. “Nightmoves”:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MytQjcgYhuKbnJSt4vU9k?si=WB5VwR09Qr2XHMmSBryXkg

Thanks for sharing. WFH today and this has gone down very well this morning

cool, glad you like

I've saved it for tomorrow. loads of stuff I don't know

Cool one! Love it.

Made a U.F.O. playlist. I’d welcome suggestions for things to add. Must have “UFO” or similar in the title but doesn’t necessarily have to be about Unidentified Flying Objects.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7d35b1JaednMFdzT1KQKPo?si=hPiOexGkRVmWRoxIn9hR0g

(The Boy Azooga track is a cover of Jim Sullivan’s “UFO” so the latter is already on there in spirit)

Thinking of making a parallel playlist of songs where UFO doesn’t feature in the title but are nonetheless about flying saucers, alien contact and so on. Things like Klaatu, the ‘Close Encounters’ theme, Hot Chocolate’s ‘No doubt about it’ etc. So feel free to suggest things in that line too.

Thanks!

For the latter, one of the biggest omissions from Tom’s 1980 World Cup: La Bionda’s I Wanna Be Your Lover.

And The Happening by the Pixies.

Radiorama - Aliens
Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Die Doraus und die Marinas - Fred vom Jupiter
Guided by Voices - Hardcore UFOs
Hüsker Dü - Books About UFOs

Been working on this for a while: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/0oqcs5fSW5j8clZ6DGy8Ns
Music for late night dreaming in the tropics, featuring Iasos, Kashif, Alice Coltrane, CFCF, bookended by Lonnie Liston Smith...

― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Friday, 24 February 2017 00:13 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I did another one of these, this time the dream has a bit of a celestial theme: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2I7zXoVCLfvoSAl1cbsTUR?si=O523ylI5RHeKOfMw9KpY4A

― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Sunday, 27 October 2019 00:25 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dream #3 is out now, its meaning is inscrutable but it's pretty chill: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Q4ufx8WYCNnzAgGl94sCw

hey jeff, how about juan atkins 'no ufo's' for your playlist

mark snow's x-files theme too obvious?

Thanks everyone, will listen to all the suggestions (and nothing is too obvious 🙂)

Here's my playlist of rap songs about smoking weed.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/02R9BYEYvdJhLSZAlTZjvU?si=vZcXH0siQ8-EwG5ecjrhjQ

Quite pleased with this eclectic WFH style playlist. Bit of everythign but it flows really nicely and concentrates on a Balearic, Krautrock and electronic/IDM vibe I've been mining for a while recently:

Zoetrope - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0D4ZoKfHdgBzAsGQXJcdTY?si=G3ul-VvPRS2MYtn-twuARw

So a few of you may already know, but I used to run a fairly popular mp3 blog called Motel de Moka from 2005 to 2015. We were a bunch of people from all 5 major continents sharing 5-10 tracks every week or so in playlist form and when soundcloud and spotify et al started to get big, the mp3 blog era lost its purpose and we called it quits.

Anyhow, I've been revisiting the archives and making backups and have re-discovered some great songs in there.

Amongst our frequent contributors we had Andras Fox. Andras is a producer from Melbourne and he's perhaps the biggest name to ever post in there. In case you don't know him you can find his work as Andras Fox / Andras, he makes awesome balearic/house/electronica music and has exquisite taste so I had to make a spotify playlist with every song he ever shared on motel de moka. It's notable to me that he was in his early 20's when he posted these tracks because his taste was already very cool and defined and you can see how it influenced his own music.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3SuZNeTTt0TGoTYXmH4wSw

I'm still revising the archives and I'm currently in the year 2010 so I'm still adding tracks in there but there's plenty of gems in there already.

Thanks for sharing. Will definitely check that out - big fan of all his work. He's also one half of Wilson Tanner who get a fair amount of ilx love

Although not right now as they appear to be having problems at the moment

I discovered a lot of music thanks to Motel de Moka. I've probably lost most of the MP3s through various HD failures so it's nice to check these again.
I've just finished a spotify playlist that gathers my favourite Thai 80s songs https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1SINCaGG37Wa2YwYBv1wPU?si=wGOEUJANSMi41bKk2Ct3qw
I'm also doing an Amapiano playlist that you can check here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0uzCDkbLRBNCukvgGsHm9Q?si=CqhulLNAQoeTB8uxJx82aw

Jamie: thanks for those! Already following.

Also thanks for the kind words. I have the intention to either do one for each member who contributed there or a general playlist. I started with Andras - might be the only one I separate at all - because I think he’s the one contributor who might be of interest to people who never heard of MdM and he only posted 100+ tracks on his time there so it’s easier for me to finish that one quickly.

I actually started a general playlist months ago - currently set to private because it’s still a work in progress and I don’t think I’ve compiled anything near 20% of every song posted in there:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3V3ofEYKmscYoNNdys77Ha

Moka this playlist certainly is evoking the blogmusic era delightfully, and it feels like it has fully receded into the past. Casino Versus Japan nostalgia working well for me right now.

Cool stuff, Moka and Jamie!

hi there Jamie, yours is actually the only other amapiano playlist I’m following besides Spotify’s own AmaPiano Grooves. it’s very useful to have something to hold on to in that Great Yano Ocean.
you’re very welcome to join us in the amapiano threads!

Hi Breastcrawl and thanks Brimstead!
Wow it's cool to have some feedback about my piano playlist, i'm really glad if it's useful for you!
I was a frequent poster here a lifetime ago and I really want to start contributing again.

I’m loving this Moka playlist. A real trove

Thank you! I'm still updating the main list and will probably never end. I'm sad that several unofficial edits/remixes/covers/mashups(!) that we posted and will probably never be available on any streaming platform. They're one of those unique features of mp3 blogs that I miss a lot.

We knew we would never compete in the quality of write-ups that mp3 blogs like say Moistworks, Shake Your First or Said the Gramophone had. Compared to other mp3 blogs we weren't interested on keeping a finger on the pulse, but we also weren't interested in covering exclusively obscure albums from the 70's. But we made up on variety.

Looking back and listening in these past days I have to say I'm impressed of how much ground we covered. It helps that we had so many diverse tastes and nationalities posting in there. We were certainly messy and unfocused, but that was what made us popular in the first place. You never knew what you were getting from one post to another. You could get Cambodian rock one day, chilean freak folk the next day and maybe some acoustic chillout playlist the next one. As someone who listened to every song posted in there I have to say it was very formative and somewhat addictive.

man, remember mp3 blogs?

My Top 20 favourite tracks of the year so far, Jan-Mar:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LWzXc65oUzyUGQQIec5UK?si=9d3a2d74d54c4c84

Bankulli ft. Not3s - Foreign
Rema - Bounce
Genesis Owusu - The Other Black Dog
Farmer Nappy - Backyard Jam
Fantasydub ft. Baba Salah - L'Heritage Universel
2TH - Pardonner
Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings
Aisha Noel - One Dance
Tekisha Abel - Lolo Bal
Charlotte Adigery - Bear With Me
Okyeame Kwame x Kuami Eugene - Yeeko
Jorja Smith - Addicted
Kerwin Du Bois - See Dem
TrueMendous - Worst Child
Azmari - Cosmic Masadani
Worlasi - Fkn Guy
Dundundun - Anansi
Magugu x Heavy Baile - Game Face On
Govana - Pop
Kwesi Arthur x Joeboy - Baajo

gon' spin this now

I have an overlap of about five with your list, dl - looking at my most played songs of the year so far: “Bounce”, “Yeeko”, “Baajo”, “See Dem” and “Foreign”.

<3

How do I see my most played songs?

in my case, through Last.fm

Cool list... I'm just using the same playlist link from last year: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4vbt9Rq7Ii3CTwo0yP4Zcb

And here is what I guess is my top 30 so far:

Andy Stott + Alison Skidmore - The beginning
Apifera - Four Green Yellows
Auf Togo + Becker & Mukai + Anita Cualega - Aeroplane
Buzzy Lee - High On You
Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive
Conclave + Toribio - Perdón
Dundundun - Anansi
The Far East - NYC Dream
Gizelle Smith - King of the Mountain
Hi Mount - U N Me
Jaja Bu - Bibles
James K - Ultra Facial!
Kito Jempere + Miriam Sekhon + Lovvlovver - Et Que Je Dorme (Andras Remix)
Kraak & Smaak + Sanguita Akkrum - Soul Liberator (Kerem Akdağ Remix)
Lana Del Rey - Dark But Just A Game
L'Impératrice - Anomalie bleue
Madlib - Theme De Crabtree
Mara TK - Highly Medicated
王萌 + Tim Shiel - Hidden Qi 隐.气
Mr Twin Sister - Expressions
大和那南 - Do You Wanna
Rheinzand - Strange World (Richard Sen remix)
Romperayo - Uyuyuis
Sam Gendel - Sometimes I Feel So Good
serpentwithfeet - Fellowship
Still Woozy - Rocky
Sun June - Bad with time
TDJ - Lalala (Want Somebody)
Voilaaa + Ayuune Sule - Fighting Slowly
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Kreuzberg Kix - (Ge-Ology's Brooklyn Slap Mix)

Nice gonna check this. Good to see you repping Dundundun. Some of them are friends of mine

Love the Apifera tune. Must have been Moka mentioning it on another thread that got me interested in that as it only just missed my list