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
― brimstead, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
Thanks for sharing. WFH today and this has gone down very well this morning
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
cool, glad you like
― brimstead, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
I've saved it for tomorrow. loads of stuff I don't know
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
Cool one! Love it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
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!
― Jeff W, Sunday, 22 November 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Sunday, 22 November 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
Radiorama - AliensSufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, IllinoisDie Doraus und die Marinas - Fred vom JupiterGuided by Voices - Hardcore UFOsHüsker Dü - Books About UFOs
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 22 November 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
Been working on this for a while: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/0oqcs5fSW5j8clZ6DGy8NsMusic 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) bookmarkflaglinkI 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
― 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
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 22 November 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
hey jeff, how about juan atkins 'no ufo's' for your playlist
― Swanswans, Monday, 23 November 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
mark snow's x-files theme too obvious?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Thanks everyone, will listen to all the suggestions (and nothing is too obvious 🙂)
― Jeff W, Monday, 23 November 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
Here's my playlist of rap songs about smoking weed.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/02R9BYEYvdJhLSZAlTZjvU?si=vZcXH0siQ8-EwG5ecjrhjQ
― ablaeser, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
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
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 26 November 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
Although not right now as they appear to be having problems at the moment
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:09 (three years ago) link
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=wGOEUJANSMi41bKk2Ct3qwI'm also doing an Amapiano playlist that you can check here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0uzCDkbLRBNCukvgGsHm9Q?si=CqhulLNAQoeTB8uxJx82aw
― Jamie Harley, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
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), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
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.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Thursday, 17 December 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
Cool stuff, Moka and Jamie!
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 December 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
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!
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
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.
― Jamie Harley, Friday, 18 December 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
I’m loving this Moka playlist. A real trove
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Friday, 18 December 2020 09:15 (three years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 December 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
man, remember mp3 blogs?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 December 2020 06:20 (three years ago) link
My Top 20 favourite tracks of the year so far, Jan-Mar:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LWzXc65oUzyUGQQIec5UK?si=9d3a2d74d54c4c84
Bankulli ft. Not3s - ForeignRema - BounceGenesis Owusu - The Other Black DogFarmer 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 - YeekoJorja 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
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 29 March 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
gon' spin this now
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
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”.
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 29 March 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
<3
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 29 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
How do I see my most played songs?
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 29 March 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
in my case, through Last.fm
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 29 March 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
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 beginningApifera - Four Green YellowsAuf Togo + Becker & Mukai + Anita Cualega - AeroplaneBuzzy Lee - High On YouCassandra Jenkins - Hard DriveConclave + Toribio - PerdónDundundun - AnansiThe Far East - NYC DreamGizelle Smith - King of the MountainHi Mount - U N MeJaja Bu - BiblesJames 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 GameL'Impératrice - Anomalie bleueMadlib - Theme De CrabtreeMara TK - Highly Medicated王萌 + Tim Shiel - Hidden Qi 隐.气Mr Twin Sister - Expressions大和那南 - Do You WannaRheinzand - Strange World (Richard Sen remix)Romperayo - UyuyuisSam Gendel - Sometimes I Feel So Goodserpentwithfeet - FellowshipStill Woozy - RockySun June - Bad with timeTDJ - Lalala (Want Somebody)Voilaaa + Ayuune Sule - Fighting SlowlyZeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Kreuzberg Kix - (Ge-Ology's Brooklyn Slap Mix)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
Nice gonna check this. Good to see you repping Dundundun. Some of them are friends of mine
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 08:41 (three years ago) link
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
Been working on another in my series of "four letter words beginning with S"
Here's SMOG:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ss9G8OSIXZw7kv56m0ffY?si=80080273e7584df7
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
Dundundun are amazing. I think from your list I should also add Charlotte Adigery. I still need to listen to more afropop this year. From your list Foreign, Fkn guy and Game Face On sounded particularly great to me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
I'm glad to hear they've crossed over. Some of the band are involved in Worm Disco Club here in Bristol who've been putting in excellent nights of jazz and global sounds for a whole now. Worm Discs, their label is putting out a fair bit of stuff recently and it's all top notch
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
(crossed over to ILM and a world outside my locale, I meant)
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
I've made this playlist with my favorite 70s Mexican songs : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fDqNeDPRSUOB1lNc2qy77?si=5b0b62d42ead4bf6It includes a few acts like Los Angeles Negros and Los Pasteles Verdes that aren't Mexican but were based in Mexico.
― Jamie Harley, Thursday, 27 May 2021 08:04 (two years ago) link
Cool! I don't know anything about 70s Mexican songs, will check it out.
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Thursday, 27 May 2021 09:46 (two years ago) link
Cool selection! I’d recommend the themes from the two biggest mexican tv shows for kids in the late 70’s: Burbujas and Carabina de Ambrosio. The former has a really fun soundtrack composed by Esquivel - popular for inventing the space age lounge genre in the 50s/60s - and the later comes from a segment of a cosmic disco song... might be cheating because I think the original artist is from France but noone in France knows this song and everyone in Mexico does. There was a remix of it in the early 00s which was really popular in Mexican nightclubs but no idea who was the artist behind that one.
Odisea Burbujas intro (but check out the whole soundtrack):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDDKmyZ0auQ
Carabina de Ambrosio intro (this one is quite the trippy intro)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyC_VxW6VA
And here’s the full Quartz song in all its 8 minute glory:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g3ACPYuE-w
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 27 May 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Thanks Moka! The Quartz one is awesome but sadly not on Spotify it seems. I'm going to check the Burbujas!
― Jamie Harley, Friday, 28 May 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
I do see it on spotify...
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2caka9PPgIWJ7vcT6OHPHC?si=gSfA3HQCTBSdEqYLYgEUCg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 28 May 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
Ahhh thanks! There's a confusion on Spotify with the UK Hard Rock band sharing the same name...
― Jamie Harley, Friday, 28 May 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
that's a hella cool playlist theme!
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Idley composing this playlist of music fits in with this mini-revival of '95-'05 'beats'n'guitars'/"gothy big beat"/eye-liner pop thing as exemplified by the recent CFCF album and also the new CHVRCHES/Robert Smith collab.
Any more suggestions? The music is from all over the map but it seems to work together well
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4K8WgL7iYM8OAKZMgpfdIq?si=3a9cf95af06945af
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 7 June 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
Not sure how many of these fit, but it lead me down a path of listening to these..
CJ Bolland - Sugar is SweeterCurve - Chinese Burn
and maybe..
Dope Smugglaz & PMT - The WordMoby - All That I Need is to Be Loved
― beard papa, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
Hah all the stuff I was thinking of was already on your playlist, dog latin. curve is a good call, beard papa.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
maybe some dancier Lush? like “Lovelife” or “fantasy”
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link