My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

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

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

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.

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

(crossed over to ILM and a world outside my locale, I meant)

I've made this playlist with my favorite 70s Mexican songs : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fDqNeDPRSUOB1lNc2qy77?si=5b0b62d42ead4bf6
It includes a few acts like Los Angeles Negros and Los Pasteles Verdes that aren't Mexican but were based in Mexico.

Cool! I don't know anything about 70s Mexican songs, will check it out.

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

Thanks Moka! The Quartz one is awesome but sadly not on Spotify it seems. I'm going to check the Burbujas!

I do see it on spotify...

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2caka9PPgIWJ7vcT6OHPHC?si=gSfA3HQCTBSdEqYLYgEUCg

Ahhh thanks! There's a confusion on Spotify with the UK Hard Rock band sharing the same name...

that's a hella cool playlist theme!

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

Not sure how many of these fit, but it lead me down a path of listening to these..

CJ Bolland - Sugar is Sweeter
Curve - Chinese Burn

and maybe..

Dope Smugglaz & PMT - The Word
Moby - All That I Need is to Be Loved

Hah all the stuff I was thinking of was already on your playlist, dog latin. curve is a good call, beard papa.

maybe some dancier Lush? like “Lovelife” or “fantasy”

Here's a "nice-but-at-times-quite-upsetting" playlist of ambient, neo-classical, film soundtrack and video game music I'm tinkering with.
Designed to be listened to in order as it's a bit of a vibe. Any further suggestions welcome.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NEfOjtgKLoD7LyXPXVEkw?si=88604d14d21a42c2

will spin

this is great btw

Cheers! I've been enjoying it