My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

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

some good finds on the video game music front especially!

Weird. Scrolling through my Spotify playlists, I found this:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4KmJONq9d56H7d3DIc9zhl

I wonder where I was going with it? Had probably had wine.

A few months back a friend of mine was making a road trip to Tucson and asked for something to listen to. So I started tossing together a vaguely alt-country kinda mix (mostly coinciding with what I listened to when I lived in Arizona in the mid/late 90s). For the purpose of a long car ride I leaned toward more upbeat tracks - none of the sad/forlorn stuff. Then my wife told me to throw in more old country (like 50s-70s), and then from there I just started adding whatever fit this vibe. The result is a mix of 100+ songs that I never would have thought to put together but has turned out to be my go-to mix whenever I just need some good stuff on in the car or while I'm making dinner etc. It's not ordered - ideally shuffled.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/40wm8WG4BoLqvijWqPV6FR?si=e5a09bf79c9248e8

Similarly, a friend requested a mix for her cross-country drive after her 16-year marriage ended, needed to go beyond her own library of songs that were now all associated with her marriage. So I made this:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1iUL8QOgiLNV3aQ5fu0ddi?si=uzFwqX9MSxiOCNEE3x0obA

Just my latest playlist of mellow atmospheres for background chilling, vibing etc - this one concentrates on a slightly hippyish, boho vibe with lots of acoustic guitar flourishes before moving into other dimensions. Enjoy. And if you want to hear any of the others, search "Club Stoic" in playlists on Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zuodybtDUQtIqkL61Ojou?si=327beb25a41344ef

bless

great stuff with some old faves and some now new ones

Cheers, yes I've been jamming this one loads in the last week or so. I'm pleased with how it flows overall

My semi-regular Heavy Solstice playlist of worldwide drear is extra burnt-out for this season of resignation. Built around three versions of Armenian composer Komitias' work "Apricot Tree", a melody that shadowed me all year. Hearts out to the inhabitants of the Karabakh region. The music of this part of the world plays an ever larger part of my listening as time goes on.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/38DH3K0q12QlLBE7CBpwX6?si=23cc86fe2c4a438a

Been fine tuning my "SMOG" playlist of slightly creepy late night noir-jazz/electronic hotel lobby vibes. Really feeling this one at the moment - best listened to unshuffled

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ss9G8OSIXZw7kv56m0ffY?si=b7b865d4ba6045fc

some late 70s and 80s r+b. kind of going for hiphop-adjacent and those sort of retro-familiar grooves. always opting for the extended mixes where available, because why else are we here? my friend andy humbly requests that you don't play it on shuffle (but you can if you want): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FupAJPNkWsvm4Ah1QQSvS?si=0da01242513242d0

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7c6ZiKBC3FgToevoAz3KuC

Something different: "Current Favorite Songs." Ranges from really recent pop stuff to rare grooves to everything in between. General focus is r+b, but not very strict by any means whatsoever. And Sade. Lots of Sade. Meant to be played on shuffle. Plan on updating it very frequently over the next week or so to fine tune it a bit more.

Ah some good selections on that “bar music” playlist.

Here’s the one I’m currently shuffling at one of my bars:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/72IhufyFMawe4bClFQCy8F

Also great ones on that one Austin. Might shuffle today.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6eEq3MNEVSV8WNAsFaDtxM
been working on this for a while, should work as bar music

Oh yeah! I love that playlist of yours! I play it often on shuffle when I don't know what to play in my home.

Very happy to hear that

not mine, but have a look at this guy's collection
https://open.spotify.com/user/freeassoc8

Nice ones. Hearing the garage one atm.