My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

This guy also makes great playlists (especially dance-y music): https://open.spotify.com/user/1227134574

Four years running now, another bendy mix of Persian classical, psych and folk gathered for the summer solstice and after:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2po3kTjaQiXTV2gbu05nVz?si=c5ee3a7632b44355&pt=f6e08271a0dc468014d36933d3ddfce0

^ that link only worked after redacting some of the query parameters: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2po3kTjaQiXTV2gbu05nVz

Well thanks for figuring that out!

I enjoy the "discovered on" feature that shows you playlists featuring a specific artist, works esp well for more obscure acts

this is one of those playlists:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rL9t4zOPZDF8PK83S1BqQ

good mix, lots of stuff I didn't know, kinda artsy/alternative low key stuff

Here’s how my 2022 Faves are shaping up (I imagine I’ll add one or two more tracks by year’s end).

Here's a short high-concept playlist with an ecological theme. Designed to be listened to in order

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZzEjaDJEO6ghdYRZu4TJ8?si=-1Deoy9eQB2VR_kJy-yGXA&utm_source=copy-link

May as well post my top songs of 2022 here

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gXT2QwTDEhRlCURH1CyV0?si=3bfba71e235843f0

Here's also a playlist of mostly Afrobeats / Afro-pop songs from the last few years or so, in rough order of how much I like them!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20OhiEFDobBfNktjBub0Ps?si=3f1392305dad485d

Cool lists! Many songs I don’t know on the best of 2022c but love the ones I do. Will listen to this one over the weekend!

Seeing as Angelo Badalamenti passed away, and I've been to see both Wild At Heart and the new Lynch/Oz documentary in the last week, I thought I'd tweak and re-post this playlist of very-much-Lynchian vibes.

For this one I was thinking about Lynch and also Andrew Weatherall, who in a strange way I feel as kindred spirits - maverick weirdos operating in a way so that they bubble just under the mainstream, willing to talk about but never fully reveal their craft. There's also an obsession with the "seedy underbelly", with rockabilly, with what's going on in the backstreets both physical and psychological.

So here again is 'S M O G', a soundtrack for a doomy, smoky, 3am Gothic-noir dub, jazz and electronic lounge

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ss9G8OSIXZw7kv56m0ffY?si=ce80c5e817be4082

Enjoy this playlist of early-90s pop-dance

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20tOOpbazcitGJtSGwr3rm?si=55e132fe97964e58

What are brownies? That's something they started making in the early '70s. All the rock got down / mid-tempo, a bit folky, a bit dusky, and all the album covers had to be sepia. There's much more than what's here, of course, but this is a place to start, and a place I like to go when my soul feels like leftover hash:

brownies

oh man. Thank you. i feel like this would be serious scott seward catnip. Scott if you’re out there….. tune in!!

that Gary Higgins album is so so great

those are some tasty brownies

Just for fun, I've been putting together a rolling playlist to be scrubbed and updated weekly, just of tunes I've been enjoying that week. Give it a follow. I'll update it every Friday lunchtime

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PoogCsS0VYTBeRTG8ce8r?si=2ea5f6dc4bcf4e52

If anyone else has migrated to Tidal (I recommend it), I have migrated my playlists.

Since Spring is here, I will share my "Alternative Yachting" playlist, but I make playlists with different themes all the time:

https://tidal.com/playlist/62fdae98-646e-44c1-9343-b25a04ad2ce2

Wicked happy with my spring chamber/drone/Iranian playlist. Listened while I walked by a stormy ocean, it was good:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/79c1DJKLWShl4i3kFmCC1t?si=4b8738c230b34561

I can certainly get behind this sort of thing

So, last weekend we had a party at my house and a couple of friends and myseelf took turns queuing songs and I thought it made for a cool, eclectic party playlist. Mostly disco funk and house early and later on I stopped paying attention and adding songs as the drunker we were the music shifted to recent hits/reggaeton:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6TqhZ0ZFr1OObnT7CEehNI

I've been keeping a rolling 1 hour playlist of things I've been enjoying lately. Each week I wipe it and refill it with another hour of tunes

Give it a follow if you're interested

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PoogCsS0VYTBeRTG8ce8r?si=qCRmUAFmTwuen-hZ6xLzWA

v good stuff thanks have been checking that one out a bit

Aw thanks! :-)

Happy solstice! Not as good as the April one, but there's a lot of good droney wistful chamber stuff coming into my orbit lately, and I've been revisiting alt-country stuff from the turn of the century

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1YIxWge1UX6dksZWCiT49B?si=8773338d25564c6b

(and cheers to Moka for introducing me to Warsaw Village Band on one of her playlists - there seems to be a lot of interesting folk reinterpretations coming from Poland these days.)

If you're in the market for a sprawling, something-for-everyone summer mix organized (roughly) to follow a day from early morning to late night, check this out.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/707f7Xgq8pz1NZ55KWOn4V?si=c4c5a185e54e4fb5

(and cheers to Moka for introducing me to Warsaw Village Band on one of her playlists - there seems to be a lot of interesting folk reinterpretations coming from Poland these days.)

― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy)

Cheers! If I was a producer/artist I would have already sampled them 100%. So many flooring moments in their music.

Great playlist btw!

I made this playlist for a friend - compilation of Ireland/UK folk music released since 2000: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dPDj2BvXxVnWYgPbqQtXm?si=acfed13d83854c75

I made this one of all the bands I liked in the 80s.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AJFnVl9iQvGmyuzfW7FL0?si=33265b76602c4fed

(And then used algorithmic tools to make an even longer companion list of every band related to these that I didn't put on my list.)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dDujxqL97daTfL91wdYZb?si=d2a9511eeca74530

Xxxpost bendy: may I recommend you listen to Bile Inferno by Iva Bittova + Vaclavek

Probably one of my top 100 all time favorite albums. Definitely would consider it my #1 pick for freefolk/avant folk.

I call this one "Greeby Rock Rave", essentially 90s UK bands who tried to blend RATM-like agit prop with rave music, with mixed results!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/088fSDYsRyQNd1tz4GqbTj?si=qIMzDe0JRByX2rloCynwug

ablaeser, your 24 hour summer playlist is excellent - I've been hammering it all week and it totally hits my sweet spot.

Dreamy/shimmering English vibe feels right today

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/77IbVoALiBfbT9mNoUDCBO?si=A9r0EgiqRk6wzWWs_nvFWw

(...Actually there are a lot of bands on that playlist that aren't English, I guess I was just playing it up bc it's frontloaded with Boo Radleys, Chapterhouse, KoD)

ablaeser, your 24 hour summer playlist is excellent - I've been hammering it all week and it totally hits my sweet spot.

― mike t-diva, Thursday, July 13, 2023 10:44 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thank you! Glad you liked it.

Very much enjoying Iva Bittova + Vaclavek

that summer mix is stellar ablaeser

Dreamy/shimmering English vibe feels right today

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/77IbVoALiBfbT9mNoUDCBO?si=A9r0EgiqRk6wzWWs_nvFWw

― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Freitag, 14. Juli 2023 15:10 (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

really enjoyed that one, thanks!

Yeah that looks really good, “blue LED on a modded Boss pedal” yessssssss

So here again is 'S M O G', a soundtrack for a doomy, smoky, 3am Gothic-noir dub, jazz and electronic lounge

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ss9G8OSIXZw7kv56m0ffY?si=ce80c5e817be4082

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:22 (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

xps Well thank you! It made my day to know that y'all enjoyed it.

ah thanks Birds In Hell, yeah that one's a fave!

May as well link to all the Club Stoic playlists now:

WELCOME TO SUMMERS: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1jVK51XMMxtWHS3yW5IXaN?si=b38345e1e68341e5
SMOG: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ss9G8OSIXZw7kv56m0ffY?si=7c25b03ff98e47e1
SPORE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JkD2MWsN9kzwMCRwUD7mZ?si=eb719889cbdc48e0
SUN: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XSqYti3E2T4cT9s5ZnOBA?si=1f58e561983f4b15
QUIET AND FALLING: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NEfOjtgKLoD7LyXPXVEkw?si=5ebd5c561ea64c4a
SHAPE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jIFBZyfbsXJBxDA02NeFj?si=4685699defd84e56
STRING: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zuodybtDUQtIqkL61Ojou?si=a96980b5d8d743ec
ZOETROPE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0D4ZoKfHdgBzAsGQXJcdTY?si=85e1b68f18844aa3
WARM NIGHTS: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ODDwMMpnatOm0LrKhJN8M?si=6be20e40bfa2470c
SPARK: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4579wP77nziietcC63hAAf?si=f2f972c7ffe94642
SLIP: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ell3L13v5iq9jgpYUgevg?si=91a1675b713a408a
SOAR: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ygoq0yNv96a5z2fPlocJV?si=6a116c4c8edb41c2
SUNK: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ZzEjaDJEO6ghdYRZu4TJ8?si=96e50a9f96a1412f
SNOW: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4z8S8hZIOBt2Sk9k5qlH4T?si=67f2b779fa504c2c
SEED: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/14AdnvL9dneFvxUkGLWdTn?si=3424a82255f64dd3
SIEGE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XRSw2MCWBApkT8Mr6QcEs?si=5041c36c92024312
SPACE 2000: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1l8wBLsRQCQMGLnar2OgPk?si=956c476533cf470b

Autumnal Equinox mix, more twee-psych than drone-psych than usual, but still pretty droney!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6SwvWXWieYQ6Lat2MSyqWa?si=df2b34f7338f4aeb

nice!

I've lovingly recreated this rocksteady mix tape, with a few omissions and only one or two substitutions. Sometimes later re-recordings of tracks were available, but I opted not to use them, since the sound is kind of the thing here.

Prince Pauper's Rock Steady Revue

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3pqXLeSqTFLhr0Pa8hgrUp?si=9SBJWgVDQkSICkHtzusmpg

My much-acclaimed “at the bar” playlist returns!

I quite like this film soundtrack playlist I compiled lately

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3l67pog2U2dXyXlJa2CfBC?si=qk32hqCPSgOUdznD5XypzQ