Listening to ILM Listen: February 2019 - Collaborative Listening Project

Here's the February Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/0V2Fxhw4SLadknRwPu4tz4?si=2LBEKszeSEaS97m2_U1i3Q

You are invited to listen along to the rolling anthology playlist above, assembled ad hoc with songs recommended and discussed in all the following genre threads this February, and use this thread to discuss artist and song discoveries.

House and Techno Bobbins 2018
Rolling Country 2019
rolling emo/pop-punk/shimmering maj9 chords 2019
Rolling Classical 2019
rolling offbeat drip 2019
rolling dancehall & reggae 2019
kpop 2019
Grime and UK rap 2019
Rolling Metal 2019
Rolling herky-jerky 2019
Rolling Jazz Thread 2019
rolling Afropop / Afrobeats / Afrodance 2019
Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2019 Thread Once Known as World Music
Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2019: Reggaeton, Salsa, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Merengue, and more
Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2019
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLIST MASSIVE, WE'VE GOT FUN N GAMES: 2017 Rolling Drum and Bass/Jungle/Liquid/Neurofunk/170
ILX Gonna Shine in My Backdoor Someday (new post-Fahey folk for ppl posting in Takoma/Tompkins Square threads Pt II)
dreampop 2019
Rolling non-US rap thread 2019
where's d'scene? rolling soca, chutney, jab & other caribbean pop
Rolling Worst Music of 2019
Rolling Indiepop/Twee/Jangle 2019
rolling r&b 2019
Rolling techno* albums thread for people who are clearly doing it wrong
... plus others TBA as they organically emerge.

Past month to explore if you'd like:
Listening to ILX Listen: January 2019
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/3gfEiJs2o4shZtC6vJEFhY?si=WkvnARRXRt2q7pxWp2KSYQ

Without being overly didactic, might I suggest you spin the playlist as a sampler and feel free to skip around until you find new sounds that appeal? It's not meant to be an ordeal, it's a discovery... hopefully one with a good signal to noise ratio. Think of it as a strong freeform radio station: give us twenty minutes a day and we'll give you the world!

NB: this thread is intended to be excessively safe space for the dilettante/culture vulture listener; feel free to ask questions about any artist or song you find without fear of being browbeaten. Maybe slumming experts may be able to tell you more!

One of my first discoveries of note on compiling the current playlist is this wild Nkisi album:
https://u-i-q.org/releases/nkisi-7-directions

Enjoying a roam through the January playlist atm - thanks for assembling these (especially as I didn't realise there was a new PUP single!)

No Shambhala thread yet?

there was an acoustic / singer-songwriter thread in 2017 that i wish would've rolled forward into new years...

i suppose i could've done it myself in the time it took to type this.

uh, i mean 2015. time flies, i guess.

Guy/Gal With a Guitar (Or Anything Else): Rolling Folk/Singer-Songwriter/Americana Thread 2015

will add songs posted there if you wanna.

I would be into the idea of seeing a revival around such a thread

Bumping for late February: 125 tracks and 8 1/2 hours of listening.

Who will take the challenge? Heck, I will!

It was a good challenge! Found lots to enjoy!

Let's move on to a March playlist, shall we?
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/33JTHumPssxBv4pOLJF9cU?si=D7o7NtrWQXeC6r7BN10dbA

How does this work ulysses, can we add songs ourselves to the playlist?

I pull everything on all the listed threads and add them to the playlist. The collaborative part is meant to be discussion!

BTW, if anyone's doing this on and off, I've updated the playlist to today. Seven hours of music is enough for you to knock it out in one workday!

Aaaand we're on to April:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5WyVvYDXRaEEtiAfwzjFri?si=5N5vcGrESuuPfB0uJDL21g

Jan: https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/3gfEiJs2o4shZtC6vJEFhY?si=AGw5pbASRPqXQOMu-PRXgA
Feb: https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/0V2Fxhw4SLadknRwPu4tz4?si=3y24uSt2T3KKxmKQ2fYsWA
Mar: https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/33JTHumPssxBv4pOLJF9cU?si=sjIFUmkySfab0q2zSj4Q4A

All songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=WgXrPTjlQWG5lMbRWxGWIw

April Roundup finished.

Here's the May playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/3sPFgmuzgmDvq3DZDmVUl5?si=nzRIziFnSReQHiPDJYnLZA

May is cleaned up and closed.

Here's June's Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5x79vvSWwZl8crD2c9u2ep?si=dq49WhnoTjWcnmbFVvyu2w

Still doing this!

Here's July's playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dFeYYyi3EqS9MT9jghdx6?si=J-65lbMgS0qM6RD8cc7jjg

Here's the first half of 2019:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=8Vx6pzrLQxO8i9qtwpYhOA

thank you SO much

Yeah really appreciate these playlists, always fun to listen through.

Always good to hear!

Okay, July is done, here's the August playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gXxMTBGCrbe9Cc3eKFZOe?si=O1hgfUcWRxeUMlfV3ChyCA

And, again, the all 2019 playlist updated:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=07Oo8RbgSse7ETdds1uhGA

Surgery on my arm meant I never made a new playlist so that link is now August/September. Very summery!

Here's October: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11z6m0RWEO8AWRLZXsR6En?si=xtZNO91HR0ua-N8LkB4gaQ

The "Song Discussed in ILM Genre Threads - 2019 January to October" playlist is now 1300 deep btw.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=hmG5u8QJSySjpFa_BAwnHA

November playlist duly started:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26YAdk9WuuOfNOxnpp80ur?si=h7OLXL47Tzmi4P6yZuiA-A

Okay, here's December:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1KacjcQGzoYmowcVYvEMA0?si=Y23b1QptQmOyq3h-j5aDLw

And, once more, here's January through end of November... 1500 tracks!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3DNL9a5Dp8YC35dFInBRvt?si=nHAI28n8T3a2lzOJQ6D4oQ

Thanks ulysses for the hard yards, really appreciate these playlists.

aw, thanks man! I need to finish all the 2019 and then will likely set up 2020 afore too long.

Can I borrow your thread for a sec, forks?

I made a pseudo-pan-African-pop/not-pop Spotify playlist for the rolling afro 2020 thread and all Afro-adjacent threads, generously defined. That includes the (South African) House of Sun-El and Amapiano threads. It’s already 108 tracks deep, in lots of different styles, genres and flavours - it’s a big continent!

That should be at least some of your 2020 listening sorted, everybody - enjoy!

ILM rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020

Borrow it and run with it i say! I think i'm a little burnt out for this year.

my god, this feels like it was a million years ago.