yeah, drag the three lines on the right.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
I've been making lots of playlist lately
90s one - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mlUE8D3kn3JYGr0MADDwj?si=22Cgti1cRsu1DMjipBxtiA
Jazz - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Azy2dnS7yKxziGZXrNJ4j?si=z9x7Xci6S9i5PAEYfMOf4A
Country music - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZGYc4pZzw1KL9XICyr0Yj?si=tB_aks9iSn6edmDyxkxTwQ
All sorts (laid back groovy stuff) -https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tBeCEz4sawjFQI8QQVl7v?si=kIwMNSFSR22WFDHcWZS_oQ
Gritty psychedelic stuff - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/571ejORog3nLqrYadDyEKD?si=9844iLfGTxeKbeNjj_KQEA
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
I haven't been very much active in the playlist making. This is the only new one I've made and the one I'm listening to the most:
Quarantine Summer Mix:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ekk8UJl2YvzAWphF4d0NS?si=onCZ_TrSQpa4Tt17oFNGlw
It's mostly deep house + hip house + downtempo and a dash of what I suppose could be considered indie pop. It's a 'chill' sort of playlist if you will, I guess it's the sort of music that generates me the less anxiety on this quarantine.
Yé-yé et Retro Chichttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/7eMG6GtxYxF0XPPmnAahzc?si=HWy3FIYdTZ6lPJHdHemkbw
I've also been listening to this one a lot, mostly in the mornings. It was originally made for a friend back in 2016 who wanted some recommendations on a french yeye + retro chic sort of mood and it was set to private ever since. I guess it needs a bit of polish here and there but it's a fun listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Oh, I thought I'd posted this somewhere but perhaps I haven't. This was my attempt at a *now* mix:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33aFZ6aGAcIdmheZOJ2HhB
― djh, Sunday, 24 May 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
Now with a 40-track playlist for each year dating back to 1965, like-sized playlists of charting R&B singles from 1970 through 1999, a changing two-hour playlist of (mostly) current stuff (plus a repository), and other foolywang (all with minimal overlap): https://open.spotify.com/user/avilyn. Tracklists with links: https://www.andykellman.com/
― Andy K, Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
Thought this revival would be related to the recent passing of ILX0r Ρεμπετολογια and his gigantic playlists linked to upthread, such as https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mhT8G19F2INMMVit9jLiF?si=4vbVF6ukSd2bxPe-hBPfXQ
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
I've spent the last few months making a Best of 2019 playlist. Now finished at 207 tracks:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hlCt0ivBqIhcgmeBcPGH5?si=PoRyQWYXTA-qtZViM5-xaA
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 May 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Gratuitous mentions of bayous, deltas, grits, cajun women, etc; telecaster funk, clav country, buttrock soul, variety show rave ups, psychedelic rednecks, etc; has-beens keepin' on, revivalists fakin' it, etc.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4135h0uHLl7WxL6DdUrjJt?si=gCRRo5StRQKyg7ZQ9xg2Sw
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Thursday, 28 May 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
I made a couple of playlists of original (or sometimes well-known but not quite earliest) versions of the Banshees' Through The Looking Glass and the Badseeds' Kicking Against The Pricks covers albums
Looking Glass Uncovered
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Q0RWSRmJqSV81cpEFjLlJ?si=WHGQAEvjRTyduSyegfHcwg
Pricks Kicking Back
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JY6PL3pyjxjlFgIfybUn3?si=UQtS3fipSlS-LHrX02RvmQ
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Friday, 29 May 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
Playlist for a book I should have ready in a couple of days on pop music in movies and on TV:
http://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YSyDx0UeswlzpJ6toynJA
These are from an appendix of 108 songs covered in the book--longer pieces at the front, shorter comments at the back. Found all but three or four of them. I'll put a link for the book on whatever thread seems most suitable in a few days.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 June 2020 06:43 (three years ago) link
For a couple of years my friends and I ran a post-disco / new wave alternative night called SCIENCE!, concentrating on music from 1978-1987. For obvious reasons, we can't really operate right now, but this is a definitive playlist of just some of the key tunes we used to play out - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4DXsWEXWDClZphG5dvO2j8?si=8FSUwht3RIKrxSjDOApWRA
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 20 July 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
andy put together this playlist he simply called "dreamy r+b." it's really long, but it spans from the early 70s to present stuff. no real theme, but the running order seems to go pretty smoothly. we've really been enjoying it all evening: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0LKvxyEogFlkre7hUZMAER?si=ssIqYjedQD6RignN0lHzQw
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 6 August 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
I just put this together with some of my faves from 2020 so far (plus a few holdovers from last year). It's all pop and R&B... I've probably talked most of them up on here already.
― Rob, give a listen to Iggy Stooge (morrisp), Thursday, 6 August 2020 05:30 (three years ago) link
Did we ever do a round of sharing our Discover Weekly playlists? I'm curious to see some of other people
Mine is at:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXcVOWzC0px15m?si=ew7EPJ92TZeYRbjWngwwrw
― Alba, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
made a cop-hating playlist a while back and it's not getting any less relevant to my interests anytime soon so
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3j5YowOpG2fXCEUFUjYHaC?si=53aVcSHNSgm5NOyO8yN2jw
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
Starting a playlist with covers I like. Maybe I'll keep it private until I have at least 50 in there.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Qj3sYxRNmyfoBgDeFtNlq?si=yVQattbgTGu4uzZ0kKkHjA
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link
A Saturday/Sunday drinking compilation. Montgolfier Brothers, Tarwater, Insides, Butterfly Child, Hood. That kind of thing.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XuPn3KgkUxBpDFBDI4K88
― djh, Sunday, 23 August 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
Because of widespread things, wasn't able to get my summer solstice psych playlist together until equinox.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/139nwlxZpUsX3BdXo1CuMK?si=ENbkt6enT-iI1C5PRPH7cg
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XSR1hFe8bvSrjlQaG80f3
over six hours of disco with no thought put to how it flows and no specific thematic or musical through-line (other than "disco")
― despacito ergo sum (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
Two quite similar playlists of where my head is at when I want to chill out these days:
WARM NIGHTS - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ODDwMMpnatOm0LrKhJN8M?si=ZuGEyq2WS46qhRcmvL-H7w (beachy, Balearic, white-collar, tropical vibes)
AUTUMN DRIVES - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0NEcp59HO7Pw5iodc9yPvQ?si=1fmE6kikRo2GsGON8I4AtQ (more of the same, but for raking through leaves and meditating in the trunk of an old tree)
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
Oh, Autumn Drives is getting played later.
― djh, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Great! I'm listening to it now. might make some tweaks but it all flows nicely together for now. I recommend listening to these sans shuffle fwiw
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
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