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August 22nd, 2010 - 1:41 pm § in blog, playlists, spotify

Their Top 10 Tracks: Closing Comments

Last month, I asked about 60 bands and music folk I admire to send me a list of their Top 10 favourite songs, with a few words to say why that song was especially important to them. I said it was for a feature I had planned for my Spotify-injected music blog. Twenty-four of those [...] [...more]

July 29th, 2010 - 9:53 pm § in blog, spotify, synthpop

Forthcoming Special Feature: Our Top 10 Tracks!

Starting this weekend and running throughout August, The Pansentient League will be hosting a very special feature, with contributions from a whole galaxy of stars. Listening to all the great bands that are making music today I often wonder which artists had inspired them: which songs do they cheris [...more]

July 24th, 2010 - 11:55 am § in blog

Pansentient League Top 20 Posts

The Pansentient League is a blog that’s mostly about music-streaming service Spotify, but I also mix in features on Google Android (my smartphone OS of choice), Apple iPhone (Spotify’s smartphone of choice ) and my favourite music genres (synthpop, electro, industrial and psytrance). Thi [...more]

July 2nd, 2010 - 6:01 pm § in blog, playlists, synthpop

Entropically Yours…. The Pansentient League Album

I love music but I’m no musician. I’m constantly in awe at the skill of all the artists featured here on this blog and wish with all my heart that I was half as talented as them. But one day I had an idea for a concept album and thought that perhaps half a talent [...] [...more]

June 28th, 2010 - 5:29 pm § in blog

Pansentient League v3.2

A few minor tweaks and changes to this blog: I’ve added a few little Google AdSense ads elements that will appear at the bottom of posts and along the side of a couple of other pages. You’ll also see an extended Bookmark & Share widget on posts now, as well as Facebook like buttons. [...more]

May 24th, 2010 - 11:44 pm § in blog, spotify

Spotify Plugins and Widgets for Bloggers

Several Spotify-related widgets, code stubs and WordPress plugins have appeared to enhance your blog or website. Here’s a look at some of them. [...more]

May 20th, 2010 - 6:46 pm § in blog, spotify

Pansentient League’s Spotify Primer

To our new Dutch readers and the rest of you new music fans, welcome to the Pansentient League, a blog that’s (mostly) about music-streaming service Spotify. You’ll find all sorts of Spotify-related articles and links on this site, as well as some reviews and news about my favourite musi [...more]

April 20th, 2010 - 5:25 pm § in blog

Pansentient League’s Memetic Growth

Here’s a bit of self- indulgence: a post about an online linguistic experiment. Normal service will resume shortly! A few years ago, I made up some new words and seeded them on the Internet to see how much they’d grow. I posted the new words on this blog (here’s the original post) [...more]

January 26th, 2010 - 12:22 pm § in blog, spotify

What’s New on Spotify: Resolved! (kinda)

Here’s a temporary solution to the problem of Spotify’s lack of new-release updates. Following my post about it last week (and the related support thread), reader Steve (digithed) suggested reading Spotify’s metadata API with a query on albums tagged as new. Coding wizard Andy Smit [...more]

January 13th, 2010 - 11:33 am § in blog

Pansentient League v3.1

I’ve made a few tweaks and minor updates to this blog: WPTouch Mobile Theme: the site now formats properly on mobile devices such as Android phones and iPhones. New categories: I’ve added a couple of new categories: apple and record labels. Subscribe to Comments: I’m thinking of in [...more]