I’m a gaming veteran. I’ve been a computer gamer for years now, from the early 80’s loading from cassette onto a ZX Spectrum then playing on a Commodore Amiga, then moving to consoles (Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation), then hardcore PC gaming for years until I finally returned to co [...more]
Archive for the ‘playlists’ Category
February 5th, 2010 - 1:31 am § in playlists
Spotify Playlist: 1991 – M.pathy (The Pod Mix)
I bought myself a Fostex 4-track recorder back in the early 1990s. This analogue cassette player could record to both sides of a C90 compact cassette at the same time and allowed me to experiment with mixing, dubbing and crossfading in the comfort of my own bedroom. But while the world went to grun [...more]
Three Brilliant Industrial Albums on Spotify
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, my synthpop sensibilities clashed with a healthy sense of dread as I finally discovered industrial music. Bands like Front 242 and Frontline Assembly were my favourites, being at the more electro-end of the genre. EBM (a sub-genre of industrial) has had quite a r [...more]
Top 20 Albums of the Decade
Here are my Top 20 favourite albums of the decade, in order of release. These are all records that I love as albums – a collection of songs that work together to create something finer than the songs alone. There were better singles over the decade, and there were albums that had many better [...more]
Top 20 Albums of the Year
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about my Top 20 Synthpop Albums of the Year. Although synthpop is my favourite genre, it’s by no means the only type of music I listen to. Admittedly I’m still mostly an electro-head, but check my CD collection and you’ll also find rock, indie, punk, [...more]
Spotify Mashups: Spotibot Playlist Generator and Pitchify
Here are a couple of great new mashups for Spotify: Pitchify gives you Spotify links based on Pitchfork reviews, while the Spotibot Playlist Generator creates custom playlists for you based on similar artists. [...more]
Four More Great New Albums on Spotify
Here are four more albums new on Spotify that I’ve been enjoying recently, all highly recommended! [...more]
Four Brilliant New Albums on Spotify
Spotify now has over five million tracks for your listening pleasure, but here are four recently added albums from four decades that I rate particularly highly. One of these is even in my Top 10 Albums Of All Time so it’s great to see these included in Spotify’s catalogue! [...more]
New Apps: Social Spotify and Spotify Collection
Two excellent new Spotify sites have arrived in the past week: Social Spotify, which offers a novel way to share your playlists with friends, and Spotify Collection: a site that may well solve the playlist management problem once and for all with its iTunes-like navigation of album art and genres. [...more]
Spotify Playlists: Psytrance and Industrial
Here are a couple of new Spotify playlists, featuring some of the latest releases in electro-industrial and progressive and psychedelic trance. If you like either genres you can use these playlists as jump-off points to explore full albums from each artist. I use them as a quick and easy way to hav [...more]
