Northern Kind are Sarah Heeley and Matt Culpin, an English synthpop band who’ve worked with synth-stars such as Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode, Recoil), Kajagoogoo, and Simon Heyworth (Simple Minds, Mike Oldfield). Northern Kind’s 2nd album WIRED was my favourite release of 2009 and it has b [...more]
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December 3rd, 2009 - 12:27 pm § in record labels, spotify
Territorial Restrictions: Spotify’s Exclusive Music for None
Most regular Spotify users will have seen a message like this before: “This Album Is Currently Not Available in United Kingdom” (or whichever country you live in). It’s an annoying by-product of the music industry’s licensing practices and the source of constant joy/disappoi [...more]
November 19th, 2009 - 4:12 pm § in record labels, spotify
Labels on Spotify: Electro Arc
Electro Arc is an independant German label specializing in industrial dance and oldschool EBM (Electronic Body Music). They currently have several exceptional compilation albums on Spotify. Label boss Michael aka Intrendent kindly spared some time to answer a few questions. [...more]
Labels on Spotify
Here’s an updated clickable list of my favourite record labels that have extensive catalogues on Spotify. I often find that if I like a band, I’ll probably like other bands on the same label: a list of labels like this acts as a simple recommendation service and is a quick and easy way [...more]
September 4th, 2009 - 4:45 pm § in record labels, spotify
Labels on Spotify: Metropolis Records
Today’s Spotify update included almost 2,000 tracks from Metropolis Records, the American label that specialises in electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic. Some of my favourite bands are on this label (KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Seabound) so I’m particularly plea [...more]
May 30th, 2009 - 8:48 am § in record labels, spotify
Psytrance and Psybient on Spotify
Finally, we have trance on Spotify! I’ve been looking out for these genres to appear on Spotify for ages, so I was particularly pleased to see yesterday’s Spotify update including some of my favourite progressive and psychedelic trance (psytrance) acts, as well as a healthy dose of psyb [...more]
Labels on Spotify: Out of Line
Out of Line is a German record label who specialize in EBM, Industrial, and Synthpop. Their line-up includes Combichrist, Blutengel, And One, UK synthpop femmes Client, and Mexican aggrotechers Hocico. Browsing through their list of new and recent releases, I’ve noticed much of this is now on [...more]
