I’ve been looking for the perfect music streamer ever since I got my G1 Android phone and decided that carrying a smartphone and an MP3 player into the shower was just excess baggage. I love my music: at home I have about 200GB of MP3s and a few hundred CDs (not forgetting the boxes of [...] [...more]
My Spotify Playlists
Playlist Description Genre 
Parralox - I Am Remix - One of my favourite bands at the moment, Parralox blend chart-friendly dance music with synthpop to produce a sound all of their own. Here's a playlist of my favourite Parralox remixes. synthpop, dance, club, house 
Synthpop Supreme - a Spotify playlist featuring the very best of synthpop from 2010 AD. See sharemyplaylists for details. synthpop, electropop, synth pop, new wave 
Afront the Punk! - My tribute to the best of the original punk rockers. I may have gotten into punk music a few years late, but punk will never die - Oi Oi! punk 
New Order - Best Remixes Plus - An alternative version of the Best Remixes album, representing the new New Order. Includes the best remixes from singles released since the album came out. electronic, dance 
Macro Dub Reinfection - A reinterpretation of Virgin Record's tripped out space-dub series from the 90s. This is sci-fi dub as predicted in William Gibson's Neuromancer. dub, space dub, drum and bass, ambient 
The Charlatans - Singles 1990-2006 - The Charlatans have released an incredible 10 albums in their career so far. This playlist is a collection of all their singles, modeled on the Forever: The Singles album which isn't on Spotify yet. indie, alternative rock, madchester 
Duran Duran - Night Versions - brings together all Duran Duran's early extended 12 inch dance mixes, thanks to the newly released remasters of the first three albums. new wave 
Science Fiction TV Soundtracks on Spotify - For all fellow SF geeks, here's a playlist of Original Television Soundtracks from shows like Doctor Who, Star Trek, Space:1999 and many more. Full details here. soundtrack, classical 
Stand-Up Comedy on Spotify - a playlist with an emphasis comics that feature in the “best of the year” roundups. Click an album name for the comic's full set, and see here for details. comedy, stand-up 
Björk - Repost - The best mixes and B-Sides from Björk's Post and Homogenic albums. electronic, trip-hop 
BioShock Soundtrack (Licensed Tracks) - In the videogame BioShock you encounter phonographs that play music from the 1940s and 1950s as background music. This is the playlist. music hall, jazz, swing, easy listening 
ElectroKylie - In the early 2000s, Kylie Minogue released some fantastic electro-flavoured remixes. This playlist brings the best of them together in ready-to-mix order. pop, disco, electro 
M.PATHY (The Pod Mix) - Reconstruction of mixtapes from 1991. See this post for details. house, dance, 1990s, dub, madchester 
Electro-Industrial 2 - More electro-industrial, featuring tracks added in the latter-half of 2009. industrial, electro-industrial 
The Singing Detective - Reconstructed original soundtrack to Dennis Potter's critically acclaimed BBC television serial. These 1940s classics are presented in chronological order. music hall, jazz, big band, easy listening 
Something for the Weekend - A chilled playlist for when you're alone with that special person in your life. More detail here. downtempo, trip-hop, jazz 
EBM von Eine Tasse Jäger - Oldschool and anhalt Electronic Body Music, inspired by the blog Eine Tasse Jäger. EBM 
Afront's Best Of 2009 - A selection of some of my favourite tracks from 2009. synthpop, rock, indie, pop, electro-industrial, psytrance, chamberpop 
A Fool For You - A special selection of songs that tell the story of my life. pop, rock, folk, indie, goth, chamberpop etc. 
Synthpop 2009 - Some of the finest synthpop from 2009! synthpop 
Psytrance 2 - Megaplaylist of psychedelic and progressive trance. psytrance 
Synthpop Europa - European synthpop, showcasing some of my favourites in the genre. synthpop 
Synthpop USA - Modern electropop from North America. synthpop 
The Golden Hour of Synthpop - A history of synthpop, showing its development from the late 70s through early 80s. synthpop 
The Human League Unlimited - Choice selection of album tracks and slightly lesser known songs from synthpop's finest band. synthpop 
In A Trance - 2-part playlist featuring some of favourite psychedelic trance and psybient (psychedelic ambient) psytrance, psybient 
EBM & Industrial - Charting the history of industrial music from the early 80s through to the current day. EBM, industrial, electro-industrial 
Futurepop - Sitting between synthpop and industrial, here's a selection of futurepop tracks. futurepop, synthpop 
A Sensational History of Popular Music - a spotted history of humankind’s music. Full details here. all 
Discophonic Workship - Cosmic disco playlist based on my Last.fm group of the same name. More details here. cosmic disco, electro disco, space disco, italo disco, synthpop -
