post the playlists you listen to regularly.

someone shared this on the old board, it’s phenomenal …

dub/mininmal techno …

more dub techno …

ambient/techno/soundscapes …

my golden era hip hop list …

21 days later

here’s another dub techno playlist …

If you have any respect for music and musicians you need to bin off Spotify asap:

    Amps lol i know exactly what i make per stream on spotify and it’s a joke, but there aren’t many options. i pay the artists i like through bandcamp.

    as a listener, i find way more new music through spotify than i did with apple or any other platform. the music industry needs to be blown up, but that’s another argument.

    6 days later

    Yes the artists make fuck all from Spotify, however as a showcase for artists its fantastic. I’ve discovered plenty of music on there I hadn’t heard heard before and tracked it down and I still buy loads of music - bandcamp, Traxsource etc

    It’s also good for the convenience, the vast majority of my playlists are made up by music I already own

      And yeah that Dave Mancuso playlist is brilliant

      nicksneddon that’s pretty much my strategy, use spotify for exposure and try to funnel people to bandcamp. we’ve already seen a huge tech shift in music over the last two decades and artists are probably worse off than before, i just don’t see how it gets any better.

      • Amps replied to this.

        Amps i don’t disagree with the sentiment, but there’s no way that any significant number of people are willing to do that. at least not enough to change the way the system works. i’m also aware that apathetic view is part of the problem, i just have no faith in people voting with their wallets.

        the biggest issue for new artists, as i see it, is still the gate keeper system. i’m constantly submitting music to people with zero credentials in an effort to get exposure. it’s an absolute grind when a&r has been replaced with bloggers and playlist curators.

        • Amps replied to this.

          and there’s my point. as a user, i really like it too.

          Electronica

          Chillout

          Continouos Mixes

          Progressive classics

          mono-stereo It’s actually better that YouTube, but thats like saying you’d rather have a your knob trapped in a car door rather than a hot furnace. The reason Spotify takes so much slack is that it has the most market share by some way and their deals are really murky, complex, horrible pieces of shit from all accounts.

            Amps It’s actually better that YouTube, but thats like saying you’d rather have a your knob trapped in a car door rather than a hot furnace

            Given your virtuous stance on preventing others from trapping their dick in a car door, it seems slightly perverse that you would still singe your own Hampton in a furnace.

            Amps this is a really long read, but i just happened across it and thought it fit pretty well with this discussion.