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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 …
spotify playlists
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 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.
Big fan of Spotify.
Cheers.
and there’s my point. as a user, i really like it too.
Electronica
Chillout
Continouos Mixes
Progressive classics
Amps No worse than YouTube for royalties is it?
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.
The people who are most missing out nowadays are the mangers.
I mean, if Spotify were around in the 90’s, there is no way I could ledge it like I do.
Of course not.
The combination of album sales and touring/merchandise sales made it a win win for all.
Take single/album sales out of it and things are a lot more difficult commercially.
There’s been no money in music sales for years, that’s not down to Spotify
exactly, if you’re not already popular, it’s almost impossible to become popular. algorithms aren’t helping, but they’re not the cause. we’ve got an excellent system for consumers, just not for the people who spend the time and money to produce music. that’s been the dichotomy between djs and producers for years too.
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3 months later
another massive dub techno list …
2 months later
for those of us already making nothing from spotify, maybe this does help with exposure, but they’ll actually have to add small artists to the big playlists and i have yet to see more than a handful of examples.
i read something the other day about the about deezer (i think, could be wrong about the platform) using a model where a subscriber pays their monthly fee and that fee is divided specifically between the artists they listen to, instead of kicking that money into a pool that ends up mostly being paid to a very small percentage of very popular artists. seems like a much better system and a step in the right direction.
19 days later
Some of the “Track IDs” playlists are quite good. Dixon’s being one I’ve enjoyed.
saw that one yesterday, but haven’t checked it out yet. maybe i’ll put that one on tonight.
6 months later
