"Making meaning" from the web, music and life in general.
Tag: Music
What with all the recent furore about Spotify’s ethics, leading to artists removing their work from the streaming platform, I’ve been tempted into a 3-month trial with key rival Tidal.
Continue reading “Spotify vs Tidal: one family’s experience”
An hour of hushed-up heady house music, with plenty of actual songs, designed for a lonely walk on a foggy morning.
Months in preparation. Not bad in execution.
Mixed in Traktor on a Control X1 (thanks to Mr V!)
Halfway through 2013 and the last three months has seen some stonking releases particularly on the album front. Daft Punk’s return and the new one from the Disclosure boys are sure to be in many people’s end of year lists.
The Spotify playlist below goes from live Scandinavian post-rock/jazz (played by a symphony orchestra) to slo-mo folkstep and RnB, then storming house and slamming techno, with a blast of Wiley at the end.
Notably I haven’t come across much in the way of storming straight hip hop LPs this year though. Suggestions?
A round-up of a few fave selecshuns [that are available on Spotify] from the first three months of 2013. Enjoy.
While I am nostalgic for the Saturdays I spent as a teenager and during my twenties exploring the HMVs of Southend, Oxford Street and elsewhere, I am less nostalgic about the organisation’s commercial naïvities, as illustrated in this post – a brilliant, brilliant story about ignoring competitive threats in your own backyard.
Everything that was b-zangin’ for me this year in a handy Spotify playlist
Artist of the year: SBTRKT
Meaning HQ 