News

ask Fill in the form with your questions or comments and by the power of magic and spandex in will arrive in our grubby little inbox for us to read. I believe that you can submit anonymous questions if you”™re worried about ridicule and I don”™t believe your questions will be published to the public. Come on, we”™re not giving you any excuses. Submit some shit. Thom (Twitter)

Post author By The Spotisfaction Team
Post date March 2, 2010

To make things easier for you, you can now ask questions, provide feedback or even contribute by going to the below link:

http://spotisfaction.tumblr.com/ask

Fill in the form with your questions or comments and by the power of magic and spandex in will arrive in our grubby little inbox for us to read. I believe that you can submit anonymous questions if you”™re worried about ridicule and I don”™t believe your questions will be published to the public.

Come on, we”™re not giving you any excuses. Submit some shit.

Thom
(Twitter)

Tags News

Hi folks. So, we”™ve been thinking about how to best go about this whole Spotisfaction malarkey, and have been asking some listeners what they think about the whole thing. It seems that it”™s sometimes hard to find enough time to listen to a 2hr playlist every day. So, that leaves us with a couple of options: We could move to an every-other-day kind of system to avoidÂ over-saturatingÂ people”™s brainparts with quality music lists. That”™d mean that the pressure to fire out a killer playlist would be a bit higher to compensate. The playlists so far have been banging”¦Â can the human brain cope with the next level of amazing? I foresee explogasms in the near future. We could create a ”˜best of”™ list as voted by our listeners to highlight anyÂ stand-outÂ tracks that may have been missedÂ throughoutÂ the week. Perhaps this could be in the form of aÂ collaborativeÂ playlist on a Friday? We could all choose, say, 4 tracks that we loved that week and bung them into Friday”™s playlist. The drawback here is that it”™d involve a fair amount of audience participation andÂ wouldn”™t work if youÂ fine kids didn”™t help out. So, we”™re looking for some feedback please! Let us know what you”™d prefer, or even if you”™d like us to carry on as we have been doing. David (Follow me on Twitter) Finally, a question: How would you describeÂ Lady GaGa in 10 words or less?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5U3PdYy07rNRanix3qXouh

Fantastic. Now we”™re starting to get some submissions. Today”™s playlist is bought to you by JB and I”™m really looking forward to this one. I”™ll hand you over to him now”¦

Playlist is here

Thom
(Twitter)

JB says:
The GZA”™s Liquid Swords was the only way I could think to start this mix, firstly because I love Hip and Hop and mostly because the intro is the most awesome intro to a song I”™ve heard. It also starts a rather sombre first half of the mix.

I can”™t remember when I first heard RJD2 but loved a fair few of his tracks straight away, The Horror seemed to fit quite well with the somewhat dark intro to the previous song

The Roots are great normally, but I think the addition of Erykah Badu to this track really lifts it to another level.

Next up Massive Attack”™s new one, I haven”™t stopped listening to Paradise Circus since I first heard it before Christmas, absolutely love it, certainly in my top 3 massive attack songs. Also has a very NSFW video at: http://vimeo.com/8195617

Paradise Circus helpfully helps move the mix from hip-hop more into melancholic female vocal tracks, the first I will mention is Paranoid Android by Sia, I was originally going to include Sunday by Sia but stumbled across this whilst looking for the other one, and really enjoyed this unusual take on a certain bands well known track.

Next up a touch of Icelandic female vocals from someone who isn”™t Bjork”¦Emiliana Torrini, who I had been listening to for quite a while, this is taken from one of her early and IMHO best albums.

Skipping forward a bit to Drumming Song, only really got into Jack Beats fairly recently, great big wobbly bass on nearly everything they do, and a turning point in the mix as it speeds up somewhat for a while.

Had to squeeze a bit of High Contrast on here as well, great remix of Adele”™s Hometown Glory far better than the original.

Then The Go! Team, who are quite hard to categorize really, suffice to say much more upbeat for this half of the mix, hard to choose a track of theirs to go one, well worth listening to the album if you”™ve not heard them before!

Uffie was a bit of a joke on my part, used to listen to a few tracks of hers a long time ago, everyone else hated her, and I could see why, but for some reason found it kind of catchy, went to see what she had done since that point, and quite liked this, will probably still annoy quite a few people lol.

Swinging back into hip-hop a few classics from Biggie and Jurassic 5.

Finally rounding up with something that has guitars in, always loved Good News for People Who Love Bad News, so good to include a famous track, and finally ending with the good old Postal Service.

Full tracklist below:

GZA – Liquid Swords
RJD” – The Horror
Roots Manuva – Movements
The Roots & Erykah Badu – You Got Me
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
Cat Power – The Greatest
Sia – Paranoid Android
Emiliana Torrini – Dead Things
The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home
The Pharcyde – Runnin”™
MSTRKRFT feat John Legend – Heartbreaker
Florence + The Machine – Drumming Song (Jack Beats Remix)
Adele – Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
Basement Jaxx – Hey U (High Contrast Remix)
The Go! Team – Ladyflash
Uffie – MCs Can Kiss
The Notorious B.I.G. – Everyday Struggle
Jurassic 5 – What”™s Golden
Jurassic 5 – Swing Set
Bonobo – Ketto
Coldcut – Timber
Mogwai – Auto Rock
Modest Mouse – Float On
The Postal Service – Such Great Heights