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I haven”™t had chance to post recently, it”™s been a pretty wild April that has managed to near bankrupt me. Lots of news, lots of news. I”™d planed to update later this week with enough stuff to make up for the last week or so of quiet. However, this couldn”™t really wait. The Digital Economy Bill
Sit up and take note, people. This is important. It damn well is. Trust me, sitting this one out will piss the Spotisfaction boys to no end. So make sure you damn well read it. And ACT, for the love of God. Unless you are a soul-less, ball-less no brain who is happy to sit on and smile whilst the condiments that are your liberties are being taken from the dinner table that is your life. I for one love a bit of wasabi. Don”™t let them take our wasabi!

Post author By The Spotisfaction Team
Post date March 17, 2010

I haven”™t had chance to post recently, it”™s been a pretty wild April that has managed to near bankrupt me. Lots of news, lots of news. I”™d planed to update later this week with enough stuff to make up for the last week or so of quiet. However, this couldn”™t really wait.

The Digital Economy Bill

Sit up and take note, people. This is important. It damn well is. Trust me, sitting this one out will piss the Spotisfaction boys to no end. So make sure you damn well read it. And ACT, for the love of God. Unless you are a soul-less, ball-less no brain who is happy to sit on and smile whilst the condiments that are your liberties are being taken from the dinner table that is your life. I for one love a bit of wasabi. Don”™t let them take our wasabi!

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4byBV19jGCrmSdQ5YkD5tP

Morning kids. How good was yesterday”™s playlist? Good god-damn. Well played, Fozz, well played.

Today”™s playlist looks equally as sharp and comes courtesy of Mr. Ben Hawling. I, for one, am very excited about this one – even the S Club Juniors track. Yep, that”™s right, I said it. I”™m a queen, I don”™t even care.

With that shocking revelation, Imma hand over to Ben now.

Godspeed!

David
(Twitter)

Get the playlist RIGHT HERE WOWOWOWOWW

1. One More Time – Daft Punk
2. Ready To Go – Boy Kill Boy
3. Across The Avenue – Howling Bells
4. Courtesy Laughs – Phoenix
5. We Never Change – Coldplay
6. Michael Douglas – Neon Neon
7. Break My Stride – Blue Lagoon
8. Nicotine And Gravy – Beck 9.
Our Mutual Friend – Daisy Chapman
10. Jane – Ben Folds Five
11. Must Be Dreaming – Frou Frou
12. The Gospel Of Goro Adachi – The Boxer Rebellion
13. Maybe – 6 Day Riot
14. True To Life – Royksopp
15. Brother Sport – Animal Collective
16. Do It All Over Again – Spiritualized
17. Paris (Aeroplane Remix) – Friendly Fires
18. Like Spinning Plates (Live) – Radiohead
19. Direct To Helmet – The Spinto Band
20. Perfect Lovesong – The Divine Comedy
21. Eyes As Candles – Passion Pit
22. Not Even Jail – Interpol
23. I Believe In Symmetry – Bright Eyes
24. Different Names For The Same Place – Death Cab For Cutie
25. Jeds Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) – Grandaddy
26. Wish I Stayed (Demo) – Ellie Goulding
27. One Step Closer – S Club Juniors
28. Being A Girl – Mansun

Ahhh here goes (said in Keenan and Kel style”¦”¦”¦..):

The glorious playlist that you are currently listening to represents, quite simply, all my pasts and futures.

I was trying to think of a really smart, over arching statement to adequetly sum up my general thought direction, but then my noodles had finished boiling, so everything else in the world suddenly didnt matter. Anyway, half the songs on here have been with me through thick and thin, and have moulded my life in bizzare, yet beautiful ways. The other half are tunes that have hit me between the eyes in recent times, and are screaming to be heard and adored. If you”™re really that interested, the tracks that have acted as my parachutes through the years include, ”˜One More Time”™ by Daft Punk, which incidentally is my favourite ever song for the soul purpose that always seems to playing when i”™m at my most happiest, and makes me smile out loud! Also, ”˜Like Spinning Plates”™ by Radiohead, as makes me feel like I”™m completly relaxed upon a mesh of lasers, and calms the storms in my head, seriously. And ”˜Being A Girl”™ by Mansun, simply because anything that this band have ever done pretty much sums up what my mind looks and sounds like; every glitchy, sparkly, muddled bit of it.

So there you go. No fancy bullshit. This playlist is my life as it has been, is, and will be, i hope! Nuff said!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fqm36DCj5X7Mpyr5Jv8mf

Yo. Today is Thursday, and it”™s a doozy. Thought I”™d start by sharing this nugget from Mr. Andrew WK: http://vodpod.com/watch/3250082-andrew-w-k-im-a-vagabond

Get today”™s playlist ””””””-> HERE

Blurbles underneath, and such.

David
(Twitter)

Machinefabriek – Porselein
Sun Kil Moon – Exit Does Not Exist
The Big Eyes Family Players – For Gorecki
Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me, Ohio
Benjamin Finger – Woods of Broccoli
Nils Frahm – Ambre
Message To Bears – Running Through Woodland
Eluvium – Prelude For Time Feelers
Adrian Crowley – Theft By Starlight
F.S. Blumm – Fehlsprung
Alasdair Roberts – Com, My Darling Polly
Damian Jurado – Omaha
Small Sur – Ohhhhh Part 1
Beneva, Clark Nova – Two Men Being Hospitalized When Only One Had To Be
Murcof – Lully”™s “Turquerie” As Interpreted By An Advanced Script
Vladislav Delay – Melankolia
Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Nice Butterfly Mask
Proem – Bites Their Tongue
Monolake – Tetris
Access To Arasaka – Monoscan
Venetian Snares – Vida
Autechre – Fermium
Amon Tobin – The Lighthouse
Clint Mansell – “We”™re Not Programs, GERTY, We”™re People”
Aphex Twin – Blue Calx

Today is a bit dark, I”™m afraid. Got some stuff going on that I won”™t bore you with (side note: if any of you see a small ginger kitten wondering the streets of Tredworth, pick him up and gimme a call), and it”™s bled into my playlist so I”™m sorry but this one”™s not a workday pick-me-up.

I won”™t write too much about why these songs are personal to me, but I”™ll pick out some of my standouts. I hope that some of the choices resonate with you too. That”™s what I love about this whole Spotisfaction endeavour – it gives such an amazing insight into someone”™s whole being. So thanks for sharing with us, and allowing us to do the same.

I”™m really proud of the transition between Benjamin Finger”™s “Woods of Broccoli” and Nils Frahm”™s “Ambre”. Those two songs are completely complimentary to each other, almost two halves of the same track. I”™m not sure where I heard of Nils Frahm, but I gave Benjamin Finger a shot after a mammoth click-through session on Spotify. Very glad that I did. Going out to buy the “Woods of Broccoli” LP ASAP. Gentle nostalgia and breathtakingly sad piano parts make both of these tracks jump out at me.

Adrian Crowley is someone I”™ve never really given enough credit to. He”™s got such a haunting sound. “Theft By Starlight” is depressing, soul-destroying, and yet so utterly beautiful it hurts. In-fact, this whole section of the playlist I find very tough to listen to, but by equal measures so rewarding too.

The start of the “glitchy” section of the playlist is marked by Beneva vs Clark Nova. I”™m not going to lie, I”™d never heard of them but I randomly found them on a Mixloud experimental/glitch cloudcast. Please make sure you check out Mixcloud – it”™s completely amazing. Moving into this latter half of the playlist, I wanted to try and get over my self-induced slump by playing some tracks I”™d either not heard in a while (in the case of Autechre, Venetian Snares and Amon Tobin) or wanted to explore a bit more. The tracks in this half of the list represent a time in my life just after I finished Uni, but before I found full-time work. These tracks are permiated by a solid theme, but are hectic and unfocussed at times, brutally self-indulgant at others, relentlessly forward-thinking and always challenging. I think the music here reflects my life during that time a lot more than I realised. The whole purpose of including these tracks here was to act as a reminder that I”™m not that same person, nor do I have to be. I know that sounds wanky and pretentious, but hey.

Finished with one of my all-time favourite Aphex Twin tracks, “Blue Calx”. Stunning.

Love and stuff.