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Another Friday, another weekend to look forward to. Especially if you”™re at 2000 Trees this weekend. Holler us at Twitter with your tips and tricks for the forthcoming festival.

Todays playlist is by Rhys Howell, a guy who clearly does not muck about. He”™s stripped things back and gone blurbless for this one; a mixlist of some of the best covers ever put to record.

86 Spotisfaction Friday (16 Jul) – RHowell

“Theme is pretty apparent in my opinion so I”™ll leave it up to you to work it out. No more waffling blurb here. Just a link to the songs.” – Rhys

Mr Hudson & The Library – On The Street where You Live

Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun

Nouvelle Vague – Love Will Tear Us Apart

Seu Jorge – Life On Mars?

The Holmes Brothers – Everything Is Free

Opium Jukebox – Iron Man

Wall Of Voodoo – Ring Of Fire

Fear Factory – Cars

Gretchen Lierberum – Do You Realize?

Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Hot Chip – Sexual Healing

Taken By Trees – Sweet Child O”™ Mine

Placebo – Running Up That Hill

The Postmarks – Five Years

Johnny Cash – Hurt

Orgy – Blue Monday

Booker T. – Hey Ya

The Blue Man Group – Baba O”™Riley

Ministry – Bang A Gong

Queen of Japan – I Love Rock”™n”™Roll

Maggie Kim – Raspberry Beret

The Bad Plus – Comfortably Numb

Amanda Rogers – No Surprises

Post author By The Spotisfaction Team
Post date July 16, 2010

Another Friday, another weekend to look forward to. Especially if you”™re at 2000 Trees this weekend. Holler us at Twitter with your tips and tricks for the forthcoming festival.

Todays playlist is by Rhys Howell, a guy who clearly does not muck about. He”™s stripped things back and gone blurbless for this one; a mixlist of some of the best covers ever put to record.

86 Spotisfaction Friday (16 Jul) – RHowell

“Theme is pretty apparent in my opinion so I”™ll leave it up to you to work it out. No more waffling blurb here. Just a link to the songs.” – Rhys

Mr Hudson & The Library – On The Street where You Live
Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun
Nouvelle Vague – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Seu Jorge – Life On Mars?
The Holmes Brothers – Everything Is Free
Opium Jukebox – Iron Man
Wall Of Voodoo – Ring Of Fire
Fear Factory – Cars
Gretchen Lierberum – Do You Realize?
Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Hot Chip – Sexual Healing
Taken By Trees – Sweet Child O”™ Mine
Placebo – Running Up That Hill
The Postmarks – Five Years
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Orgy – Blue Monday
Booker T. – Hey Ya
The Blue Man Group – Baba O”™Riley
Ministry – Bang A Gong
Queen of Japan – I Love Rock”™n”™Roll
Maggie Kim – Raspberry Beret
The Bad Plus – Comfortably Numb
Amanda Rogers – No Surprises

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Photo courtesy of The Ocelot Big up The Prodigy, who have been voted the most influential dance act of all time in a recent poll by GlobalGathering. With 29% of the votes they stormed ahead of Daft Punk (13%) and the likes of Faithless (11%), Kraftwerk (5%) and the Chemical Brothers (3%). It seems only befitting of a band that created a truly unique sound, morphing drum & bass, techno and rock into a menacing beast that would draw a new generation into electronic music, sell more than 20 million records over 20 years and pave the way for the live dance acts of today. The Top 10: 1. Prodigy (29%) 2. Daft Punk (13%) 3. Faithless (11%) 4. New Order (9%) 5. Orbital (7%) 6. Kraftwerk (5%) 7. Paul Oakenfold (4%) 8. Carl Cox (4%) 9. Fatboy Slim (3%) 10. Chemical Brothers (2%)

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Good afternoon to you all. Today”™s playlist was a little delayed. Hopefully the sheer brutality of it will distract you from the fact that I”™m not going to apologise for the late update.

Today”™s playlist is a metal collaboration between regulars Paul “Fozz” Foster and James TAE and you can hear it right here, whenever you wish.

87 Spotisfaction Monday (19 Jul) – PFoster&JTAE

Playlist Title: MetalAffliction

Planetary Duality I: Hideous Revelation – Faceless
The Naked And The Dead – Mnemic
Light – Periphery
Toxicity – System of A Down
5 Minutes Alone – Pantera
God Send Death – Slayer
Demanufacture – Fear Factory
Duality – Slipknot
Pollution – Limp Bizkit
Did My Time – Korn
Battle Ready – Otep
Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse – Dimmu Borgir
Minerva – Deftones
Pet – A Perfect Circle
Weight – ISIS
The Drapery Falls – Opeth
Flying Whales – Gojira
Pineal Gland Optics – Meshuggah
CAFO – Animals As Leaders
Inferno (Unleash The Fire) – Symphony X
Laid To Rest – Lamb Of God
Mid-death Crisis – Stampin”™ Ground
Sabbra Cadabra – Black Sabbath

Collaboration by Paul “Fozz” Foster (Contributor) and James Cook (Curator)

Blurbalicious:
Both Fozz and JC had begun independently working on a Metal playlist, and discovered their simultaneity (boom) just before submitting to Spotisfaction. We decided to merge the two lists together in as fluid a fashion as possible, creating one list that retained the character of both originals. We hope you like it.

JC highlights:
Periphery, the brainchild of Misha Mansoor, is a shining example of how far you can get through the online community. He built his name by showing his own tracks on music forums, Soundclick, YouTube and various other social media. Gaining a name for himself, he eventually formed a band, got a label and after 5 years releases the eponymous debut Periphery.

Animals As Leaders is another 1-man brainstorm. Tosin Abasi is perhaps one of the most talented guitarists alive at the moment. Mixing metal chops, jazz sensibility and Stanley Jordan inspired tapping techniques, he has created one of the most exciting prog releases of last year.

The playlist is a bit longer than I usually do, but I felt that was necessary to get across the character of a dual-mix, and also because there hasn”™t been much metal on Spotisfaction up to now. I”™ve tried my best to keep similar styles together where possible – there are notable nu-, thrash- and prog-metal sections for instance. Hopefully it works as a mix!

Fozz says:
Most of the tracks I chose for the playlist are bands I used to listen to about 10 years ago during my mid teens when I went through a bit of a metal phase. The most notable tracks for me are the Pantera and Slayer tracks, both of whom are powerful and dominating forces of the genre, and it couldn”™t really be called a metal playlist without them.

I”™m not really a massive fan of some of the more well known prog metal bands (Iron Maiden, Dream Theater and such like) but fortunately there are quite a few exceptions to the rule. Opeth and Isis are prime examples of this, with their blissful mix of soaring riffs and floaty vocals.

Stampin”™ Ground are a hardcore metal band from Cheltenham who I saw play at the Guildhall when I was in sixth form, and it was probably one of the most ferocious and insane gigs I”™ve ever been to.