Spotifriday #81 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist.»
This week's Spotifriday playlist.»
"Electronic music, especially dance music, has really benefited from technology, and it's so sweet for old sci-fi lovers like us to see how quickly people jump on technology and use it is in the "wrong" way."»
This week I've arranged the playlist in alphabetical order. I will argue with those of you who think that The xx shouldn't be filed under "X" but will probably lose because I have not known tiredness like this since about yesterday. As such, the descripti»
Marina Diamandis' favourite five albums of 2009...»
This week we are transmitting not-quite-live from North Norfolk, where across the plains of the caravan park I can hear the strains of Fleetwood Mac trying to make themselves heard through a tinny radio. I have also been fortunate enough to catch a very spirited rendition of ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ from a fellow camper (on the bog), while I was merrily dodging medieval verrucan foot complaints (doing the shower block dance). So while I want to just sit here and greedily lap up the given names of each house-on-wheels (‘Miami’, ‘Pageant’, ‘Senator’ and my favourite and best ‘Pastiche’) I have instead dutifully donned my headphones for FloMo, Johnny Foreigner and lovely lovely lovely La Roux. Yes, I said 'lovely' in the same sentence as the words ‘La’ and ‘Roux’ – you will just have to deal with it. »
Röyksopp's Svein Berge talks about the two sides to the band's music, guest vocalists, Spotify, and why having 3000 mp3s on your hard drive is the same as an attic full of crap. »