A sort of greatest hits selection of DiS' Spotify playlists. We've compiled these to show off their new play button feature, but mainly to give you one page to bookmark (and share) for hours upon hours of listening...

I like to compile playlists (you may have noticed). I find they help to distil (if you pardon the pun) what DiS currently loves, as well as offering a guide into the depths of the music that excites us, as individuals, as writers and as a wider community.

On first using it, many years ago, Spotify felt like the first service since Napster and Audiogalaxy that truly encouraged the kind of exploration of music that one upon a time would only have been possible if you were hideously rich. The ability to flick and dip and meander through music on the service is great, but the chance to sit back and listen to music that has been compiled by fellow music geeks/human beings, often beneath the umbrella of a vague theme, has always been something I've loved about the service. You could say it's The Internet at its best, you could proclaim it The New Radio and/or the Evolution of the Mixtape, or you could just tell me to shut up, and embed some playlists already!

So here goes, this is a selection of playlists I've compiled recently, and a few from over the years... many of them were compiled with the help of the DiS community on our boards, our Facebook and my Twitter @seaninsound - thank you one and all!

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MOST POPULAR PLAYLISTS

DiS' 50-song Guide to Q1 2012

DiSser DiScoveries - 2000-2011

Music for Office Workers #1

Music for Office Workers #2

Drowned in Sound Recordings - DiS' Label

International Women's Day playlist

GEOGRAPHIC THEMES

If DiS did the BRITS... A Playlist of British Music in 2012

Australia Day - Down Under in Sound

Burns Night - Drowned in Scotland

nYc

GENRES

DrownedinShoegaze

My Pop Perfection - Take 1

Confessions of a Kerrang-reading teen: This is Brit-Rock

ERAS

10 Years of DrownedinSound - Sean's Mixtape for theQuietus

DiS is 10 - 10 Years of Solo Artists

Drowned in "2000"

Songs from the 90s - a MiniDisc friendly mixtape

DAYS OF THE WEEK

Drowned In Monday

Drowned in Tuesday

Drowned in Wednesday

Drowned in Thursday

Drowned in Friday

Drowned in Saturday

Drowned in Sunday

SEASONAL

It's DiSSSSMMAAASSS! - Christmas Playlist

SeaninSummer

Long Dark Songs - Winter Solstice Playlist

DiS does Hallowe'en

A Contrarian's Valentine's Day Playlist - The Dark Side of the Heart

MISC

Hey You! Where You Goin' With That Geetar In Yr Hand?

A Mixtape for Lester Bangs

£$¥€

Drowned in PIAS by @recordlabellove

DiS User-Generated Tips for 2012

Drowned in... Covers

Best of Elliott Smith

Suggestions - DiS' 100 greatest albums you've never heard...