Alright, I’ll give it a go too: Spotify
Listening to Matthew Halsall now. It’s lovely.
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All the recommendations please @franc my partner is French, and my 2024 goal is to learn French. I understand some bits! Iv listened to loads of French hip hop this year.
Just jumped into a bit of Big Noyd. Episodes of a Hustler, Havoc again 
Edit - whole EP is ace
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Lovely. I can either post a list here or if you give me your number I’ll send you suggestions through WhatsApp whenever I think about something?
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Yer dm me your digits
Damon Krukowski from Galaxie 500/Damon & Naomi making me feel guilty about Spotify:
“ Down at the level of most tracks on the platform, a devoted fan who listens to the work of a lesser known artist over and over still pays most or all their subscription money to Ed Sheeran, Drake, Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny. Even if they have never, ever streamed any of those very, very popular artists.”
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Read that earlier, scummy and the type of thing that will make me bin off Spotify if it doesn’t come with my phone contract next time.
I still buy the CD’s of certain artists but they stay in their wrap and remain brand new. Argument there is the waste of earths resources haha
It’s a weird one because it fucked over labels of physical music so it came as a revelation to the listener, the convenience and the way it can recommend etc.
It is fucking atrocious to the artist though! Music is just a commodity to them, the value is the profit not the art. Very sad.
I tried it when it first appeared for a couple of days and hated it. That was down to the ads though.
I just don’t see why people don’t value what goes into what enters their ears, is it just because there is no tangible product you can touch? rhetorical
The thing I like about Spotify is having access to music of my choice without having to own anything. It definitely comes from a position of privilege but one of my main goals in life these days is to have as little stuff as possible.
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I’ve been thinking more and more about the idea of getting rid of my record collection. I’m attracted to the idea of not having them and then I start looking at particular records and the idea of getting shot of them seems almost obscene, especially the formative teenage purchases.
I just reread that and realised that’s exactly what’s you just wrote.
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My brother gave me an old HIFI system and I like playing my old CDs. I also got some bluenote jazz CDs from the local market for £1 each. It’s nice to have the physical media, but I live by myself so saving space isn’t so much of a priority. I use apple music too which is probably no better than Spotify for giving the artists a poor deal.
He’s just raging he can’t write another When Will You Come Home.
I’ve sold the vast majority of my records over the last few years, in batches, and it’s been fine. Keeping most Blast First, Touch & Go, Dischord and Mo’ Wax, various noisy nonsense, and anything that’s not available elsewhere, but at no point have I missed not having a physical copy of This Nation’s Saving Grace or Daydream Nation. It was vital having them at the time when that was the only way to listen to them, but that’s a long time ago.
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I just felt 40 years older than I am reading your top genres.
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Didn’t Dean Wareham write all the songs anyway? I think Damon and Naomi publish reissues of avant-garde 20th century poetry these days.
That’s what I mostly feel. The time when the cultural currency of owning music was a truly meaningful thing is on the wane.
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