I wish Spotify had a better defined developer program. For example, I don’t mind paying for specific traffic or features my apps need to use via their Web APIs. Linking it to a premium sub or adding such draconian requirements for moving into production mode is difficult to navigate for a solo dev.
https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-06-update-on-developer-access-and-platform-security
For whatever reason, music hits me harder emotionally than it seems to hit most people.
At our game tonight, I put on Eno's Apollo album. It's been years, so I'd forgotten how beautiful "An Ending (Ascent)" is. The whole album is good, but that track is so beautiful it consistently brings tears to my eyes.
@andre
> Dynamic Ad Insertion is the keyword
Sounds suitably shady. Now I want to start a punk or industrial band called Dynamic Ad Insertion. Something along these lines ...
#Listening to Mandate by Australian industrial band Eye;
https://eyemusicgroup.bandcamp.com/track/mandate-with-the-prime-minister-on-guest-vocals
A protest song from the 1998 album Politics Can be Fun. I vaguely remember downloading this on Napster in 99(?). It's a fun bit of musical satire, that skewers the Westminster Parliamentary system with great use of samples, like;
"Under current constitutional arrangements, a government that is elected has virtually dictatorial power for the next 3 years."
EYE
25 years too late, i want to thank all of you UK music pirates who left open their napster and limewire clients on 33.6k/56k dialup connections for hours at a time in the middle of the night in 2000.
when i was a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s, canada was still recovering from a decade of hopeless grunge, there weren't many options for learning about new music aside from the radio. 99% of it was dead pop and rock. but a local university radio station (CJSR) exclusively played all kinds of music you couldn't find anywhere else.
one night, at 2am, a CJSR deejay queued up a track by a band called Lemon Jelly. after decades of despondent punk/rock/grunge, it was the most refreshing and uplifting thing i had ever heard. the kind of music that was just glad if you smiled a bit.
except, i couldn't find it anywhere. the big local shops like HMV didn't import LJ's label, and i couldn't afford to import it myself from a UK music store.
that week, i spent dozens of hours digging through every limewire/napster share i could find. and finally, i found it: someone in the UK had dumped the entire CD to 128kbit mp3s, as well as recordings from BBC 1's The Breezeblock.
a year later, i was finally able to buy their CD in-store, along with the incredible Illustrator vector artwork by lemon jelly themselves. i not only became a fan of LJ, but became strongly influenced by their low-poly vector illustration style in my own design work.
so: a belated thank you UK napsterites for sharing your music overseas 🙏
Music for the morning (or whatever time of the day it is where you are)
25 years too late, i want to thank all of you UK music pirates who left open their napster and limewire clients on 33.6k/56k dialup connections for hours at a time in the middle of the night in 2000.
when i was a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s, canada was still recovering from a decade of hopeless grunge, there weren't many options for learning about new music aside from the radio. 99% of it was dead pop and rock. but a local university radio station (CJSR) exclusively played all kinds of music you couldn't find anywhere else.
one night, at 2am, a CJSR deejay queued up a track by a band called Lemon Jelly. after decades of despondent punk/rock/grunge, it was the most refreshing and uplifting thing i had ever heard. the kind of music that was just glad if you smiled a bit.
except, i couldn't find it anywhere. the big local shops like HMV didn't import LJ's label, and i couldn't afford to import it myself from a UK music store.
that week, i spent dozens of hours digging through every limewire/napster share i could find. and finally, i found it: someone in the UK had dumped the entire CD to 128kbit mp3s, as well as recordings from BBC 1's The Breezeblock.
a year later, i was finally able to buy their CD in-store, along with the incredible Illustrator vector artwork by lemon jelly themselves. i not only became a fan of LJ, but became strongly influenced by their low-poly vector illustration style in my own design work.
so: a belated thank you UK napsterites for sharing your music overseas 🙏
Benito Bowl Explained:
All the Hidden Symbols and Meanings You May Have Missed in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Set:
From the colors on set to a proud display of flags, here are the details of Bad Bunny’s halftime Show explained
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/bad-bunny-super-bowl-meaning-1235513218/
Archived version (no paywall):
https://archive.is/cvR3F
If you watched the #BadBunny halftime show and wanted to understand more about it, this article is a fun, quick read.
#SuperBowl #Music #History #Culture #PuertoRico #USA #US #America
Benito Bowl Explained:
All the Hidden Symbols and Meanings You May Have Missed in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Set:
From the colors on set to a proud display of flags, here are the details of Bad Bunny’s halftime Show explained
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/bad-bunny-super-bowl-meaning-1235513218/
Archived version (no paywall):
https://archive.is/cvR3F
If you watched the #BadBunny halftime show and wanted to understand more about it, this article is a fun, quick read.
#SuperBowl #Music #History #Culture #PuertoRico #USA #US #America
Tonight at 7 ET on @wmbr: a "blisteringly physical work for flutes," and a 100-year-old Swedish reed organ.
Tonight at 7 ET on @wmbr: a "blisteringly physical work for flutes," and a 100-year-old Swedish reed organ.
Hot Face – Automated Response
https://onetwoxu.de/language/en/2026/02/08/hot-face-automated-response-2/ #Music #Punk #GaragePunk #IndieRock #PostPunk #Records #ArtPunk
Unite and fight, for #ThePlaylist returns once more to promote solidarity for all, with our theme this week being:
We All Stand Together
Because, well, the world feels a tiny bit fractured now, doesn't it? And yes, that's mostly because of the media we consume, but it still doesn't feel great. So here we have two hours of tunes about sticking together one way or the other, and fighting for what's right.
And what's right is listening to #ThePlaylist and sharing it with all your friends. This is the Wyld Stallyns of radio.
Excellent. *air guitar*
#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-091-we-all-stand-together
Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/DJDarren/theplaylist-091-09022026-we-all-stand-together/
Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!
// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //
Unite and fight, for #ThePlaylist returns once more to promote solidarity for all, with our theme this week being:
We All Stand Together
Because, well, the world feels a tiny bit fractured now, doesn't it? And yes, that's mostly because of the media we consume, but it still doesn't feel great. So here we have two hours of tunes about sticking together one way or the other, and fighting for what's right.
And what's right is listening to #ThePlaylist and sharing it with all your friends. This is the Wyld Stallyns of radio.
Excellent. *air guitar*
#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-091-we-all-stand-together
Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/DJDarren/theplaylist-091-09022026-we-all-stand-together/
Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!
// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //
New music video is now on PeerTube! (thanks to @falktx for hosting!)
https://peertube.kx.studio/w/2G9vdU6bBRrgLrt3SEBPpT
How many peers can we hit? :D
#music
As @davidgerard has brought #Spray back to mind, here is another of their absolutely genius tracks.
the only US citizens Americans should be taking protesting cues from are PUERTORRIQUEÑOS.
why? Puerto Rico is bound, muzzled & knee-capped by the USA constitution YET our people took to the streets, IN THE ISLAND & WORLDWIDE, and changed the government in 12 days of non-stop protests.
PROTESTS WORK.
so much so, USA media wants you to forget those 12 days of protests when writing of the global unrests of 2019.
WE ARE MORE AND WE HAVE NO FEAR; somos más y no tenemos miedo.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112208331867673411
ME on the 2019 #PuertoRico protests and #generalStrike that brought down the government of Ricardo Rosselló, not only as a consequence of #Telegramgate but because he was the most corrupt governor the island had to put up with ―even more corrupt than his own father, a George Bush wannabe.
Bad Bunny, Ricky Martín and René Pérez were instrumental in coalescing all La Isla’s opposition & taking the protests worldwide with their media connections.
As @davidgerard has brought #Spray back to mind, here is another of their absolutely genius tracks.
