Thursday, May 20, 2010

DJ Riz, Playlistify & Spotify


Damn, I have been waiting for something like this forever! I know you've seen embedded playlists before, but believe me, this one is awesome. First of all, because it has 42 unmixed tracks from DJ Riz's - Live in Brooklin mixtapes (found on www.nalden.net) which is one of the best mixtapes I have ever heard.

Second because Spotify is finally online in the Netherlands, and I was pretty curious how much of these obscure and rare grooves it would find (42, the answer to the question of life the universe and everything, by the way).

The most awesomemest part of it though is Playlistify (pronounced Playlistify!!!!!!!!!) All I did was paste a text file (the tracklist of the mixtape that I found on Nalden.net) on the website of Playlistify. That's all I did, Honestly. Playlistify went and sought all these songs for me online, baked them into a playlist and generated a player. Call me a crosseyed nerd, but hell, that's awesome!

PS, It did take me some time though to find the right play button. Leave the Youtube play button be, the playlist play and next button are the little ones right below it.

for testing purposes I tried Flying Lotus' BBC 1 essential mix. The 69 tracks gave 30 hits. Note that this is underground stuff, and some of it hasn't been released. I'd say that's a pretty good score.