Tag: spotify
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Spotify recommendations are spot on today
I’ve been listening to one of my Spotify Daily Mixes that comprises instrumental movie and TV soundtracks. It has been giving me some excellent choices, many of which I haven’t heard before. I’m really impressed! Here are a couple tracks that have become new favourites: If only my YouTube recommendations for videos were as accurate!
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My favourite songs this week
I’ve heard some terrific new music lately, and I thought I’d share some of my favourite songs this week. Nick Mulvey I’ve been listening to more Nick Mulvey’s music, and enjoying many more of his songs. Here are my current favourites: I have a growing “Liked Songs” playlist on Spotify that includes all of these…
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Vicarious adventures with GoPro
One of my new favourite YouTube channels is the GoPro channel. It’s an awesome channel for vicarious adventures, and some great music I wasn’t aware of. One of my favourite videos is this promo of the GoPro HERO6: The track in this video is A Moment Apart by Odesza, and it’s my morning work anthem…
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The music that helps get me up those hills
I’ve been running for the last two months (not continuously), and I’ve experimented with some sort of audio accompaniment to help pass the time. I started off listening to podcasts, and while this helped me get through more of my podcast backlog, listening to podcasts doesn’t really give me that extra oompf to get up…
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Starting my week with rhythmic inspiration from Emancipator
I came across music by Emancipator in one of my Spotify playlists. I started to dig into some of the albums, and I really enjoy this music for general background music, as well as for work. A great starting point is this Spotify playlist: Here’s some more information about Douglas Appling, aka Emancipator, in his…
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This song goes well with the smell of apples and cinnamon
My wife baked an apple crumble for us this cold and rainy afternoon. As the smell of apples and cinnamon filled it apartment, this song, Mountain Air by Cody Francis, was playing on Spotify: As song and smell pairings go, this is a good one! Update: Here’s what that smell was all about:
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Discovering Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist
It’s a pretty chilly, rainy weekend so we’ve had a pretty laid back weekend at home with our kids. My wife and I re-watched the sci-fi classic, Serenity, for the nth time (still awesome after 13 years). Afterwards, I switched over to some music and, instead of picking a favourite playlist, I opted for the…
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Great Spotify playlist to relax and unwind with
I really like this Relax & Unwind playlist on Spotify. Aside for it’s obvious purpose, I like it as a general purpose/background music/atmosphere playlist: unsplash-logoFeatured image by Clem Onojeghuo