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October 1, 2015 10:47 AM

I've been loving the noise the young kids have been making over the past five years. Kindly share with me your regularly-updated Spotify playlists of cutting-edge Millennial electro, house, trap, PBR&B, indietronica, chillwave, nu-disco, and other such things.

As we all know, the music world nowadays is an unrelenting firehose of fresh tunes, and I just don't have the hours per week I used to spend poring over my SoundCloud feed, stalking new music blogs for my RSS reader, or downloading the various "Indie Rock Playlist" derivatives from TPB. I rally a few times a year and hunker down to listen to everything, but inevitably I get months behind, and I've missed literally thousands of songs.

I finally caved and got a Spotify account this year. The main playlist I follow over there is Your Music Radar, but there must be dozens more. I don't mind some overlap, since everyone tends to get excited by the same new tracks every week, but I'd like to have more to explore beyond that.

So, if you're hip to this stuff, please fill me in on other Spotify playlists I can subscribe to. I live in L.A., so I have many hours of drive time to devote to the pursuit of new stuff, and it's just so much easier to have it all in one place. Thanks!

posted by mykescipark to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

I don't like a lot of what my (also LA-based) kids listen to, but they did recently get me listening to Flume. It started with "Insane" from this album, and feels very much like a dubstep rejection by a kid whose parents probably listened to a lot of Boards of Canada and Crystal Castles.
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 12:10 PM on October 1, 2015

Are you specifically looking only for Spotify lists? I'm totally with you on the "wow, where did all this great music in new genres that don't actually suck come from all of a sudden?" front. And I started off trying to use Spotify but found it clunky and non-intuitive.

YMMV, but if musical exploration is your goal, I can say I've had good luck finding stuff via Pandora, Soundcloud, Mixcloud (fabulous if live recorded DJ sets are your jam), and even (lately) Apple Music.
posted by aecorwin at 12:35 PM on October 1, 2015

musicForProgramming(); has a bunch of annotated chillwave mixes.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:12 PM on October 1, 2015

Best answer: Ooh do I ever have the playlist for you. I've been building this one for the last four years, it contains most of the genres you've listed and a few more, and now stands at over 39 hours long, so you'll need to go on some looooong trips before it runs out.
posted by greenish at 3:05 AM on October 2, 2015 [3 favorites]

Best answer: Can't link just now, but there is a Spotify-made playlist called "It's a Trap."
posted by kuanes at 5:24 AM on October 2, 2015

Best answer: My friend created this amazing 2015 summer Spotify playlist with really recent songs, and we've been jamming to it for the past 4-5 months. He has steadily curated it through listening through other playlists, and then adding to it over the months. Also love Noon Pacific, especially their email subscriber-only playlists.
posted by yueliang at 3:32 PM on October 2, 2015