Honestly speaking, I don't know what Spotify is, but I like the idea of public BDM/Slam playlists. I should have a look at what it is. Until then, I suggest you guys to post your top 10 or so best BDM releases of the past year.
Spotify is a music streaming service, you can pretty much listen to whatever you want (their catalog is huge and keeps growing) whenever you want and how many times you want, but you don't "own" the music. You pay a monthly fee and the artists/labels get paid a percentage of the total income depending on number of plays. I love it cause I love discovering new music and getting into classic albums I hadn't got into before, and I can't afford to buy absolutely every new album I listen to, so I can listen to it "legally", even if the total revenue bands get is not really a lot except if you're huge, I still think it's better than pirating. I also end up buying a ton of CDs I first listen to on Spotify. If I keep playing it often I just decide it's time to buy the actual CD. I pay 10 a month for the premium service and for the amount of music I listen to it's more than worth it. Just walking to/from work, working out and cleaning/cooking, I listen to about 4 hours of music every day, and like half of that is on Spotify, the other half is from albums I own.
There's also the free version, which is ad supported, but you can't use your phone for it, just the desktop version, and I definitely need the phone. So if you listen to music mostly on your computer, the free one works fine if you don't mind random ads between songs.
I could do that. I've been on Spotify a while and know most of the albums that are available. It sucks that there are a lot of the more underground ones missing, but there's a pretty damn good selection.
Yeah, and I just noticed that last month a lot of BDM albums have been dissapearing, it's worrying, now the only Devourment album that's there is the latest one, the others are gone, so are Vulvectomy and Katalepsy. I hope that gets fixed soon and they get put back up. It also varies depending on the country, so maybe you have more stuff in the States or the UK than I have in Spain.
So I'll make the playlist, make it a collab and public, and post the link right here so whoever wants to can start filling it up:
http://open.spotify.com/user/slipkyes/playlist/6fjslwCZUjitDUroLxFRE6
Whoever wants to add to it just has to subscribe to it and is free to add songs.