The present post marks a new MusicBlob feature: a playlist for Spotify users; Spotify is the streaming music juke-box in perfectly complaining with copyright laws.
While available in certain countries only as a “Premium” fee service, in some territories it is available as a “free” ad-supperted program.

Our first playlist is called “Cyberpunk” and it mainly features electronica, including some well known tracks (Eat Static, a real jungle classic…) and some lesser known names (Spor) which still perfectly fit the theme.

Nout Heretik brings a track whose title is identical to our playlist but the sound is more on the gabber side… while The Kilngonz represent (how do we define that?) …an ambient industrial!? ;) moment that goes on also in a track by Katharsis.

What has Billy Idol’s “Shock to the system” to do with all this?
It definitely fits, and not just because it comes from an album titled “Cyberpunk”, but also because Idol was the first among the big names – it was December 1998 – to act as a pioneer in the mp3 revolution. A guy who really “shocked the system”: a cyberpunk in his own right.

You can find the “Cyberpunk” playlist here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/djbatman/playlist/0sTZG82gQdNg2sdUTeSTOK