For DJs, listening is never passive; it’s research, instinct, mood, and memory all happening at once.
That idea sits at the centre of ‘My Spotify’, a Spotify initiative celebrating how people uniquely experience the platform through their everyday listening habits, discoveries, and routines.
For Lagos-based DJ and curator Aniko, Spotify functions less like a playlist library and more like a living archive of moments collected in real time. As she prepares for upcoming sets, music discovery becomes an ongoing process, soundtracking her week long before she steps behind the decks.
Rather than building one-off playlists, Aniko spends her days collecting sounds that reflect where her head is at emotionally and creatively. By the time show day arrives, her set becomes a reflection of everything she absorbed throughout the week: the moods, environments, and energy surrounding her in that moment.
Her go-to Spotify destination is MINT Africa, which she turns to for electronic music from around Africa and beyond, while her daylist reflects what she describes as her constantly shifting personality: being a different person throughout the day and even from hour to hour.
Discovery remains central to that experience. One recent find, Deep Narrative, has stayed in rotation for the way their music seamlessly blends soulful textures into electronic music without the listener even noticing.
“My Spotify is all over the place,” she says, not as a contradiction, but as a philosophy. For Aniko, the platform becomes a space to experience how other people express themselves through music, moving fluidly between genres, sounds, and emotional states.
Through Aniko’s lens, ‘My Spotify’ becomes a portrait of listening in motion: constantly evolving, deeply intuitive, and shaped by curiosity as much as sound itself.
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