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Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by briefcomment » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:18 PM UTC

bigwheeler wrote: post #55

WeAreHunted was the best, until Twitter put a bullet in it's head. I think it was reincarnated as wonder.fm, but never really seemed to regain the mojo from those early days...

WeAreHunted was mind-blowingly consistent and effective. As long as I "liked" things I enjoyed, I almost never felt the need to skip whatever it presented.

It worked off of music blogs, with the idea that at any given time, some collection of blogs/bloggers would have found the next big thing.

The founder is an interesting guy who is currently currently providing VC for a bunch of ideas, one of which is using AI to make music. Their demos are pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1SEO9TZfw

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by jimkri » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:27 PM UTC

mg wrote: post #42

fetus8 wrote: post #28

Anyone remember back on what.cd the related artists "web" system? That was my favorite way to find music, and since the site's demise, I have yet to find a comparable way of discovering similar artists. Luckily back then, I started following many of my favorite artists and labels on social media, which sort of created a new wave of recommendations based on what those artists are talking about. It works, but it's not…

I run https://www.music-map.com which might be similar to what you describe? I have never seen (or heard about) the what.cd related artists web. Let me see if I can find a video or images about it...

Just used gnoosic.com for the first time and found a brand new artist! Great work on this, I'm going to continue using it and music map.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by jalgos_eminator » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #7

I'm surprised this article doesn't mention youtube, which is a major way of finding new music for me. Not only can I find new music through videos that youtube selects as related to ones I like, but listening to playlists that contain music that I like is another great way to find new music, and so is listening through the other music posted by people who post music that I like. And then, of course, one always has th…

I have also had really good luck finding music on youtube, especially independent house/electronic music. The youtube recommendation algorithm was really good for music until a few months ago. Not sure what they changed, but I'm seeing the same videos pop up over and over, and those videos are more "mainstream" as well.

People rag on youtube, but I've found so much amazing content on there just by searching around and choosing the next video from the recommended ones so that you go deeper into the rabbit hole.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by mutagen » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

fetus8 wrote: post #28

Anyone remember back on what.cd the related artists "web" system? That was my favorite way to find music, and since the site's demise, I have yet to find a comparable way of discovering similar artists. Luckily back then, I started following many of my favorite artists and labels on social media, which sort of created a new wave of recommendations based on what those artists are talking about. It works, but it's not…

Every Noise At Once [1] has a nice web of genres and artists to check out.

From their description: Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,883 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2020-01-30. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

[1]http://everynoise.com/

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by erikbye » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:39 PM UTC

https://www.youtube.com/user/cryochamberlabel

https://www.youtube.com/user/NewRetroWave

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Uhhrrr » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:45 PM UTC

kamilszybalski wrote: post #69

Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…

Can you build me an app for that?

That is maybe a good idea! If I were going to do it, I'd start by crawling AllMusic and select portions of Wikipedia. But it's easy enough to do it manually for the use case, "I've run out of stuff to listen to by X, how do I get more?"

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by charred_toast » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:45 PM UTC

Listen to KCRW radio. Listen to DJs that play the genre of music you like. Radio is still the best way to disconver new music. Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 6 is also another one of my go-to's. I appreciate an eclectic mix of recently released music (KCRW) and jazz, world, tasteful hip hop, etc. (Gilles).

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by garretthenry » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

Uhhrrr wrote: post #67

Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like: -Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible -Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks -See if people in their band(s) have released their own work -Read interviews to find out who their influences ar…

Producers are a huge piece of the puzzle to unlock. They tend to stick in similar areas of music, so odds are, you will like the other stuff they work on. Great point.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Stephen-E » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

I miss rdio so much...

One of rdio's feature I miss the most is their friend view. Not only would you see what friends were currently listening too, but a full history of songs.

If I was in a mood for something knew, I'd look at Joe's feed, because I knew he was always hunting great new indie bands. If I wanted obscure world music, I'd see what Sam had been listening to, and so on.

It was so simple, but worked so well.

These days Spotify just shows me what people are currently listening to. It requires people to make a playlist (and share it) if you want a similar experience.

I miss rdio...

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by t3rse » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

Bandcamp.

It has been mentioned by others but it bears repetition. From the curated articles to following different labels/artists, it is an incredible resource. I take comfort also knowing they are artist friendly.