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Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by sharken » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 5:59 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #172

My biggest gripe in this area is I can't search on similar sounding music. This is an an algorithmicaly solvable problem. I mean, Shazam and Google recognizes 'em and that's very old news. I have heard very long ago Sirenia - Seven Sirens and a Silver Tear. Now, Sirenia is a metal band and this is anything but. It's basically a not too distant relative of the Moonlight Sonata but I didn't realize this until a kind re…

One suggestion is to go looking for playlists with the song you like. In your case it turned up this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0IubbAKiMSr6tzt5Zjlmrv

Personally i have a playlist that new/interesting songs are added to, so perhaps some site where playlists could be uploaded and then searched would be useful.

Also, i can recommend the Track Radio feature of Tidal.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by wander_homer » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:02 AM UTC

Most of my favorite music albums from the last couple of years I discovered with sputnikmusic.com by following certain reviewers and their news and charts.

It worked really well at exploring different genres and music I otherwise would have never listened to before but can't get enough of now.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by notatoad » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:12 AM UTC

throwawaytoday5 wrote: post #153

clSTophEjUdRanu wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't get me out of my bubble. I'm a huge fan of cheesy synthwave and would have never known had Trevor Something - Death Dream not been a freeleech pick on w.cd years ago. Curation + association is the key.

w.cd had the best recommendation system for music and audio equipment. The communities that tried to take it's place after don't come close. It's a shame because I don't know where to talk about it anymore. r doesn't come close, at least not yet. The community music collages on w.cd were unreal.

yeah, we really lost a huge resource when w got shut down. I had mostly stopped pirating music by then, but still visited the site daily just to find new recommendations. r seems like a good place to acquire music, but has completely failed to recapture that community aspect.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by notatoad » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:14 AM UTC

rorykoehler wrote: post #128

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…

Support acts are often mismatched. Lots of acts tour with their mates rather than their musical peers

which is a great way to discover new and different music - the sort of thing the algorithms won't recommend to you.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by rorykoehler » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:15 AM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #184

rorykoehler wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Support acts are often mismatched. Lots of acts tour with their mates rather than their musical peers

which is a great way to discover new and different music - the sort of thing the algorithms won't recommend to you.

Algos have been much better to me tbh.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by asteli » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:42 AM UTC

Here's a hack I haven't seen anyone else mention:

Look at the calendars of venues that you like. Their whole job is curation, and they book lots of local bands. Throw one song from each band playing at each venue for the next month into a playlist and listen through it a couple times -- almost surely you'll find new artists you didn't know about, and guess what? Their show is just around the corner.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by filoleg » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:46 AM UTC

unsignedint wrote: post #165

I mainly use Spotify recommendations. As a someone with highly niche musical preference (Mostly anime and some game music) Spotify seems to give me most spot-on recommendations. Those recommendations tend to be within what I consider as anime/game genre. YouTube Music tends to provide me recommendation that's a little too broad for my taste; I see recommendation often cover J-Pop songs. Might be something to do with…

Same, but my genre profile is very diverse, with a lot of niche stuff, as well as more popular. Somehow Spotify "made for you" playlists manage to not only give me relevant suggestions, but also categorize those suggestions almost perfectly.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Intermernet » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:53 AM UTC

usuallymatt wrote: post #26

dTal wrote: post #24

BBC 6 Music. Man, does that station ever have its finger on the pulse. You have to be kind of ready for anything, and it's not always easy listening, but you often get pure gold. Not uncommonly, it'll be music that isn't even released yet, or maybe only exists on the artist's Soundcloud page. As a bonus, quite a few of its DJs are famous people who you didn't know are really into some musical niche. On the other hand…

Came here to say 6Music too. It's an absolute goldmine and I've discovered some great stuff on there (Nils Frahm, Hannah Peel, Anna Meridith, Erland Cooper, Big Thief). I'm more into contemporary instrumental stuff these days but enjoy other genres, too. I usually listen to Mary-Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, Guy Garvey, Cillian Murphy whenever he's on. Which DJs do you recommend on there?

I recently discovered Nils Frahm, the day after he performed live in Sydney. Now I have to wait for him to tour again!

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by lovehashbrowns » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 6:56 AM UTC

A lot of people are mentioning bandcamp, which is great for exploring new music, but there's also this tool: http://campexplorer.io/ which lets you search using multiple tags. It has worked perfectly for me when I'm trying to hone in on very specific sub-genres of metal. :) One of my favorite tools ever.

Re: How to Find New Music

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Post by Krasnol » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 7:20 AM UTC

How the hell does this useless blog post get so many upvotes? It's pretty much useless (Ask around and overloaded subs? Really??). Even the page it advertises is useless.