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Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by FillardMillmore »

giu wrote: post #43
mattkevan wrote: post #25

Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before. Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have…

> Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities Same here. I always get so damn happy when I find a new track that I really like. I've added a weekly reminder to listen to my Spotify account's Discovery Weekly and Release Radar (based on the people you follow) lists, and I always find new tracks; the Your Daily Mix lists are quite awesome, too, in this regard. Additionally, I have quite a few Spotify playl…

A fellow house head! I must ask, are you a fan of any specific house mixes? I find that, while I do love standalone tracks, there's something absolutely ethereal about a well mixed house set, where the tracks are perfectly mixed and organically bleed into each other. On Youtube, I'm a fan of Johnny M's mixes for deep house. I've never heard of BeatportCharts, so I'll definitely check that out, thanks for the recommendation!

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by bmelton »

founderling wrote: post #7

I use the Music-Map for my "music journey". Every other day, I start from an artist I already like and travel through the names until I stumble into an area I have not been to before: https://www.music-map.com

This is really great. Every now and again I'm fortunate enough to stumble onto a new / unknown artist to me. Weirdly, Grooveshark was really good for this (as it gave me some of my very top favorites through a Grooveshark Premium thing -- Quiet Company and Justin Townes Earle) but I've found generally limited utility in going from those new bands into either Google or Spotify's "More Like This" functions.

Looking at the map for Quiet Company yields a list of names that are mostly foreign to me that I'll be plowing through as I work.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by dds-dds »

SiempreViernes wrote: post #59
murat131 wrote: post #11

Listening to new music has got to do with openness and as we age we tend to be less open to new experiences. I think best way to listen to new music is not just about a new band or new albums but more about new genres. I used to not enjoy jazz, found it elitist and quite frankly I didn't even get it. About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion an…

> as we age we tend to be less open to new experiences Well, as we age there tends to be an accumulation of experience, so it's also to be expected that it becomes more rare to come across a genuinely new experience in everyday life.

This. It is known as acquiring taste, and mostly takes time and effort/research. I would also add that 'any' music you haven't heard before is new music, it doesn't have to be freshly minted to be new or relevant. As someone be mentioned above about the Italian 60'/70s scene it was a hotbed of creativity that's still being discovered/unearthed today, I've spent years digging through certain areas of music and still get surprised decades down the line.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by jkubicek »

john61 wrote: post #52
mattkevan wrote: post #25

Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before. Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have…

A Beethoven Sonata is always new music each time you listen carefully or play it for yourself. It depends on the quality and richness of music. Fastfood music wears off quite fast. It is made for the trash, so the industriy can sell more trash. Bach wrote music for god, as he wrote.

There’s plenty of pop and pop-adjacent music out there that has depth, complexity, and holds up well to repeat intense listening. Radiohead, Flaming Lips, most of El-P’s work.

What I think is completely missing in today’s music is the prevalence of covers. If you want, you can spend a lifetime listening to Bach sonatas, by any amount of different performers, but if there’s a specific Radiohead song you like, there’s only one and that’s all you get.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by jason_zig »

mattkevan wrote: post #25

Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before. Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have…

If you have Spotify check out JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm) it's a great way to discover new music.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by lowercased »

mattkevan wrote: post #25

Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities. Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff - it must get so dull. There's so much good stuff out there, and it's so exciting to find an artist, genre or new combinations of sounds I've not heard before. Bandcamp is great for this – better than Spotify or Apple Music. You can explore by artist, genre tag, label, and by people who have…

> Don't understand how people are happy to listen to the same old stuff

I have a lot of emotional/memory attachments to certain music - it ties in with a lot of specific events in life. Listening to those 'same old stuff' albums/songs can take me back to places when I want to reminisce. I can get some of the same feelings, even smells and tastes sometimes, with the 'same old stuff'.

Not all of those are 'old' like decades ago - I've got some stuff that I started digging in to just a few years ago which is now in my 'heavy rotation'.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by shytey »

FillardMillmore wrote: post #91
giu wrote: post #43

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> Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities Same here. I always get so damn happy when I find a new track that I really like. I've added a weekly reminder to listen to my Spotify account's Discovery Weekly and Release Radar (based on the people you follow) lists, and I always find new tracks; the Your Daily Mix lists are quite awesome, too, in this regard. Additionally, I have quite a few Spotify playl…

A fellow house head! I must ask, are you a fan of any specific house mixes? I find that, while I do love standalone tracks, there's something absolutely ethereal about a well mixed house set, where the tracks are perfectly mixed and organically bleed into each other. On Youtube, I'm a fan of Johnny M's mixes for deep house. I've never heard of BeatportCharts, so I'll definitely check that out, thanks for the recommen…

Not the person you responded to but this is a nice mix from The Kais on Soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/thekais/wir-waren-wie-dick-und-doof

Totally agree on mixes being great. If you have any specific suggestions in return please feel free to share. I'll check out Johnny M on YouTube.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by hindsightbias »

murat131 wrote: post #11

Listening to new music has got to do with openness and as we age we tend to be less open to new experiences. I think best way to listen to new music is not just about a new band or new albums but more about new genres. I used to not enjoy jazz, found it elitist and quite frankly I didn't even get it. About 10 years ago I started listening jazz and anything that's got mixed with jazz, like jazz-funk, or jazz fusion an…

Great advice, until you run out of genres. I tend to get more excited about finding something I hadn't heard from an old album/band. It gets rarer, and takes a lot of scrounging around.

New music - as I age, most of the "new" music falls into a handful of categories: 1) Sounds like band/song from the past - in fact I get driven crazy by my brain's pattern recognition trying to remember where that melody is originally from. Or older favorite band/musician singing the same old thing. 2) Just another male emo voice. 3) Autotuned. It's like unrealistic movies with too much CGI. Nothing there once you take it away. 4) Instrumental/jazz/weird, will let it play through but very rare to add it to a playlist

But ultimately, it's 98% boring out there. I want to be wrong, but I don't think there is ever going to be another year like 1969 or 1991 where any one of 10 albums would have been album of the year any other year.

It was really refreshing when Guitar Hero came out and that generation fell in love with older music. I didn't have to yell get-off-my-lawn for a few of years.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by _bxg1 »

When I listen to the same music over and over it rapidly becomes deadened. When I have it fully internalized I stop truly "listening" to it at all. A static music selection becomes a wasteland. It can recover given time - if I don't listen to something for a couple years it can become fresh again - but like grazing land, I have to keep moving.

Re: Why we listen to new music

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Post by snug »

I only listen to music when I'm working on, and on spotify there is only a few "Workout" playlist created by spotify that never really get updated. When I search for Workout playlist for user created playlist, there's a huge range of music that doesn't even feel like workout music. Curious if anyone has found a good workout playlist that gets updated with new music.
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