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I've been involved in punk/hardcore community for decades now and I've got my sources : friends, blogs, forums, last fm follows... For anything else I listen to the radio, especially fip.fr who expose me to Music I wouldn't think I could love. Also, i mainly listen to albums, never playlists, automated or curated ones. I don't believe in recommendation algos and don't feel the need to get into that way of discovering…
The library contains ambient, deep, meditative, techno, rhythmic and dub music that we find productive for passive listening, meditation and productivity.
You can find lots of underrated and undiscovered secret talents and music not available on Spotify and other platforms.
The traditional music recommendations algorithms are very limited for deep music discovery as they extensively depend on music history where the best high-quality independent music often times unnoticed by those algorithms where creators have different motivation for music production.
- Filter with compositor, rachmaninoff, mozart...
- I filter with record label in spotify, with very specific and quality like "hamonia mundi", "erato" and others.
- Select orchestra (London Symphony Orchestra, Choir of King's College)
- Select musician (Baremboim, Argerich...)
I use Wikipedia to check out all albums that are being released. I listen to metal, so I'm frequently visiting this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_in_heavy_metal_music
Sample: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Full+Album+band...
One good tool that replicates this process a bit is https://radiooooo.com where you can listen to typical playlists from countries and even from a chosen decade (more or less).
I follow a bunch of artists and labels there, and get notifications when new stuff get published by them. If I find a new artist, I usually look them up on Bandcamp, and follow the label too, looking through whatever other stuff they published.
If I find a really small artist on Bandcamp, I usually look through which Bandcamp users have supported the artist, and look through what else they follow/collected, been finding some gems this way too, but takes a bit more effort.
Bandcamp also has something called "Bandcamp Fridays" (https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update) where more of what you pay go to the artists. I usually save up what I want to buy until next Bandcamp Friday and then go on a shopping spree based on my list.
No Clean Singing, Angry Metal Guy, r/IndieHeads, NTS Radio, Ghettoblaster, OffShelf
My parter and I also hit up local record stores often and often make them a destination when traveling somewhere new so we get lot of new stuff and listen to them over time.