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Re: Ask HN: How do you discover music?

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Post by dotancohen »

r721 wrote: post #73
dotancohen wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you've got any recommendations for someone who has been listening to Rust in Peace for decades and can't find any good albums after Trendkill, I'd love a suggestion. Thanks.

Try Vektor – Black Future (2009)

Sounds great! I love the heroin budget production sound. But that screaming - I just cannot understand bands that do that. I know, lots of bands do either that high-pitched screaming or growling, I can't stand either. That's why I love Pantera. Phil feels so honest in his singing.

Thanks anyway. Perhaps I just to picky. Or I'm an old man stuck in his ways.

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover music?

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Post by yunwal »

sneako wrote: post #26

Internet radio! Mostly https://doyou.world/ and https://www.nts.live/

A good strategy for discovering new music with online radio stations that archive their sets is to search for a song/artist that feels very unique to you (not popular or universally acclaimed). Usually the rest of the set will have music you like, and because it’s made by a human it won’t sound same-y.

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover music?

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Post by yunwal »

xnx wrote: post #69

Surprised/not-surprised that no-one has mentioned TikTok. My feed regularly exposes me to artists and styles (e.g. jazz fusion) I haven't heard at all or enough.

Tiktok is the only good music recommendation engine (maybe YouTube’s related section for more niche genres)

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover music?

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Post by yunwal »

Visit a record store. Usually the employees/owners will tag their favorites and you can see who’s taste aligns with yours.

You can also tell someone what you like and they’ll have good recommendations.

Re: Ask HN: How do you discover music?

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Post by technonerd »

I frantically smash the Shazam button over and over again while I loop a certain part in a live DJ set on SoundCloud. When the DJ is overlaying 2 tracks at a faster bpm, adding their own basslines and AFX, Shazam rarely works. But when it does it's like finding a diamond in the rough. Then I listen to the EP it's on A and B sides, listen to other EPs from the DJ and listen to other releases on that label. Combination of SoundCloud, discogs, mixesdb.com, bandcamp and YouTube.

Lots of times the first comment will be a partial track list or I'll look up the tracklisting on mixesdb.

In the 90s to discover music it was you had to attend shows and crate dig or even call up the record label (long distance number!) and listen to the latest release over POTS.

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