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Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by AlecSchueler »

pragmatick wrote: post #88
summarity wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> plain Spotify radio To be very fair, there's nothing plain whatsoever about Spotify's recommendations. Not only do they have the largest corpus of training data, their models are hard to beat.

If only they suggested more than the same three or five songs by bands.

I wish they had a way for me to say I'm not interested in something as well. For years there's been a few of the same albums recommended to me every day. Like, I've ignored them for this long and it's clear I'm not interested but the space for things I might actually listen to is still being wasted.

What's worse is that they're not even obscure albums. Like, if I was ever going to get into the Eagles I would have already done so, I don't need to "discover" them.

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by _sys49152 »

LiquidPolymer wrote: post #7

I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time. My tastes are a little offbeat sometimes. Wax Tailor, one of my favorite artists, uses sampled dialogue from films, educational programs, corporate videos and whatnot to create quite interesting sonic creations that I just love. I wish more we’re creating similar types of music (I just found Biosphere’s “Petrified Forest” which is themed to that old movie - and a…

wax tailor really dosent have that many peers in the sense, he does what he does in full albums, whereas other artists may do his style in one or two tracks amongst their catalogue. those peers lean more towards the instrumentalization, and then towards jumbling rap lyric clips throughout. also dosent help hes european, which makes a difference believe it or not as far as peerage (i can hear the difference, dont know how to verbalize it, much in the same way aim is too)

broadly? start scouring with dustedwax.org its dusted wax kingdom label. then theres artists im sure you know cut chemist, j rocc, d-styles, rob swift, roc raida (all dudes w/ west coast style) - though not the narrative type youre looking for and more scratch focused. theres prince paul & his related projects...ruckus roboticus...adlib, and madlib...mr scruff... also it seems the late 90's were the 'golden age' of this type of sound production, for places to start looking.

more narrowly? shoulder shrug emoji. heres a couple

- mr scruff - fish (or the keep it unreal alb)

- stuntdouble & tenshun - drunktro

- professor brian oblivion - feel the funk

- tack-fu - how long

- main sequence - mannhandler

- cut chemist - motivational speaker

- 1200 hobos - the illuminati

- born talent - the avids affection

- pablo - due praises

- public enemy - dark side of the wall 2000

- zaire black - experiments with the truth

- roc raida - ill kick your ass/who you fuckin wit

- jurassic 5 - contact, react

- colossus - interlude 1

- insight - outro (crooked needle alb)

- wax tailor - que sera

- d-styles - wont you be my neighbor

- dj js1 - rule 4080

- centz - insult 2 watch

- detane - luv interlude

- dj revolution - head 2 head, rhythm control

- rob swift - the ghetto

- adlib - grovers eerie story, introduction to rhythm

- ruckus roboticus - here we go, never play with scratches

- time machine - the mekster

- pugslee atomz - michael's

- epstein - tape 1

- dj day - close your eyes, what planet what station

- malcolm and martin - do it again

- captain murphy - hovercrafts and cows

- louis mackey - mc-ide

- ribbonmouthrabbit - not such a clear day

- trillionaires - recession proof

- madlib - smoke theme for dankery harv

- koncept - understanding

....and one of the earliest tracks to use 'clips' style in the 80s: willesden dodgers - not this president

find me a music service that can do this.

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by at_a_remove »

namtab00 wrote: post #63
at_a_remove wrote: post #18

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Hah! Are you my lost twin? I have tried various approaches to search for something to Wax Tailor's "Que Sera" and have found only Barry Adamson's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (you will recall from Lost Highway ) and Venetian Snares' "Gloomy Sunday." If you have more that are similar, let me know.

Try Bent.

"So Long Without You" was the closest I got from them.

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by turboponyy »

roydivision wrote: post #91
jefc1111 wrote: post #73

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I am like this also. It's tricky though because I think people hear 'quality' in different ways. Some people focus on lyrics, some like cultural identity, some people are probably responding at a more 'primal' level, i.e. just to the pure energy / emotion. But I do think it is different for everybody and does bear some relation to the individual's level of musical awareness and how much time and effort they invest in…

"I don't really listen to music" == "I don't breathe much". Way back I had friends over, one of them was looking through my CD collection which was minimal at the time, maybe 60 CDs. "Wow, you have a lot of CDs, do you listen to all of them?"

> "I don't really listen to music" == "I don't breathe much".

Could you elaborate?

I definitely used to be a person who just didn't listen to music - I found it quite boring, really. I've since found genres that I like that I listen to on occasion, but definitely still not as frequently as the average person.

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by jefc1111 »

grgbrn wrote: post #100
grp wrote: post #76

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NTS does the job well for me: https://www.nts.live/

Seconded! I would highly recommend NTS. Their archive is great, dives into almost anything you can think of

Been listening for a couple of hours or so. Love it, cheers.

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by itsyourbedtime »

2big2fail_47 wrote: post #93
tern wrote: post #25

Wow! Music recommenders come up every once in awhile on HN and they're almost alway unusable for underground music. Aside from not recognizing some of the names I tried, this one does quite well. It just needs quick links to listen to examples and it'll already be more useful than Spotify, Apple Music or Last.fm. Some test cases I used: Logic1000, Tessela, Piezo, TSVI, Two Shell, Caterina Barbieri, Schacke, Amnesia S…

haha nice tested with similar artists (eartheater, doon kanda, dean blunt...) :)) works really well. i'm impressed!

dean <3

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by _sys49152 »

at_a_remove wrote: post #18
LiquidPolymer wrote: post #7

I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time. My tastes are a little offbeat sometimes. Wax Tailor, one of my favorite artists, uses sampled dialogue from films, educational programs, corporate videos and whatnot to create quite interesting sonic creations that I just love. I wish more we’re creating similar types of music (I just found Biosphere’s “Petrified Forest” which is themed to that old movie - and a…

Hah! Are you my lost twin? I have tried various approaches to search for something to Wax Tailor's "Que Sera" and have found only Barry Adamson's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (you will recall from Lost Highway ) and Venetian Snares' "Gloomy Sunday." If you have more that are similar, let me know.

see below

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by erellsworth »

roydivision wrote: post #91
jefc1111 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am like this also. It's tricky though because I think people hear 'quality' in different ways. Some people focus on lyrics, some like cultural identity, some people are probably responding at a more 'primal' level, i.e. just to the pure energy / emotion. But I do think it is different for everybody and does bear some relation to the individual's level of musical awareness and how much time and effort they invest in…

"I don't really listen to music" == "I don't breathe much". Way back I had friends over, one of them was looking through my CD collection which was minimal at the time, maybe 60 CDs. "Wow, you have a lot of CDs, do you listen to all of them?"

Fun fact: Jeff Bezos doesn't like music.

Re: Music-Map – Find Similar Music

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Post by lozf »

jefc1111 wrote: post #75
dieselgate wrote: post #74

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That's why "quality" radio can be so powerful: it's not uncommon for DJs to curate a set based on "songs with the same musician" or "original song and remakes/samples from the original" and the like. Not that it's guaranteed to be "good" stuff but at least unique and more memorable in my experience

Any recommendations? I listen to BBC 6 Music a lot. Tried various others but nothing really 'stuck'. Always fun to have a fly around on https://radio.garden also. KEXP have some great performances on youtube, I should try listening to the radio station probably. Although saying that, neither 6 Music or KEXP (or others I have tried) seem to go quite obscure enough for me. i like pop / rock / indie but also experimenta…

I'm a big fan of Chile based Radio Isla Negra (available in Slow beat and upbeat as well as the regular eclectic selection on a well curated playlist.) No Ads, No DJs, just an occasional jingle. Much of it is just "new to me" rather than strictly "new", but it's one of the new I can enjoy leaving on for hours (or days) at a time without finding it irritating enough to change stations.

https://radioislanegra.com

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