Finding music

With an ocean of places to get music in the wired, it's sometimes difficult to find what to listen to. Where do you guys go to get recommendations for music and genres you haven't heard? Are there any music blogs you like, get recommend things by peers, use a private tracker, or something else?

SoulSeek

Spotifys Discover Weekly thing is actually really good.

>>2724 I used to use SoundCloud a lot. I really like the way they do recommendations. I check in now and then but I hardly use it. Also it helps for the hole online anonymity thing that you can sign up with only an email.

mostly from looking at artists in the same label/scene/band as artists i already like. other than that: youtube, rateyourmusic, word of mouth. soulseek for downloads but I haven't actually used the social side much wasn't there a lain channel on soulseek at one point?

Read about your favorite artists, find what inspired/inspires them. See what other artists are on their label or other artists they have worked with/remixed. Youtube recommendations are quite good if you clear your search history and enter in a few songs you want more like. I like the youtube channels Elfamasodemon, 1171domino, STEEZYASFUCK, Vapor Memory.

Anthony Fantano gives some pretty good obscure music recs. Aside from that, this board, reddit and sometimes just stumbling upon it by accident.

>>2730 Fantano is pretty good. I respect his opinions. But recently he's been saying some soykaf I don't agree with. For example he'll give something a 1/10, meanwhile I'd be giving it a 8/10.

>>2726 This. With IFTTT you can archive them each week into another playlist. >>2731 Yeah Fantano's picks recently is like kicking dead whales down the beach imo, I only watch the let's argue videos

I've found the best way to find new music to ask people in conversation. Especially in small talk. Everyone loves to talk about their favorite music; you can just ask what they like, or what they think is interesting/unique music, or what they listened to recently that interested them, or their favorite non-english song, etc. Besides this, my methods in order of descending frequency is the front page of bandcamp, soulseek, labels (usually on youtube or spotify), spotify algorithms, seeing what music friends or other artists on spotify listen to or the playlists they've made, college radio, NPR, and sometimes

YouTube user Sv3rige has some neat mixes of music he simply defines as "addicting". Here's a song I like atm from one https://youtu.be/nkmo2x1ytTY Link to his blog http://www.sv3rige.com/?m=1

>>2725 How do you get recommendations on SLSK these days? No one hangs out there anymore, they just idle the program. The chat rooms used to be robust, they are completely dead now. Or did you not read the OP and just fired off the stock reply when you read "finding music"?

I usually just watch Youtube videos and if I hear a soundtrack that catches my interest, I will research it and its genre or sub-genre. It is how I learned more about "vaporwave" and later "vapercore." Other times had to do with some joke or reference made of a site which taught me more about such "wave" genre. The following song I learned about was used in a video reading 4chan conversations (4chan thread simulator). https://youtu.be/RqVsHtWo9Xo

Youtube

>>2724 This is my greatest interest. I use soundcloud and youtube mostly. But I have gone to many different social places to find the circles that exist on these platforms dominated by user generated content. The thing is that the transformation of genres is happening so fast that there aren't names for the new genres just groups of people who are adding to it and growing off each other. If desired I can try to assemble as wide a variety as possible but it would take some time. But here are some very innovative people who will only lead you to more innovative people. https://soundcloud.com/sematarykid/sematary-kid-cyberia https://soundcloud.com/jayeem_music/distant https://soundcloud.com/thrvll/ytiakfhtvjpy?in=water-islandd/sets/witch https://soundcloud.com/remnantsofyore/t-r-e-m-o-r-s https://soundcloud.com/water-islandd/sets

Bandcamps discover feature is pretty good, also it lets artists pick 3 albums they like to list at the bottom of their page which has lead me to some really great stuff. If you find someone you like on soundcloud, pay attention to their reposts. Generally I'm involved with music communities online and irl so I get a lot of recomendations through word of mouth. And of course there's good old youtube recomended tab. Youtubes algorithm might be soykaf for actual youtube videos but it's really good at music.

>>2724 what I would recommend you do to discover more music: - check what label(s) your favourite artists publish under. go through the label roster. - watch interviews like amoeba's "what's in my bag" show. get a feel for what your favourite artists are inspired by and what genres/albums they're currently listening. additionally, if an artist has a bandcamp page they might also have a "recommendations" link on their profile - ask for recs on obscure internet forums / chat groups. they tend to have better or more eccentric taste than irl people - dive head first into a genre. pick any that interest you and listen to the "pioneers" and "fathers" of that genre - follow people with similar taste as you on bandcamp. I only recommend bandcamp because you'll get notifications when people you follow actually BUY an album which usually means that they genuinely like the album since they think it's worth spending money on - i dont use spotify but I believe they have a feature where you can see an artist's playlists which seems like a good place to start, although I personally despise playlists if you want to know where to find music, I personally use bandcamp to buy every album I love, and if I can't find it there I use soulseek

I'm poor as fuarrrk and I can't find free albums anymore. What's the best solution? Do I have to suck it up and get spotify?

>>2777 soulseek

>>2777 soulseek or bandcamp

I mainly use discogs, I have 18,000+ items in my wantlist. I spend a few hours on it most days. Exploring tags and labels and artists and formats. Discogs is my main place for finding tunes, but I do a few other things. Youtube recs, threads like /bleep/, being shown stuff by friends irl, asking the dj what tune he was playing. Browsing at record stores, following artists/labels on places like twitter, checking out what new stuff online stores have. I follow a few small blogs as well. Music is probably my main interest and I spend a lot of time and money on it.

>>2791 but how do you use discogs if you can't listen to it on discogs?

>>2805 u serious?

>>2724 A long time ago, there was a program called iRate. It was an early collaborative music rating application. The engine would scour the web for freely available (not pirated) music, download it, you rate it, then it tried to send more based on your previous ratings. Mostly small time indie stuff nobody ever heard of. I still have over 1000 mp3s from that time. A lot cannot be found online anymore. Some can be found on something like youtube, but with so little attention, nobody will ever see them, or notice when some youtube algorithm decides to pull them down. Example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wSegiKZquY

>>2805 They probably just google the album/track and play it off YouTube/SoundCloud whatever. That and/or pirating

>>2807 could you do us a favour and upload some of your favourites (possibly even all of them)? that'd be dope

apparently there's a lot of good music on internet archive. maybe people know this already, but its news to me. https://archive.org/details/ClockSoupForCookedAirports

>>2724 slsk & rym

in the search for good music a classic default seeks high esteem, the leads of his own taste, criteria,, considering each aspect, combination,, for the je ne sais quoi. he queries ones intellectual, aesthetic, cultural, criterial,, peers. he reads the man-pages lyrics, scores, reviews, histories, listening, before hearing.

>>2837 anon has it right slsk is really good for finding new music; you can even just do an unguided search (e.g. "trance", "hands-up") or even just browse other users' files at will.

>>2945 I don't really see how that gets around OP's problem of having an ocean of sh¡t to wade through. That sounds like the same thing. SLSK is good for finding something when you already know what it is.

bandcamp is great

soma.fm, especially the defcon and beat blender stations. lainchan radio isn't bad either.

red collages mostly

>>2948 if you find someone who has uploaded a bunch of things you like, then you listen to some of the other stuff they've uploaded. it's like streamlined word of mouth. rym is probably the better option though. you can do what i just described, but there's also more general community-generated lists and such if you want to search by artist/label/scene/year and find a rabbit hole to go down that way. honestly, i miss what.cd's social features more than the actual tracker, and rym sort of fills the same niche. i've never found algorithmic recommendations to be very good. youtube related videos used to be alright when they only depended on the video you're currently watching, but they're bad now. pandora is godawful unless all you listen to is radio hits. soundcloud is decent, but limited to small-time contemporary stuff. i've never tried spotify's recommendations, but from my experience their selection isn't great. >>2957 got any invites? ;)

reach out to as many communities and circles in as many countries and areas of the internet as possible. I learned so much from the j core irc that used to be active, they told me about virtually every electronic music genre and a lot of obscure finnish and russian music as well as japanese. I think they have moved mostly to discord now though. on that note keep draining drainon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8BYL-vHZxo and dont forget to thank them for the horse. thank you for the horse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJA-FHy8DU

>>2963 Hello fellow drainer. I didn't expect to see any here. You a fan of SBE too?

>>2977 Yes, although I don't listen to them much. I don't like vocal artists generally. Bladee is the only one I listen to though sometimes I like artists like dion, tag shai, shinigami, and spoze. Yes I like autotune, the sound of voices makes me feel uncomfortable. I particularly like bladee's music because it feels like an encoded message from a "god power" that I can only decrypt while there is serotonin coursing through my system. That's why I think only some people can appreciate his entire project. https://soundcloud.com/bydion/have-u-met also I listen to a lot of vocaloid like yuyoyuppe and okame p. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XSmJ45mwsE&index=10&t=0

YouTube, last.fm and /mu/

>>3025 Any channels in particular on YouTube, or just hopping through recommendations? I don't really browse /mu/ that much anymore since there is a lack of discussion outside of a few artists and genres; sharethreads are sometimes good. Same with most boards on 4chan I suppose.

Thanks to everyone for the recommendations. Often times I find the best recommendations from threads on boards like this. I've found some interesting artists at freemusicarchive.org. One of my favorite instrumental albums, Yoncalla by Sun Walker (freemusicarchive.org/music/SunWalker/Yoncalla/), was randomly brought to my attention by FMA. The FMA website had been on life support these past months but it seems to have found a stable host now. I also like to keep an eye on the RSS feed from weirdestbandintheworld.com. If you enjoy outsider art and strange conceptual projects WBITW is worth keeping an eye on.

>>2777 torrent sites (rutorrent mostly)

https://tastedive.com/ This thing gives you recommendations for things based on what other users who like the thing you like like.

unironically music forums... I just search for "music like [artist]" and then browse forum posts from people who actually have the time to filter through all the music out there.

Last.fm, Spotify Discover, seeing recommendations from people and artists with opinions I respect. I often search by year/country/genre on Discogs too, or Bandcamp.

Personally, I keep a notepad file on my phone dedicated to writing down shazams or recommendations from anyone at all times. I go through all of them when I'm in the mood for discoveries. Other than that, I used to really enjoy spotify's discover weekly but nowadays it literally just gives me soykaf I already have. I used Fantano's charts for a bit, but some people here say it isn't on point as it used to be. W.CD died, but if you're on REDCATED or something similar, staff picks are often worthwhile and always come with one song to listen to. Plug.DJ with people from places like here, SoulSeek channels. Youtube "radio stations" like HATE if you're into techno, or Vapor Memories are actually worthwhile, though I don't know the good ones for most genres. HATE is absolutely worth anyone's time though. The real best trick is simply to keep an eye and an ear out and always go out of your way to know what you're listening to when you hear something you like, note it down, listen to it later.

radio-browser.info usually filtered by ambient tag

i have used gnoosic off and on for years

nothing has been able to warp my musical preferences more than imageboards ive always gravitated towards international type forums, which ive found gives you a much larger scope of influences and types of music. sure, most on those boards/forums/sites wont know much, but some of my favorite threads ive ever been in or made myself were threads asking people to post underrated bands from their areas. sure, youll get some chucklefucks posting limp bizkit to mess with you, but then along will come some folks who will show you something that you NEVER would have found unless you came from their town/village/city etc (and even then you mightve missed it) basically, just ask around. the internet has put us in a comfy position to be able to talkk to people who are very far away. its on you to utilize that as for obtaining music, if ya cant buy it, you should still be able to listen to it imo. and thats what russian torrent sites are for (provided you dont mind a little vodkarunes in your song titles occasionally)

When I was too busy I just opened from time to time 4chan/mu's sharethreads (which for some reason are less common now) and run a dirty script for auto-downloading all MEGA links. This one always runs on 4chan, and when I want to I open the console and just call the function to get all MEGA files on the thread: function OpenMEGAlinks (interval) { interval = interval || 20000; var count = 0; for (var i = 0; i < document.links.length; i++) { var link = document.links[i].href; if (link.substring(0, 18) == "https://mega.nz/#!") setTimeout(window.open, count++ * interval, link); } setTimeout(alert, count * interval, "No more MEGA links"); } And this one is set to always running on MEGA to auto-add them to my folder, which syncs with my computer: setTimeout(function() { document.getElementsByClassName("big-button to-clouddrive")[0].click(); }, 3000); setTimeout(function() { document.getElementsByClassName("dialog-picker-button")[0].click(); }, 7000); Dirty as fuarrrrrrrk

>audio scrobbling I feel like I've been living under a rock. I just found that I can install rythymbox, create a libre.fm account, and have libre.fm send me recommendations based on what I listen to and other users with similar tastes. Alternately, I can install mpd and mpdscribble. I'm not sure which I will try first. mpd sounds cool because there's an xfce plugin for it. Is lainchan radio also mpd I wonder?

>>2728 This >>2758 And, artist recommends can be great >>2776 >I personally use bandcamp to buy every album I love, and if I can't find it there I use soulseek ^^^^ >>3119 This too I've also found that speaking with someone with a shared object of taste and listening to their other favorites can add great variety to your search

Cyb music threads on lainchans, and worldhaspostrock on yt. I like post rock

Some genres led to me experimenting with other genres. Lately I have been listening to the radio livestream on the MixHound channel on Youtube for "chillstep" and "ambient-wave" music. I also listened to some dark ambient. Also, I check out the Electronic Gem channel for any interesting electronic music worth getting through Individio or Streamable. Of course, I am still a heavy metal and thrash metal fan.

I don't really use websites other than Bandcamp when it comes to buying or finding music. What I'll do is simple: I have some artists I already like and there are other people buying the albums; I'll go through their collections and see if I find anything I like. Ofttimes the libraries will resemble mine, but I still find new artists I like this way. Another technique I use is finding artists making music based on whatever the latest fad is, like My Little Pony, Five Night's at Freddy's, or Undertale, to name three; these artists will usually want to segue into original music at a later point, so if I like whatever fan music they're making, I may just enjoy their original music. I've found several good artists through this basic method and these people are usually fairly easy to come across. Depending on whether you really like the fad or not, the music may get better or worse, because fan music is like fan fiction and can more easily tell stories or reference things due to the preloaded nature of its subject matter. Maybe I should start a music reviewing section.

http://everynoise.com/ https://music.ishkur.com/ for genres, so much genres

ive gotten so much music off of soma fm its a must if youre into ambient type music

>>4140 Don’t forget echoes from blue mars

>>2724 best place for music is vk 100%

>>2724 >Where do you guys go to get recommendations for music and genres you haven't heard? Basically from 4channers or other lainons. Occasionally I try to brute force music ideas by typing words on youtube or spotify I reckon might reflect or resonate with my own internal feelings.

>>4166 forgot to add late night radio channels. They usually get more "experimental" and avant garde with their choice of music after prime time