There are a couple of threads here listing specific music recommendations (monthly thread, jazz box sets, etc.), but how about pointers to music discovery sites and sources, where do you learn about new music? (sort of like the internet radio swap thread).
This site plots every genre and sub-genre you can possibly imagine and then artists underneath (derived from and linked to Spotify) http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Itâs kind of crazy-cool, but at the same time itâs not hard to see why the ânormâ is to drill down from genre to sub-genre. How would you find anything?
I was on an iPad but I didnât see any artists after selecting a genre.
In the default mode, whatever Genre you pick starts playing a representative song.
Select Scan and it starts jumping around the screen randomly playing 10 secs of random genres.
List makes a vertical list so more manageable. In List, if you click on a Genre you get an embedded Spotify playlist that you can start playing with. Then there are a bunch of filters at the top that tune how it builds playlists based on the selected Genre.
I havenât used it a lot, but wondering what Turkish Hip Hop is or Deep German Jazz is!!
Okay. âDeep German jazzâ drew me in (less exotic than I thought, as it turns out). I donât know that Iâll be a regular visitor, but I was vastly amused by gong to the main page and clicking âscanâ.
in former days there was an iPhone app called âdiscovr musicâ: you could enter an artist and it showed similiar artists ⌠I discovered lots of good music by this way ⌠unfortunately it has been discontinued ⌠so far didnât find somthing equal âŚ
David Byrne of talking heads fame has an internet radio (which is Mixcloud). I havenât explored much yet, but think it is mostly Mixcloud playlists of interesting/new/discovered music. He has a new book âHow Music Worksâ which I downloaded to Kindle but havenât started reading yet.
Iâve been working on a platform for discovery. It is still young, but the idea is to put all sources in one easy-to-reach location. You can search tags and all that stuff. Open to feature suggestions and development help. Iâm also going to take a look into these sites youâve posted.
Itâs called Krado ⌠the Esperanto word for âCrateâ. Was going to virtual crate digging.
Itâs early in the day, so first impressions, IMPRESSED. The layout is particularly clear and response time when clicking links very fast. I found a new âliked albumâ within a few seconds, I need to use it some more
Oh noes! Iâll have to look into it. As I mentioned, this is a pretty new project. So, bugs happen! Iâll take a look and see what is going on there and hopefully have a fix this evening.
Can you tell me exactly what your search text was?
UmmmmâŚI tried a few general searches from bandcamp artists that I figured were better known. Without luck I just randomly selected an artist I saw on the main page.
I just tried again with Mike Dillon (no idea who that is) who I can see on the main page & search function doesnât seem to work. Nothing happens when I try & search.
