Discovery, by Daft Punk (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
If someone don’t know, it’s an album name, alternatively known with music-video movie “Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem”, basically a music-video for whole album, bit anime.
oooo I absolutely adore discovery but didn’t know about the movie, that sounds awesome!
Daft Punk is the best! I’ll have to check out this movie thing :3
Thanks!
Taking this moment to plug HEALTH for all the trans alt girlies. Thank me later 💜
Friends?
My playlist hasn’t been updated since the late 90s.
Me fr. I bet I could craft the perfect playlist, and never listen to anything else again. That actually sounds like pretty fun idea… maybe i could make a mixtape…
Ah, I used to have a transparent tape deck/radio. It was the height of 90s coolness.
Omg I love transparent electronics; they’re such a vibe! I might actually look for a second-hand one. It truly is peak coolness.
Music discovery by watching cathatonic youths clips
I have all my tv shows curated for me via tunblr gifsets
If you like funky Argentine funky indie pop? Bandalos Chinos are the dogs bollocks
Browsing the top 10 on sites like Redacted or Orpheus became my preferred way of discovering new music.
This has to do with the death of music journalism in general. A lot of curation function was done through magazines and online publications, many of which are now gone or much smaller than they used to be: Pitchfork, Paste, NME, Rolling Stone and so on. Now curation is done through niche influencers.
By the way I do some curation on Youtube with an emphasis on Austin based indie and folk music. You can check out my Youtube of live music videos:
Best music discovery I’ve had was a thread on the something awful forums maybe 2 decades ago. People would post their favorites or ones they wanted similar artists to, and folks would chime in with suggestions. I discovered so much music in that thread, stuff that has become my core favorites. I learned about Chromeo in that thread (back when Needy Girl was new) and they have been in my top 5 or 10 ever since.
I do enjoy the Apple Music suggestions, but finding new is so much slower and more hit or miss.
There should be a site for community driven music suggestions similar to that old thread. Especially nowadays when so much is independent and obscure.4
Hey that’s a really cool idea! It could be based around ActivityPub. I kinda feel like a Threadiverse community might would suffice though?
Omg I love ELO! Jungle is one of my favourite songs by them :3
Fun bar trivia fact: ELO is the band with the greatest number of top ten hits without ever having had a number one hit.
Interesting! I guess that’s why they have that vibe of like… everyone kinda knows them? They’re not as iconic as The Beatles, but their music is still somewhat like, ingrained in the popular imagination.
One of my favourite bands. Solo albums by Louis and Genevive (the duo behind Knower) are also fire. Knower - Knower forever
Love Louis Cole and everyone even remotely associated with him. Genevieve Artadi, Moonchild, Jacob Mann, Thundercat, Ben Wendel, MonoNeon… and then going from those guys also lead into a lot of other great music.
Sam Wilkes, who plays bass on many knower tracks is someone that keeps inspiring me since I first heard him. Check out his line on Scary pockets cover of Creep, so simple yet brings a grin on my face every time.
Listen to Fantastic Planet by Failure, you’re welcome
I do this for cartoons. If you tell me about a cartoon I haven’t heard of my immediate reaction is to download it.
I have almost 600 cartoon series, none older than late 80s.
