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I've been in this rut myself for the last six months now, but then came across this website to kinda help with that.
Everynoise basically compiles a list of artists based upon Spotify's genres and gives you samples for each, and similar musicians within that genre.
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So I didn't think this would go anywhere, but it kinda did. I gotta give credit to u/IntolerableFish as they're the one who posted it in a thread a few days ago about Tibetan Throat Singing. Were it not for them, I wouldn't have came across it.
http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Every Noise--it's a giant scatter plot map of like every genre ever. If you click on a genre name, it plays you a sample. If you hover and click the arrow over a genre name, it'll take you to another scatter plot with band names.
Good way to discover new music!
You need this website! http://everynoise.com
It has over 3000 genres mapped with each genre having the artists mapped inside of it. You can search for artists you like and find the genre and then find new artists. You could also try listening to genres you didn't even know existed.
it's run by a dude who works at Spotify as an engineer working on their recommendation platform.
There is a group that has been categorizing music genres. Their website is http://everynoise.com/. They also create playlists on spotify, the easiest way to find a playlist of any genre is search "The Sound of GENRE". The other great thing they do is they have links to other playlists such as an Introduction, popular songs, lesser know, female driven, newer releases, and related genres of the genre (slamming deathcore anyone?).
edit: the reasoning I put this down is you can try a genre easily and get an idea of it.
This isn’t very beautiful, feel free to downvote. This is just to show why including all of a dataset isn’t always the best option. Built with d3 using http://everynoise.com. See my previous post for all of the details!
Check out this Reddit thread and website for an amazing organization of all 1502 genres.
i think spotify creates genre names to fit them into their algorithms and that's how they've defined the general wave artists who are vaguely associated with pc music or have a similar listener base. you can see a visualization of it (and literally every other spotify genre) on this cool site. i personally like hyperpop wayyy more than any of the other terms that have been used to label the pc style
Everynoise - expand a genre (the arrow to the right of its name) and then pulse/intro/etc. The curated genre lists in Spotify is also usually very good and update every two weeks / month depending on the genre (there's a few that really doesn't get updated that often, but most have fairly frequent updates).
.. and Release Radar.
> Further, what’s been a pretty straightforward evolutionary journey is about to explode into every possible direction stylistically and I’m looking forward to every minute of it.
I'm not sure there's a clear path forward! Which branch are you going to follow? I mean, you have to do "traditional jazz", but how do you get to Rock'n'roll. There's no single good path.
I suggest going to http://everynoise.com/ and just sampling every genre imaginable. If you find a genre that screams out to you, then let everyone suggest artists in that genre!
My suggestion would be Aerials by System of a Down, because it brought me and my friends together!
I'd also be interested in hearing what you thought of the songs recommended, I'm going to compile them into a playlist for sure!
I really like wandering around http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html when i'm bored. It's kind of like a map of all the different types of music there is, with links to bands' spotify pages. Pretty cool IMO.
The default is the page where all the genres are all sprawled everywhere. Try clicking list on the menu! Every genre appears, along with a Spotify playlist of representative music. Cool!
Bueno, el Rock como género está sujeto a los tirones de los fans, las bandas y los sellos. Todos tienen diferentes concepciones de qué es el Rock y particularmente quién hace música Rock. Siendo así, si un sello dice que Coldplay es Rock, quiénes somos nosotros para detenerlos, pero ciertamente no suena a Rock, al menos bajo estándares generalmente aceptados. Lo chori de todo esto es que el espectro Rockero es tan variado como fans y bandas existen.
La evolución de los géneros musicales es fascinante.
Más recursos:
- Cada género imaginable. Click y escuchas una canción. Hay Aggro Chileno, Jazz Chileno y Rap Chileno, por ejemplo.
- Music-Map. Buscas un artista y aparecen tantos otros relacionados, algunos más que otros.
- MusicMap. No confundir con el anterior. A diferencia de aquél, busca dar con un concepto o definición del subgénero, además de citar características y una breve biografía o historia. Uno de los más interesantes.
Yeah groups and nonbinary, and for men it's around 3.3 female and 2.5 mixed groups/nonbinary
Also, I couldn't find the original source, and the popdust article didn't link anything, so here's a website with up to date info, which is better than the stats I wrote earlier: everynoise.com/gender_tldr.html
Hvis man undrer sig over nogle af Spotifys genrer (jeg er f.eks. ret glad for 'mellow gold' og 'escape room', tilsyneladende), kan jeg i øvrigt anbefale et kig på Every Noise at Once, som er lavet af en af Spotifys data-gutter. Den er også fin hvis man bare vil lære om forskellen på 'technical brutal death metal' og 'cryptic black metal' eller bare vil have et stykke deep sunset lounge...
Check out this website: http://everynoise.com/
It is a curated list of every possible genre you can think of, with samples on Spotify. It is great for discovering music that is off the beaten path. Also if you are interested in great funk/rock/jazz music you should check out Analog Africa, Strut, or Ostinato Recors. They have high-quality eclectic collections of music from all kinds of Asian and African countries.
Pretty much spot on, except for this:
> Music is the same
Not it isn't. At least outside the mainstream, there's an explosion of new styles, new genres and subgenres, and various fusions of genres. New artists, new artist collaborations etc. There's a strong revival of various world-music being re-released and rescued from obscurity by various labels, everything from Afro-Cuban to traditional Sri Lankan. There's a plethora of new electronic genres, that again mutate and mix.
"But I hate electronic music!!". Well, there's all sorts of interesting things happening in the neo-classical genres, especially when crossing over with post-rock and instrumental genres, which in itself is growing in leaps and bounds.
If you're into folk or singer/songwriter styles, it's the same; it's a regular bonanza! It's never been easier to produce or publish your own music.
We might be nearing the environmental apocalypse, but at least every day there is more, fantastic, beautiful and interesting music.
It's a small comfort, but I try to squeeze it for everything it's worth!
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It might be easy to go with some instrumental rock bands (many would fit into the insanely wide and varying genre of post-rock).
Mono Explosions in the Sky Sigur Ros (Not instrumental, but the lyrics are in another language... so pretty safe) Tortoise Godspeed You! Black Emperor Do Make Say Think Russian Circles
A lot more examples here (including sample audio): http://everynoise.com/engenremap-instrumentalpostrock.html
Post-Rock is not an incredibly popular genre and it's unlikely to be "what the kids are listening to today" but given your preference for classic rock and the more modern things you chose (NIN in particular), there's a very good chance that you'll appreciate this music. It relies heavily on a lot of the styles of rock guitar riffs found in classic rock, can sometimes be heavily blues based and without lyrics will have no generation gap issues.
If you've never heard any post-rock I'd recommend starting with Mono's "You Are There" album. It'll give you a good indication of what the rest of the genre has to offer. If you can, look for some local post-rock bands in your area as they'll appreciate your holiday gift monies and you'll probably get more opportunities to see them live than the acts listed above.
I had a similar situation when I was growing up and I wanted to thank you for encouraging your son to explore music beyond what is readily available to him. Music has gotten me through some rough times, and having music that I really felt was mine instead of exactly what my parents were into was damn important to me at his age. Goodluck!
*Edit: Forgot a word.
Awesome website that has a list of all music genres ever. You can search for an artist/band and then it will show you all the genres of music they've made and then suggest you similiar artists based on the same genres.
Schau dir mal Every Noise at once an. Das ist ein Projekt, das alle Musik auf Spotify algorithmisch in ~1500 Genres einordnet.
Du kannst auf ein Genre klicken um ein Beispiel zu hören, und wenn du auf den kleinen Pfeil neben dem Genrenamen klickst, siehst du eine Seite mit allen Musikern, die diesem Genre zugeordnet sind. Auf dieser Seite kannst du dann oben links 3 spotify-Playlists aufrufen: playlist, für einen Überblick über das Genre, pulse, für aktuell beliebte Lieder, und edge, für Neuerscheinungen aus diesem Genre.
Ein guter Anfangspunkt ist es, das Diagramm einfach nach interessant klingenden Genrenamen zu überfliegen, oder oben rechts nach bekannten Künstlern zu suchen, um zu schauen wo sie überall eingeordnet sind.
Have you tried the Spotify New Release Sorting Hat?
Over 17,000 new releases this week listed for you. A few are grouped into genres on the left-hand side, and all by popularity on the right.
Click on the pictures on the left, or the numbers on the right to hear a 30-second preview of the track, and click on the name of the track on either side to open it on Spotify.
Feeling lucky? Click on (number unclustered) on top right to list every track not listed by genre on the first page.
And enjoy!
Eipä yhtään ihmettele, Spotifyn tietokone yliloordi keinoäly rankkaa Anssi Kelat ja Arttu Wiskarit hiphoppiin
Edit: Suomi pop on vieläkin mielenkiintoisempi. Oikeasta räppi kulmasta löytyy mm. Meiju Suvas, Jaakko Teppo, Kikka ja Kake Randelin. Kyl se kone tietää.
I can relate very much, and often find myself thinking the same thing.
Even within genres you'll have variations on key characteristics, and different approaches/influences. This is what might distinguish certain key acts from one another. People are also influenced by many different types of music, artists, styles... and they inject their own preferences within a genre. I think it's best to view genres more-so as general guidelines than anything necessarily definitive. Genres may also become more ambiguous with time.
I typically ask myself "What general key characteristics do I like in music? What qualities do I like in music?" Once I get an idea, I usually check out sites like musicmap and everynoiseatonce and identify some genres that might appeal to me. I'll also check out genres that are related to ones I already like on everynoiseatonce.
So, for example, since I like heaviness in music, and noise as an element, I notice that musicmap groups a few parent genres together under that category (if you zoom in very closely at the bottom) -- Industrial/Goth, Metal, Hardcore Punk. I'll take those broad categories, learn more about them and their subgenres (Wikipedia, RateYourMusic), and then I'll go on everynoiseatonce, and check out related genres to the ones listed above. Then, I pretty much have a bunch of genres I explore. Honestly, at this point I feel it's very much hit-and-miss... you'll find, say, some black metal that totally blows your mind, and others that completely underwhelm you. It's just part of the music discovery process.
For albums I really like, I often check out the genres that are predominantly featured on that album, as well as any minor influences. You can do this through RateYourMusic. For example, since old-school Industrial music also appears alongside Minimal Synth and Experimental music, I may like those genres as well... and can explore them.
The playlists it creates are set to public, so remember to switch them to private.
The results are limited to 400 tracks. One way to get around this is to break your source playlist (or Your Music library) into multiple playlists, do each separately, and then combine the results.
Other web apps that can be used in conjunction:
> http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Good for exploration, but be aware that Spotify genre playlists are crap, and don't map to "actual" genres almost at all. I'm heavy into metal, and even a cursory search lead to some really strange combinations:
Pallbearer's first listed genre is Post-Doom, which has some similar-sounding stoner and doom bands listed (Yob, SubRosa, Bell Witch, Bongripper, Baroness, etc), but also has grindcore (Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed), thrash (Power Trip and Black Breath), black (Cobalt, The Great Old Ones, Dodecahedron), and a bunch of non-metal (Converge, The Jesus Lizard, etc).
The layout seems to map to intensity, tempo, and overall feel of the sound, but this doesn't translate well for a lot of bands or sounds.
What if you changed it to another medium such as music.
http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Try comparing "Tone", "Laboratorio", "Drone", "Dark Jazz", "Mandible".
I'm picking genre's on the fringe here, but are each of these considered music, and even a genre? Some people will listen to these in the same settings and contexts as other people listening to music (in a car, at home, etc), but does that make it music? Where is the line drawn between music and just random noise - was it the intent to make it music?
I must admit that I don't really use music discovery services anymore ever since I made a Spotify account. I used Last.fm for a very long period of time but when Spotify introduced their recommendations system those services became obsolete for me, although I liked the statistical aspect of Last.fm. The kiss of death came with Last.fm's re-lunch, since then I use the Spotify recommendations, RYM, everynoise.com, Reddit and music blogs for new music.
But I'll try those services out in the next couple of days, because I'm interested to see how much music discovery services changed over the years and hey! Maybe they have a superior system.
Iti recomand sa nu cauti muzica similara, ci sa descoperi in mod organic genuri de muzica noi.
Insa daca tii neaparat: http://everynoise.com/ Have fun.
Ca fapt divers eu ascult orice, de la Dani Mocanu sau Florin Salam, la Batushka sau Cannibal Corpse.
I've found this to be a pretty good resource for finding artists similar to other artists.
Maintained and run by a Spotify employee.
This website is very useful for finding music in a lot of different languages/genres -- if you search for German it has 33 genres. You can click on them and get spotify playlists. http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Si y en a qui veulent digger pendant des heures, découvrir des nouveaux genres musicaux obscurs : http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Y en a pour des heures et des heures de découvertes c'est merveilleux. Le gros intêret est qu'on voit les proximités, les porosités et influences diverses des genres les uns sur les autres.
I searched Cashmere Cat and it put him under "shiver pop". Not only have I never heard of "shiver pop", but the artists that are also under this category sound nothing like Cashmere Cat. After looking up the genre very briefly, it seems like there's no foundation to it. It seems to just be a rarely used tag on Spotify. (Makes sense, seeing as this site is based off of Spotify.) I know that I'm pretty clueless when it comes to subgenres, but sometimes I feel like they have nearly no meaning. It feels like people hastily classify music into subgenres while some commonly accepted genres have such a wide variation of sound. I'm aware that everyone takes music differently, though. I guess it just means that I get to constantly learn about niche demographics and music cultures.
Check out this amazing genre map: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Everything on the top/top left can be classified as EDM. If you click on genre name you can listen to a preview of the genre and if you click on the arrows you can see all the producers of the genre.
You can use this thing to see what Spotify editors are programming in different sections in different countries, so maybe that will help you...
http://everynoise.com/ is a fantastic way to find genres with spotify playlists tailored towards really well curated music. I absolutely love the type of music you're looking for - Vulfpeck, Pomplamoose, Scary Pockets (basically joe dart or Sam Wilkes on bass is my shit). There are multiple genres on this site that will scratch that itch - you can venture out from there in any direction your ear takes you. It's seriously awesome. I'm not affiliated in any way at all but it's become my by far favorite way to find new music.
http://everynoise.com/new_releases_by_genre.cgi?genre=metalcore&region=US
Use this site mate. It gets updated every Friday with metalcore and similar genres and you can listen to the bands through this site. As far as I'm aware it should be legal because all you're really doing is listening to Spotify through third party site.
Ist halt aber auch die Schuld von Megadeth bzw. deren Label. Spotify kann dafür normalerweise herzlich wenig, falls du Probleme hast kannst du denen auch Requests schicken. Normalerweise kann man ja auch verschiedene Releases eines Albums auswählen. Du hast aber auch echt spezielle Probleme.
Spotify ist kein Music Player sondern eher ein Music Discovery Service. Und darin sind sie auch ungeschlagen. Allein die Genre Playlists, die sie kurieren, sind ein großer Pluspunkt.
Spotify has over 2300 genres (they're not "in your face" in the Spotify app) - and with that number of genres you can imagine they get very niche (but if you like "deep melodic euro house" for example, you'll find it there :-) Go to this web page: http://everynoise.com/everynoise1d.cgi?scope=all and search on that page for some text (eg "metal"). Click on that genre (or search again). You'll see an embedded "The Sound of <genre>" box with up to 100 tracks. Below that embedded box you'll see "open in Spotify", click on that to see that genre in the Spotify app. Click "Follow" to add it to you playlists. "The Sound of ..." Spotify playlists get updated one or more times a week.
It's a starting point to discover new music.
The list version of the site is interesting. Clicking on one of the descriptors in the list (let's pick "Chilean Rock" because why not?) will sort the list with Chilean Rock at the top and then will sort by similarity to Chilean Rock, complete with a Spotify playlist.
Once you get a one or two hundred down the list, though, really how can you make distinctions? Is Dallas Indie more or less similar than Portuguese pop? (More according to these guys)
I had this same issue today and didn't get the DGD song either.
Release Radar can be ok, but Every Noise's New Release Sorting Hat is a much better tool. Just hit CMD+F and type in your genre and it will show you literally everything released in the last week that's tagged as that genre. I've found so many new artists like this that I never would have heard of without this tool.
Gotchu, conrad
Old school: > Conflict (they have one really shitty anti-immigrant song tho)
> Icons of Filth > Flux of Pink Indians (noisy like Crass)
> Government Issue
> Subhumans
Newer school:
> IDLES (not anarcho explicitly but still fire; post-hardcore)
> Pinkerton Thugs (anarchist Oi!)
> Pat the Bunny/Wingnut Dishwasher's Union/Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains/Ramshackle Glory (folk-punk)
>Not Half Bad (electric folk-punk)
> Iskra (anarchist crust punk/metal crossover; also "Red and Anarchist Black Metal" is a thing and has a lot of crust going on)
> G.L.O.S.S. (militant queercore)
>Leftöver Crack (ska punk with hardcore influences)
> Star Fucking Hipsters
Not punk:
> Bambu (underground hip-hop; not explicitly "an" but hella close)
> Axebreaker (antifascist industrial noise)
> Panopticon (metal with ties to labor history)
> Utah Phillips (Wobbly folk singer; like a modern Woodie Guthrie; died a few years ago)
Also check this out; that's every artist Spotify's back-end has tagged as "anarcho punk")
I don't have an explanation, but I would suggest that everyone explore other genres, don't just settle for what the radio serves up. Top 40 charts are extremely limiting. Here's a great tool for exploring.
An acquaintance in college exposed me to electro/ambient, and I've enjoyed it ever since. Also, the music in <em>Monsoon Wedding</em> gave me a taste for Indian music.
Rabbit-hole of the day is brought to you by Every Noise at Once. This guy attempted to graph the music space in its entirety on a two-dimensional scale. Check it out if you have a good hour or five to kill.
Ever wonder what “voidgaze” or “necrogrind” sound like? Having trouble discerning the different between “crust punk” and “trash core? Well worry no longer because this website has examples of it all to listen to…
Some of the examples could use some major help (i.e. Garage Rock is represented by “Sex on Fire” by Kings of Leon) but the scope of the work this guy has done is unbelievable.
Instead of recommending music, I'd rather suggest you try out Spotify. I'm not sure if it comes with a premium subscription only, but the weekly discover playlists are fucking magic. I'm in heaven listening to amazing new music every week. You just identify some of your favorite songs and it generates things you might like based on them. Add more songs from the playlist and it gets better and knows you more.
Also, check this site out: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
It's got a huge list of every musical genre. What's great is you can search for your favorite bands, identify their genre, and it can make a playlist of that genre for you in Spotify.
I feel like an advert for Spotify, but it's really working for me.
There is a pretty amazing interactive visualization like this here:
This was posted a few months ago in a Data Visualization Thread and it blew my mind.
According to the Spotify New Release Sorting Hat, there's also:
- The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers - At Night (Single)
- Group 1 Crew - Power (Single)
- Love & The Outcome - The God I Know (Single)
- Michael English - Live at Daywind Studios
- Cortni - Turn to You (EP)
- HeartSong - Ascribe
- Matt Wheeler - On the Hill (EP)
- D-Will - Transparent
- Ace Boogie - No One Knew
- Todd Dulaney - A Worshipper's [sic] Heart
- TJ Taotua - Faith Hope & Love (Single)
Some of these may be only new to Spotify. (And I'm leaving out non-English albums. There are many Latin Christian albums, as well as stuff like Nigerian gospel and Brazilian worship).
Glenn McDonald, who made the sorting hat, is awesome.
Fun fact: Almost all of the most popular modern genres in the world can be traced back, in some way or another, to black Americans. Or if you prefer, use Wikipedia and trace back a genre, any of your choosing there are quite a few.
Kennst du http://everynoise.com/? Dort werden sehr viele Genres gelistet und du kannst dort eine zugehörige Playlist anklicken und dich da rein hören. Außerdem kannst oben eine/n Künstler*in angeben und die Seite schlägt entsprechende Genre vor, über die du dann ähnliche Künstler entdecken kannst.
WTF? Medimeisterschaften? Well it's an annual festival by/for med students in Germany and each University produces a music video but wtf, this is considered a music genre now? Well this is funny!
Not an unpopular opinion, one I agree with to an extent. I'd say modern mainstream music is pretty bad. The shit spewed out over the radio that's designed for commercial purposes and not so much artist creativity or originality. A lot of genres feel tired and worn out too, imo. But despite all that there are still people making really good music!
You might find some bands you like here.
"Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,804 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2020-01-03. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier. Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like. Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists. Be calmly aware that this may periodically expand, contract or combust." - Every Noise
You might like looking into dark trap. It's a style of hip-hop production that is "earrape", but played unironically and often to evoke the timbres of extreme metal (just as electric guitar distortion was initially unintentional "earrape" that some musicians found to sound cool when used artistically). Ghostemane for instance started out as a metal musician and his work is full of black metal and doom metal references.
Strongly seconded! I use Every Noise at Once as well, and I once listened to every song in their playlist of every genre. Great source of finding weird new music, though at the end of it I still have roughly the same tastes as before. However, Every Noise at Once is also good for finding new artists and songs related to existing genres you like.
One thing I didn't see plugged in this article is the New Particles playlist, created weekly by the same guy who runs Every Noise at Once. Reliable mix of ~100 songs from various genres that tends to contain at least a few gems, and there's a "Skim" button that plays 5 seconds of each song at a time so you can quickly evaluate which ones are worth further inspection. See also the blog, which has a few posts on interesting data analysis of people's music listening patterns.
> UKF's Spotify's Liquid DnB playlists
In general, check out the "The Pulse/Sound of <genre>" playlists on Spotify, which are automatically updated according to what people listen to. They exist for each genre Spotify uses internally. If you want to check out which genres exist and how they relate to each other, check the genre map
Examples: The Pulse of Retro Electro, The Sound of Progressive Trance House
I think the classic term for this kind of music is probably something between Latin Jazz / Samba, with a bit of a brass / big band turn to it. It's hard for me to place anything more meaningful than that because the vocals are putting me off.
I looked up a 'genre map' where you can click on the name of each genre to hear an embodiment of it, and if it sounds right the » should take you to a map of artists.
I'm thinking that the most likely genres you should check on that page are Salsa / Salsa International, Samba, Latin Jazz, potentially Jazz Brass and Stride, see if you can locate any artists that are a crossover between some (or in an extremely niche occurrence, all) of these genres.
This is a great site if you want to explore different generes: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
"This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1537 genres by Spotify. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier."
Some good ideas suggested already, but another thing you can try is everynoise.com. It's a complete list of every genre on Spotify. Once you've found something weird and new (Cumbia funk? Deep opera? Schranz?), you can go to Spotify and plug "The Sound of <whatever genre you've chosen>" into the search bar, and it'll play you a comprehensive playlist of the most popular songs within the genre. If you click on the links to "The Edge" or "The Pulse" in the descriptions of "The Sound of..." playlists, it will also redirect you to lesser known songs or whatever's in vogue currently in that genre, respectively.
I had Permanent Wave in my top genres too and was also like WTF? Apparently Permanent Wave is like 80s/90s alt rock or something. Here is a word map of Permanent Wave http://everynoise.com/engenremap-permanentwave.html .
Every music genre with short sound clips from each enjoy. Note that you can go deeper on each genre(artists) by clicking the small arrow on the right of the genre.
http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
This is another awesome website for music. Basically every music genre you can think of, color mapped, with example artists and links to their Spotify pages when available.
This website might help you a lot. You click on the genre itself to hear a sample of it and click on the double chevron if you want to see more artists of that genre. You can also search for artists at the top right and it will give some of the genres that artist's songs would be considered as. I've been using this website for a while to discover new artists, it's great.
I agree with the other comments, but also wanted to add that on Every Noise at Once, they're listed under funk, funk rock, instrumental funk, and "Ann Arbor indie".
This website is pretty neat, I've been using it for the past few days.
Otherwise I usually just keep up with new releases and look for recommendations on here that seem like they'd be up my alley.
edit: RYM charts are also super helpful. Oftentimes if I find myself in a rut I just make my way through one of those.
I have both. (Tidal Hifi and Spotify Premium) No worries. Tidal is for serious listening. But nowadays I am thinking to cancel my Spotify Premium because I found a really good site for discovering new albums. I will check this site for new releases and listen to albums on Tidal.
This Video is a good overview of various electronic music styles.
Ishkurs guide to electronic music is a good place to spend some time & discover genres
Every Noise is a good place to go if you hear an artist but are unsure what genre they fall into.
That's what this site here attempts to do!
http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Not sure how accurate it is because I haven't gone through 90% of it, but it's really interesting to think about.
My favourite french artists are Videoclub and Arcadian, I really recommend them. I discovered them by using every noise which basically allows you to search for artists in obscure genres like ‘french indie’ or ‘french punk’ and music map which finds artists that are similar but you have to input an artist first
dig into some archives! 💻🗒📚💿💾📻
FM radio shows from college radio stations and the handful of independent radio stations still out there. Many have playlists online dating back many years. Find a DJ that plays a lot of pop music and/or 80s/90s music and become a regular listener to their show or just comb through what they have played in the past.
If you are a vinyl record or CD person, check out "80s/90s" or "pop" sections in used stores and see what looks interesting.
The Internet Archive has scans of <em>Smash Hits</em> (and probably similar magazines) from this era that you can browse through online. They and other online archives often have digitized collections of zines too, which would give some cool perspective.
If there's a specific producer or backing vocalist or musician whose sound you like from that era, check out Wikipedia or Discogs liner notes to see what else they worked on.
If you want to stick to Spotify-adjacent options, the website Every Noise at Once uses Spotify's hyper-specific genre categorizations to create Intro/Deep Cut/etc. playlists of each one.
These can be a fun way to lose a few hours!!
Thank you, I looked up 'ambient trance' and from there poked around on the genre cloud until I landed on 'ambient idm', this feels promising! I already have favorites from Rival Consoles, Stumbleine, Seekae so this could be the flavor I'm craving..
A couple more interesting links about the site (all from the site itself):
How We Understand Music Genres The Sounds of Places plots countries as if they were genres. Every Place at Once is an index of the distinctive listening of individual cities.
I've been using this site for years and it's extremely useful for finding new music that will fit right into your listening habits. Once you find your genres you're set.
interests mainly lie with Kooba Tercu, Brigid Dawson, The Birdwatchers and Old Man Gloom this week. Ötzi seemed pretty cool from what I previewed, too. Duñe & Crayon seems like a good "vibe" album tho.
Kooba Tercu's Proto Tekno is on the same label as the Sex Swing album from last week, and the Pigsx7 record from April. Needless to say, Rocket Recordings have been putting out some bangers this year and Proto Tekno is no different. Pretty robust experimental/psychedelic rock. 8 tracks, 40 minutes, what's not to love?
also I highly recommend shedfromthebody if the idea of Chelsea Wolfe-esque vocals mixed with some doomy shoegaze sounds appealing. It's quite lovely from front to back.
heavyblogisheavy release roundup for additional metal/-core needs
ALSO, does anyone have a decent source for Latin music releases? A user shared this but it seems like a nightmare to navigate and I dunno what might be worth posting.
While i agree it’s ridiculous, Spotify has data to back this up:
http://everynoise.com/gender_tldr.html
There’s also a few papers published on the topic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_music_preference#Gender
I’m going to plug Every Noise here. You can search by artist or genre, and will let you see how different artists lineup in different genres. It will also play you a sample of each artist when clicked.
If you have Spotify you can search for lesser known music from specific years with tag:hipster
Try searching for year:1960-1969 AND tag:hipster
If you want a specific genre, like "vocal jazz" for example, try year:1960-1969 AND tag:hipster AND genre:"vocal jazz"
To look for a list of all spotify genres, go to http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html the only tool you need. There's even a category called cyberpunk, but I think it's a bit hit and miss. Aggrotech/futurepop/electro industrial is usually where I start.
Those are automatically generated based on Spotify data - IE connections and genres. It's basically AI at work. It's a developer at Spotify who creates this stuff, but not Spotify officially.
He has a website where you can explore the data visually - you can even play samples from every artist you stumble upon http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Sometimes a little inaccurate, but it lists artists and generates Spotify playlists for every genre (not just electronic but it has a lot of electronic genres) - stuff for beginners, what's new in the genre, stuff more at the extremes, etc.
I love this thread. I don't have much to offer excep this website that shows genres in a scatter plot.
>Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 2,928 genres by Spotify as of 2019-04-18. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.
So, my suggestion will be time intensive and involve a lot of listening, but what better way to learn about it all than to experience it yourself?
There is a wonderful rateyourmusic user called TheScientist who manages a project called the RYM Ultimate Box Set which aims to provide an overview for genres by way of CD length song lists. Thanks to a number of contributors it's gotten quite extensive. The lists usually feature a small explanatory blurb, but the context for individual artists, songs and the albums they come from will require digging.
I can't recall a good rundown that explains what major genres emerged where and when, probably best to just consult Wikipedia, though RYM features a genealogy of genres of sorts as well (not a very handy one, though). everynoise.com is an interesting genre analysis project, but far too extensive I'd assume.
Right now I'm digging Lo-fi most. Akira the Don in particular. Have you seen this music explorer site? I was showing people it on our Twitch stream last night and people were digging it. It's a rabbit hole.
Check this out. From here you can browse other artists and genres. If you have Spotify (which I greatly recommend) you can cruise thru tons of genre playlists to learn more about new music if you like: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-melodicblackmetal.html
Visuaalinen kikkare spotifyn algoritmi saloihin:
http://everynoise.com/engenremap-finnishpop.html
Moni iskelmä artisti sopii listaan ja tästä on myös empiiristä todistustusta
I appreciate music for its ability to augment or enforce a given mood or theme (for myself and for others).
Due the mood or theme being the "problem" and wanting to have as many "solutions" as possible, I am interested in acquiring a knowledge of and familiarity with as many disparate types of music as possible. The Spotify playlists and Pandora stations I create or follow are similar to antizeus in its scope. My "like" switch is set to "on" by default, so for me to actively dislike specific music means that it has to be sufficiently offensive to me to stop it in its tracks (which is a relatively difficult feat).
All that said, I do have a discrete musical "center of gravity" that I go to when I'm not in "music discovery" (finding solutions) or "mood development" (applying solutions) mode, and that is either audio wallpaper (stuff by Chillhop, Thievery Corporation, Boards of Canada, Baby Mammoth, Brian Eno, dZihan & Kamien, Autechre, etc.) or Nortec (when it's sunny and warm). But even this preference is due to the mood that I'm most comfortable with (peaceful -- Enneagram 9), so my music preference really is almost entirely driven by actively trying to develop the mood or theme I want, or finding the material that I feel could be helpful for future endeavors.
Regarding my methodology for music discovery, I'll generally use Pandora (or http://everynoise.com) for lateral "mining", then Spotify for vertical digging once I've found a vein I'm interested in. However, I enjoy training Pandora stations for specific impressions, both concrete ("dusty mouth") or abstract ("umber").
My top genres were also unknown to me. I couldn't even find their description. But there is a site that helps to get a feeling of the genres - Every Noise at Once. Here is music map for yours Antiviral Pop and there is even Spotify Playlist available with many examples: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-antiviralpop.html
Just go here and the most popular bands are in the middle of the web page, it plays samples from spotify and you can build a spotify playlist or just search for the artists on youtube.
if you need more inspiration, Every Noise at Once is a comprehensive map of every possible genre that was ever defined in music http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
they also make playlists based on how they've plotted bands in a certain genre.
i like your idea as well though, cause it would essentialize the playlists that are generated from it :)
http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
Coolest site for discovering music, I hope you enjoy it :)
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Edit: As for the games, I don't know the price range we are talking about, but my first pick would be Dead Cells, and for the second one I'd choose The Long Dark. (If that's too much just tell me so)
Everynoise is pretty great. Type in a band you like and it'll suggest genres they're part of. Select one that sounds right for you.
Click on any of the bands there to get a quick preview of their sound or click on "playlist, pulse, edge" at the top. Those will take you to three spotify playlists for the genre. The three just vary in how well known the artists are (i.e. "playlist" is more mainstream, "edge" is pretty unknown bands).
Not complex necessarily, but what you do with the stuff you have. I like minimalist Ludovico Einaudi for example.
I love searching for things too. Wintergatan is one of my favorite bands because of what they achieve with what they use. I like searching for music in a field of music I dislike, to see if I can find something interesting nevertheless, in electronic or rap for example.
My music library is a mess. I love when friends look through it and try to find something they know. I made them listen to music from kids shows, or anime openings to anime haters, Zelda and LoL music (I kind of like the game, hate the community, but love the art in it, and mostly music. Whatever, don't insult me) to my classic fan mom...
I try to keep an open mind about everything, and especially music. There is something great to find in every genre, just need to dig a bit.
I was wondering what song you would pick!!
I've been trying to think of what direction I want the interpretation to take - interpret the words or the title or the mood? Abstract or literal? WHAT?!?
I don't have a strong "favorite type" of music, so I might just think about my favorite songs and go from there. See what's at the top of my list after a random shuffle.
Also, have y'all seen this amazing musical genres map? I was going to share it with the sub and I totally forgot. But now I have to go include it in the contest post brb.
I see what you're saying, but I can't agree; it's just moved. Check out smaller artists on Soundcloud or YouTube. There's so much out there and only the most marketable get "popular" because there's just too much for tv/radio. A great way to discover the newer stuff is a site called Every Sound At Once
If you are into music, you'll love this site, it is an algorithmic index of every genre of music and it let's you drill down to the artist and play samples of the music.
It's great for finding bands that you may have forgotten about, songs you haven't heard in awhile.
Permanent Wave is like alt-rock from the 80s/90s apparently. I guess it's some kind of spin-off from new wave...? But there are some new wave artists mentioned there, so I don't really know. Spotify needs to stop makin shit up, haha.
I had Permanent Wave in my top genres too and was also like WTF? Apparently Permanent Wave is like 80s/90s alt rock or something. Here is a word map of Permanent Wave http://everynoise.com/engenremap-permanentwave.html .
Every Noise at Once is the best way to find new music I've ever found. pick a genre, click it to hear what it sounds like, like it? click the arrow to see bands that fit that genre. its got everything from the most mainstream of pop bands to the most obscure japanese jazztronica, peruvian rock, or technical brutal death metal you'll ever hear.
there are a few more sub-genre's on this site if you have the time/inclination to browse through them:
http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
for some reason they don't seem to have added "swamp" yet. think it's time it was added! :)
/r/ifyoulikeblank seems to work for me, same with /r/listentothis.
Also, Every Noise At Once is a pretty good resource, to find similar artists in genres that you like.
Spotify is also a pretty neat tool.
I got you OP.
Here's a site that helps, just play with it.
/r/listentothis/
/r/ifyoulikeblank/
/r/indieheads/
/r/importedindie/
/r/Alternativerock/
Also some random good bands: Wolf Alice, The Pack a.d., Kilians, July Talk, Red Fang, Dr. Dog, Tea Cozies, Royal Blood, Fleet Foxes, Trombone Shorty, Alabama Shakes, Las Robertas, Lady Lamb, Killer Ghost.
Okay good luck hope I helped.
Alright, I'll see what I can do.
Music is one of the hardest things to recommend, because your taste in music probably has almost nothing to do with your taste in anything else. I can't go "Hey, you liked Fringe, so you should listen to somethingorother". What I can find in your history is that you like the Ramones, definitely don't like tool, and don't like Coldplay.
Unfortunately that puts you comfortably outside the music that I like. Which means I can't dredge up anything hard to find for you. I could google "bands similar to the Ramones" but I'm sure I'd only get things you've already heard. (This is where having an actual userbase, rather than just me and /u/yolodankmemer, would help a lot :( .)
What I can do is give you links to a great music exploration tool that's not so popular that you've probably heard of it: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html. It's surprisingly comprehensive for what it is, at least as far as recent music goes. Maybe you'd have luck in the lower right hand section, diametrically opposite of where Tool is ;) .