in an effort to expand my music library and also share cool stuff, fedi, I beseech thee... lend me your ears (and boosts)
if you listen to, make, or have a friend who makes electronic music that fits any of these descriptions:
sounds like the early 2000s, especially if it's some kind of dnb, jungle, or ambient
nostalgic futurism that isn't dnb or ambient (and especially not synthwave!)
sounds like racing game music from back when it was too good
vaporwave but original (as in, not sample based) and not synthwave
weird and wacky experimental electronica that can work in the background
bass heavy but low intensity music that tickles the brain
just really pretty and interesting ambient or drone stuff in general
please drop names and links here. by all means, plug yourself and your friends if you want to
bandcamp, mirlo, faircamp, and similar links are preferable, but any link will do if those aren't available. extra bonus points if creative commons or similar
I think these styles of music are amazing and rather underrated, especially since a lot of the people who like these styles are just playing random youtube mixes in the background, so they have no idea what they're actually listening to or who to support
I also find this kind of music annoyingly hard to discover, which isn't helped by those mixes either, because most of them are either drawing from the same small handful of artists, or just playing video game soundtracks
I want to change that, even if only a little bit. for that reason, please boost
aside from just hoping to spread this post around, I'd love to write about what I hear on my website eventually too, play it during livestreams with the titles on screen, and of course share it with all my non-fedi friends
The first contribution to #MyRiddims this year was made by junglist and MC #DRS with his mixtape "Everything Must Go!". Right in the intro, he gives the Big Music Biz the middle finger and, of course, delivers one fat track after another with many collaborations with #Dogger, #Mither and #Mindstate, among others.
De la verdure à perte de vue.
Aussi improbable que cela puisse sembler, c’est quelque part dans le paysage de cette photo que j’ai rencontré @cheyenne !
I went to a #shpongle performance yesterday together with about 1500 enthusiastic fans from all over the world, in the middle of the #thai#jungle. I'm new to the genres around #psychedelic#music and not interested in doing mushrooms (unlike most of his fans, I suspect). 🤪😝 But I did enjoy quite a few of the tracks and the overall vibe a lot. 🥰😇 If only I didn't have stomach pain from my hernia... 🫣
How do folks find new music today? I want to start moving away from streaming and I’m realizing how much of a crutch it has become for discovery. The most I do these days is maybe check /r/hiphopheads or /r/metalcore for weekly release threads and otherwise just depend on the genre sections of apple music.
Are music blogs still a thing? Anybody got recommendations on how to find the good shit?