Venice Lockjaw wrote: ↑Sun Apr 29, 2018 10:43 pm
shadowplay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:11 pm
wrath wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 7:31 am
Waging a one man's war against Spotify.
Hang in there. You'll defeat those dastardly algorithms one day.
I can defeat them all day every day with confidence, they'll never know the lines between the lines, between the lines.
I don't need any help finding music, never have, never will and that goes double with the likes of Spotify, which is inferior to how I get my music anyway.
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I would be curious to know your methods.
Some of it is slightly unexplainable since I seem to have a knack of buying stuff blind and randomly that I like and I've been at this a long time so I have good instincts for music for me at least.
I also just spend the time in record shops browsing, usually with a few kids in tow, I also go through near enough every record that comes through Juno (some genres aside) and do the same more universally with Boomkat, Bleep, Phonica and Norman. Then I follow labels and run down leads that way and just try and make connections. I seldom look at blogs or online magazines but I buy The Wire and I do look through NTS radio playlists and the like every few months and pick up the odd thing that way and I'll look through FACT mixes and that sort of thing but seldom listen to them.
I also try to get on good terms with label employees or bosses, not really for free stuff and special treatment but mainly for the musical discussion and to share tips. and recommendations. I'll always ask a DJ what something is if I don't know it and even if I do know what their playign I'd usually try and offer my complements.
Hard to say how I'd do it if I was younger but basically 95% of what I know about music has been gleaned buying records as they were released and the stuff I know about records made before I was in the game was gained in a really random and organic way.
It's a bit easier now, back in the 80's I used to have to buy a lot of records off a printed sheet from a distributer like the Cartel or similar, or with stuff I knew existed but had no real idea how to go about it like German music of the 70's. When I was feeling it out around the turn from 70's to 80's, I used to go to record fairs and ask the prog dealers to stick all the german stuff in a box and let me take it off their hands and I'd sort it out later. I also used to just buy boxes of records, sort through them and donate the rest...I'm a hoarder but not a hoarder of just any record, for example I don't even own records by a lot of the big rock grandees, it's never really interested em, well I do but they were listened to, stuck in a box in a lockup and given away when I found a home for them. Mrs S has some in her collection but our record collections are totally separate but even she'd admit her collection pre meeting me and after is totally different.
With Jazz and records that are totally outside my social sphere I've ended up with collection of the corners of the jigsaw and probably not a lot of the dead centre, either because I was just buying for the sleeve and sorting it out later or because I gravitated towards the end that most reflected my interests in other spheres. like say liking repetition and not liking lots of wanky solos, to much pre 60' and anything bluesy. Same with classical i suppose, where my tastes are more Medieval and minimal and Musik Fur Kinder style anti bombast. This is probably a totally half arsed way of going about it and terrible as it may seem buying a pile of classical records and needle dropping the whole pile in 30 minutes is my usual way of getting my bearing with anything I don't know.
I think with music you just find your own way, it's propably something of a weakness in my methodology and character but pretty much every genre has to get it's square peg through my round hole.
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