I wouldn't be afraid of the Discover Weekly playlist. I think it's Spotify's best feature. For me, it surfaces great songs & artists I hadn't heard before, and sometimes it's almost spookily accurate.

For Discover Weekly to work though, it helps to feed it good data. It's based on a PageRank-like system, but instead of webpages it's based on user playlists [1]. If you create some of your own playlists, it will go and find other songs that appear regularly on similar playlists. Personally, I've made a large 800-track playlist of music I listen to while coding ([2] if anyone else is interested), and another with every song ever played at a goth/industrial nightclub I used to go to.

I rarely see "made up" artists, but I often like the ones I have been recommended - I really like "Time" on Nowi's EP called Reunion. It's actually made by Firefly Entertainment [3], a Swedish music production company that usually makes film & TV show soundtracks.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/30/9416579/spotify-discover-...

[2] https://open.spotify.com/user/syneryder/playlist/5YpeoHyEHG7...

[3] http://hellofirefly.com/