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Some of the best music discovery I’ve had is actually Reddit. I primarily listen to electronic and the communities are 6/5. It’s just streams of music being recommended, with occasional discussion, in tiny subreddits for all the subgenres. I’ll let you find the subreddits yourself if your interested (just search for your intended subgenre). don’t wanna spoil them :)

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Those subreddits sometimes become a really small echo chamber, and it's obvious its just a minor fraction of a genres listeners. I think everynoise.com and your ears is a way better initial genre exploration tool than Reddit even for genres that have been out there for a while and are still popular and being produced.

For the genres I've been listening for a while or jamming to with my rig Reddit is usually underwhelming and I have more success by starting on everynoise.com or Beatport (which I generally dislike for discovery because their gatekeeping of genres is bullshit) and then listening to new stuff that the label for the artist I found is putting out.

Yep, some of the subreddits definitely kind of focus on one section of the genre but that’s what I kind of like. If I want to find some good new music with a specific sound, I know I can just check those communities out. When I was first discovering electronic though, all the subgenres and labels was overwhelming. Now that I have my tastes kinda figured out I now add in listening to labels I like and artists. That everynoise site is really interesting, never heard of it before. Excited to check it out, thanks for the link!

out of curiosity, how often do you do this? And once you discover something, how do you get it into your music app / playlist?

Whenever I start feeling worn out of the music I have been listening too I spend some time just scrolling through and listening. I am not a big playlist person but rather a library person. (I use Apple Music for this reason as they emphasize libraries). When I find a song I like I just add it to my library. And Apple Music’s interface is great as I can retrieve it by either looking for the album, artists, or genre (albeit it’s classifications aren’t very good).

I can't speak for that user in particular but I use Reddit for music discovery as well. My flow is this: I'll look for stuff with the genre tags I know I like and look for new artists I don't recognize that have those tags. I'll listen to one or two songs and set their name aside if I like them and go back to browsing. After I get bored of looking for new stuff, I'll go back through and listen to the entire discography of that artist and add songs I like to my Spotify or Youtube playlists. I then move from artist to artist that I set aside earlier. After that, I'll look for any collabs they've done and check out the assisting artist or I'll check out the "people also listen to" suggestions on Spotify and start the process over but there instead of on Reddit. That cycle typically lasts about a year before I get the urge to look for new stuff again on Reddit like that.

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