[neekomax]

I use a couple of methods.

1. Subscribing to other people's playlists through Spotify's Facebook integrated social function. I can see what friends are listening to, and then check out their public playlists. Have a few friends with similar (or even slightly overlapping) tastes as me, and it's cool because when they add new tracks to those playlists, they show up in mine, too.

2. Using playlist or album radio in Spotify. Like Pandora, endless shuffle of 'similar' stuff to what you're basing off. Use this function with an already eclectic playlist, and you get a HUGE variety of stuff (but be quick with that skip button  ).

3. The most fun of all because it involves real people. Turntable.fm (https://turntable.fm/lobby). Basically you choose a 'room' based on music genre, enter, and then share DJ duties with up to four other people in real time, while others listen and wait their turn at the decks. If you like other people's tracks, it makes it easy to add them to your DJ queue for later, or to Spotify, Rdio, or to link to iTunes or Amzon for purchase. It's all super easy, well designed, and the music library is crazy large. Here's a NY Times article that describes it in full: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/spotify-is-great-but-turntable-fm-is-amazing/

Here's a discovery from this week:

Takashi Matsunaga - Storm Zone http://open.spotify.com/album/6hh8sXFx0rAPVYXzEs99if



17 year old (at the time) Japanese jazz pianist who looked like he was 12  , catchy, all-original compositions, pretty accessible jazz for those who don't like it too beepity boppity, if you know what I mean. And pretty impressive. Here's a review:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14479#.UT4SPtFARR8

 

[ericjan93]

pandora is the way to go, their music selection is pretty decent IMHO

[neekomax]

I love it when a good thread idea takes off! 

Ah, f* it, maybe I'll just use this as my own personal music discovery blog. Here's an awesome find from this morning. Maybe the best one of the week, we shall see. Actually found it watching this crazy Japanese audio dealer's YouTube channel (he seems to have nothing but insane gigantic speakers: https://www.youtube.com/user/hosoken007), it was playing in one of the demos. :

Buika - En mi piel

http://open.spotify.com/album/7r5wYvvJPOyF3PV3aTPnKd

Pretty famous (though new to me) flamenco jazz vocalist from Spain, of Guinean descent. Dat voice! Nice variety of sounds and types of music on this, which is a double CD greatest hits type collection. Apparently she's been making making records since 2005 or so. Just confirms that there is a nearly infinite world of great music awaiting discovery.

[charmerci]

I didn't respond because I only discover old music. Don't like the new stuff.

[neekomax]

I didn't respond because I only discover old music. Don't like the new stuff.

You're being funny, right? 'Discovering new music' means finding music that's new to you. Could be the stolen master of an album that hasn't even come out yet, could be 700 year old Gregorian chant. See what I'm saying?

I assume you don't listen to the same albums over and over with no fresh sounds coming into the mix, right? Or maybe you do, no worries. Like I said, if no one cares, I'll just post what I'm finding for the fun of it, or until someone tells me to stop. 

[lonewolfny42]

I use All Music....

And this... http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=circles#c14



Here's a few other suggestions....

http://inspiredm.com/20-fantastic-ways-to-find-new-music-that-you-like-no-lastfm-pandora-inside/


http://www.gnoosic.com/


http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-free-ways-discover-music-online/


http://wearehunted.com/a/#/emerging/


http://bandofthedayapp.com/

Good music is ....everywhere...you just need to listen.

[neekomax]

I use All Music....

And this... http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=circles#c14



Here's a few other suggestions....

http://inspiredm.com/20-fantastic-ways-to-find-new-music-that-you-like-no-lastfm-pandora-inside/


http://www.gnoosic.com/


http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-free-ways-discover-music-online/


http://wearehunted.com/a/#/emerging/


http://bandofthedayapp.com/

Good music is ....everywhere...you just need to listen.

Great stuff! Gonna spend time with All Music to start...

Any good recent finds?

[lonewolfny42]

Any good recent finds?

Well...it's not "recent"...was recorded in 2006...but it's "new" to me....with many good tracks...YMMV...



Avishai Cohen - "Continuo"

Track 9....good reference track for bass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJCERfeehY

[etcarroll]

Internet radio such as Radio Paradise introduced me to Silversun Pickups, Porcupine Tree, and The Decemberists, I just bought their album The Crane Wife yesterday.

I have about 8 Pandora stations, always getting introduced to new things, especially classical.

And last - audio get togethers/raves - I always hear something new. Lonewolfny42 hipped me to Brother Jack Mcduff  "bringin' it home" recently, Pumpkinman got me into Pink Floyd and Robin Trower, and richidoo  pointed me to a nice version of Beethoven Triple Concerto  I added to my collection.

[neekomax]

Well...it's not "recent"...was recorded in 2006...but it's "new" to me....with many good tracks...YMMV...



Avishai Cohen - "Continuo"

Track 9....good reference track for bass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJCERfeehY

Yes, bro. Listening now. This is very good. God I love music.

[neekomax]

Internet radio such as Radio Paradise introduced me to Silversun Pickups, Porcupine Tree, and The Decemberists, I just bought their album The Crane Wife yesterday.

I have about 8 Pandora stations, always getting introduced to new things, especially classical.

And last - audio get togethers/raves - I always hear something new. Lonewolfny42 hipped me to Brother Jack Mcduff  "bringin' it home" recently, Pumpkinman got me into Pink Floyd and Robin Trower, and richidoo  pointed me to a nice version of Beethoven Triple Concerto  I added to my collection.

Nice one. I live kinda far from everyone it seems, so I haven't met many other ACers (only Gopher & Ethan Weiner). Diamond Dog turned me on to "In Absentia" by Porcupine Tree, have listened to that a lot in the last year. Havent really gotten into their other stuff, though.

Based on how awesome lonewolf's recco on this thread is turning out to be, I will definitely check out Brother Jack McDuff.

[jarcher]

I have many stations on pandora, and now that I've got some of them really tweaked, a lot of great stuff that's new to me comes down the pipeline.  I have one which is just prog rock / fusion which is surprisingly good (in that I don't find myself skipping tracks or hearing repeats).

The other source has been these large digital music libraries friends have lent me with many bands / tracks / etc that I had never heard before.  Sometimes it could be years before I sift through it and discover something great I didn't even know I had. 

One album I tripped over in this lent collection : Brain as Hamedoodle, this instrumental bass & drum album by Buckethead @ Brain (AKA Bryan Mantia).  Great experimental album & great recording as a demo album.  Buckethead is usually known for guitar work, not bass.  I had no idea the guy has made SO many albums.

Some day I'll get a subscription to Mog or Spotify, but with over 25K songs so far, I've got a lot of music to explore just between my own collection & Pandora.

[lonewolfny42]

Jack McDuff.....electric funk and soulful blues.....

http://www.allmusic.com/album/bringin-it-home-mw0000049234


http://www.allmusic.com/album/down-home-style-mw0000089767




You can also just check out new releases....and play samples...

http://www.allmusic.com/newreleases

http://www.amazon.com/New-Future-Releases-Music-Pre-Order/b?ie=UTF8&node=465672

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed

[FullRangeMan]

YT is a great place to source.
I like this guy, Kava Kon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBbmdWtUcc&playnext=1&list=PLB81935C0831F5796&feature=results_main

[lonewolfny42]

YT is a great place to source.
I like this guy, Kava Kon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqBbmdWtUcc&playnext=1&list=PLB81935C0831F5796&feature=results_main

Sounds like a more modern Martin Denny.... 

[simoon]

Since my tastes are pretty specific to progressive music and most of its subgenres (prog, prog-metal, avant-garde, fusion, Zeuhl), I have no problems finding new music, since there are sites that specialize in these.

This is a forum on all subjects and genres of progressive music. There are many great recommendations by the knowledgeable members.

www.progresiveears.com

Other good sources -

www.progressivearchives.com
www.seaoftranquility.org

For prog-metal I like -

www.progmetalzone. com

For fusion I like -

www.fusion-zone.com

For sources to order there are;

www.abstractlogix.com - mostly fusion
www.lasercd.com - prog, prog-metal, fusion
http://synphonic.8m.com - the best source for prog
www.cuneiformrecords.com - for avant-grade jazz, fusion, prog


I also listen to a lot of 20th century, modern and avant-garde classical music, but this is also easy to find through classical music forums.

[neekomax]

Zeuhl?

[charmerci]

You're being funny, right? 'Discovering new music' means finding music that's new to you. Could be the stolen master of an album that hasn't even come out yet, could be 700 year old Gregorian chant. See what I'm saying?

I assume you don't listen to the same albums over and over with no fresh sounds coming into the mix, right? Or maybe you do, no worries. Like I said, if no one cares, I'll just post what I'm finding for the fun of it, or until someone tells me to stop. 

I was posting in semi-fun.

I don't want to hear Satisfaction for the 10,000th time but I would like to hear the Stones other songs like Live With Me and You Got the Silver - off of their Let It Bleed album. Generally, I just buy the old standards. So today, I just got my first Temptations album (The Temptin' Temptations - great music but awful sound  ) and Elvis Costello's Get Happy.

[simoon]

Zeuhl?

Zeuhl is a sub-genre of progressive music started by the French band, Magma.

Wiki says this -

Zeuhl means 'celestial' in Kobaïan, the constructed language created by Christian Vander. Originally solely applied to the music of Vander's band, Magma, the term zeuhl was eventually used to describe the similar music produced by French bands, beginning in the mid-1970s. Although primarily a French phenomenon, zeuhl has influenced recent avant-garde Japanese bands.
Zeuhl typically blends progressive rock, symphonic rock, fusion, neoclassicism, avant-rock, and vocal elements of African-American spirituals and Western military call and response. Common aspects include dissonance, marching themes, throbbing bass, keyboards including piano, Rhodes piano, or organ, and brass instruments. Zeuhl shares much in common with the Rock in Opposition movement, and many bands have participated in RIO festivals.

A review of Magma's 2004 KA says this -

[Z]euhl sounds like, well, about what you'd expect an alien rock opera to sound like: massed, chanted choral motifs, martial, repetitive percussion, sudden bursts of explosive improv and just as unexpected lapses into eerie, minimalist trance-rock.

Basically, it is progressive music (mostley French) that is on the more avant-garde side. But without the obvious dissonance of some of the more extreme avant-garde prog bands (Universe Zero, The Thinking Plague, Art Bears, Motor Totmemist Guild).

Other bands that fall into the Zeuhl sub-genre are: Eskaton, Dun, Zao (a jazz version of the genre), Shub Niggurath, Corima, Bondage Fruit, Ruins, One Shot (fusion meets Zeuhl).

[tabrink]

Well...it's not "recent"...was recorded in 2006...but it's "new" to me....with many good tracks...YMMV...
You guys are amazing!
Your suggestions and MOG give me something to look forward too everyday!
Currently absorbed with Avishai-Cohen/ 

Thank you so much for sharing!    I discover music through you! 



Avishai Cohen - "Continuo"

Track 9....good reference track for bass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJCERfeehY