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Music community roll call thread - where do you hail from? and welcome! ;)
I'm curious who has made it to ~music now that the influx has settled down a bit. What were your old musical haunts? Old blogs? Obscure youtube channels? Various music subreddits? /mu/? Tell us a bit about your musical tastes and take the time to drop a couple tracks in the favorite songs thread. Also, welcome to Tildes. :)
Tagging @0d_billie as she belongs to what is the best damn band on Tildes, Sir Curse!
I am blushing, thank you! <3
For the uninitiated, we are a Leeds (UK)-based theatrical rock outfit that we like to describe as Kate Bush and System of a Down running away together to join the circus. It's raucous, silly, camp, and over the top, and I adore it. @cfabbro has described us as Dark Cabaret before, and I think it fits perfectly. We like to experiment with and mashup genre quite a lot, so our sets can be a real grab bag of sounds, but there's usually something in there for everyone. Our newest single comes out in a few weeks, and I am so excited to put it out into the world!
Give us a listen, and let me know what you think :)
I was tempted to ping you in all the new musicmaker type posts on here now to encourage you to share your work (and potentially give us a sneak peak for any new stuff you're working on ;) but I was worried that might be annoying. I'm glad @AugustusFerdinand pinged you though, since I really do think your band is really fucking good, and you all deserve more attention! :)
p.s. For those not familiar with Sir Curse... here's my personal favorite tracks: Coraline, Glad I Woke Up.
Ping away! I'm trying to be better about self promotion, and that sort of thing might be just the sort of kick up the bum I need :D
I'm under strict instructions not to share anything before it's good and ready, sadly. But we got the final master of the next track back today and it sounds great! There's shades of Pendulum to it, which is a whole heap of fun. But it's the next two tunes we have coming out that after the next one that I'm most excited for. I'll be sure to post everything as soon as it's released!
Okay, let the pinging begin! :P
And I said it to you before but I'll say it again, I really am looking forwards to hearing your new album. So plz plz plz ping me when you release it or any new singles from it. :)
Absolutely will do, although temper your expectations for a full album! We're releasing a trio of singles over the course of the next 9 months or so :P But the music video we're putting out around October alongside the second single is probably our best yet!
Bah, worst news I've heard in months. I expected and now demand a full album!!! ;)
No worries though, I still look forwards to listening to the three new tracks whenever you're all ready to release them. Take your time. Do it right. No pressure. :)
If there's anything I have no problem being, it's annoying!
Click label, click joke.
And shouting out @3_3_2_LA in a similar vein.
And mycketforvirrad comes through when my ever aging memory fails me of the other talented people here!
@3_3_2_LA's remixes are frequently my background tunes when I've got something to focus on as they are neither too distracting to draw attention away from what I need to be doing and not too slow/predictable to make me change focus to change the song.
Yeah, their Clean Bandit remix really is great!
Get out of my computer, mycketforvirrad. Clean Bandit was literally playing when I posted my reply to you. And agreed, it is great.
Gosh, thank you! This is great to hear!
Just for those new here, I make bootleg remixes of popular tracks, although that is getting harder, now that one of the sources I use for it is down... I'm currently wrapping up a remix of Julia Michael's issues, so keep an eye out for that ;)
P.S. If anyone knows any sites where I can upload my work without it getting taken down by overzealous copyright algorithms (audius and soundcloud should learn a thing or two about fair use smh), let me know!
I chill in Mark Twain Country. My house was /r/listentothis - patient #4, joined the day it was created, modded it for it's best decade and then dipped out in 2018 due to reddit apathy along with most of the original mods. I do a lot of cratedigging through random youtube surfing, spotify playlists, lurking on /mu/, progarchives, and a handful of still-good music subs like /r/vintageobscura. I follow a lot of good music channels on youtube like jaminthevan, kexp, and ourvinyl. It's getting hard to keep up with it all, honestly. More music than one can listen to in a lifetime. I live for new music in old styles. I dig pretty much anything, though, as long as it isn't overlong or repetitive. I think lolicore might be the only genre I actually hate.
Berlin, Germany.
I must say was pleasantly surprised with the recommendations I've seen here in recent threads! There seems to be some passionate and knowledgeable people here :)
I dabble in whatever I find on Spotify, but my bread and butter is Metal of all sorts. Recent faves include Wytch Hazel from the UK (traditional twin lead NWOBH), Brutus from Belgium (Post-metal I guess?), and Imha Tarikat (Black Metal from Germany). All have released amazing albums in 2022/23.
Any recommendations for exciting electronic music are always welcome!
East Coast, US
Never really been largely into subreddits or forums for music discovery, but definitely have followed some blogs (both ones that offer downloads and ones that do not- regardless of if you download, they're still good for discovery). Often would read a lot of different music review sites too.
These days, still visit some blogs, but often find stuff via YouTube (label channels, KEXP, The Current, NPR Tiny Desk, etc). For community, I watch a weekly metal discovery stream on Twitch and am a member of that streamer's Discord community and my metal music discovery has exploded since joining.
I also will often just browse bandcamp tags to find new stuff
If you want my non-exhaustive best of 2022 list, which is mostly metal, I've had it posted here for a while (not intended to be self-promotion or blogspam... my website isn't really commercial in any regard):
https://garden161.net/non-exhaustive-best-of-2022-album-list/
A heartfelt Moin from Hamburg, Germany.
I used to play bass in a funk rock jam band in Highschool. Went on to become a musician and ended up working stages and movie sets before accepting the fact that I smoked too much weed and didn’t actually put the work in.
Grew up in one of the epicenters of German Hiphops golden era in the late 90s and came of age on gritty Drum‘n‘Bass parties.
Lately got into long distance running and Boom Bap is just the right cadence for relaxed running, so I have been revisiting a lot of classics lately. Interesting to hear them through a more reflected lens.
While working I listen to a lot of longer mixes either Ambient or my new favorite Liquid DnB.
Used to borrow my father’s Rolling Stone magazines as a teen and trade tapes with friends. Nowadays I barely read about bands. I don’t really care.
Since this year, I have a chat with a colleague where we recommend old and new stuff to each other. That and the fact that my wife is a metal head st heart made me listen to a lot more distorted guitars lately.
I'm in Berlin! I got a cool local band for you, kinda disco, kinda funk - Rupert's Kitchen Orchestra... you can catch them jamming in the street sometimes.
Pianist & piano technician from Portland, OR here. I helped write the music for one of my favorite projects, Orpheus-Visions
Otherwise I love almost everything in music, but my favorite piece may be Chopin-Berceuse. I’m pretty happy to be a part of such a coalescing community. I sure hope to continue to help the community grow!
hey everyone. form the east coast usa. hoping tildes can be the new reddit.
most of my karma came from r/musicthemetime. i spend a lot of time there and discovered a lot of new stuff there. i find it a great sub to find new stuff, as it's not limited to genre or certain times. it's always a big mix of stuff.
maybe we can get a weekly theme thread going?
i also frequented r/tipofmytongue and r/ifyoulikeblank
yo! huge fan of jamiroquai and the beastie boys. neither has ever really had an active online community, but whatever.
Beasties, hmm? Perhaps you would dig Ren - What You Want
Radical! Thanks for the rec, I love this!
I'm near Detroit, MI, and moved here in 2017. Only THIS YEAR have I learned about the connection to techno music we have! What a damn treat the festivals around here will be now.
I've been exploring Electronica for a little bit, slowly, but my heart really belongs to what folks who grew up in the 90s called "college rock". So the stuff you'd hear on the college radio stations, or stuff that sounds similar.
I also love Beastie Boys and some other hip-hop, had a long Hamilton fan phase, and still love Daft Punk.
Basically, anything that isn't post-9/11-country I'd great, however.
I was a mod at r/letstalkmusic
Bhaktapur, Nepal.
Used to be a hardcore metalhead but don't listen to it that often anymore. Been into alternative and prog since the last few years.
Favorite artists include Rush, Dream Theater, Radiohead, Kings of Leon, and Tool.
A former mod of r/music, and r/listentothis. A former DJ on local radio. A hilarious number of followers on my YT channel, which I got frustrated with, because the copy-right detection on YT has more false positives than an expired COVID test. Anyone have a new spot to upload mixes and the like? Mixcloud went pay-only a while back IIRC.
Mixcloud will let you have ten shows total uploaded in medium quality unless you pay their $8/mo. It's also become... overly corporatized? I just don't get the feeling they give a damn about the music anymore. It feels like some kind of DJ points game you have to pay to play.
The only other option for uploading under the 'radio streaming' licensing model without worrying about copyright is 8tracks. They are older than mixcloud, and a lot more community-oriented. That's where I'm moving my stuff eventually. The $2.50/mo premium they offer is just no ads and the ability to skip around in tracks.
I like being able to upload one massive flac to mixcloud and paste in the times/names from the cue sheet. On 8tracks you have to upload every track individually and fill out a little form with each track which is a colossal timesink - at least, that's how it was last time I used it. It's been a while, I have six new shows to put up there. They are the last refuge for real mixtapes and a more social mixtape sharing community.
Yeah, I'm already way over that limit (grandfathered in) from when I was mirroring my shows to mixcloud.
Might have to try out 8tracks, but that does sound like a PITA
I just checked the uploader - yep, same annoying as hell system. Can't upload the whole show, have to chop it up for their copyright system.
Booo
edit: you know, I could probably adopt my workflow for that, since it's atrophied. Any idea if their copyright system NAK's e.g., ROIO recordings?
That's the thing that kills YT for me
I've never seen a takedown there, in fact under the radio streaming broadcasting model it's almost impossible to get a takedown. Instead the law forces them to pay the copyright holder every time it is played. The pressure seems to be just in making damn sure everything uploaded is well labeled to facilitate that process.
I make my .flac the usual way and then chop it up for them, get the artist information nailed down and let them worry about it.
Beautiful
Hello from Quebec, Canada.
I listen to a lot of music. SD card on my phone has over 20 000 tracks. I hit random and go, everyday.
I'm okay going from Merle Haggard to DMX to Sleigh Bells to Father John Misty to J.U.S.T.I.C.E etc.
My favourite place was birp.fm especially their mixtapes ( happy to share them ) now I mostly put something into YouTube and let it make a mix of similar stuff. If I want less mainstream stuff I'll go to bandcamp and look through their top stuff of the month by genre.
I'm very new here ( thank you Deimos and everyone who's helped make Tildes )
Here's my all time favourite hidden gem.
I've never met anyone who had heard it before and I think it's a beautiful wild ride. [ Enjoy ]
( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLeeVv8iaws&pp=ygUVd2hpc2tlcnMgb21uaXRob3B0ZXJz )
Denver, CO, USA
Ex-Musician/Sound Engineer/Repair Technician
I'm a firm believer that every single music genre out there is 90% terrible, 5% meh, 4% decent 1% amazing and a fraction of that last percent will change your entire life.
So I'm constantly looking for stuff that gives me "the feeling." I prefer entire albums over single tracks whenever possible, but I seem to fall madly in love with something new every few months.
The only social media I'm into is this, and whatever my friends are listening to on Spotify. I'm always watching... Always...
I dislike the trend lately of artists releasing singles once a year and calling it a day.
I miss full LP's a lot, but also, the benefit of singles is that there is significantly less filler. I still write full LP's when I do write music, I don't feel right without having a collection of work to reference back to.
A great track is sweeter than candy, but a great album beats a whole meal.
Amen to that. I'm going to find all of those albums and put them in the Tildes wiki.
Lol I'm of the same opinion. I love claiming that every genre has good music in it. To disagree with that statement is wild, but hey, some still do.. Art people stuff.
Edit: And dude, no one I interact with likes listening to whole albums or is remotely curious about music. So, I'm left just not REALLY listening anymore lol.. Also time.
Los Angeles!
Previously on What for many many years and now Redacted.. However finding less time to really go through the troves like I used to. Rym account although not that active there. I mostly use it to categorize and find stuff.
Aphex Twin, Frank Zappa, and Sun Ra are the top 3.. My library is largely in the 90s, with lots of 60s, 70s, and 80s records as well.
The nature of this site I think is gonna bring out some interesting recommendations :)
Central Scotland, UK
Its been a long time since I was in a band, 10 or so years now, I just became frustrated with the egos and after working with another musician who left me footing his half of the bill for recording I just threw in the towel. I'm a guitarist and vocalist though and tended to play in either hard rock or metal bands.
I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan and used to be a proficient poster on the official forum back in the mid-00's to the early-10's then slowly moved into posting more regularly on the subreddit /r/SmashingPumpkins
I can generally find something to listen to in every genre but gravitate towards Rock and Metal, specifically, alt-rock, metalcore and djent.
I'm currently enjoying The Smashing Pumpkins newest release Atum, a 3-disc, 33 song concept album and Teenage Wrists Earth is a Black Hole.
Originally from India - now in Singapore.
Long time music listener and thanks to the pandemic (a tiny silver lining in an otherwise gigantic, boiling cloud of lava) I got into making music using first an electric guitar and then the OP-Z.
As a penniless student in a country where music CDs cost a heck of a lot more than what I could afford, I naturally sailed the high seas and got into what.cd where my musical taste basically expanded like heck. I listen to practically everything - although I'm partial to post rock, textural music as well as vocal productions. I now try to buy stuff legally via Bandcamp - atone for all my student life sins.