gilmore606
17d ago
Max Ernst
I've never seen anyone mention him in the wild -- The Entire City is one of my favorite paintings, it's haunted me since I saw it in an art book when I was 10 years old. And yeah, AI could never.
gilmore606
25d ago
oh thank you that is interesting, I just assumed the Spotify API would be locked down and useless, I'll check it out! I generally use music-map.com for finding similar artists (by hand).
gilmore606
25d ago
Mostly yeah, although I do old fashioned crate digging and rip vinyl myself sometimes. I search for long (>100 tracks) playlists, the component videos of which have <20k views; this gets me enough candidate playlists to find good music collections. I also sometimes look at similar-artist tools to find new bands from obscure gems I find.
Curation has become a constant background activity for me; if I'm coding for work, reading a forum, or browsing web stuff, I'm probably also auditioning some playlist or artist in the background.
gilmore606
25d ago
cleaning and correcting metadata is a neverending labour :(
The digging and curation is a lifelong obsession, so I have a lot of angles. I have a script to trawl the youtube API for long playlists with certain criteria that indicate curation of obscure music; when I find those I rabbit-hole down them hunting for gold. I am sometimes active on Soundcloud/Bandcamp and make connections with artists there. When I find a great obscure single, I rabbithole the artist and their label/connections to find more.
gilmore606
25d ago
I have the impression many people here are weird old people who like strange media, so I would like to humbly plug my strange radio station.
It's been my personal project the past 6+ years; I collect obscure, old, weird, and beautiful music from everywhere and have software mixing it together 24/7. It's up to almost 16,000 tracks now, all hand selected by me. It's not for profit and probably illegal. I hope you check it out and enjoy it.
These are only problems if you consider these neowave genres to be historical preservation museums, which they aren't (the original music still exists for that). They're mashup/remix genres; the problems you describe are actually features.
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