Basically through other media, I’ll watch a movie, game, anime or maybe a friend will post it on a discord server and I’ll listen to it, pretty much that.
I highly recommend the youtube channel My Analog Journal. Every video is a new dj with a theme and it’s extremely varied, I’ve found so much great music via it throughout the years.
This one is superb, IMO:
Since I’m new (hello, happy to be here!) I can only post one link, but I’ll write the names of a few other favorites from that channel:
Eclectic grooves from West Africa
Psychedelic Cumbia
Turkish female singers from the 70’s
There’s so much more, years of videos and a wide variety of genres.
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High key, I don’t. It finds me.
I respect this
Okay, as a Vocaloid fan in this conversation, I have to talk about VocaDB. VocaDB is a community database that’s dedicated to cataloguing every single song ever made using any kind of computer voice synthesis, literally from the IBM 7094 singing Daisy Bell to the absolute latest songs hot off YouTube and NicoNico made using bleeding-edge synths like Kasane Teto SV2, and even some odd in-betweeners like Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction (because it uses a bunch of text-to-speech voices???)
Anyway, the important thing is that VocaDB has a front page where all of the most-liked and favourited songs (by other VocaDB users, so it’s effectively self-curated by the most knowledgable Vocaloid nerds) that have released in the last 48 hours or so are featured on the front page—the site even has its own built-in player, so you don’t even need to leave the site to listen to anything on YouTube or NicoNico (though I generally do so I can feed the artist engagement and give them likes out of courtesy). Of course, all the Vocaloid megahits that need no help will always instantly hit the top of the frontpage, but on quieter days you’ll often find that the number one song on the VocaDB homepage will have less than 1000 or even 500 views. You’ll find songs from artists and/or vocal synths you’ve never even heard of, and you might even find a new favourite—on top of that, if you do follow these links to YouTube, I’ve found that the YouTube algorithm itself will start serving you these obscure songs proactively if you listen to enough of them while logged in.
It’s really the perfect solution for finding hidden gems in the Vocaloid scene, and as Vocaloid Twitter and TikTok continue to burn themselves out listening to and complaining about only the most popular Miku-Teto duets, I think VocaDB is a very important incubator for these songs that would otherwise go under the radar, and it stands as living proof that not all contemporary Vocaloid music is all the same as much as VocaTikTok would have you think it is.
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I search “country” “decade” i’ve found a lot of my favourite music that way. Like Harry Roesli (70’s Indonesian Prog Gamelan Fusion idk what to call it).
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Yeah I’m with the above peeps on trawling Bandcamp. Just scrolling away for a while seeing what tickles the fancy.
I’m also an avid record collector and the bargain bin at the shops around my city and the next city over have provided me some of my greatest finds. It’s really easy to take that gamble on cool cover art when it’s 2 bucks (ᵔᴥᵔ)
My final method is asking ye olde DJ at the club what that last song was because it altered my brain chemistry and I need more of it.
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Weirdly specif way i’ve been finding and spreading new music: making playlists for my rpg characters, sharing them with the table and listening to the playlists of the PCs the other players made
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