I love music, I listen to at least 8 hours of music each day. Even with
almost constantly listening to music, I'm finding there is still far too
much music for me to get through.
I follow a lot of genres, IDM, ambient, hiphop, experimental, jungle,
breakcore, gabber, downtempo, etc. And for each of these genres, a huge
amount of new releases comes out every week.
How do you put up with the sheer mass of decent music out there?
Are there any websites for music of these styles that has really critical
reviews? I'm so sick of review based sites that don't have the guts to
actually numerically rate a work, to give an honest opinion of what they
feel about it. Most review sites seem to pander to artists and labels,
worried that they'll lose their promotional copies.
I also want to find a site that reliably has sound samples of the week's new
releases. Especially in the case of IDM and experimental music, it's very
difficult to sort through what's out there because mp3s can be hard to come
by. Browsing the skimo release list every week, it seems like every release
there is some wonderful amazing thing, which we all know is far from true.
:)
So I'm looking for a critical dissection of weekly releases that I can rely
on for those weeks I'm too lazy to spend an entire day in a record store
going through everything...
Colin.
CPI - experimental noise at
http://www.mp3.com/cpi/
DXM - abstract ambient at
http://www.mp3s.com/dxm1/
......and of course...
http://www.mp3.com/AwkwardBehaviour
"Wouldn't you say, Pooh?" / "Say what?" asked Pooh, opening his
eyes. / "Music and Living-" / "The same thing," said Pooh.
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