FORUM.TERMINAL_LEVY

nullnug wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2025 7:37 am I've never liked spotify personally but that's mostly from the perspective of expecting people to pay for ad free listening. If the baseline user experience is bad, then I don't think any tier of it is worth it. As far as albums and playlists are concerned, I think it's pretty easy to manage both. There's a lot of value to curation and I wouldn't say it outright threatens the full album experience. More of an aside. They're fantastic for branching out. A song stands out to you > you find the album > you find the artist > then you can possibly find their influences. That's so much music right there that can strengthen the connection to the artist. And they're great exercises to create as sort of a summation of experiences. The problem is more on algorithms filtering out tons of potential songs/projects because of an arbitrary numbers game. If you're interested in written pieces on music, there's stuff like The Quietus that can throw names at you. There's also websites like theshfl that you might enjoy. Radio Garden is great too, but doesn't usually list names. The best way to explore new music is to ignore your taste. Knowing what you enjoy affects how you react to new material and can limit what you allow yourself to listen to.

AtomicRunner wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 11:22 pm I tried yesterday to listen to an album in bed before sleeping, so I tried to think about something both not very long and instrumental. So I ended listening to all of Jean Michell Jarre's Oxygène in one go.

And I've listened to the album before at work, and you hear part's 2 and 4 a lot. But there was something about just listening to the entire thing without any other stimulus than the music itself that was... quite meditative, to be honest. I've always had a soft spot for this early era of electronic music and the harshness of its sound. But this time it put me in a really good state of mind. I don't know, it was a nice 40 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ab7tIZNplM

I also had a very funny dream I guess thanks to this album, but that's beyond the scope of this thread. Surprisingly, it did not involve the skull in its famous (and really good!) album cover.

higadoyrinon wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 2:13 pm
My most rewarding experiences with albums and discovering new music have come from reading blogs, a thing that's probably over by now... I haven't checked. I think because it works as just a recommendation that you have to jump sort of blindly to, but you end up trusting the curation of others.

carly rae jetfuel wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:55 am for music discovering i really enjoy https://www.nts.live/ for the novelty of "humans picking music". i pay a sub mostly for the track-listing but it's a bit spotty