I find most of my house/techno/funky tracks by following labels or label specific playlists (easy if you’re on spotify, otherwise there’s plenty of stuff on youtube)
a couple I recommend:
Miura Records
Subwax Distribution
Rhythm Section INTL Catalogue
all these playlists are like 100 hours so I just shuffle and skip till I find the heat. It‘s worth your time!
Sep 28, 2024
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NTS and Do You Radio are two of my daily listens — NTS has a tracklist function too + a huge archive of mixes.
Searching a favourite track on YouTube and then filtering by playlist is also really fun. Takes a little scrolling.
Discogs and bandcamp are both marketplaces I often dip into for some discovery. Both have user-made lists. Discogs you can go down great rabbit holes by digging into a particular artist/musician/producer’s entire body of work. Bandcamp good for new grassroots music.
Soulseek if you don’t mind a little piracy is also great. You can browse people’s entire music libraries. Some are really thoughtfully organised. There’s something oddly endearing about getting an impression for who someone is simply going off how they’ve organised their music and what they have.
Apr 29, 2024
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You can try listening to mixes uploaded to SoundCloud in your favourite genre. I normally discover one or two tracks I like in a mix by a radio, DJ or producer whose tastes I already trust. A consciously selected vibe beats generated by the algo.
If you like a DJ or producer, they might have mixes online from a radio show on SoundCloud or their own profile.
My mix recs:
Soulection Radio
Huge collection. They’re my flagship for soul, rnb and afrobeat. I also recommend checking out the individual profiles of people who work for the show like Sasha Marie and Sahar Habibi.
Delta Waves by Galimatias
Apr 30, 2024
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- go to the kinds of record stores that let you listen to the vinyl before you cop and just hang out for mad long
- get streaming service or slsk, go to store, save/download any album that looks interesting
- go on whosampled.com and search a bunch of songs you like, check out the source materials
- find one song you like, play it on spotify, let aftertrack radio do its thing it’s quite good actually
Mar 23, 2024
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an older couple came in for dinner and totally stiffed me on the tip which was disappointing but shitty tips and math mistakes happen on occasion, so though I was disapointed because I thought we were vibing, I entered the bad tip and got on with it. they came back as soon as we opened the next day with an envelope with $10 and this note. I love that they went above and beyond even for a small mistake like this, I wouldn’t have remembered in like a week but the universe tracks on this stuff yknow.
Apr 15, 2025
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Whenever I feel screen-bad and I know I want to do something else I do like a buffer activity to give myself time to decide what the ultimate goal is. Its helpful for me if it’s something that involves water so my phone can’t come with me and I’m really resetting my day, like doing the dishes or taking a shower. Things I like to do once I’ve amped up to it:
-Tinker, found some free frames on the street and spent the afternoon painting and fixing them with whatever I had around.
-Fancy errands like going to specialty shops (bakery, butcher, wine shop) then dinner becomes the project with whatever you’ve scrounged.
-Be a member of something, it will guilt you into going (pool, museum, local movie theater)
-just do one thing, there’s so much multi tasking asked of us and our attention, just doing one thing feels great sometimes (just eating, just drinking a hot bev, just listening to an album all the way through, just doing the dishes- I think I love doing the dishes?)
I 100% feel where you’re coming from and often struggle in the same way!
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