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How to dig really deep into music genres?

alexdeenialexdeeni 6 Posts
in Record Collecting
Hi, I always try to dig as deep as possible into a genre. I use Google advanced search, I read comments and books, I watch interviews, I look through vinyl records etc., but I am not satisfied. Does anybody have advice on how to find really unknown music?

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  • para11axpara11ax No-style-havin' mf'er 406 Posts
    Go to used record shops. Get digging.

    billbradleyketan
  • klezmer electro-thug beatsklezmer electro-thug beats 1,413 Posts
    This is a weird question. I never even thought about "how". I just got interested in something and followed it. Digging is one part of it, for sure, but also just following the things that you like about a genre down various sub-avenues as you find things that interest you further. Like, reading everything you can, looking at recording credits, musician credits, label histories, writing contemporaneous with the genre, historical writing about it, and most of all, listening to shitloads of it. It's harder to explain than to just do.
  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 356 Posts
    If it were easy to find it wouldn’t really be unknown, would it?

    also just scroll through the soulstrut archives. 
    Duderonomyketan
  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,807 Posts
    This is the bot.
    Jimster
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,991 Posts
    Yeah the language is bottish.

    Raas wankstains.
    para11ax
  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 356 Posts
    Ahhhhh. Yes. 
  • alexdeenialexdeeni 6 Posts
    klezmer electro-thug beats said:
    This is a weird question. I never even thought about "how". I just got interested in something and followed it. Digging is one part of it, for sure, but also just following the things that you like about a genre down various sub-avenues as you find things that interest you further. Like, reading everything you can, looking at recording credits, musician credits, label histories, writing contemporaneous with the genre, historical writing about it, and most of all, listening to shitloads of it. It's harder to explain than to just do.

    How is that a weird question? I know what you mean, but I want to find a smoother way. I am interested in so many things that I can't invest too much time in all of them. Google advanced search for example is a much smoother method     

  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    alexdeeni said:
    I am interested in so many things that I can't invest too much time in all of them. 

    Maybe this discovering unknown music thing just isn't for you.

    dizzybullDuderonomy
  • para11axpara11ax No-style-havin' mf'er 406 Posts
    Mans sounds like a socially awkward bot-troll, or an alias tbh. 

    b/w

    Dude fits right in! Welcome! There’s a vast repository of knowledge archived on this here Strut if you look around. 

    If you are searching for “amazing-deep unknown danger genre” (AKA music that sucks), you should check out Waxidermy. They can tell you about ethno-honkey, arctic throat-singers, new age moves, etc. Definitely the move in your case. Good luck in your quest, and try not to lose your mind and end up like Stinky Steve.


    dizzybull
  • klezmer electro-thug beatsklezmer electro-thug beats 1,413 Posts
    para11ax said:
    Mans sounds like a socially awkward bot-troll, or an alias tbh. 

    b/w

    Dude fits right in! Welcome! There’s a vast repository of knowledge archived on this here Strut if you look around. 

    If you are searching for “amazing-deep unknown danger genre” (AKA music that sucks), you should check out Waxidermy. They can tell you about ethno-honkey, arctic throat-singers, new age moves, etc. Definitely the move in your case. Good luck in your quest, and try not to lose your mind and end up like Stinky Steve.



    Stinky Steve, you mean the distinguished gent who has multiple shoutouts on rap records? Sounds like a cool guy. I'm sure he doesn't actually stink and is in fact a fine specimen of diggerdom...

    And yeah, OP, dude, if you're not a bot you communicate really fucking weird

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