Iv'e been fucking around with Spotify lately , searching for some obscure tracks and then clicking on "start radio" yields some fine results mixed together with some "meh" tracks... but somehow i get more interesting results with Youtube's recommendations.

What about you? what site gives you the most interesting recommendations?

There should be a site where you can directly subscribe to an artist. Is there? In my understanding, Spotify only let users to follow other people's playlists and subscribe into those. Am i wrong? This "site" would be only in text (no audio whatsoever) and new entries injected by labels. Data, data, data... I think that kind of site with big database, simple interface and solid servers would help DJ's stay better on track with new music.

To answer your question: YouTube atm.

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Spotify's worked best for me re recommendations, but mostly when I wanted to listen to, for instance, something like a dark ambient album by an artist I didn't know yet and then it would nicely suggest other releases on, say, the Cryo Chamber label, and also actually recommend very relevant other artists. The metadata is all clearly there but I wish it would let me do more than just search artist names and album and track titles... Want to browse by label!

Following a few people on Bandcamp has led me to discover some nice things too, but that's obviously not a 'recommendation system'.

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Originally posted by djkopernikus There should be a site where you can directly subscribe to an artist. Is there? In my understanding, Spotify only let users to follow other people's playlists and subscribe into those. Am i wrong? This "site" would be only in text (no audio whatsoever) and new entries injected by labels. Data, data, data... I think that kind of site with big database, simple interface and solid servers would help DJ's stay better on track with new music. To answer your question: YouTube atm.

i'm kinda new at this, but there is a follow button for each artist.


Your idea is kinda good, i'll try that.

Spotify's "Discovery Weekly" playlist, I guess? I dunno, don't really use recommendation algorithms too often. Browsing through Discogs' Recommendations will sometimes lead me to something new, but that's about it.

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Originally posted by Viber a follow button for each artist

I think I've never actually seen a notification concerning artists I "follow" on Spotify despite new releases actually having appeared on their artist pages. Unless I've been doing something wrong.

spotify discover section works pretty well for me, didn't try it with trance music, but for everything else like house, lo-fi and techno it does a nice job 80% of the time

in general, it works much better than apple music and deezer