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!
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.
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
- 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
I could spend upwards of 3 hours scrolling through this website. I’m so obsessed with finding perfumes with notes I like (at the moment my favorites are bubblegum, sea water, and incense). I like to go to Scentbar (strictly the Hollywood location) and hand them my phone and show them all the perfumes on my Fragrantica account that I want to smell. I knowwww a scentbar employee hates to see me coming
lol stupid thing to recommend but specifically for philosophy I find it very helpful to follow imbedded links and see the web of philosophical terms spread and develop as you go. philosophy is so referential at times and it helps me to see things summarized and related directly. once I find a philosophical subset I’m interested in I look at the literature concerned and delve deeper, there are so many free pdfs of philosophical texts online, bless up. you can start with what you know, “philosophy of-“ will almost always yield something. my interest in philosophy started with modern philosophy and moved backwards in time, you might be different. honestly just get in there and have fun with it kid
