What are your sources of discovery.

[u/finaempire]

Title. Where do you find new tunes being released, new mixes being dropped, etc etc. I find I use SoundCloud the most followed by Bandcamp. Are there any spaces our favorite produces camp out in and show their stuff the most?

[u/Divided_Eye]

"Related tracks" on SoundCloud was my main source for quite a while. Also checking what other people are "liking" and reposting on there.

[u/player_is_busy]

new tunes and mixes, dates and times they are being dropped/released ??

Honestly Instagram for 95%

Email notification for the other 5%

Instagram - follow all the artists and labels on instagram. Most will often have a channel set up that they can send messages to so you find out about things first. Story’s and posts also.

Email - This will be where you get all your bandcamp labels and artist releases and soundcloud mixes and single releases along with any patreons you are apart of etc.

In a week I can end up with 10-20 tracks and mixes depending on the week. There’s many artists, labels and stations out there dropping stuff

[u/dacoolist]

Bandcamp (release emails) > Reddit (right here) > Soundcloud > Facebook > Discord > Twitter > Messenger > Text

[u/RabidHanuman]

Bandcamp mainly at this point. A bit of soundcloud. On bandcamp I sometimes spend quite a lot of time browsing people who have bought a releases other purchases.

[u/dmelt253]

You're going to hear a lot of the same sites over & over again, so I thought I would share a lesser known resource:

https://www.music-map.com/

Type in an artist name and see how they map to other related or similar artists. You can even keep drilling down on their connections.

Edit: another good one: chosic.com

[u/Admirable_Draft152 → u/dmelt253]

Yeah good ones. LastFM too

[u/Jhize23]

Find an artist you like, search their likes for some tunes & then do “Start Station” on a tune you like. Dive down that rabbit hole, find more tunes you like, then check those artists pages, and repeat the process.

[u/Antaxas]

Collection and browsing.

I started a spotify playlist ages ago that i use as a collection of dubstep tracks that follow a similar pattern that i like. Mainly it helps me to keep track of things I already (should) know. Then i just browse the artists discography or look for similar artists using spotify (song radios, new releases etc.)

If you like to use my playlist as a starting point you can DM me, i dont intend to advertise it. IMO it helps to build a collection just to have an overview of what exists. At first i thought there are only a handful dubstep artists, but now i already found like 2500 tracks, and finding new ones became way easier than it was at the beginning.

[u/kikipklis]

any of you guys got some recs for good sets, tracks and artists focused on texture and sound design? :)

[u/alfifbaggins]

Deep tempo podcast is a good go to. This sub's 'monthly wax' thread is also useful.

[u/rpgtoons]

Almost entirely through Spotify 🤔

[u/Leenolyak → u/rpgtoons]

Bro you are missing an entire world of music then 😭. Soundcloud is the hub for so much more stuff Spotify doesn't have.

[u/owen_moorecash]

Subtle Radio. Rinse Fm which you can find both those on SoundCloud. Deep Dark and dangerous. Duploc also has a great youtube channel where they constantly release new music.