The artist usually are Daft Punk (Discover, Homework and Human after all), French Kiwi Juice, Nicolas Jaar, Darkside, Kartell, Cezaire, Flume and Digitalism. I also like to dig into 50s and 60s jazz or soul. Usually something that puts you in a good mood and proactive.
I am with you with the one playlist technique. I don’t think I am all the way into that approach (I mainly organize playlists by a few artists but end up listening to the same few playlists exclusively).
Mentioning Scandinavian music, do you know A-ha? They are one of my favorites, but I have found that not many people here in the States know of them outside of their one hit here, but they have some amazing other stuff.
One of the nice things about talking with designers who have more experience than me is that they sometimes actually know what I am listening to:
Alphaville (known for Forever Young, Big in Japan, who have an awesome mix of catchy dance tunes, deep ballades, etc.)
A-ha
Depeche Mode – has seemed to survive very well, good amount of people here know them or grew up with them. Even searching the Core, they have been mentioned a few times.
Duran Duran – some of their stuff is amazing, others is pure garbage.
To make the youtube imbed thing work, click the youtube button in your post and then past the ID number of the video in there. The ID number is basically the very end of the share link.
Iron Maiden! They were one of the first bands that I really loved enough to listen to a full album. Then I got really into super heavy metal and metal core for a while (Parkway Drive, As I Lay Dying, Affiance, Amity Affliction, Bring me the Horizon). Most of the time now I just hit discover on Spotify or choose a random genre under recently added.
My brother just sent me this new album by 1939 Ensemble. If you like to work to instrumental post rock with jazz and surf rock influences, you might like this album. The drummer is Jose Medeles who was also the drummer for the Breeders.
If I am listening to music and hear a song I like, I’ll use Shazam to ID and it also serves as a “new music” list for me.
I was listening to the local 'alt" rock station here in Chicago, heard a song and hit Shazam. Now normally, most, if not all, songs I hit have thousands, hundreds of thousands if not over a million “Shazams”. It is a popular app. I did a double take for the song below. It had 26 “Shazams” a couple months ago. It is now up to 63.
I found out they are local and have played the Metro a couple times. Their lyrics are a bit juvenile and the hook is somewhat on the edge but not quite original, but nonetheless, I like supporting local young folks pursuing a dream.
Them live at the Metro. (I’d just be a sad old man in that crowd )
and i will drown tonight
when my head touches my toes
my brain escapes my mind
all i see is my feet
i’m blind
when the water rushes over my knees
It’s time
and the blood makes me cry
'cause i know that i’m not alive
so i go on through my life
so god just let me
and i just drowned last night
i guess the water got a little too high
and then my body floats to the other side
where the little kid on the street becomes horrified
and the blood makes him cry
'cause he knows that i’m not alive
so he goes on through his life
with the forced image in his mind
and the blood makes him cry
'cause he knows but he tries to deny