No.124635
You could browse collages on jpopsuki or redacted. You could traverse someone's collection on soulseek.
No.124644
>>124630>One thing is for sure is that I refuse to use streaming services to find music I likeWell that is my answer, you'd be surprised by how much music I've found purely by algorithm recommendations on either spotify or youtube.
No.124646
Before the days of "my youtube recs are my personality" it was just via Nip media. You'd watch a film and you'd know who Yura Yura Teikoku are or an anime and you'd know who Meiko Nakahara was. Then you could look them up on Nip Wikipedia and find all their stuff, related acts, etc. That one song would be a foot in the door to find dozens upon dozens.
Now I'm old and lazy and I eat the algo slop. But even that only works when you've fed them enough things you already know, manually searched for, for them to infer taste so I guess you still have to grind first.
No.124654
>>124630manually grinding through YouTube. write favorite sub sub subgenre names and add "japanese".
No.124696
I used to lurk in the 4/jp/ event upload threads (M3, Comiket, Reisaitai), listen to crossfades and download anything I found interesting. I really miss doing that and found I haven't engaged with doujin music as much since they faded away. Now, I read websites about the subject but they're not really doujin related.
https://avyss-magazine.com/ for general, from Japan but also has international artists. Quite a youth focus so expect some irredeemable cloudrap and whatnot. They recently released a pair of albums, the first of which I've been enjoying.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nnOwKY94OCdrjLCRamvyAnrPdrpWqy3nUhttps://www.sleep-like-a-pillow.com/ for shoegaze etc
https://tokyodross.blogspot.com/ Western journalist living in Japan, maintains a blog about live performances but tends to be less about emerging bands. He also writes about movies and TV for conventional news websites
Unfortunately as the others have said algorithms can sometimes offer good recommendations. Jpopsuki and Soulseek are good sources too as mentioned above; the chatrooms in Soulseek sometimes have people interested in discussing music or uploading specific requests from others.
No.124706
>>124703>I have a rule where I don't listen to VGM or anime music if I haven't experienced the source material myself so it's a limiting factor.Funny, thought I was the only one who did this. Kinda glad that's not the case.
No.124711
>>124703>>124706>I have a rule where I don't listen to VGM or anime music if I haven't experienced the source material myself so it's a limiting factor.I do this too but every once in a while I'll check out a song that catches my interest and I've found some of my favorite games doing that
No.124719
>>124630music databases like discogs, rateyourmusic, or vgmdb
collages on torrent trackers like redacted or jpopsuki
music listening trackers like lastfm
No.124720
>>124719oh, also youtube channels of course
No.124722
>>124702>Why does it have to be Japanese?>it really shouldn't make a difference where it's produced.Well, for one thing, this is /jp/ and so this is the place to ask such questions.
But, more than that, I think you're misinterpreting OP's intent. He could just be asking because he already has an easy enough way of sourcing western music, but doesn't yet have a foothold in Japanese music. That's understandable enough -- it's the 2nd largest music market in the world and even they have a hard time indexing everything that gets made (short-lived idol groups, doujin music, vocaloids, and the use of special symbols in song titles can make searching for songs a real headache). It's going to be even harder if you aren't already immersed in it and don't already speak the language. It's hard to know where to even start, what do you even search for, how do you find anything you like?
No.124724
>>124722>I think you're misinterpreting OP's intent.Nah, I wasn't assuming anything about OP's intent in particular, really, so this isn't about him in specific, but his question did remind me of people who think like that so I thought I'd ask. I get people who are mostly into otaku media, but I often get the feeling that people use that as an excuse to dismiss quality media that could've easily have been made in Japan but just-so-happens not to be, and that has always irked me a little. Like, at that point it becomes less about you liking the music for being Japanese and more about the fact that you like it because it says it was made in Japan, right? But then again, if you truly like it for the former, then what does it mean for a song to "be Japanese", sound-wise? Aside from obvious stuff like Japanese vocals and instruments. What's the point in bringing nationalities into it? If it sounds good it sounds good.
>He could just be asking because he already has an easy enough way of sourcing western music, but doesn't yet have a foothold in Japanese music.This and the other reasons you listed out are good excuses but I can't help but feel like they're the exception rather than the norm.
No.124737
>>124630Once a year, I listen to crossfades of every album uploaded on doujinstyle from every event in the past year. It takes a while but it's worth it.
Otherwise, I follow individual artists on youtube and some album upload channels like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xDL_hxPH40Sometimes I also get osts that I liked or randomly browse vk/doujinmusic and grab anything that looks interesting.
No.124755
>>124696Picture of complete mystery. Two girls? Mismatched legwear? Obviously, the legwear is recently worn, but not for long, it's clean.
No.124760
>>124703>I fell into the cliche of getting older and no longer looking for music. It's kinda weird how that happens, when you're younger when you want music everywhere but then when older it's just kinda meh.Could someone explain this please? I've had this observation for quite some time – people above the age of 40 seem to stop caring about music and, like, they never just sit down and intentionally listen to music for the sake of it and I don't get why. Older people do still care for art in general, right? So what's up with music then, is it supposed to be a form of entertainment that only appeals to teens
No.124761
>>124760The stereotype that old people listen to classical music is alive and well.
No.124762
>>124760after 40 you kinda stop caring about everything
No.124763
>>124760This can only be answered with biases
No.124775
>>124760Diminishing returns maybe? After you find a while it gets harder and harder to find something that tops the previous thing. It starts with whole genre, then artists, then it boils down to individual songs until nothing really feels as exciting.
No.124783
>>124760I couldn't really tell you; it just happens. I think it might be a loss of novelty. The older you get, the more something has to be different to get a response from your brain and it's not like people are inventing new sounds. Babies can get by on basic lullabies. I guess you just subconsciously compare things to the thousands of songs you've heard before. I think that's why music tied to interesting visuals (music videos) or stories (video games, anime) are still enjoyable to me but everything else is just a grey sludge.
There's also the thing where people largely identify with the music that listened to as a teenager and it becomes part of their identity, so music from later generations doesn't really sync that well. My main music was VGM back then, but I still feel attachment to the bands back then because those songs were pretty good.
No.124784
>>124630Spotify
rec kinokoteikoku
No.124790
>>124775>>124783Well... before i talk about all the other stuff you've mentioned, don't you think if what you're saying was the real reason for this, it would apply to movies and whatnot? Old people have seen thousands of movies throughout their lives yet it's not like they don't keep watching the adam sandler stuff as it's coming out. there's no denying people are into movies well into their seventies (but from there on i feel like all they do is gardening) so if you do agree with me on this, don't you think it's odd that with music this isn't the case? I'm thirty myself and while you've mentioned you're mostly into music that's part of other media, i still actively try to discover new bands and can genuinely enjoy the songs on their own merits and it's bugging me because maybe it means im immature for this?????
No.124792
>>124790>I'm thirty myself and while you've mentioned you're mostly into music that's part of other media, i still actively try to discover new bands and can genuinely enjoy the songs on their own merits and it's bugging me because maybe it means im immature for this?????> all one sentenceAnon-kun (30 y/o) is so moe~
No.124801
>>124790There's probably a subgroup of older people who still actively search for and listen to music, you'd probably find them in the audiophile spaces.
Movies are multimedia and you can just space out looking at the screen without feeling like you're looking at nothing so there's probably less mental load overall for people who are just barely still into the hobby (if you can still call it that).
the big divider here is whether it's something you do as a hobby you actively enjoy or if it's just something you do as entertainment to pass the time.
With the latter, you don't really need to actively look for music since it plays basically everywhere anyway, meanwhile with movies you can turn on the screen and search for whatever and let it play. I guess with music you're "obligated" to focus on hearing if it's just music playing, and if you stop paying attention you miss parts of it which makes for an unpleasant experience, but with movies you can essentially pass out for most of it and still feel like you're following.
No.124807
>>124801Maybe you're right
No.124896
>>124895Yeah, I agree with you. I disregard most trending songs nowadays too and pretty much anything pop. I'm not sure if what I'm about to talk about is included in what you were implying when you said "popular music", but there are a lot of popular songs from the 70s-2000s that are still good though, but I guess back then you didn't really have as much of a fast food-esque music industry as you do now, so they were popular for a reason.
No.124956
>>124873Heh, I forgot about these guys. Thanks for reminding me of them
No.124991
>>124958I listen to a lot but I lean more towards noise rock and metal adjacent stuff. I like my really poppy vocaloid stuff just as much.
Favorite album is Boris's Flood. Droney and then it explodes into really loud and devastating doom metal. The live one I linked is way more approachable than the studio album
and better since its half as long
The band itself is absolutely horrible to get into because they just kinda do whatever they feel like at the time but I'm not afraid to fangirl them.
>https://nengu.bandcamp.com/album/pongyaronHaven't heard of em before but that was a fun album. Their sound kinda reminds me of the Dregs like in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io6d_q9kYGA or maybe Number Girl, neither of which do the electronic stuff these guys do but both have the same sort of energy. I'll check out some more of their other stuff later