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Where do you folks mostly do your music discovery? I'm talking new soundtracks or introducing yourself to older/more obscure soundtracks....... I use this board a lot and also a few review sites. Then I do most of my "try before I buy" sampling on Spotify. Here in Ireland Spotify has very poor discovery features as far as Soundtracks are concerned. There is no genre section specifically for Soundtracks. You can search "genre:soundtrack", but the results come in the form of artists, not albums or new releases. Its also harder to come across anime or Japanese game scores online as well. Ideally, I'd love to find a radio station or something similar that played a variety of different styles of scores to widen my tastes. Sometimes I feel like I just stay in my own little safe and secure bubble of composers I'm familiar with and hardly ever venture into new territory. Just wondering what folks here tend to do?
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Most of my new discoveries lately come from being impressed by the score written by an unexpected source in a film I'm watching. YouTube can also be handy - I recently bought the avant-garde score for Caravaggio after listening to it there.
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Funnily enough, I never actually think of going to YouTube to sample music (always associate it with the visual, rather than the audio component). But even using YouTube to sample music, where would you first get your recommendations? And listening to a score after hearing it in a movie...........of course this makes total sense, but I have to admit that I would never (or rarely) end up listening to a score just because I watched the movie and noticed it. I find that when I'm watching a movie, my ears aren't tuned to take note of the score separately. I have been known to look up songs after hearing them in movies/tv shows, but not really the scores. I always have to listen to a score separately from a movie to try and appreciate it, but maybe thats just me!
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I get a lot of digital promos, so that's certainly an avenue. .... I usually listen to some 3-400 new soundtracks ever year. WOW! Thats a wide range; between 3 and 4 hundred! that's a gap of 397!
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in the "new music" section.
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@Erik Woods, thanks for those links. You've given me plenty to explore there, much appreciated! @Thor, 400 new scores a year? That's incredible. I don't know where you find the time!
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Sorry to be boring but it does tend to be seeing a film or tv show where I find the music especially good. For many years (being young with a disposable income) I almost automatically bought a soundtrack as a souvenir of the film, because it is a perfect thing in that sense. The only thing you can actually separate and enjoy and have a copy of your own. And of course in the days before home video of any kind it was THE only way to have a copy of part of it. These days I tend to be more choosy, and get the soundtrack if I liked it already. So for me only the more remarkable scores get onto my shelf.
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Library is definitely a good place for non-podcasters. recent acquisitions: BLACK PANTHER lp avengers infinity war dead man (yeah, not new) PLANET EARTH - Zimmer NEVER LOOK AWAY - RIchter
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@Thor, 400 new scores a year? That's incredible. I don't know where you find the time! Well, it helps that film and film music is part of my actual job! Heckkuvva way to make a living.!
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Thanks again to everyone for sharing their thoughts, methods and suggestions. Much appreciated!
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I've found that by researching music and composers I like I'll stumble across other things that I've never heard of or are hearing about with a fresh perspective. For example: My interest in John Barry took me to Mark Steyn's website, wherein he shares his passion for film music. One of his recommendations was the score for Isabel by Federico Jusid, which is perhaps the best "surprise" score I've heard in years--a rich orchestral score of period grandeur. I can't tolerate Steyn's politics, but this was a good recommendation. In a similar fashion I found a review of a 3 cd set by a Russian film composer Mikhael Tariverdiev, which I've ordered.
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