YouTube Music Finds
I love finding new music to listen to and lately I've found a lot of cool stuff on YouTube. You can actually train your algorithm to show you less popular stuff as well, kind of like a dog that digs up treasure on command. You can find so much good music by indie musicians that way, which you would never have listened to otherwise. I want to compile some of my favorite albums and playlists that I found this way here, with the only caveat being that they had to have had under 50k views by the time I found them. Enjoy!
Albums
Title: Music for Creatures
Artist: Mosswurk
Year: 2024
Genre: electronic
This is just some fun instrumental electronic music, perfect for making chores more fun.
Title: The Warehouse
Artist: Cooinoquo
Year: 2024
Genre: electronic, experimental
Really cool album (including the artwork!!). Overall very experimental electronic music, a bit of jazz here, some breakcore there, and a big dash of chiptune.
Title: Novembre
Artist: Nymb
Year: 1998
Genre: emo, post-hardcore
Short and sweet emo EP with a fantastic female vocalist!
Title: 'maybe we'll hug each other in a past life'
Artist: three lices and a molly
Year: 2024
Genre: post-rock, psychedelic rock
Soft and melancholic. Makes me really nostalgic. For long evenings.
Title: Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat
Artist: Charanjit Singh
Year: 1982
Genre: acid house, electronic, raga
Pumping electronic music combined with traditional Indian music. Absolutely entrancing.
Title: "smiling broadly" EP
Artist: smiling broadly (fka twinkle park)
Year: 2024
Genre: pop, noise, vocaloid
Short but full of energy. The first EP by my favorite artist.
Title: Gathering Leaves
Artist: park bird
Year: 2024
Genre: ambient, folk, lo-fi
Short dreamy folk album, almost ambient with its washed out sound.
Title: motel cable
Artist: medicine liam
Year: 2024
Genre: vaporwave
Solid vaporwave with a bit of a noisier edge.
Title: Icebreaker
Artist: Distant Early Warning
Year: 1999
Genre: ambient, post-rock
Very nice mix of sounds and visuals. Worth it for the novelty alone (alternative music made by NATO??).
Title: Exi(s)t
Artist: hidden toys
Year: 2023
Genre: experimental, post-punk
Strange. But cute. Not for unwinding though.
Playlists
Title: The Predator Canyons | Ambient Drum and Bass Mixs
Year: 2024
Genre: drum and bass
This is the DnB mix I listen to when I write these days. I've gotten a lot of work done thanks to this.
Title: cyber gaming music mix ✦
Year: 2024
Genre: video game music
Very smooth and relaxing video game music. Light, airy and bubbly.