One of the guys in my WoW guild posted
this website in our forums that I had never heard of for checking out new music. Not to toot my own horn, but when it comes to old school Hip Hop, I have a fairly comprehensive iTunes library. So I thought I should put this site through its paces and see what it can do.
It asks you to type in a song or an artist and it will generate a playlist of songs similar to that one. So I decided to put in a song I thought was new enough and widely known and yet still kicked ass to start off. "Watch Out" by De La Soul seemed to fit the bill, so I went with that. Once I found it in the extensive list and selected it I was presented with the message "To start things off, we’ll play another song by De La Soul that is musically similar to “Watch Out”, featuring east cost rap roots, melodic part writing, a dry recording sound, tonal harmonies, and many other similarities identified in the music genome project."
Holy shit.
What did I get? "The Grind Date." Off to a good start, eh? After that song, it informed me "From here on out we’ll be exploring other songs and artists that have musical qualities similar to “Watch Out” by De La Soul. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the music - that's the point."
Acquisition has been working overtime ever since then. I have heard some fucking amazing music and I cannot recommend this site enough. Not only does it stream high quality music to wherever you are, it does so with no latency and a playlist that will rock your socks off. Plus you can rate each song according to whether you like it or not thereby making the database even more ridiculously perfect. And if you really like the song it has links to buy that song on iTunes or the full album on Amazon.
This old dog just got taught a whole new
set of tricks. Nuff said.
Falcon out