Following up on my last post, Youtube granted me an API quota exception, but instead of a quota of 200 additions to a playlist a day, they gave me 300 – that’s not enough. I still made a few playlists from it, but I’ve kind of stopped since my setup has changed: Shoegaze: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34nTXIAgkSkK9pPQ3vff_7KLfcNHzAxB Progressive / Fusion: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34nTXIAgkSlaQH08Ad0vmXzGgC3S0SuL Video Game Music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34nTXIAgkSmqyo-_2_xZwNgNfjLG_LbS Industral: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34nTXIAgkSmqyo-_2 ..read more

I got the idea to scrape a few social media sites to generate playlists. Here’s one for Video Game Music, a thread about retro video game music and finding a neat track made me decide to write a script to automatically add things to a playlist. I don’t know if it’s really worth posting as it’s just the basic python script provided by Youtube, as the only real addition is a loop and logic to check for previous entries in the list, but the results speak for themselves: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34nTXIAgkSmqyo-_2_xZwNgNfjLG_LbS The list has a lot of modern stuff too, but my favorite ..read more

I did not realize you could easily export your Youtube history – besides my car and Jellyfin, that’s mostly what I use to listen to music these days, with an adblocker – and thought I would write a script I listen to the most there. Here are my results: De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays: 66 Xmal Deutschland – Peel Session 1985: 62 Kraftwerk – Computer Love: 57 Glaxo Babies – Who Killed Bruce Lee: 55 Killing Joke – America: 53 Crystal Castles-Doe Deer Ep: 52 Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?) (TOTP, 1978): 50 Killing Joke – Let’s All Go (To The Fire ..read more

I do love the archiving aspect of the internet and how much stuff it’s saved – there’s so much media and information lost to time, and will continue to be lost, like countless vinyls sitting at a thrift store or old TV shows. For example, I was at one today, and saw an album called “Skeptic Union – From The Hills Of Arizona” and it looks like a self released album with not a whole lot of information out there, just an RYM and Discogs page. I’m not really into country, but I do wish I had picked it up, just because it seems like it’s rare – discogs confirms that, with a range of $28 to $208, sh ..read more

The worst thing about writing is editing, I find writing easy but actually sitting down and editing takes quite a bit longer. Anyways, let’s try one album at a time? John Fahey – America John Fahey is pretty great and under-rated for all he’s done for archiving blues and folk music, let alone his own music. His story is really sad, he died semi-homeless in Salem, Oregon, his Grammy for writing about folk music was stolen, and it sounds like he was a pretty severe alcoholic in general. He painted and one of his paintings was used as the cover for the final Sonic Youth album. It’s sad that he’s ..read more

I found an odd little song I like, but it might be mislabeled. Danny and the Dress Makers – Eggs on Legs I like the random electronic noise and piano floating around in it. Someone in the comments says it’s mislabelled though, and links to the real song, which sounds much more UK DIY ala Swell Maps or Desperate Bicycles and what I thought this band sounded like. So what is this song? Who knows! but if you know, do comment on that youtube post, people are curious. I suppose there’s a good chance of it being listed in one of the DIY or John Peel lists in my database just because of the way musi ..read more

This is a blog to go along with my tool at http://discover.newoldmusic.com – I’ve found or remembered quite a bit of music using it so far, some of it with no comments or mentions on google – just a discogs.com page or something similar – so I figure I should probably try and write about it. I’ve played musical instruments for a long time, mostly bass and guitar, with my interests going more towards synthesizers and computer music over the years – live coding environments like https://foxdot.org/ or https://tidalcycles.org/ or PureData are what interest me these days. I have a more detailed wr ..read more