Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series.
I’ve been recently looking for psy and techno music, finding FLAC or WAV with active seeders feels like striking gold. It’s definitely been a while since I’ve looked for active torrent sites and it feels more barren than ever.
Edit: Thank you all for all that valuable information. The reddit group really wasn’t this helpful and valued making fun over adding real use able knowledge.
Year after year, new releases lose ground to the back catalog. Nobody likes new [top40] music, because it’s cynical manufactured crap.
I’ll just be over here listening to IDLES, Yves Tumor, Mau p, Chris Lake, ARTBAT, Jon Bohmer, Flume, Jpegmafia, etc. etc. Lots of great music guys, and it ain’t even hard to find.
Doesn’t really address my point, does it?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/ – Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/music-catalogs-value-keeps-rising-could-it-change-the-face-of-the-entire-industry-1056229/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/its-official-new-music-is-shrinking-in-popularity-in-the-united-states/
https://www.billboard.com/pro/catalog-boom-analysis-for-the-record/
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You’re arguing against a point I never made. Obviously it’s hyperbolic to say “nobody” likes new music because 30 percent of revenue is going to new music. But obviously there is a major problem and the fact that there is still some good new music coming out does not address that major problem.
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I wasn’t adressing that point specifically, I just meant to show that there is a lot of good music still, and not only some obscure shit no one really listens to.
I will do some more reading on this subject and edit with my thoughts on that.
Though my initial thought is there is an inherent bias here, and that is time.
Eh, this kind of fearmongering has been in the music industry forever now. If no one is releasing new music, or there is a ridiculously high barrier to entry, there will simply be another indie music boom.
And I also think this is something where the data should be niche specific. Like how would this affect me as a tech house producer, for example? There is currently a tech house boom, with labels like Repopulate Mars, Toolroom, dirty bird. etc. These labels will continue to put out good and new music because that is their prerogative. Even labels such as Ajundeep are still publishing unknowns.
why listen to top40 when you can build a music taste of your own? the world isn’t gonna die if ppl stop caring about pop music