Oh yes, recently took the plunge and cancelled my Spotify subscription (member since invite days 2007~) turning to bandcamp instead and God, what a a fresh breeze of air it’s been so far. Tons of great new music from mostly “no names”. Somewhat worried that Epic games who recently bought Bandcamp will introduce some NFT crap and or gameify the whole thing into mehh (missing the word ATM haha).
The Spotify algorithms had sort of trapped it self into some loop and I kept being bombarded with good old comfortable music which I’ve heard thousands of times. If it dared to try and introduce something new it was extremely dumb trying to shill some youngster pop crap seemingly straight from the top 100s.
Unfortunatly, Spotify fit into the way most people listen to music most of the time. Like a perpetual soundtrack curated for your activities and mood (there is a great article about this but i cannot find it from my phone), replacing the radio, ubiquitous, always with you. It’s really powerful.
I don’t know what offer you have on the FM but in my city there are an university and an associative radio with awesome programs. I’ve discovered great artists and genres like that.
Oh yes, recently took the plunge and cancelled my Spotify subscription (member since invite days 2007~) turning to bandcamp instead and God, what a a fresh breeze of air it’s been so far. Tons of great new music from mostly “no names”. Somewhat worried that Epic games who recently bought Bandcamp will introduce some NFT crap and or gameify the whole thing into mehh (missing the word ATM haha).
The Spotify algorithms had sort of trapped it self into some loop and I kept being bombarded with good old comfortable music which I’ve heard thousands of times. If it dared to try and introduce something new it was extremely dumb trying to shill some youngster pop crap seemingly straight from the top 100s.
Ho no. I had forgotten about bandcamp buy.
Unfortunatly, Spotify fit into the way most people listen to music most of the time. Like a perpetual soundtrack curated for your activities and mood (there is a great article about this but i cannot find it from my phone), replacing the radio, ubiquitous, always with you. It’s really powerful.
I don’t know what offer you have on the FM but in my city there are an university and an associative radio with awesome programs. I’ve discovered great artists and genres like that.
Radio is abysmal here in Stockholm. All of it Clear Channel BS, no edge, all vanilla.
Radio is terrible all over Germany.
Same in my country. I actually get annoyed when I hear someone turn on the radio, because it feels like listening to the same five songs all day long.
he, that sucks.
if you’re fine with a bit of french https://www.radiopanik.org/