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Well, I mean, if you were on youtube in the past few months and outside of the default suggestion trashpile, I can't imagine how you'd manage to evade this phen
by aasasd 6y ago
Well, I mean, if you were on youtube in the past few months and outside of the default suggestion trashpile, I can't imagine how you'd manage to evade this phenomenon.
- freeone3000 6y agoBy having tuned home pages? I never see music suggested to me on YouTube (assumably because I don't listen to music on YouTube)
- aasasd 6y agoThat's a bit of a loss on your part: Youtube has, ahem, a large music library—my favorite litmus test is the presence of Gruuthaagy's output. And secondly, Youtube's recommendations surface some great stuff once in a while, if you manage to teach it that your taste is not quite generic. One of my musical pastimes formerly was searching for two disparate genres together on YT. (However, apparently either I've reached the limit of that configuration space, at least for now—or it's Google's algo killing the results by becoming too imprecise.)
- 082349872349872 6y agoYT is how I discovered techno contradance is a thing. Still have yet to have had it turn up decent electro bluegrass, but it did find some album-oriented bluegrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLMsvaRWhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLMsvaRWhY
- aasasd 6y agoWell, if I try to imagine electric bluegrass, I get rockabilly. My favorite cover of DSotM is the meh-titled ‘Jazz Side of the Moon’ by Yahel, Moreno, Hoenig and Blake. More specifically, it's the only worthy cover so far imo (though the bluegrass one is a quite strong contender, yeah). Surprisingly ‘JSotM’ isn't on YT in entirety—which is the greatly preferred mode of listening to it—but some snatches can be had at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yahel%2C+Moreno%2C+Hoenig%2C+Blake https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yahel%2C+Moreno... P.S. As for techno contra dance: I like my techno on the harder side, so expected something in the vein of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_35FTnYVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_35FTnYVA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4. After seeing some fine synchronized pair dancing, of the jumpstyle-shuffle sort, it's quite conceivable for me.
- 082349872349872 6y agoElectro bluegrass to me wouldn't be rockabilly[1], but the high lonesome equivalent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApq7K78pbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApq7K78pbo complete with glitched hemiolas. I'm trying to refind some of the better audio/video mashups I've seen, but fighting The Algorithm atm. - BLM cupid shuffle video / audio: boot scoot boogie - Footloose line dance video / audio: boom boom boom - vertically spinning race car crash video / audio: lezginka At least there's still jumpstyle hopak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqEtq34dSUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqEtq34dSUo and (not even externally mashed up) bolly[wood] ciao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2wahu8bDMo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2wahu8bDMo [1] even "electric bluegrass" I'd put closer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg1AD0GBii4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg1AD0GBii4 Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr7718xoeMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr7718xoeMI
- meowface 6y agoI'm a big music fan, and I use YouTube pretty much all day every day with a front page full of all sorts of eclectic and eccentric stuff, and I spend a lot of time in alternative online music communities and follow a lot of independent and experimental musicians, but somehow I've never seen or heard of this until just now. Just goes to show how much algorithmic curation can vary from person to person.
- chrisseaton 6y agoIf you're not really a music person you probably wouldn't get any music recommended by the algorithm, would you?