Anonymous asked: i love your blog! where do you find all your music? specifically, how would you download these?

thank you so so much !!! for real. 

i rely on a few methods when looking for new music, i just check up on all of them regularly/in rotation to see if there’s anything new/exciting:

• i subscribe to youtube channels (you can click through each of these to see who i subscribe to) (~~givin away mi seekritz 2 u guyth~~)
• i read twitter religiously, i follow many of my favourite producers/writers/managers/bloggers/label people/etc there. there’s a lot of information to take in so when i see something i want to come back to later (even if it’s just a “man this new ______ EP is great”), i ‘star’ it as a favourite and listen when i have the time.
• my soundcloud dash is also awesome because not only can i see new uploads from the artists i follow, i can also see what they’re favouriting and what they’re commenting on.
•  of course there’s also tumblr - but like twitter, tumblr is hard to keep track of. so for the blogs i really care about listening to, i follow them in my google reader. this way their posts are all listed there and i can mark them as ‘read’ as i get through them. now i don’t have to worry about listening to everything in my tumblr dash immediately when i come across it! (but on the other hand, this means sometimes posts end up piling up because i insist on making it through everything eventually.)
• in my google reader i follow some of the bigger music blogs and magazines like FACT, xlr8r, pitchfork, resident advisor, truants, hush house, etc. i’m also finding more musicians having their own blogs/tumblrs lately (oneman, deadboy, mele, loefah, ango, objekt…)
• i listen to boilerroom, rinsefm, percussionlab and sheer sounds. i also subscribe to podcasts (like sound pellegrino, electronic explorations, littlewhiteearbuds) and download mixes (i.e. from FACT, xlr8r, resident advisor, etcetctettecttec. there are mixes EVERYWHERE). the people who mix on BR and rinse have access to tons of music before it’s even announced as a forthcoming release, and if you’re listening carefully enough they often will say “here’s some new _______, forthcoming on ___________.” or if you read the boilerroom chat (ugh) people ID a lot of the tracks so you can make note of them for later.
• aaand most recently, facebook has turned into a solid method of hearing news from the artists you choose to ‘like.’

as far as downloading goes, you can always click through the posts originating from soundcloud to see if the track is available as a free download. usually if it’s downloadable i’ll indicate that somewhere, either in the body of the post or in the tags. if there’s no source it means i’ve uploaded it from my computer or am direct linking to somewhere, so there won’t be a download for that. if there’s something on youtube that you really like, you can rip it off youtube and have it in your itunes thanks to zamzar. zamzar is my best friend because even though youtube videos are usually not great quality, zamzar doesn’t make them any worse during the conversion process.

i think that’s all i had lined up to say. anyway. i hope this was helpful!

tl;dr - i have no life

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