Hi all, I wanted to start a discussion about current (or at least semi-current) artists that are releasing ‘audiophile’ recordings in an attempt to discover some new music that I may be missing out on. I have been stuck in a rut listening to the same old things (mostly jazz). It occurred to me this sub is mostly about the gear, room treatments, and those types of things but I don’t see a lot about the music we all listen to or discussions about new artists. I was watching a ‘New Record Day’ video the other day and he mentioned an artist Dominique Fils-Aime so I checked her out and I’m really digging her vocal/upright bass stuff. How do you all find new artists to listen to? What new stuff have you been listening to that you think this sub should know about? Lastly, should we have a weekly new music thread where we discuss new music that was released or discovered the previous week? I’d love to see more content on this sub about the music/artists we all love. Thanks,

  • Illustrious-Curve603BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Problem for me is I’m a classic rock/rock guy and there are many old bands - Beatles, Rush, Pink Floyd, etc. that have been remastered that sound great. However, I’d love to hear hi-res recordings from newer bands but they don’t exist (Muse, Coldplay, etc). I’m anxiously awaiting Def Leppard’s Diamond Star Halos on BluRay ATMOS in January. Some country like Chris Stapleton would be awesome but that’s a genre that has like no interest in producing hi-rez apparently. Oddly, I see a bunch of hi-rez & ATMOS music on Amazon music but no discs to buy…which sound much, much better BTW. 😡

  • OutOfStep-BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A little bit of everything, all very nicely recorded and mastered (some of them also nice on vinyl): Flume, Kham Meslien, Floating Points, Laufey, Anette Askvik, Melanie De Biasio, Malia, Melody Gardot, Tommy Schneider.

  • vixerquizBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Caravan palace - Parisian band that started as three collaborative music producers one being a singer. They all shared love of Django reinhardt and big band swing jazz and started by making music for a silent adult film. In my mind they are responsible for creating the genre they are associated with… “Electro Swing”… although every other attempt at the electric swing genre by other artists has fallen completely flat on its face in my ears…

    The Album “Panic” is a newage Jazz masterpiece

    The Presets- One of the biggest and most mesmerizing acts to come out of the Australian edm scene. If you apreciate sound design than…

    the album “Hi-viz” is delightful in so many ways

    Childish Gambino- The actor from the show community who single handedly created the award winning show Atlanta also became a Grammy award winning artist

    The album “Redbone” is his magnum opus… a smooth mix of hip hop, and psychedelic jazz rock

    Matt Mays - my hometown hero, a songwriting style akin to Sam Robert’s with a keen ear for using extremely experimental recording techniques.

    The album “When the Angels Make Contact” - recorded in a world renowned studio, located inside a pharmacy building that stood tall after directly facing the Halifax explosion. The album is a mix of artists making music for a movie that lost funding and was scrapped… the artists all led by Matt Mays finished the music for the non existent movie anyway.