With the music world rapidly changing, the process of how people discover new music has always interested me. I thought I'd ask around some of my networks. I'd really appreciate a quick reply below.

Many Thanks!

Lee.

Q: Where do you discover new music? CDs from friends? Online Store recommendations? Satellite Radio? Live gigs?

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Juno mostly - listening to 5,000+ clips a week! Radio 1 specialist shows too. Other random podcasts from around the web. Tend to not be influenced by recommendations but more on what I actually like the sound of.

I've nearly given up trying to listen to all of Beatport/Juno's digital releases, they seem to push any old crap nowadays, to be honest, no quality control. So with the online record shops I tend to check the new releases from the labels that I trust. Apart from that, Myspace is a really good tool, keeping a check on the blogs, seeing who's working with who, who people are charting in their blogs. The DJ charts on Resident Advisor are also a good source to new releases. but for digital DJs netlabels and netlabel podcasts are really good. On the occasion that something is released that I really love, I'll go into a record shop and buy the vinyl, and see what else they try and push on me in the shop, but it's usually disappointing.
Mixatapes from inspiring new producers are usually a good source of new music for me.

Oh, and SoundCloud is starting to kick off in a big way...

1)Physically going into my Local independant Record shop - Spun Out, N'hampton
2)Monthly E-Mail out from Vinyl Underground, N'hampton
3)Beatport (I only look for associated artists, I don't search by genre)
4)Banging tunes monthly e-mail out
5)Discogs (but thats more for old tunes that are new to me)
6)Myspace - Updateds from artists in friends lists.
7)BOA - music forum.
8) Promos sent to my e-mail.

I'm finding Soundcloud pretty useful too.

Thanks for the responses guys! Much appreciated. I got such a good response on other networks too i think i'll create a

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(I thought i'd leave you at a cliffhanger there....)

a blog of some kind soon. (ps - yesterday's new post 'The Future of Remixing?' leejarvis.blogspot.com