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Dig Somewhere Unexpected

I keep buying the same record. How do I break the loop?

Deliberate constraints force you out of the pocket your recommendations have built around you.

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The path

  1. Constraint
  2. Unfamiliar catalog
  3. Three tracks
  4. Crate

Step by step

How to run it

  1. Pick a constraint you would not choose

    A country, a decade, a language, a tempo range you avoid.

  2. Listen for twenty minutes without buying

    Calibrate before judging.

  3. Take exactly three tracks

    The limit is the point — it forces a real choice.

  4. Find one bridge into your existing sound

    A single tempo or texture link is enough to make it playable.

Toolkit

Everything this workflow uses

Radiooooo

Time-machine map: pick a country and a decade, hear what was playing.

Freemiumerageography

Every Noise at Once

A scanned map of ~6000 machine-defined genres, each with an audio sample.

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Boomkat

Opinionated Manchester store covering the outer edges of electronic music.

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Aquarium Drunkard

Long-running music blog and mixtape series, strong outside club genres.

Freeblogmixtapes

Test Pressing

Editorial and mixes covering balearic, disco, dub and outsider dance music.

Freeblogmixes

Keep going

Where this leads