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Say what you want about YouTube recommended political videos, but I have found some absolutely great music because it showed up in my recommended.

A small Canadian band showed up in my recommended and that first song captivated me. Then I listened to their other singles and two albums, and now I'm going to their show next month.

Also, I just found an artist from Belarus that makes fantastic synthpop. The weird thing is that all his videos use cyrillic characters, so I don't know how google even matched it. I am thankful though.

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I also recommend going to https://www.youtube.com/feed/music . It's a landing page that used to be behind a "Music" button on the youtube homepage, but has since been removed. But luckily the page still exists. It gives you a bunch of different playlists, including "Recommended" and "Latest Videos". I like the Latest Videos because it allows me to see what's "current" at a glance, even if I choose not to view any of them, I can see what' going on in the mainstream.

Also, I discovered awesome electro music and house music along with the Seven nation Army Remix by Glitch Mob. That’s song is now in my main playlist.

I agree. I've found a host of new artists this way. I've taken to subscribing to a few choice channels that have live performances (mostly local radio stations). There are a few that do a thing where they have a band on and the do one original and one cover - sometimes I end up finding two new bands.

> an artist from Belarus that makes fantastic synthpop

Alright, I'm gonna need a link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypknY6nIDe0

Check the comments. It looks like there were plenty of people who had the same experience as me.

Ah, I'm not sure that this recommendation is tied to user's history of watched videos. Because I've also seen it in my ‘recommendations’―and though I tend to occasionally listen to a couple tracks of Gary Numan or a vaporwave mix, I don't think a 2018 release would follow from that dataset.

Well, I did watch a couple "yugowave" videos, so maybe that has something to do with it.

The Dead South ?

They seem to be oddly popular on youtube.

"Men I Trust" from Quebec. This is the song that started it for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZKcb3LndA

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