How do you usually discover new tracks?
These days, most of us rely on algorithms. TikTok and Instagram Reels feed us the most active sounds — the catchiest beats, the tracks already climbing the charts and racing through the numbers.
But long before they reached our feeds, many of these sounds were discovered by real diggers — DJs, producers, and record collectors searching through crates of vinyl.
Among them is Timmy Thomas’ Why Can’t We Live Together, released in 1972 with little more than a drum machine and an organ. There is Drake’s Hotline Bling, which quietly traces part of its musical lineage back to earlier soul and R&B textures. And Max Romeo’s Chase the Devil — a reminder that some songs never really disappear.
These are the tracks you discover not through algorithms, but through the artists and producers who shaped the sound long before the internet decided what should go viral. Here they are — all in one place.
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David Harks: Amity Agora, Blush Response
Music exploring where machines end and human feeling begins
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STR x TECHFUI: Wareika
TECHFUI and Wareika take the long way to the dance floor
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Under the Influence: Charlie Parker
How Charlie Parker changed jazz far beyond his own saxophone
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Focus On: Weezer
No Buddy Holly, no Island in the Sun — just the stranger, messier story of Weezer
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Focus On: Jean-Michel Jarre
From a Paris flat to million-strong crowds: four decades of Jean-Michel Jarre’s electronic universe