[fivre]

they were pretty consistent about picking good artists though, which was great for scenes i dont follow myself

no one person can sift through every scene and genre to find the good shit, and there's plenty of bad shit. i can do that for like, one scene

bandcamp articles generally delivered me more quality finds with more variety than automated "you may also like..." curation systems a la spotify or last.fm.

it's not like the latter are truly democratizing anything either--once getting big on spotify (or nowadays, tiktok) became important commercially, you got a whole ecosystem of influencers behind the scenes offering promotion in those systems. getting boosted via a faceless "chill sunday morning coffee music" playlist is still curation