Recommendation: Hype Machine

This post is provided through a joint effort of Recommendation Foundation and Song Corner*.

Ok, check it.

Sometimes, you come across a new website, the introduction of which shares all of the most salient qualities of love at first site, a sort of effervescent chemistry that sparks an immediate reaction and possessing of a ferocious and unyielding craving for your next taste.

For some, that was Facebook.

For others, it was What I Do When I'm Not Working.

For myself of 5 years ago, it was discovering Wikipedia**

For myself of one year ago and up to this keystroke, it was and is Hype Machine***.

Oh, man, is this a good recommendation. I'm stoked I'm able to share it with you****.

Assuming you haven't already clicked on the hyperlink and aren't currently knee deep in sampling the site yourself, here's the jist:

Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator. What I find most compelling about it is the simplicity of adapting it, and its purview of wonderful remixes and otherwise obscure songs, songs that I otherwise wouldn't come across without trawling music blogs for hours a day, is unparalleled.

So, check it out if you haven't already done so. Here's a link to the tunes I'm jamming on the site.

Fin.

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*The John T. and Catherine D. McArthur Foundation ain't got nothing on us.
**Credit due to Thomas Friedman, for writing about the site and foundation in "The World is Flat", and for publishing the book before I came to realize how I really felt about Thomas Friedman.
***Credit due to Marshall Ball, a guy who was on Facebook back in 1997, for the introduction to Hype Machine. I owe you a debt that can never be repaid, M-Beezy.
****Although, chances are you've already heard of it. If that's the case, give me a break - I'm trying here. Also, got any new leads on things I should know about?