With the whole world connected the internet brings us many interesting possibilities in cultural exchange. There are many platforms to experience things from places away in written, visual or acoustic ways. Especially music is nice during working as it does not steal your concentration while working like videos and texts do.
For some time I was listening to pandora.com which allowed you to enter keywords and interprets which musical style you liked and the platform would create a playlist containing similar music. Sadly due to the stupid american licensing and copyright issues which hopefully may end one day the site was forced to restrict their service to US users only.
When moving on I encountered this fabulous service which I want to recommend to everybody who is looking for new music: last.fm There exists the audioscrobbler.net plugin which gathers data from users hearing habits and which transmits the data to a statistics server. All this collected data is then analyzed and a huge relational database is available. Last.fm is using this data and other technologies (such as tagging, etc.) to make it easy for users to find new music. You will also find an endless number of free available MP3s. What I like best is the very good collection of japanese music (even very cool indie bands).

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