In the past few weeks I've been stumbling on a lot of great music that really deserves a ton more exposure than it's gotten. I'm curious if anyone else has a list of similar artists, but let's add some rules/constraints to make it fun:
Links must be YouTube (preferred), Soundcloud, or Bandcamp. Requirements for all:
(1) The song must be > a year old (i.e. nothing posted yesterday that's about to blow up)
(2) Subjective requirement: The song shouldn't clearly be an artist's "B-Side" (i.e. a track that wasn't made to get big). Every big-name artist has some more obscure tunes.
(3) Subjective request: Along the lines of (2), music should come from artists who you expect not everyone to have heard of...
(4a) If YouTube: If multiple copies of the song/video exist, the video with the maximum number of views must be less than 15,000
(4b) If SoundCloud: The song must have less than 2000 plays.
(4c) if Bandcamp: There really isn't a good metric (other than the release not having a huge list of supporters), but please use your best judgment.
As an example of what I'm talking about, I'll start: SingerSen is a collaboration between a Chinese pop singer Sen, and Guy Sigsworth (who's produced/written music for Imogen Heap/ 1/2 of FrouFrou/Bjork, Madonna, etc)
This is the official video for SingerSen - Cables. It has <3000 views and was uploaded last January. The amount of lack of exposure is just plain wrong:
or SingerSen - Shadows. Less < 6000 views. From 2011.