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kirklove:

The Mayor - Young Brother (via exfm, The Wild Honey Pie)
Found this on exfm’s site of the day, The Wild Honey Pie. Really nice Monday morning track. Taking my exfm evangelist hat off for a moment and speaking solely as a fan of music I am constantly amazed how many amazing music blogs there are out there, how much wonderful, legal, and available music there is, and how ridiculously awesome and easy exfm makes finding that music.

Excellent track, an excellent point about ExFM, and a way of thinking about music blogs that I hope to see ExFM take even further.

I like the explicitly social elements (following and noting) that are now part of the service, but I also think that ExFM is in a phenominal position to take advantage of the *implicitly* social activity around music blogging, and I strongly believe that there’s a massive amount of untapped potential there.

Whether it’s using the existing curatorial behavior of music bloggers to jumpstart creating a library, correlating posting activity across bloggers to find and point out awesome musicians I should be listening to, or just helping me keep track of all the incredible music blogs I run across [I wish I could link to a page that showed all the sites in my library here, hint, hint…], ExFM sits in an incredible position.

The fact that our ExFM libraries aren’t just single tracks and albums, but rather a curated collection of curated collections, means that ExFM already stands on the shoulders of music bloggers. That foundation is incredibly powerful, and it makes ExFM meaningfully different from much of what’s out there today.

It’s a different way of thinking about what makes up a “music library,” and nobody’s in a better position to explore this than ExFM.