https://www.gnoosic.com/artist/freddie+veggie

And put you on the map next to some other didgeridoo artists:

https://www.music-map.com/freddie+veggie

I'm not yet sure when I will turn the signup into a public feature. Currently I'm interested in feedback from artists. If you like, shoot me an email. I would like to know how I can help small artists.

Music recommendation is HARD. A lot of people don't think they like didgeridoo (which is where my expertise lies) until they hear a live performance of contemporary didge over a PA and they're in tears of joy (seriously, if you got the chance, give it a try - the stack of vibrations from this single, simple tube is amazing). IME, that wouldn't work for your average ear-buds or "smilie curve"-tuned over-ears. So, say, a friend convinces you to go to some concert with them - that would be a proper, healthy, sustainable music recommendation service. But of course that doesn't scale in any direction.

Best of luck with your project - I'll be checking back :-)

https://open.spotify.com/search/didgeridoo/playlists

Anyways, I agree that the Spotify requirement is artificially limiting, especially if this is targeting up and coming artists. They should probably support all of the biggies (Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc) as well as indies like Sound Cloud, Band Camp, etc.

I've pondered on and off about distrokid (or the like), and thankfully one of my peers has done just that. Mind you, he is more established and "successful" (as in, gets more paying gigs, more audience, ...). So I've talked to him about it. During the past half year, he's "earned" 4€ from Spotify (in other words, one song made the cut of 1k listens over a year), and 180€ from Bandcamp.

I see Distrokid as helpful marketing investment for discovery, so I was still inclined to burn some money (one teaching session will likely cover my loss, so whatever), but then he went on how he put a video of a performance of a published song of his (published via Distrokid) on YT - et voila - he's got challenged by Distrokid for it. Uh, yeah. I understand you gotta relinquish rights to let DK do their thing, but that's the sort of headache I wouldn't ever want. Maybe he was doing something wrong, of course, but I'll likely fall into the same trap. More reading required ...

I'll keep in touch with him about it, maybe the discovery on spotify led to the BC throughput, but we'll have to dig deeper. There's a lot of us small artists in different stages of our development (say, performance, entertainment, composition wise), I'd love to exchange experiences on what works and what doesn't for the ailing musician. There's platforms which contains a lot of us, but everybody seems to be struggling and there seems to be a strong sense of competition among many of my peers, so it's hard to get unfiltered (subjective) truths there. And the internet is filled with horror stories as well as "from dishwasher to millionaire" survivorship biased fairy tales. Oooph.

If you have any presence on Sound Cloud, then definitely check out Repost Exchange. It's a peer to peer site where fellow artists like and repost each other's work. It's great for discovery.

Keep grinding!