@ninjalemons thank you so much!! i love making mixes and i take a lot of pride in them, so it means a lot when people take the time to comment and let me know they're enjoying them. honestly, i find a whole lot of the new music that i run into either by listening to other 8tracks mixes, or by googling for songs to put on new mixes i'm working on. i always have a theme i'm working with, so i'll often do hours and hours of research digging through google searches and/or/and then youtube and bandcamp to find new songs to fill out what i already have in my (admittedly substantial) library. some mixes take more looking than others, and when i go looking it can be for anything from songs within a genre i have less of (i got several songs for my transhumanism mix from artists on bandcamp listing themselves as transhumanist or future pop), songs based around a certain theme (and i really go wild with broad searches for this - for this mix, i did grab a few just by running several permutations of "songs about new years'" and similar things and digging through the results until i found what i liked), or often just mashups or covers involving songs i really want to use but aren't quite right for the overall sound i need for a mix. i also find new artists from just seeing songs reblogged on tumblr from time to time, though that's not quite as common a method for me as either listening to other mixes or searching around for songs to use on my own mixes. sorry this got so wordy and i hope that's helpful! i really love mixmaking and i really love finding new music, so for me it's something i am happy to devote quite a lot of time to, and i dig through plenty of music i don't care for or don't use (yet) all the time.