@lifning @Skirmisher beautifully put, liffy.

will: cool. mine's very sporadic too; i'll suddenly become aware of a rare sega album from 1991 and start searching like mad, finding other stuff in the process

my strategy leads to limited results, though. i am absolutely missing out on fantastic music in genres unknown that would blow my mind, if i only put more energy into searching outside my long-ossified preferences...