Sad to admit, but I looked for my old band, found it under 'warm drone'
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
Choral and oratory should get together.
― lazulum, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I have an artist-lookup thing internally, but it'll be a bit more work to expose it. So not yet!
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Oh, MaresNest, which drone band were you in? (Or were you not drone?)
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Rothko, I don't know what the hell we were tbh. We got called all sorts of things, I'd have put us next to Labradford I guess.
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
Was Rothko that group with lots of bassists? They were great!
― scintilla (seandalai), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
Yea, for the first 3/4 years it was 3 bassists
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
Oh, very cool, I was a Rothko fan. I even wrote (short) reviews of A Negative for Francis and Forty Years to Find a Voice. I think you're in fine and basically appropriate company in warm drone.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
ty glenn :)
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
why does the powerviolence cluster resemble a map of south america? why are das oath way of by themselves, a tiny island floating in arctic seas? is there really a band called venomous concept? that's rad.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
^ north AND south america tbh, all of them
Continental drift is copying my readability algorithm.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
I appreciate the classification of the iPod commercial suspenders bands as "stomp and holler"
― crüt, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
no lumineers no credibility
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Ah, you're right, I accidentally left "stomp and holler" out of my last update. I just put the more recent map for it up, which does in fact have the Lumineers...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
hm, is there an equivalent of electrofunk/post-disco/old school ('old school' in the Zapp & Roger, Patrice Rushin sense) somewhere in there, or is that grouped in with funk?
― Chris S, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
*Rushen
― Chris S, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
why is the map for "house" all shitty edm?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
(insert obvious joke)
― ḉrut (crüt), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
OK, I added post-disco. It has a lot of overlap with funk and disco, and I'd guess that the automated song-selection for it won't do a great job at adhering to the "post" part, but in all of these cases I'm pleased if the cloud of music kind of swirls around in vaguely the right vicinity of the proper aesthetic. These are supposed to be invitations, not circumscriptions. A human with real first-hand knowledge of an individual genre should pretty much always be able to do better than my robots.
As for house, the plain "house" genre is kind of deliberately miscellaneous in both substyle and era. The more specific ones (tech house, chicago house, hard house, etc.) ought to be more coherent.
I also added first attempts at c-pop and chinese traditional today. I don't know enough about those to say how good my versions of them are, but they're definitely Chinese, so that's encouraging.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
And chinese indie rock.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
Glenn in the Guardian!http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/25/pop-music-louder-less-acoustic
― famous for hits! (seandalai), Monday, 25 November 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Here's another thing that turns this around into a timeline of sorts:
http://blog.echonest.com/post/68904533303/listen-64-years-of-music-innovation-in-one-playlist
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 01:18 (ten years ago) link
This is fun:
http://musicmachinery.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/distinctive_artist_map-2.png
What's a J Boog?
― μ thant (seandalai), Saturday, 1 March 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link
http://musicmachinery.com/2014/02/27/favorite-artists-vs-distinctive-artists-by-state/
http://musicmachinery.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/most-ignored-artists-2.pnghttp://musicmachinery.com/2014/02/28/anti-preferences-in-regional-listening/
― μ thant (seandalai), Saturday, 1 March 2014 01:53 (ten years ago) link
hey florida y u no like haim
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
http://everynoise.com/cities.html
― We Do Really Loud (doo dah), Saturday, 1 March 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
@seandalai, was about to share that myself.
can hawaii be more stereotypical?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fgVVlPl08
lol
― ∞, Saturday, 1 March 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
Today Spotify acquired the Echo Nest, where I work on this stuff!
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 6 March 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
And now the 1000+ ENtro playlists to each genre are available on Spotify, as well. See the links at the bottom of each map page. Like the ENtro to mod revival [http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1XRBDaaVvWQpSXQmtf6wZG] or just go straight to the ENtro to everything [http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/06sRytA5s8zaS6sy9Tni7k].
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 14 March 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
Article/Interview in PopMatters
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Sunday, 26 February 2017 04:40 (seven years ago) link
i just discovered this, and it is the greatest thing ever
― flopson, Sunday, 1 October 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link