Mapping All Music

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.

And chinese indie rock.

Glenn in the Guardian!
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/25/pop-music-louder-less-acoustic

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

This is fun:

http://musicmachinery.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/distinctive_artist_map-2.png

What's a J Boog?

http://musicmachinery.com/2014/02/27/favorite-artists-vs-distinctive-artists-by-state/

http://musicmachinery.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/most-ignored-artists-2.png
http://musicmachinery.com/2014/02/28/anti-preferences-in-regional-listening/

hey florida y u no like haim

http://everynoise.com/cities.html

@seandalai, was about to share that myself.

can hawaii be more stereotypical?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fgVVlPl08

lol

Today Spotify acquired the Echo Nest, where I work on this stuff!

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].

Article/Interview in PopMatters

i just discovered this, and it is the greatest thing ever