A list of apps which let you explore music like a geography of relationships.
“I’m fascinated with how music genres relate to each other, especially how one can use different genres as stepping stones as a guide through the vast complexities of music. (…)
The Labyrinth lets you wander though about a 1000 genres, listening to samples from representative artists.”
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By the same author: The music maze
“The Music Maze lets you wander through the maze of similar artists until you find something you like.
This whole app is less than 500 lines of javascript, written in a few hours on a Sunday morning while the rest of the family are still asleep. It is great to see all of these technologies coming together to make easy to create music apps.”
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Ishkur’s guide to electronic music
“This guide is a non-technical, irriverent critique of electronic dance music. Its purpose is to entertain before it informs. I suppose it could be used as a credited resource or educational primer, but that’s not recommended since I made most of it up. Several biases here are celebrated lavishly because downcasting people for their taste in music is close-minded. Except if their taste in music sucks.”
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It’s apparently very slick, but I couldn’t make it operative. After reading some reviews i’ll give it a second chance.
Tune Glue is a online music catalog. You type your desire artist in the search bar and it smoothly expand nodes with related artists.
Musicovery is an interactive and customised webradio service.
Early versions of the site showed a more interactive suggestion system, where artists or genres appeared graphically linked. The actual version is more linear and mono dimensional, but keeps on relying on a specific selection technology which associates mood variables to a conventional search by artists or genres.
Thanks, Francesca!
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