This is awesome. There is also this old thing: <a href="http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/" rel="nofollow">http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/</a><p>Similar effort, but purely editorial and only about electronic music, with commentary
With so many categories of rock, you have to be careful about how you angle your guitar pick when hitting the next chord; you just might derail into another genre by accident.
This is amazing! I wonder how it would compare to the algorithm that Spotify uses to suggest music to users. I've always found Spotify's recommendations to be very tightly banded and think they could benefit from more genre-hopping.
The snippet for Italian punk is neither Italian nor punk, kinda makes you wonder about the quality of the original data. Probably it would make more sense to coarse grain a little bit more if you can't trust the data.
This is awesome, didn't realize you can actually click to get a sample which is amazing. Most stuff I checked out was correctly filed, too.<p>Would be cool to ad a crowd sourcing element to suggest changes to get an even better base.<p>An undo for the "listened to this" icon would also be helpful.<p>Searching for my favorite band (Savatage) they are in roughly the right categories (all sorts of metal) but in sum too far away from classical. Dunno how to express this better, seems like a complex problem though.
Very cool! However, the "zydeco" sample wasn't typical zydeco at all. I guess it was Wayne Toups, and I'm sure he can do some real groovy zydeco, but this wasn't. ;-)
How 'glitch' came to be placed so close to 'classic Dutch pop' escapes me... Fascinating to hunt around in though! Much more fun than writing my dissertation!