More than that, It's very interesting to look at one of the (numerous) metal subgenre and see how the various band are mapped, defining tendencies in the subgenre. It works very well in power and doom metal, in particular.
It puts "breakcore"[1] between "boy band" and "new romantic". I do see some similar genres in the area (deep breakcore, intelligent dance music), but I reckon a dimension has been squashed which was essential in positioning the entire area of music around IDM. They lie scattered between genres of music with which they have little to no connection.
The blurb doesn't seem to imply that genres close together are in any way related; just that they have some similar characteristics. It doesn't strike me as entirely improbable that there are some surprises there.
That's right. This map begins as a scatter-plot, not a force-network, so particularly in the middle of the map individual pairwise distances in these two dimensions can be perfect or misleading. The readability adjustments to keep the names from landing on top of each other also distort the data in a technical sense.
But if you go into a genre's own page and scroll down, there is a little inset map of that genre's immediate neighborhood. That view is restricted to the most similar genres according to ALL the dimensions, so breakcore's neighborhood, for example (http://everynoise.com/engenremap-breakcore.html) doesn't include "boy band" at all.
Still plenty of surprises... I like enka a lot but I wouldn't have anticipated any of the things it's associated with... "deep filthstep?" http://everynoise.com/engenremap-enka.html
edit: Oh, I'm probably looking at it backwards and those are the least similar genres. "Classic Chinese pop" and various folk musics are less surprising.
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.
Hah. There WAS an Italian punk band called Arturo, but that "Arturo" definitely wasn't them. Fixed. This is a perpetual source of trouble, but finer distinctions actually help deal with this, as they produce more-specific audio profiles, which gives the filters a better chance to recognize a mis-attributed song as an outlier for the genre...
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.
Would be cool to ad a crowd sourcing element to suggest changes to get an even better base.
An undo for the "listened to this" icon would also be helpful.
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!
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.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 55.9 ms ] thread[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF7qmAMkksA
But if you go into a genre's own page and scroll down, there is a little inset map of that genre's immediate neighborhood. That view is restricted to the most similar genres according to ALL the dimensions, so breakcore's neighborhood, for example (http://everynoise.com/engenremap-breakcore.html) doesn't include "boy band" at all.
edit: Oh, I'm probably looking at it backwards and those are the least similar genres. "Classic Chinese pop" and various folk musics are less surprising.
Similar effort, but purely editorial and only about electronic music, with commentary
Would be cool to ad a crowd sourcing element to suggest changes to get an even better base.
An undo for the "listened to this" icon would also be helpful.
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.