There's a website mapping every genre in existence
Ever wondered what lithumania sounds like? Want to distinguish your grindcore from your goregrind? Then this is the site for you.
Every Noise At Once is an ongoing project, aiming to list every genre in existance. Founded by Glenn McDonald, a genre taxonomist at Spotify, the website is a map of every genre you can think of, based on information from The Echo Nest databases.
Glenn describes the site as "an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier."
Clicking on the genre site visitors can hear clips of every type of music from throatsinging to afrobeat and beyond, whilst clicking on the arrows next to each genre will give a list of artists who perform in that style.
The website also allows visitors to list the genres by familiarity, hotness, currency, discovery, engagement, background, name, and xmasness, all with varying degrees of popularity (mainstream - deep).
There are entire worlds to get lost in here. So what are you waiting for?
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