I love Pandora but it seems to always surface Billboard top 100 hits or far-too-familiar music. This is a neat way to uncover music you might love but never heard before.
Here's the Mos Def tree:
@_jacksmith I like this idea, will work on that for the Orange version (I've already added improvements for the Yellow version which I'll release tomorrow).
As an obsessive music hunter for Musicgeeks (http://musicgeeks.co), this is pretty interesting. I wish it wasn't built on Youtube; this is what Soundcloud should do well and doesn't. I'm growing more fascinated with Spotify's underlying graph, which is powered by Everynoise / Echo Nest (and the human touch of the a genius I've been following for 10+ years, Glenn McDonald).
There's this fascinating intersection in music discovery of human curation and algorithms / similarity trees / graphs. The latter often has no chance of really blowing your music landscape wide open. The former mandates quite a bit of trust and even patience, as you'll almost inevitably be fed songs that don't land for you. Then there's the desire spectrum, on which on one hand you have people who really just want the deepest dive possible on a genre like Southern Rock, and on the other hand people who want to be exposed to different types of music across many or all genres.
Nevertheless, the more experiments happening in this space, the better!
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