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Map of Musical Genres

By Bbenzon @bbenzon
Find it HERE. Click on links to listen to examples.
This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1264 genres by The Echo Nest. 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.
Courtesy of Glenn McDonald.

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