Didn’t know the difference between ‘psychedelic rock,’ ‘psychedelic blues-rock,’ and ‘classic psychedelic rock?’ Neither did we, until we came upon Every Noise at Once.

The website shows over 1300 (1374, to be exact) different genres of music, and each genre links to a map of artists that could be classified in that category. The site’s creator, Glenn McDonald, writes:

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 1374 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.

The Echo Nest was an off-shoot of the MIT Media Lab research project, “to understand the audio and textual content of recorded music.” [Wikipedia] They were acquired by Spotify in 2014.

For anyone looking to spend a full day on one website, Every Noise at Once is the place for you… this will seriously suck you in.