The music database. Releases, credits, label catalogs, pressings and a vinyl marketplace.
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Workflow
Dig by Era
What was happening in this genre in a specific year?
Time-boxing a dig kills the infinite-scroll problem and surfaces records that never made it into anyone's algorithm.
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The path
- Year
- Genre
- Releases
- Artists
- Labels
Step by step
How to run it
Pick a narrow window
Three years, one genre. Wider than that and you drown.
Filter a database by year and style
Sort by most-collected to find the era's canon, then ignore it and go deeper.
Toolkit
Everything this workflow uses
Time-machine map: pick a country and a decade, hear what was playing.
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Community database with obsessive genre taxonomy and year-by-year charts.
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Berlin store spanning hip hop, soul, jazz and dance vinyl plus reissues.
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