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Discover Every Noise at Once by Glenn McDonald

Curated by Spotify’s genre taxonomist Glenn McDonald, Every Noise at Once is the most incredible music genre database you will likely come across online. Fancy some oxaca indie or some neurofunk? What about some sovietwave instead?

Whether you are a legit mainstream pop listener or a brave music explorer, Every Noise at Once has got something for you.

In its creator’s words: “Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 5,620 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2021-10-08. 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”.