Ghost of a flea

Pandora

The Music Genome Project aims to help people find more music they will like. Their oracle for this task is Pandora, an A.I./DJ. It is this bespoke internet music radio station that separates the system from, for example, Gnod and I am tinkering with it as I type this post. My first artist selection was VNV Nation in part to test the range of music in Pandora's box. It promptly called up "Entropy", played the track and then suggested Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by matching beat, tempo and vocal stylings with my first selection.

I have now added Underworld and Faithless; I like "Blue" just fine but am after more downbeat lyrical content just now. Having played Flea-fav "Born Slippy" by Underworld, Pandora now calls up "Call The Ships To Port" by a band called Covenant. Never heard of them and it is exactly what I am looking for so props to a network that can do my exploration for me.*

At which point it hits me with the registration interface. You can choose a subscription or to sit through ads; fair enough. Next up was another Covenant track, "We Stand Alone" after I asked Pandora to play more like it. This followed by an excellent guess, Funkervogt "Killing Fields". An hour of listening later and I have a half dozen new bands to check out. Well worth the visit.

*Excellent sound quality too, btw.

(Oops! Forgot to hat tip A Former Servant of Her Majesty for this one.)

Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 6, 2006 08:23 AM

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Posted by: FormerServantOfHerMajesty at March 6, 2006 02:10 PM

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