Pandora is an online music repository, which listeners can access by creating their own "radio stations" based on particular songs or artists. Since 2000, Pandora has been amassing thousands of songs of various genres through their Music Genome Project, "the most comprehensive analysis of music undertaken." Here's how they explain the concept on their website:
With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
You can create as many "stations" as you want. And you can even refine them. If it's not quite right you can tell it so and it will get better for you.
The Music Genome Project was founded by musicians and music-lovers. We believe in the value of music and have a profound respect for those who create it. We like all kinds of music, from the most obtuse bebop, to the most tripped-out drum n bass, to the simplest catchy pop tune. Our mission is to help you connect with the music YOU like.
It's pretty damned cool! Currently I have 23 unique radio stations based on songs or artists I like a lot. I can listen to one station or create a "Quick Mix" of multiple stations. Right now I'm listening to a mix of stations inspired by Basia, Louis Armstrong, Enya, Gipsy Kings, and Alison Krauss. But I also have a hip hop station, a disco-y station, and a number of stations featuring 80s music, as well as some "alternative" ones. It all depends on my mood.
If you know the name of a good song that fits into the trance/techno/house genre (is that an actual genre? does that make any sense?), let me know so I can start a new station. Thanks.
2 comments:
Daft Punk (a French techno group) is good. Try Musique, One More Time & Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. I also like Magazine 60's one hit wonder from the 1980s called Don Quichcotte, but Pandora could not locate it. Maybe too obscure. Another French techno artist though. I like Pandora. Discovered it a few months ago through Parenting Magazine.
Thanks for the suggestions! They created a cool station.
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