User: barneypinkerton Collection: 194 releases | Wantlist: 135 releases
1. Collection DNA¶
What styles, labels, and eras define my collection. Wantlist items are weighted 1.5× – since I haven't bought many records recently but have always maintained my wantlist, the wantlist is a better representation of my current taste preferences than existing purchases in my collection.
2. The Mean Record¶
I've used my local MP3 collection of dance music – gathered over the years via Bandcamp, Beatport, and Soulseek – to build a digital portrait of my taste. Every track has an audio embedding – a 1280-dimensional fingerprint computed by Essentia's EffNet model trained on the Discogs catalogue. Each song is then placed in a shared multidimensional space based on its characteristics. The centroid is the average of all those fingerprints. The track below sits closest to it: the most typical sounding song in the collection.
For me this holds true, 'Tripped' by Wheelman is a personal favourite of mine and has everything I love in a dance track: lush synths, skippy drums and a trippy vocal sample, a good sign the model has read my taste accurately.
3. Discoveries¶
Below are some of my favourite records that have been surfaced by the recommendation pipeline so far.
The recommendations below come from two signals working together. The first is a graph of labels and artists: if I own records on label x and label y, the algorithm finds what sits at the intersection of those scenes (maybe there's an artist that's released on both those labels that I don't own in my collection) things I'm likely to know, or should. The second is audio: does it actually sound like the rest of my collection via the EffNet embeddings?
A record scores highly only when both agree. Teal picks are in familiar territory – connected to labels or artists already in the collection. Purple picks are genuine outliers: the graph and the audio both say this fits, but nothing in my library links to it directly. Those are the interesting ones.
Favourites so far¶
Bouncy synths with some heavy bass
