What was this website?

October 7, 2009 5:27 AM

Looking for a (previously linked) musical-connections bubble-diagram.

I think I saw this linked on Metafilter, maybe as a FPP, many moons ago.

It was basically a bubble diagram with musical groups linked together according to their similarity. So for example, Blur might be connected to The Kinks; Gorillaz; The Good, The Bad & The Queen; and further away, Oasis.

The diagram was zoomable and panable. Might have been Flash.

Any ideas what the website was?

posted by Kiwi to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

Probably not what you're looking for (and I am very intrigued by what you describe), but in a similar vein, Last.fm's Islands of Music.
posted by telegraph at 5:38 AM on October 7, 2009

Liveplasma
posted by helios at 5:44 AM on October 7, 2009

An oldie but a goodie is Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. It's not band-focused, but instead genre (and sub-genre and sub-sub-genre) focused. It's not zoomable, though I remembered it being zoomable and more fluid.
posted by zpousman at 7:54 AM on October 7, 2009

Gnoosic?
posted by donnagirl at 7:30 PM on October 7, 2009

Best answer: Or, more specifically, the Music Map app at Gnoosic's site?
posted by donnagirl at 7:33 PM on October 7, 2009

Try TuneGlue. I was just looking at it earlier today for the first time in ages!
posted by micklaw at 12:17 AM on October 8, 2009

Response by poster: Thanks everyone. The Gnoosic Music Map is the closest.

Searching Metafilter with 'Gnoosic' brought up a thread mentioning Musicplasma, which seems to have passed away. The screenshot here is what I originally remember seeing though.
posted by Kiwi at 3:34 PM on October 8, 2009

Response by poster: Oh its alive again, was just down for a few hours. http://www.musicplasma.com/
posted by Kiwi at 6:27 AM on October 9, 2009