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Stell-R
Music discovery tool based only on mutual artistic influence
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Music discovery tool based only on mutual artistic influence
6 followers
Every edge in the Stell-R graph represents a documented influence connection between ~25,000 artists, pulled from album reviews and music-history writing where one artist's name is explicitly cited in critiques of another's work. Not streaming co-listens, user similarity, or genre tags, just documented influence. My core methodology is at: Badillo-Goicoechea, E. (2025). Modeling Artist Influence for Music Selection and Recommendation: A Purely Network-Based Approach. Harvard Data Science Review
How do you handle cases where an artist is cited in critiques of another artist, but the citation is negative or dismissive? Does that still get logged as a direct influence edge, or is there some kind of weighting based on tone?
Looked up a few artists I know and the influence chains actually feel accurate, especially the ones connecting post-rock to krautrock. The cited review excerpts behind each link are a really nice touch for trusting the data.