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Wow, this is incredible. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music completely blew my mind back in the day, and it keeps doing the same when I revisit it every couple
by morsch 10y ago
Wow, this is incredible. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music completely blew my mind back in the day, and it keeps doing the same when I revisit it every couple of years.
Some feedback which you are free to ignore:
When zoomed in, the map tends to look kind of cluttered, a mess of graph edges. Some genres such as jazz are okay, but the rock/metal and electronic music area is almost comical. It's much better when hovering over a single sub-genre; I'd keep the highlighting in place after clicking on it. For the non-highlighted view, I don't know.
The time reference adds even more horizontal lines, even though the corresponding decade labels almost never visible; I'd drop the lines and make the decade label stick to the edge of the screen. BTW, I love that the user can chose which layers to display.
The left and right side panels cover up two thirds of the map. By default, they both open as you navigate to an item; it felt kind of claustrophobic to me. Maybe the Genre information can be an additional "row" in the right hand panel? I think that could work well. Other ideas: less whitespaces, less opacity?
I closed the left hand panel, and then it took me a long time to figure out how to get it back; I assumed there was a bug because it didn't have the expand button the right side does.
When I dig into an individual genre, I like to read the sub-genre descriptions while listening to the various music samples. Having to switch between description and playlist mode (one replaces the other with a long-ish animation) gets really old.
Maybe clicking on genres/sub-genres should move the map viewport? I just noticed that clicking on the year in the sub-genre description move the viewport to the sub-genre (not the year, per se). So that's good, if non-obvious.
All that said, I'm looking forward to digging into the content; exploring music in this way is such a fun way to broaden your horizon. And I'm really looking forward to what you'll be doing with the Spotify integration! Spotify should pay you a shit-ton of money to integrate this into their apps.