Pandora is the goods...

There is a new service out called Pandora by the Music Genome Project that provides a pretty innovative way of finding new music.

The Music Genome Project has spent the last 5 years analyzing the musical qualities of approximately 10,000 songs breaking the songs down to its musical attributes (they call them "genes") such as melody, harmony, intrumentation, arrangement, lyrics and orchestration and pieced together a "genome".

The Pandora service takes any number of artists or songs you provide as inputs and outputs a stream of music based of the genes of those inputs thanks to the genome. I've enter in a bunch of obscure songs and artists that I've been checking out lately and I haven't stumped the system yet. It is definitely worth checking out.

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