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составил топ исполнителей просушенных мной в 2011 году, в основном это джаз, классика и фолк. Это согласно ластэфему, в реальности все конечно разнообразней) к этому надо добавить прог рок, краут рок, неофолк и еще что-нибудь) интересно куда уведут мои извечные поиски музыки и нового звучания в этом году?) составлю такой же список через год и посмотрю далеко ли я ушел)

1 Bohren & der Club of Gore
2 Валентин Васильович Сильвестров
3 Falkenstein
4 Joy Division
5 Георгий Васильевич Свиридов
6 Clinic
7 Nina Simone
8 Bob Marley
9 Miles Davis
10 Oriental Sunshine
11 Philip Glass
12 The Doors
13 Arve Henriksen
13 Erik Satie
15 Dustin O'Halloran
16 Louis Armstrong
17 Alizbar
18 Bill Evans
19 King Crimson
20 АлтайКай
21 Otis Taylor
22 Kammerflimmer Kollektief
23 Huun-Huur-Tu
24 Lela Tsurtsumia
25 Brian Eno
25 1000 Funerals
27 Max Richter
28 Forseti
29 Arvo Pärt
30 Александр Вертинский

In the past few months since getting Spotify and an internet connections I've built my music library to bursting point and felt the need to share my favourite tracks each week to an uncaring Facebook community. These are the artists that got their tracks selected most times.

The Fall x16
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds x10
Gil Scott-Heron x8
The La's x6
Manic Street Preachers x6
tUnE-yArDs x6
Bad Religion x5
Elliott Smith x5
The Black Seeds x4
The Durutti Column x4
Grizzly Bear x4
Joy Division x4
Modest Mouse x4
Pretty Girls Make Graves x4
TV on the Radio x4

In the past few months since getting Spotify and an internet connections I've built my music library to bursting point and felt the need to share my favourite tracks each week to an uncaring Facebook community. These are the artists that got their tracks selected most times.

The Fall x16
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds x10
Gil Scott-Heron x8
The La's x6
Manic Street Preachers x6
tUnE-yArDs x6
Bad Religion x5
Elliott Smith x5
The Black Seeds x4
The Durutti Column x4
Grizzly Bear x4
Joy Division x4
Modest Mouse x4
Pretty Girls Make Graves x4
TV on the Radio x4

In the past few months since getting Spotify and an internet connections I've built my music library to bursting point and felt the need to share my favourite tracks each week to an uncaring Facebook community. These are the artists that got their tracks selected most times.

The Fall x16
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds x10
Gil Scott-Heron x8
The La's x6
Manic Street Preachers x6
tUnE-yArDs x6
Bad Religion x5
Elliott Smith x5
The Black Seeds x4
The Durutti Column x4
Grizzly Bear x4
Joy Division x4
Modest Mouse x4
Pretty Girls Make Graves x4
TV on the Radio x4

10. Stealing a Useless Eaters setlist.
9. Getting accosted by one of Ape Technology's robots.
8. Accidentally snubbing Mike Connelly from Wolf Eyes at a flea market.
7. Watching Mike Connelly molest Wesley Eisold from Cold Cave while he was singing.
6. Watching Dominick Fernow spazz out during break-downs at the same show.
5. Seeing Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
4. Seeing the Melvins play Stoner Witch.
3. Meeting Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn and giving them creepy pictures I drew.
2. Watching a male Björk impersonator run around in his boxers rambling about freeing Tibet while a fake Ian Curtis molested him.*
1. Harassing Swans and just being a total pest to them. (I don't care what anyone says they are all super nice guys).

*pupils was Björk and Oblisk was Joy Division. Read more about it here.

Last Saturday, I discussed the issues with the current similar artist formula...especially Metallica being top 10 in similarity with The Offspring (like what?).

Well, since then, I put my programming skills to work and well, I built a little program to test to see it would work with other artists. Results were noticed on several bands/artists as their similar artists over went a make over. However, it did lead to new problems as I tried testing it out super-mainstream acts including our favorite band...Radiohead.


Rage Against the Machine showed up as a similar artist.


...well, apparently. Radiohead's top 250 similar artists currently are all over the place in random genres. A bigger batch of similar artists would be needed to get the best results, but the question is...is my new formula better. I'm going to show you some examples of artists top 25 similar artists...before, and after. You guys make the decision.


Oh, you don't remember the formula? Very well...time for a quick summary
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