Zero Noise. Human signal.
Discover what DJs and radio curators actually play.
1,461,638 songs from recorded DJ and radio sets, joined wherever people played one close to another. No recommender picked the links.
Sign-in is by an emailed code. There is no password.
What it is
ZeroNoise is a map of recorded DJ and radio sets, built from published tracklists. A link between two songs means that people played them close together in real sets. It does not mean they sound alike.
Songs sit on a wheel. Each sector is a Discogs style, such as Techno, House or Ambient, and the more mixes a song appears in, the nearer the centre it sits.
Music outside your usual taste
A feed that learns from what you play offers more of it. ZeroNoise does not learn from you, and it does not read your listening on other services: a link exists because a DJ or a radio host played two songs close together. Start from a record you know, follow a link into a sector you have never played, and the next song was chosen by a person. You can filter the map to the songs you have not heard yet.
What is on it
- 1,461,638 songs in the catalog, 50,000 of them on the wheel.
- 34,725 channels: radio stations, shows and other series that publish mixes.
- 577 genres and styles from Discogs, used to place songs and to filter them.
How to use it
Pick a sector, search, or filter by channel, label, genre, style, year or play count. Select a song to hear it in the mix that played it; mixes play in SoundCloud’s player. Follow its links to the songs played next to it, and save what you find. Every filtered view has an address you can share.
Where the data comes from
From published tracklists of DJ mixes and radio shows. Genres, styles and original release years come from Discogs, whose data dumps are released under CC0. Cover art and previews come from Deezer. Song, artist and label names and cover art belong to their owners and are shown to describe records. See data sources and credits and terms and privacy.
Who it is for
People who dig: curators, selectors, collectors, and anyone who wants to know where a record was played and what came after it.
Read more
- How the map is builtWhat goes in, how songs are placed and linked, and what the map cannot tell you.
- Questions and answersWhat a link means, how to get outside your usual taste, what it costs, what is stored.
- Alternatives to ZeroNoiseOther ways to find music without a personalised feed, and when each suits you better.
- Stories from the numbersWhat 1,461,638 songs say about how sets are made.