What purely Belarusian genres can be found on the most complete music map of the world?

The Every Noise at Once website is a gigantic interactive map of music genres, built on Spotify data. Why this particular platform? Because the project was created by its former employee, data engineer and music classification specialist Glenn McDonald.

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Part of the map with genres. Screenshot: everynoise.com

McDonald was involved in analyzing vast amounts of music listening data and building a genre system for Spotify. Many of the platform's features — for example, "fans also like" recommendations and part of the genre analytics — grew out of this work.

Every Noise at Once is an expansion of his knowledge and competencies in a new format. By creating a new project, Glenn wanted to show the entire musical universe completely and give people the opportunity to explore it independently. Each genre on the interactive map can be opened, examples can be listened to, and one can navigate to artists and related styles.

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Another one of Glenn's musical works-research in book format.

Every Noise is considered one of the best examples of how large volumes of cultural data can be visualized. However, unfortunately, at the moment the project has stopped updating due to McDonald's departure from Spotify and, consequently, the loss of access to the platform's internal data.

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"Pesnyary". Illustrative photo. Source: "Arguments and Facts"

So what about Belarusian genres?

On the map, you can see eight genres with the prefix "Belarusian", as well as which bands belong to them.

Belarusian Indie: "Molchat Doma", Nürnberg, "Petlya Pristrastiya", "Sayuz", Akute, Dlina Volny, Nochy, Palina, Luty sakavik, "Razbitaye sertsa patsana", Intelligency, and others.

Belarusian Rock: "Lyapis Trubetskoy", N.R.M., "J:mors", Nizkiz, "Krambambulya", "Bez Bileta", "Krama", Ulis, Syndrom Samazvanca, Relikt, and others.

Belarusian Pop: Tsima Belorusskikh, Max Korzh (early dance releases), Palina, IOWA, LSP (pop hits), Bi-2, "Verasy", Naviband, Aleksey Khlestov, and others.

Belarusian Hip Hop: LSP, Max Korzh, Bakey, Murovei, Homie, Vinsent, Angst, and others.

Belarusian Punk: "Day Darogu!", BRUTTO, "Lyapis Trubetskoy" (late period), Neuro Dubel, Dzieciuki, "Tlushch", Amaroka, and others.

Belarusian Electronic: Super Besse (their late period), Papa Bo, Shuma, Mustelide, Andy Mart, and others.

Belarusian Metal: Gods Tower, Znich, Weesp, Relikt, Dymna Lotva, "Dryhva", TROLLWALD, and others.

Belarusian Folk: "Pesnyary" (classical layer), "Stary Olsa", "Troitsa, Shuma" (ethnic basis).

Interestingly, for music from Russia, 40-50 genres are distinguished,
for Polish artists — 35-40, Ukrainian — about 20, and for music from Latvia and Lithuania, 3-5 genres each were counted.

And what other authentic Belarusian genres or artists, in your opinion, are missing from this map?

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