Spotify surfaces the same 50,000 tracks. SideBand scouts the other 100 million. Autonomous AI that crawls the underground and delivers what the algorithms won't.
How it works
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Bandcamp releases, SoundCloud uploads, small label catalogs, music forums, radio station playlists. SideBand goes where Spotify's algorithm doesn't.
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Knows the difference between musique concrete and noise rock. Tags discoveries with precise genre and mood markers, not vague "chill vibes."
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Every discovery comes with context. Who the artist is, what scene they belong to, why this track matters. Not metadata. Actual music criticism.
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Curated email every week with the best finds. Browse the full archive on the web. The crate-digging you used to do on Saturday mornings, done for you by Wednesday.
What we surface
Free improvisation, noise, drone, electroacoustic, sound art. The things that don't fit in a Spotify category.
Lo-fi bedroom recordings, tape labels, DIY scenes from cities you've never heard of.
Music from scenes with no English-language press coverage. Turkish psych, Japanese ambient, Congolese electronics.
Forgotten recordings getting a second life. The kind of thing that shows up in a box set 30 years after the band played their last show.
An AI music scout that works while you sleep, finding the sounds that matter before anyone else hears them.