A genre at random
Forty-four genres on one wheel, from techno to baroque. Press SPIN! and the wheel picks the genre for whatever you are doing – listening, writing, practising:
Seven families
Rock and metal, Pop and dance, Electronic, Hip hop and soul, Jazz and blues, Classical and film and Folk and world. Click a family to take it off the wheel, or leave only the one you want to explore:
Open a family to untick a genre or add your own – a subgenre, a decade, a country:
What musicians use it for
- Writing challenges: write eight bars in the genre the wheel picks.
- Band practice – play the same song in a different genre every time.
- Producers looking for a style to sample or to mix with.
- Music lessons: spin, then listen to one famous track of that genre together.
- Playlists: spin five times and build a playlist from those five.
Listening to something new
Algorithms play what you already like. A wheel does not. Spin, put on the best-known album of that genre and listen the whole way through – tick Take the winner off the wheel under Options and you have a listening plan for a month:
Past winners keeps what you have listened to: