Documented credits only
A shared credit proves documented participation — playing, producing, engineering, singing. It is never read as artistic influence, friendship, or lineage.
Evidence-first · a real credit graph
Explore the hidden network behind recorded music.
Every album, contributor, and connection here is real, sourced, and versioned. Play today's connection, guess who links two records, or step straight into the credit graph — the evidence for every hop is one click away.
Start here
Four ways into the graph.
Every mode below runs on the same real, documented credit data — pick the one that matches what you're curious about.
One a day
Today's Connection
A frozen, shared daily route between two records — the same one for everyone.
Pick any twoConnect Two Records
Choose any two albums and search for a real, documented route between them.
GuidedRecord Routes
Curated multi-hop routes between records, with the evidence for every step.
Open-endedExplore
Step into one album's bounded credit network and follow it wherever it leads.
A real connection
Blonde → Tracy Chapman
3 documented hops. Not a random pick — the first route in the current, versioned challenge dataset. Search it yourself, or any other pair, atConnect Two Records.
An editorial pick: Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie) andA Night At The Opera (Queen) share a documented producer credit — a realBehind the Glass route, one of three role-restricted search modes that look only at a specific kind of credit (producer/engineer, drums/bass, or guitar) instead of any documented one.
The full shelf of 137 connected albums lives at /albums/.
How it works
Every connection carries its evidence.
An edge between two artists means they are credited on the same release or track. The path keeps that proof attached at every hop, with provenance back to the source.
Sourced and versioned
Publishable facts derive from CC0 Discogs monthly dumps, carried with snapshot date, source, parser and schema versions, and original role text.
Works with no backend
The experience loads a small, versioned static artifact and runs entirely in your browser. No live API is required for the core experience.
What's real here
Documented, not inferred.
The album grid above and its evidence viewer run on real, Discogs monthly-dump-derived data (snapshot 20260601) — 137 studio albums connected by 300 documented credit paths, not a synthetic placeholder. A role taxonomy for credits, real path search between any two records, and an open-ended network explorer have all since shipped — see the full picture for what's live today and what's still ahead. The connections demo (linked below) runs on a small, curated subset of real Discogs data, fetched via the Discogs API ahead of the full CC0 dump pipeline — an earlier, smaller slice kept during the transition, not the primary real dataset anymore.