Documented credits only
A documented performance credit means two artists are credited as performing on the same recording or release — nothing about how they got along.
Evidence-first · a real credit graph
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
Every mode below runs on the same credit data. Pick the one that matches what you're curious about.
A frozen, shared daily route between two records — the same one for everyone.
Pick any twoChoose any two albums and search for a documented route between them.
GuidedCurated multi-hop routes between records, with the evidence for every step.
Open-endedStep into one album's bounded credit network and follow it wherever it leads.
Want the full shelf? See every way to play.
Follow the credits
Each album page lists who's documented on it. Open any name to land on their own page: role categories, connected records, and sometimes a nudge toward someone credited in a different kind of role. Just follow the names.
Browse everyone documented in the graph at /contributors/.
A real connection
3 documented hops. This is the first route in the current, versioned challenge dataset. Search it yourself, or any other pair, atConnect Two Records.
The full shelf of 217 albums lives at /albums/.
How it works
An edge between two artists means they are documented performing on the same recording or release. The path keeps that proof attached at every hop, with provenance back to the source.
A documented performance credit means two artists are credited as performing on the same recording or release — nothing about how they got along.
Publishable facts derive from CC0 Discogs monthly dumps, carried with snapshot date, source, parser and schema versions, and original role text.
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
Every album, route, and evidence viewer on this site runs on Discogs monthly-dump data (snapshot 20260601): 217 studio albums, with575 documented performance paths between them. Connections are musical performances; the credits are the evidence. A role taxonomy for credits, path search between any two records, and an open-ended network explorer have all shipped since — see the full picture for what's live and what's still ahead.