An evidence-first music explorer

Industrial Music
Knowledge Graph

Trace the people, projects, releases, and songs that form the industrial music network.

This can work on a mobile device, but a larger screen—such as a laptop or desktop—gives the clearest view of the network.

Industrial music relationship meme showing people and projects connected by white lines

The spark

The meme that triggered this project

This graph started as an effort to reverse-engineer, expand, and substantiate the dense web of people and projects shown in this Wax Trax meme.

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Recorded connections

Known relationships

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Ask about people, projects, releases, connections, or rankings in the current view. Simple graph questions are answered locally. You can turn on the answer helper if your browser supports it for a fuller explanation of the information currently shown.

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Try “Who has the highest composite score?”, “Which projects have the highest PageRank?”, or “Tell me about Al Jourgensen.”

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