musicmap is a stark white exercise in ever so pretty music networking minimalism. essentially you put in an artist, choose an album from the list and this becomes your starting point. click on the node and select expand and it generates a range of new suggestions. from somewhere. these suggestions then link back to any of the albums you've already opened up so you can get a nice visual sense of musical compatibility between different projects. it does seem to have a slightly limited database to draw upon though. i managed to move from minimal techno (the amazing gui boratto) to the white stripes in two expansions.
tuneglue is almost identical, although it is more artist (rather than album)-oriented, looks a little clunkier (it seems to think page space is a precious resource) and is integrated with the last.fm database, making it more exhaustive than musicmap. which helps. there is also an unnerving tendency for your webs to start trying to make their escape to the left of screen if left for a while. maybe they can sense the death metal boys hovering around the next expansion and want to get out while the getting is good. they shouldn't be so scared though. metal dudes aren't that scary. LOL.
