The first to envision and develop organic, artist-centered methods for deep music discovery + exploration
If you're the type who digs deep into liner notes, follows obscure side projects, or gets excited about unexpected discoveries musical connections — you know the frustration.
We already know mainstream platforms excel at serving up familiar comfort zones based on your listening patterns. Streaming services are great for daily listening reccs.
But what about when you want to truly shift and expand your musical horizons and not just follow your own inertia? Or when you want understand things like if/how Joni Mitchell influenced Radiohead's Kid A? Or trace the path from Can to Vampire Weekend? Those deeper musical relationships get lost in the noise of a simplistic, synthetic, and short-term engagement-driven recommendation models.
Traditional algorithmic paradigms often lead nowhere meaningful in the longer-term.
Stell-R. Think of it as your musical archaeology toolkit — a complement to your regular streaming that helps you uncover the why behind the music you love:
- Puts you in control of your own musical discovery path: what are you really curious about? what moves you? Choose your starting points.
- Trace genuine artistic lineages and influence networks that shaped your favorite artists
- Discover the deep cuts and forgotten gems that bridge musical movements
- Explore contextual connections — not just "sounds like" but "inspired by," "collaborated with," "emerged from"
- Navigate music through musical DNA rather than marketing categories or popularity metrics
- Find your next obsession through paths that honor musical history and artistic intention
- No user data manipulation — just pure musical relationships as they actually exist
Use Spotify for your commute. Use Stell-R for your expanding your limits as a music lover.
We are committed to transparency in how we handle visitor data:
- We collect IP addresses solely to assess broad geographical usage trends across sufficiently large regions
- All data is processed in aggregate form only - no individual IP addresses are stored
- Regional analytics help us understand our audience and improve our services
- We never share individual visitor data
This data helps us better understand how Stell-R connects with music lovers across different regions.