If you're the type who digs deep into liner notes, follows obscure side projects, or gets excited about unexpected 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 simplistic, synthetic, and short-term engagement-driven recommendation models.

Traditional algorithmic paradigms often lead nowhere meaningful in the longer-term.

Stell-R. A musical genealogy toolkit to complement 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? Choose your starting points.
• Trace the artistic lineages and influences 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 artistic influence paths rather than marketing categories or popularity metrics.
• Find your next musical obsession through links that honor musical history and artistic intention.
• No user data —just music

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.