Some artists just are not cool – your mom likes ABBA, so there’s no way you are going to listen to them, even if you think Mamma Mia is rather catchy.  Likewise  you may think High School…

Kamel Makhloufi (aka melka) has created a Cocoa Framework for the Echo Nest and has released it as open source.  This framework makes it easy for Mac developers (and presumable iPhone and…

Check out Adam Lindsay’s latest post on Dissociated Mixes. He’s got a pretty good collection of automatically shuffled songs that sound interesting and eerily different from the original.  One…

We’ve been listening nothing but Michael Jackson here today at the nest.

To help everyone remember how great MJ’s music is, Tristan put together a  mix of MJ – 50 tracks in 25 minutes:

Here’s the first Echo Nest application (as far as I know) that is written in Clojure:  Another reason I like Clojure

At the core of  just about everything we do here at the Echo Nest is what we call “The Knowledge”.  This is big pile of data that represents everything we know about music.   To build…

We’ve just released version 1.1 of the Echo Nest Java Client.  The Java Client makes it easy to access the Echo Nest APIs from a Java program.  This release fixes some bugs and improves caching…

If you live within a couple hundred miles of London, and you read this blog, then there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be planning on going to Music Hackday being held on July 11th and 12th at…

This morning, while eating my Father’s day bagel, I got to play some more with the video aspects of the Echo Nest remix API.  The video remix is pretty slick.  You use all of the tools that you…

Ben Lacker, one of our leading computational remixologists here at the Echo Nest has been improving the video remix capabilities of the Echo Nest remix API.   On Friday, he remixed this mind…