Cratelore
Private beta · invite-only

A music research agent built for unreasonable requests.

Describe what you want in plain language. It researches the actual recordings — even the obscure ones — verifies every artist against real discographies, and builds a public Spotify playlist you can open, save, or follow. No hallucinated tracks, no impostors.

Your brief
“Rebetiko from the 1930s, nothing remastered.”
verifies every artist · one per act · in playing orderBuild it
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01 / THE PROBLEM

Why most AI playlists disappoint

Ask a chatbot for a playlist and it half-remembers. It invents song titles that don’t exist. It hands you a track with the right title by the wrong artist — a completely different song. The more specific or obscure your taste, the worse it gets. This fixes exactly that.
02 / DEFINITION

What it isn’t

Five things it deliberately refuses to be.

i.
Not a “mood playlist” generator.
No one-click “Happy Vibes” or “Workout.” It builds the specific thing you described, however niche — not a preset.
ii.
Not a recommendation engine.
Not “if you like X, you’ll love Y.” It doesn’t predict your taste — it executes your brief with precision.
iii.
Not a chatbot guessing from memory.
It searches real catalogs and verifies every artist instead of inventing plausible-sounding titles.
iv.
Not an alternative to Spotify.
It doesn’t replace your streaming service — the finished playlist is a real, public Spotify playlist you open and play there.
v.
Not a black box.
You see the reasoning and the sources behind every pick — not just a list of names.
It’s a research-and-verification engine that builds the exact playlist you describe — and nothing you didn’t.
03 / MECHANISM

How it works

STEP 01
Describe it in plain language
“Rebetiko from the 1930s, nothing remastered.” “A three-hour set for a natural-wine bar, no vocals-forward pop.” Whatever you’d tell a friend with great taste.
STEP 02
It actually researches
Searches real catalogs and digs the web for regional scenes, underground acts, and the recordings that never made the obvious lists.
STEP 03
It verifies every track
The credited artist has to match, no same-title impostors, and one track per artist — the right song by the right musician.
STEP 04
Read the lore
You get a link to the finished Spotify playlist, plus a sourced write-up of what it spans and the picks behind it. Read it, share it.
05 / AUDIENCE

Who it’s for

Crate diggers & melomaniacs
Obscure, precise, and nothing you already own. The deeper your taste, the more this pulls ahead of a chatbot.
Working DJs
Obscure, on-theme tracks dug out for a set — a label, an era, a scene, a tempo — handed back in playing order. A crate to build from, not a shuffle.
Venue & retail programmers
Hours of on-brand background for a café, shop, or bar — a specific era and sound held across a long set, no filler.
Anyone with specific taste
Regional folk, micro-genres, a single artist’s deep cuts — the requests every other tool botches.
06 / SPECIMENS

Things people ask it for

Deep-dive a micro-genre
Rural Greek village styles by region — Epirus clarinet, Pontic lyra, Thracian dance tunes.
BY REGION
A festival lineup, curated
Primavera Sound 2026 — one signature track per act, but skip the DJ sets and pure-electronic acts.
BY LINEUP
An impossible tempo brief
240 BPM but nothing electronic — the fastest cuts from grindcore to bebop to bluegrass, tempo researched track by track.
BY TEMPO
A single artist’s deep cuts
Everything worth hearing beyond the singles — B-sides, collaborations, live-only takes, one act.
1 PER ARTIST
Crate-dig: underground only
Nothing over ~50k monthly listeners — just the finds the algorithms bury.
<50K LISTENERS
07 / GUARANTEES

What makes it different

VERIFY
Every artist verified
The right song by the right artist — not a same-title track by someone unrelated.
AUDIT
The lore, not just a list
Each playlist comes with a sourced write-up — the picks, the reasoning, the dead-ends. Audit the taste.
DEEP
Digs past the hits
It surfaces the regional and underground carriers, not the greatest-hits shelf — the deeper your taste, the better it gets.
NO GHOSTS
No hallucinated tracks
Invented titles and phantom songs get caught and dropped before anything is saved.
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