Version
v2.2.1
- Skenai moves to its own address, skenai.app.
Blog
What gets written, and what ships.
- Version
v2.2.0
- An artist clicked on the home map arrives selected at the centre of the full map, on phones and large screens alike.
- Full map filters stay on the full map: the home page and artist pages get the whole map back, with no selection left lit.
- Only lit discs respond to hover and click, and filters and the hover card work as soon as you arrive from the home page.
- One player for the whole site: it no longer flickers between the home page and the map, sits at the same distance from the bottom and the edge, and the map zoom lines up with it.
- Version
v2.1.0
- A new player on phones: the cover inside the style’s colour square, with play and pause on top, a line to move through the track, the title leading to the artist’s page, and “next” playing through their tracks.
- The player sits bottom right on every page, moves up above the footer and no longer flickers from one page to the next.
- The map no longer jumps when going from the home page to the full map, and an artist clicked on the home map arrives there selected.
- On the trend wall, the map scrolls with the wall and leaves room for the player. On the full map, zoom and legend stay on screen.
- Smoother transitions: the leaving page fades out, the hand cursor shows on everything clickable, and “How it works” fits on a phone.
- Version
v2.0.0
- A new home page, one sentence to complete: I’m looking for an artist, a night, a label, a track, a promoter, an agency or the trend, then where, when, which style. The list answers, and the map behind lights only what it shows. The old list pages lead there.
- One map for the whole site: from the search to the full map to an artist page, nothing reloads. An artist page and the player take the colour of the artist’s style.
- The player follows you from page to page: the list is its queue, with previous and next, and the sound starts every time.
- A new look: dark ground, pink accent, titles in Anton, a constellation logo, content that settles in when the page arrives. On the trend wall, a rise is green and a fall red.
- “How it works” describes the site as it is now, with new screenshots.
- Version
v1.13.0
- New Trends page: the week in drum & bass, full screen, with the most played chart (places gained, % against last week). You can filter it by style and country.
- The map works like a maps app: one column with search, style chips and a single panel. An artist's quick card lets you swipe through and play their collaborations.
- A one-sentence home page with search, and a new Artists page.
- The whole site breathes: big headlines, flat cards, more space, long lists folded.
- Fairer artist pages (activity, city, real name, namesakes set aside), and a map three times lighter on the home and artist pages, silent until you touch it.
- Version
v1.12.0
- Pages no longer show a namesake's releases, labels, fans or videos: the whole namesake queue has been settled by hand.
- An artist's latest filmed set has to prove the scene: no more maths lectures, recipes or video games in its place.
- A club that hosts its own nights counts as a venue: its nights without any artist from the map leave the agenda.
- Version
v1.11.0
- The night re-reads its sources at the same time, one per server: today's map is online before 3 am UTC, and the How it works page describes it.
- More countries and filmed sets re-read every night: artist pages stay more up to date.
- A namesake's releases are spotted every night so they can be removed; Mason's page no longer shows any.
- Version
v1.10.0
- The map places each artist next to those they share relations with, and its islands are named by their style and most-followed artists.
- A more accurate map: techno, house or namesake nights leave the agenda, and pages no longer show a namesake's releases or tags.
- Every page comes up on Google and in AI assistants with its title, description and share card, and can be shared with one button.
- The map stays loaded from page to page, and the player shows the track loading.
- Organisation, night and artist pages open faster, and an organiser without a page no longer leads to a dead end.
- Version
v1.9.0
- Names on the map follow the gaze: what sits near the cursor or the zoom point is named first, with a budget by screen area, three sizes like a geographic map, and stable names that do not flicker; the artist under the cursor is always named.
- Hype treats ties equally (same percentile), a steady artist no longer ranks below a never-measured one, and a first date in the future no longer counts.
- Mixcloud sets of an organisation or label are only kept when the scene reads in the title or tags, in whole words (Drumcode is not drum and bass).
- The legal page details audience measurement: city derived from the IP, hosted on a server in the EU.
- Version
v1.8.0
- Hovering a disc grows and settles it smoothly: the base scale is no longer reset on every map refresh.
- Version
v1.7.0
- Event pages say everything Resident Advisor knows: genres, attached players, set times, announcement date, the venue with address, capacity, phone, website, map link, blurb and events this year.
- Organisation pages show since when they run, nights per year, all venues with capacity, banner and socials; clubs that programme their own nights are marked venue and organisation.
- Artist pages gain the RA biography, aliases, first known date, dates per year and per country, RA articles and podcasts, a Hype score out of 100 with its five factors, and "Is this you?": claim your page with a code in your SoundCloud bio, verified nightly.
- Label pages carry founding year, place, parent label, Discogs catalogue size, public links (Bandcamp, SoundCloud, socials), Resident Advisor reviews with covers, and the Wikipedia article; organisations and labels list their Mixcloud sets.
- On the map, disc size can follow Hype instead of followers (Filters); a weekly radar (rising artists, nights announced, newcomers) is sent on Mondays; a read-only MCP server exposes the scene to AI assistants.
- Version
v1.6.0
- An announced night imposes its artists: they get in with no cap, and every artist must carry a proof of belonging to the scene; with no proof, they leave. The Jungle pole becomes "Jungle & rollers".
- An event page shows ticket tiers (price, on sale soon, sold out), the promoter's links, the venue with address and photo, and the Shotgun link when the night is sold there; the agenda covers 201 countries on RA and Shotgun cities by genre.
- The artist page gains their bio and public links (Instagram, Spotify, Bandcamp), the most recent filmed set from an official channel, a "new" badge on a track under 30 days old, a filter and a Discover block for new tracks, and the SoundCloud cloud next to every follower count.
- Organisations and labels have their video, agencies their logo and blurb; lists sort by most active, biggest, most followed.
- "How it works" describes the night phase by phase, with its six proofs and its freshness check; every account on the map is re-read every night.
- Version
v1.5.0
- An Organisations page, and identical cards for events, labels, agencies and organisations: image, title, one line, the style mix; one filter bar everywhere (search, lists, countries with flags, checkboxes).
- Labels carry their presentation, logo and site (Discogs); organisations their presentation; an event shows its full lineup, description, price, minimum age and venue capacity.
- The player fills the bottom of the map, closes with a cross, drives from its thumbnail, keeps the track from page to page and links to the artist; the map card shows all of an artist's styles.
- On the map an open button closes on a second click, zoom glides, hover only dims once the mouse stops and lights only the selected artist's neighbours; a demo cursor on the home while the map is left alone.
- How it works rewritten with screenshots, full-screen menu and bottom-right controls on mobile, flags readable everywhere.
- Version
v1.4.0
- Around the map: Events, Labels, Agencies and Discover on the left with search and a button to their page, the card and filters on the right; a button turns accent while its drawer is open, smooth zoom, a demo cursor on the home while the map is left alone.
- The player follows you from page to page, redrawn, in the colour of the artist's style; Listen in an artist's or an event's hero.
- Pages share one grammar (Listen, Dates, Booked by, Collaborated with, Releases, Labels, Remixes, Trend, Elsewhere), each kind of thing carries its icon, organisations their logo.
- Agenda, labels and agencies as cards with the same filter bar; countries with flags readable everywhere, your language's country first.
- How it works rewritten plainly with screenshots; on mobile a full-screen menu, controls bottom right, a page that stays put while scrolling.
- Version
v1.3.0
- The map has drawers: Events, Labels and Discover on the left, the card and filters on the right; an organic loupe under the cursor, a click that always selects, lighter discs.
- Every page (artist, event, organisation, label, agency) opens like the home with the map framed on it, and the map reopens where you left it; the artist page reads in two columns, Their music and On stage, every collaboration plays.
- The agenda filters by country, city, period, festivals and style, in the visitor's language; labels and agencies as cards with covers, faces, sites and Beatport pages.
- Beatport joins the sources: collaborations, remixes, labels, releases and artwork; styles rebalanced (dancefloor), sets over five minutes no longer pass as tracks.
- Pages up to four times lighter, the player on every page, flags and thumbnails in every list.
- Version
v1.2.0
- The map becomes the hub: the address follows what you look at, and nights, organisations, labels and agencies open as lenses over the artists, from search or their pages.
- Drum & bass nights agenda (Resident Advisor, Shotgun, or listed by the organiser), night and organisation pages with flyers, history and an affinity score; a "list your night" form.
- Labels and booking agencies as entities with their roster; an Agencies page and the list of unsigned artists.
- Richer artist page: upcoming dates, latest filmed set, labels, booking, follower trend; filters by country, followers, collaborations, "playing soon" and "rising".
- Mobile: a map four times lighter, a compact card at the bottom with the player, a home that scrolls; names as artists write them, scene bubbles, remix-only links removed.
- Version
v1.1.0
- Hovering an artist plays a preview; clicking pins it with a player (seek, mute) and their latest tracks.
- Hovering a neighbour of the selected artist plays the track they share.
- Search, style filter, "active in the last 6 months" mode, zoom and overview; selecting frames the artist and their neighbours.
- Redesigned artist card: photo, city, style mix, followers, collabs, recent releases.
- Cleaner data (one SoundCloud account per artist, no DJ sets, fixed sizes) and a legal notice.