File no. 001 — Personal archive
Your music.
Your history.
Discover the music you lived, the artists you left behind and the sounds that defined your years.
No sign-up. No password. Just your public Last.fm username.
Index of this edition
- 01Forgotten artistsThe names you played on repeat, then quietly stopped.
- 02Abandoned albumsRecords that disappeared from your rotation.
- 03Annual rewindEvery year you have on record, looked back on.
- 04Vanishing genresExplore Vanishing Genres — the observatory of fading genres and sleeping scenes.
What the observatory investigates
A cultural publication that also works as an analysis tool — reading listening histories as records of memory.
- Listening behaviour
- Forgotten artists
- Musical genres
- Alternative scenes
- Shifting habits
- Musical memory