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The gain stage for new music. Preamp is an artist discovery tool. Every source, not one algorithm. One tap and it’s playing.

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The gain stage for new music. Preamp is an artist discovery tool. It listens to every source, not one algorithm reading your history. It finds what’s rising. One tap and it’s playing. Another, and you’re on to the next. FAST.

What’s next is happening across radio, blogs, charts, socials and scenes that never talk to each other. Preamp listens to all of them. Then the walk: tap an artist and the ones around them light up, and you follow it wherever it goes.

Preamp. Signal, before amplification.

Also on iPhone: Tap on the go ↗

What’s next is happening across radio, blogs, charts, socials and scenes that never share an algorithm. Preamp listens to all of them, and plays you what it finds. FAST.

Tap. Hear it. Next.

Preamp. Signal, before amplification.

HEAR IT NOW

TAP. HEAR IT. NEXT.

Tap to hear something new. Choose a scene, save a discovery, or follow your curiosity further.

… tap a row · ↓ next · space pause · ☆ save
SOMETHING NEW
IS A TAP AWAY

Follow your ears
See where they take you

Tap to hear something new
Open the full listening page ↗
THE POINT OF IT

WHY ISN’T EVERYTHING ON PREAMP?

Because everything is the problem. The streaming services already carry all of it, and more arrives every day than anyone could hear. Preamp is always scanning, looking for clusters and movement across sources rather than inside one person’s listening history. Most music out there isn’t doing anything the scan would notice. Of what is, we still choose. The record is the scan’s. The selection is ours, and it’s a taste, not a formula. That’s the point of it.

PREAMP’S GAIN STAGEIS CHOOSY
THE CONSTELLATION

ONE ARTIST CAN OPEN UP A WHOLE SCENE

Find something that catches your ear. Follow a connection, take a tangent, or click anything. See where it takes you.

01 / WANDER

Follow a connection

Move through the constellation by artist, scene or place

Explore the map ↗
02 / FIND YOUR SCENE

Go where you listen

Dig into a genre and follow the artists moving through it

Choose a scene ↗
03 / LOOK CLOSER

See what’s coming into view

Picks, this week’s arrivals, and where each artist is finding an audience

Open the radar ↗
FOUR STATES · ON THE VERGE BREAKING ALREADY BROKE NOT ON OUR RADAR YET
HOW IT WORKS

SCATTERED SIGNALS, BROUGHT TOGETHER

Music leaves clues in different places. Preamp brings them into one place to explore, while your ears decide what matters to you.

listener momentum
KEXP specialist radio
Bandcamp
tastemaker blogs
Instagram follower velocity
TikTok
01
LISTEN ACROSS SOURCES

Charts, radio, blogs, Bandcamp and social platforms each show a different part of an artist’s story.

02
LOOK FOR CONNECTIONS

Follow the overlap, explore relationships between artists, and see the signals available on their pages.

03
HEAR IT NOW

Tap. Hear it. Next. One button. Start with Picks, then follow it somewhere unexpected.

ANOTHER REASON TO LOOK CLOSER

Listening and social following can move at different speeds. Preamp shows the gap so you can investigate it in context.

MAKE IT YOURS

KEEP AN EAR ON YOUR SCENE

Explore a scene, follow its Spotify playlist, or build a collection around the artists you want to hear again.

01
EXPLORE
Find artists in the scenes you care about, with what the scan hears about them.
02
FOLLOW
Follow a scene’s Spotify playlist, or save individual artists into your own collection.
03
COME BACK
Revisit your finds, see what’s changed, and keep listening as new artists enter the picture.
PICK YOUR SCENE → Prefer hand-picking? Save acts into your own collection →

GO DEEPER

Follow the music
Read the bigger picture

A quick listen can become a longer look. Catch up on the week, compare what’s moving, and investigate the signals behind a discovery.

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LOOK INSIDE THE SCAN

Not a mockup: every blip is a real act from today's scan, placed by scene and audience size. The artist profile is the actual file we keep on each act.
●scene charts ●listener counts ●KEXP spins ●Blog RSS ●Bandcamp ●fan counts ●Spotify links ●identity matching ●IG followers ●TikTok followers ○Reddit · next ○YouTube · next
movers breaking on the radar inner ring = the 250k line
hover a blip · 140 acts on today's sweep
The artist profile · one act, everything we hear● live wire
190,801 observations2085 artists on the radar5732 social datapoints10 live signals2 sides · audience + platforms
PRICING

LISTENING IS FREE GO FURTHER WHEN YOU WANT TO

FREE
TAP
Freeno account
Tap to discover something worth hearing. No account. No card. Just tap.
  • The radar: every act, every artist profile, every scene
  • The constellation, and the walk through the connections, without limit
  • One collection, and it follows you once you sign in
  • Find the track on Spotify
  • The app, free, no account
GET THE APP →
ONE MEMBERSHIP
JOURNEY
$9.99/month
or $99 a year · seven days free, no card
Keep what you find. Follow what happens next.
  • Several named collections
  • Export collections to Apple Music as playlists
  • The discovery boards: emerging, moving, arrivals and scenes forming
  • Your Week: a weekly read on the artists you save
  • This Week, every Monday
JOIN JOURNEY →
FOR THE INDUSTRY · BETA
PRO
Betaby invitation
Find, compare and monitor emerging artists.
  • Constellation Pro: briefing, heat, starred, time
  • Listening and following compared, ranked across the field
  • The Artist Overview: every artist, every measure, daily, with CSV
  • Comparisons: any two acts, any two scenes, side by side
  • Monitoring you configure, with a morning mail
  • Exports and the deeper evidence behind every number
  • Journey included
SEE PRO →

TAKE A QUICK DISCOVERY WITH YOU

The app is a tap away
The rabbit holes are here

Explore the full picture on the site. Open the app when you want to hear someone new, fast.

SCANNING FORWHAT’S NEXT

Preamp scans every scene for what’s next. Tap to discover something new. Hear thirty seconds. Save what hits and come back to what you love.

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