Music & audio sites that earned a spot

stats.fm gives Spotify listeners a running account of what they actually play — how often, for how long, and how their taste shifts over time. Spotify's API only exposes a recent window, so stats.fm accepts an upload of a full history export and counts every play back to the first one.

Poolsuite is an internet radio station streaming a permanent 1980s summer — disco, yacht rock and Miami synths — through an interface built as a vintage Macintosh desktop. It began as Poolside FM in 2014 and has kept the bit running, VHS grain and all, ever since.

Ableton makes Live and Push, the software and hardware a huge share of electronic music is produced on. The Berlin company treats its website with the same Bauhaus restraint as its instruments — its interactive Learning Synths course is a small masterpiece of explaining sound in the browser.