Every genre is an argument about how to spend a listener's attention. This tool maps where each genre puts its sections, its tension and its hooks on a shared timeline, then shows you what's worth stealing across the borders. Built for producers who already know the rules and want better ones to break.
Each row is a typical track normalised to 100% of its runtime. Block colour = section role (consistent across genres, so columns compare). Block shading at the base = energy level. Click any block for bar count and energy detail (hover shows it too). The interesting reading is vertical: look at what different genres are doing at the same point in the runtime.
Three different quantities that producers routinely conflate. Energy = perceived intensity (density, loudness, drive). Tension = unresolved expectation (builds score high, drops score low — the drop is release, not tension). Emotion = melodic/affective weight. Overlay genres to see who spends tension where.
Heat-coloured per column (dark = low, hot = high within the visible set). Bars are genre-native bars — 32 bars at 174 BPM is half the clock time of 32 bars at 124 BPM, which is itself an arrangement insight: fast genres buy more structural events per minute.
Six structural axes, scored 0–10. Radar overlays the first five selected genres (more than five is unreadable — that's a property of radar charts, not a missing feature). Cards list each genre's DNA tags and structural era notes.
Aggregated across the selected genres: which section role hands over to which, with ribbon width = how often that transition occurs in the models. Read it as a probability map of "what comes next". Sparse right-hand connections into Switch-up and Hook mark the territory most genres never use — which is exactly where the Inspiration Engine hunts.
Pick a source genre (the one you write in) and one or more target genres (the ones you raid). The engine maps each target's transferable techniques onto the source's actual sections: what to borrow, what it replaces, and what it buys you in surprise, emotion and memorability.
39 arrangement templates — alternative structures plus the classic baseline as a control — each with lineage, flow, a mini energy curve and an explicit statement of how it deviates from the standard hard house blueprint (Intro → Groove → Breakdown → Build → Drop → Break → Build → Drop → Outro). Click a card to expand. Classes: Traditional = proven club forms, Modern = current festival/stream-era practice, Experimental = unproven but coherent.