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deep cuts vs. anthems

The Sample Quadrant

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x: career plays · y: PL tracks fed (reach) · size: plays · colour: nights heard

Each record placed by career plays (x) against how many PL tracks it feeds (y). Bubble size = plays; colour = how many of the 63 archived nights it was actually heard live. Top-right = signature soul; bottom-left = deep-cut one-offs. Switch the y-axis to release year to see how far back the crate actually reaches.

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nightly · colour = nights heard

log scale (plays) y: release year select a region 120 records plotted

The most-played records aren’t always the most-heard live. Colour separates studio-deep staples from the records that actually land in the setlist most nights. Source63 archived shows · 2023–2025 · fan-curated setlist + sampling data · release years from MusicBrainz Readingx = career plays · y = distinct PL tracks fed, or first-release year with the era toggle · bubble size = plays · colour = distinct archived nights heard (of 63). Reach and ubiquity differ: one nightly anthem is not many rare cuts. Release years are the earliest first-release date MusicBrainz corroborates across at least two recordings, so they date the original issue rather than a reissue; records it cannot date are left out of the era view, and the count says how many.