Define techno-ethnic taste lane and notify when generation is ready.

Bonobo, Jamaica dub, Sahara, Mongolia overtone, and Urdu colour in settings and DJ prompts. Generate runs in background with polling, ready toast, optional browser notification, and autoplay of the new track.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

taste_seeds.json

@@ -9,64 +9,61 @@
     "Your Top Songs 2025"
   ],
   "artists": [
+    "Bonobo",
+    "Jon Hopkins",
     "Karsh Kale",
     "Transglobal Underground",
     "Baaba Maal",
     "Thievery Corporation",
+    "Mungo's Hi Fi",
     "islandman",
     "Kaya Project",
-    "Blanco White",
     "Shye Ben Tzur",
     "Anoushka Shankar",
-    "Jon Hopkins",
     "Glass Beams",
     "Francis Bebey",
-    "Mungo's Hi Fi",
     "Matthew Halsall"
   ],
   "albums": [
-    { "title": "Garip", "artist": "Altın Gün", "vibe": "Anadolu psych-folk, bağlama, fuzzy warmth" },
+    { "title": "Migration", "artist": "Bonobo", "vibe": "lush melodic downtempo, beautiful ethnic electronica, organic samples" },
+    { "title": "Singularity", "artist": "Jon Hopkins", "vibe": "modern electronica meets organic world, euphoric builds" },
     { "title": "Estuaire", "artist": "Ablaye Cissoko", "vibe": "kora, West African elegance, spacious" },
     { "title": "Mirage", "artist": "Glass Beams", "vibe": "psychedelic instrumental, Middle Eastern tint" },
-    { "title": "African Electronic Music 1975-1982", "artist": "Francis Bebey", "vibe": "early African electronic, playful hypnotic" },
-    { "title": "Singularity", "artist": "Jon Hopkins", "vibe": "modern electronica meets organic world — lush synth builds, immersive pulse, euphoric cinematic" }
+    { "title": "African Electronic Music 1975-1982", "artist": "Francis Bebey", "vibe": "early African electronic, playful hypnotic" }
   ],
-  "preference": "Modern electronica meets ethnic fusion — Jon Hopkins Singularity, Karsh Kale, Dervish Trans. Turkish folk no.",
+  "preference": "Techno-ethnic — Bonobo-beautiful electronica meets Jamaica dub, Sahara, Mongolia overtone vocals, Urdu colour. Cross-cultural blends, not single-nation folk.",
   "reference_tracks": [
-    { "title": "Singularity", "artist": "Jon Hopkins", "vibe": "lush arpeggiated synths, organic percussion, euphoric builds, modern electronic meets world" },
-    { "title": "Emerald Rush", "artist": "Jon Hopkins", "vibe": "driving hypnotic electronica, pulsing bass, immersive forward momentum" },
+    { "title": "Kerala", "artist": "Bonobo", "vibe": "lush downtempo, beautiful world electronica" },
+    { "title": "Singularity", "artist": "Jon Hopkins", "vibe": "lush synths, organic percussion, euphoric electronic meets world" },
+    { "title": "Milan", "artist": "Karsh Kale", "vibe": "tabla electronica, sitar-synth fusion" },
     { "title": "Dervish Trans", "artist": "Transglobal Underground", "vibe": "dervish trance breaks, hypnotic ethnic pulse" },
-    { "title": "Milan", "artist": "Karsh Kale", "vibe": "tabla electronica, sitar-synth fusion, driving world breakbeat" }
+    { "title": "Boboyillo", "artist": "Baaba Maal", "vibe": "Sahara Sahel warmth, rolling desert pulse" }
+  ],
+  "cultural_palette": [
+    "Jamaica — dub spring reverb, reggae-dub bass culture",
+    "Sahara / Sahel — desert warmth, kora, griot colour",
+    "Mongolia — overtone throat singing as ethereal wordless layer",
+    "Urdu — poetic male vocal colour in fusion (not Bollywood pop)",
+    "and more — always blended, always beautiful"
   ],
   "genres": [
+    "techno-ethnic",
+    "bonobo-style downtempo",
+    "ethnic dub",
+    "jamaican dub",
+    "sahel electronica",
     "modern electronica",
-    "ambient techno meets world",
-    "ethnic fusion",
-    "ethnic chill",
     "dubtronica",
     "world dub",
     "trip-hop",
-    "global fusion jazz",
-    "afro-dub",
-    "cinematic electronic",
-    "psychedelic world"
+    "global fusion"
   ],
   "tracks": [
     {
       "title": "Boboyillo",
       "artists": ["Baaba Maal", "Rougi"],
       "album": "Being",
-      "vibe": "Sahel warmth, rolling desert pulse, call-and-response, spiritual but danceable"
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "Olalla",
-      "artists": ["Blanco White"],
-      "vibe": "melancholic indie folk, Spanish ether, intimate late-night"
-    },
-    {
-      "title": "Daily Mix 01",
-      "artists": ["BALTHVS", "Pentagram", "Cem Karaca"],
-      "vibe": "Turkish rock and psych crossover"
+      "vibe": "Sahara Sahel warmth, rolling desert pulse, spiritual but danceable"
     },
     {
       "title": "Daily Mix 03",
@@ -76,7 +73,7 @@
     {
       "title": "Daily Mix 04",
       "artists": ["Shye Ben Tzur", "Anoushka Shankar"],
-      "vibe": "Indian classical fusion, devotional texture, world spiritual"
+      "vibe": "Urdu-Indian fusion, devotional texture, world spiritual — not pop"
     }
   ]
 }