{
  "updated": "2026-06-07",
  "listener": "ozan",
  "summary": "Techno-ethnic station — Bonobo, Jamaica dub, Sahara, Mongolia overtone, Urdu, Hopkins. Seven keepers. Beautiful cross-cultural blends, not single-nation folk.",
  "genre_taxonomy": "songs/genres.json",
  "global_avoid": [
    "fuzz electric guitar on griot/vocal tracks",
    "Tinariwen-style guitar intro without saz present",
    "thin guitar-only openings — get to saz/ney fast",
    "slow-burn Tamasheq/Tuareg caravan tempo — listener hated Çöl Kervanı (too sluggish)",
    "West African highlife / palm-wine guitar — listener hated Palmwine Caravan (not their style)",
    "Ottoman court ney meditation with soft Turkish hum vocals — listener hated Ney Vakti",
    "Sufi harmonium + ney devotional lounge at slow tempo — also landed as Ney Vakti, disliked",
    "single-country homages — listener prefers ethnic fusion blends over one-nation folk styles",
    "Turkish folk identity — bağlama/saz or ney as Anatolian/Ottoman lead (Ney Vakti too Turkish)",
    "Anadolu psych and Turkish-language lead vocals",
    "Rajasthani folk / dholak-kartal-sarangi Indian pop feel — listener hated Rajasthani Desert Dub",
    "Japanese enka / shamisen slow-burn — listener hated Kurai Yoru no Shamisen (too slow)",
    "Armenian duduk hymn dub — slow sacred chant, listener hated Duduk Zomari (same problems)"
  ],
  "global_love": [
    "Bonobo — lush beautiful melodic downtempo ethnic electronica",
    "techno-ethnic blends — Jamaica dub + Sahara + Mongolia + Urdu in one track",
    "Jamaica spring-reverb dub and reggae-dub bass culture",
    "Sahara / Sahel desert warmth as electronic colour",
    "Mongolian overtone throat singing as wordless ethereal layer",
    "Urdu poetic male vocal colour — fusion not Bollywood pop",
    "Jon Hopkins Singularity builds",
    "ceremonial dub — Chac's Dub",
    "Gregorian ether — Frostbite Dub",
    "sub bass and warm dub space"
  ],
  "gold_standard_id": "1c1d7b8a",
  "tracks": [
    { "id": "1c1d7b8a", "title": "Sahara's Saz", "rating": "love", "genres": ["desert-dub"], "categories": ["desert-dub"] },
    { "id": "82595273", "title": "Caravan of the Blue Hour", "rating": "keeper", "genres": ["desert-dub", "sahel-blues"], "categories": ["desert-dub", "dub-space"] },
    { "id": "eeebb429", "title": "Desert Mirage", "rating": "keeper", "genres": ["desert-dub"], "categories": ["desert-dub", "dub-space"] },
    { "id": "aee4994a", "title": "Nomad's Saz", "rating": "keeper", "genres": ["desert-dub"], "categories": ["desert-dub"] },
    { "id": "839aa313", "title": "Caravan of the Night", "rating": "keeper", "genres": ["desert-dub", "sahel-blues"], "categories": ["desert-dub", "vocal-ethnic"] },
    { "id": "ce7ae31e", "title": "Chac's Dub", "rating": "keeper", "genres": ["ceremonial-dub", "mesoamerican-electronica"], "categories": ["ceremonial-world", "dub-space"] },
    { "id": "71cfdfea", "title": "Frostbite Dub", "rating": "keeper", "genres": ["gregorian-ether", "nordic-dub", "cinematic-gothic"], "categories": ["cinematic-gothic", "vocal-ethnic"] }
  ]
}