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Midnight City

M83

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180cultural candidates
Last.fm + ListenBrainz, deduped + RRF-fused (k=60)
75resolve attempts
top 75 by rank · MusicBrainz + Deezer verify
75found
full coverage
10audio-reranked
CLAP-scored all 75 found · top 10 kept
95 embeddings from cache · 0 computed · 12438 ms total (cache-first: warm runs skip re-embedding)

Recommendationstop 10, audio-scored first

Showing the vibe-steered run.
Vibe steer

melancholic, late-night driving

Directional steering, not a hard filter. Audio stays the heavier-weighted leg (α = 0.7), but because each leg is min-max-normalized within this batch before weighting, a strong text match can still reorder — even flip — the top rows. The text encoder is a deliberately weak signal; stronger LLM vibe-to-audio translation is a named v2 item. Badges show how far each track moved versus the plain run.

1

Red Eyes

The War on Drugs

CLAP-reranked
global vibe match

Retrieved purely by sonic and vibe similarity, with a strong audio match (0.756) to Midnight City and the highest vibe alignment among retrieved tracks — its sound closely fits the melancholic, late-night driving feel you asked for.

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2

Steve McQueen

M83

CLAP-reranked
Last.fm

Same artist as the seed and the highest audio similarity of all candidates (0.883), plus last.fm listeners consistently pair it with Midnight City — the strongest overall match here.

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3

Trying to Be Cool

Phoenix

CLAP-reranked
Last.fm

A strong audio similarity (0.82) combined with last.fm co-listening data makes this a confident cultural and sonic companion to Midnight City.

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4

Houdini

Foster the People

CLAP-reranked
ListenBrainz

Surfaced by listenbrainz listener overlap and carries a solid audio similarity (0.778), suggesting fans of Midnight City regularly gravitate toward this track.

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5

Sweet Disposition

The Temper Trap

CLAP-reranked
ListenBrainz

Matches Midnight City's audio profile closely (0.778) and appears alongside it in listenbrainz listening data, pointing to a reliable sonic and cultural connection.

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6

Selfless

The Strokes

CLAP-reranked
global vibe match

Retrieved by vibe/acoustic similarity with no cultural co-listening signal; its relatively modest audio similarity (0.664) is offset by the strongest vibe-text alignment among the non-vibe-lane tracks (0.361), suggesting it fits the melancholic late-night mood even if the sonic overlap is more moderate.

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7

1901

Phoenix

CLAP-reranked
ListenBrainz

Backed by listenbrainz listener data and a reasonable audio similarity (0.73), this Phoenix track shares enough sonic ground with Midnight City to be a credible recommendation.

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8

Tongue Tied

Grouplove

CLAP-reranked
ListenBrainz

A good audio similarity (0.808) and listenbrainz co-listening signal both support this pick as a sonically close companion to Midnight City.

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9

Into The Galaxy

Midnight Juggernauts

CLAP-reranked
Last.fm

Last.fm listeners link this to Midnight City, and while the audio similarity is moderate (0.697), the vibe-text score (0.29) offers some additional support for the late-night atmosphere.

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10

Can I Call You Tonight?

Dayglow

CLAP-reranked
global vibe match

Retrieved by vibe/acoustic similarity with no cultural overlap; the audio similarity is the lowest in the set (0.586), but it has the strongest vibe-text alignment overall (0.399), suggesting it resonates with the melancholic late-night driving mood even if it diverges sonically from the seed.

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System status

Seed audio-scored
yes
Cultural backfill
0 rows
LLM rationales
available
Degraded sources
none

Snapshot provenance

exported
2026-06-12 16:06:00 UTC
git
13bf027 (dirty)
model
laion/larger_clap_music_and_speech+mean
fusion
α=0.7 · β=0.3 · N=75