Where the tracks come from, what gets in, and why some are missing.
Every time one of my playlists ran dry I ended up doing the same thing. Back into the threads, scrolling for names people had posted, then searching each one, listening, deciding, moving on to the next. An evening could go by and I would come out of it with four or five records.
The information was never the problem. It was all there, written down by people who were actually in the room. It just was not in a form anyone could use: spread across weeks of comments, impossible to search once the thread went quiet, and gone from memory by the next weekend.
So I built the thing I wanted to have.
Now finding out what a night sounded like, or just finding something I have not heard, takes one page instead of a whole evening. If it saves you that time too, that is the entire point.
None of the hard part is mine. Every track here was recognised by someone who was on the floor and took the time to come back and write it down, often at four in the afternoon the next day, from memory, for nobody in particular.
The archive is theirs.
This is just the place it is kept.
If you have ever answered a track ID in one of those threads, some of your work is in here.
Every track here was named by someone who was in the room. The source is the weekly Track ID threads that go up on Reddit after each weekend. Someone recognises a record, someone else confirms it, and by the following week that knowledge is buried under the next thread.
This archive is the persistent form of that. Every single entry is traceable back to the comment it came from, kept alongside the batch it was extracted in. Nothing here was guessed, and nothing was filled in to make a night look complete.
A track that was actually played, with an artist and a title. That is the whole rule.
It is not a taste filter. If a reliable commenter says it was played, it goes in, even when it is Depeche Mode, Prince or ABBA. The club plays what it plays, and the value of the archive is being faithful to that. The records that sit oddly next to the rest are usually the good discoveries.
What stays out:
A line without a player is not a broken link. It is an honest one. Three different things can be behind it, and the label says which:
Wrong artist, wrong version, a track credited to the wrong night: corrections are welcome and they are how this gets better. For now the way to send one is to reply in the Track ID thread for that weekend, which is where the entry came from in the first place. Every night in the archive links straight to its own thread, and so does the found an error? link above the table.
Every entry keeps the comment it came from, so a correction can always be traced back to what caused the error, and to the night it belongs to.
This archive has exactly one source, and it is not me. If the threads go quiet, it stops growing. There is no other feed, no scraping some official tracklist, no API that knows what a gig actually sounded like.
So if you were on the floor and you recognised something, post it.
Late is fine. Partial is fine. "The stomping one about an hour into the second set" is fine, because someone else will know it. And if you can answer someone else's ID, answer it: that single reply is often the only reason a record from that gig survives at all.
Turning this into a searchable page was the easy part, and honestly the least important one. Knowing what played is the hard part, and only the people who were there can do it.