Music Catalog

About this catalog

A small fictional music catalog used as a worked example for Another Mood.

The shape mirrors the kind of read-only inventory a label or fan-run site might keep: a handful of artists, the labels they release through, a hierarchy of genres, the albums themselves, the tracks each album contains, and a few curated playlists that cross-cut everything.

The point of the showcase is not the music. It is to demonstrate how the schema, content, view, and template layers compose into a browsable site - including grouping by a field, joining one entity to another, walking a self-referential hierarchy, and preserving rows whose joins return no match.

Everything is invented

Every artist, label, and recording in this dataset is fictional. Prose documents can point at this section with a plain relative link, heading fragment included (../background.md#everything-is-invented) - the build rewrites it to land on this heading wherever the document is rendered.

Heading fragments survive views, too. Each album page embeds its liner notes inline, so a document can point straight at the Tidal Atlas liner notes as they appear on that album’s page.

Front page

The front matter is one record, catalog, read straight from the root along with two plain values beside it, updated_at and moods (the single-record pattern). The series map arrives as a list with each key lifted into id, like any other map.

Kept by The editorial desk; last revised 2026-10-12. Moods: nocturnal, industrial, coastal.

Featured

Each entry comes with its album attached by the featured_albums view, which names the collection inside the front matter as from: catalog.featured.

• Tidal Atlas (2019) - The record that put Coastal Tapes on the map.
• Winter in the Machine (2014) - Newest arrival, cover art included.

Series

• City Nights (city_nights) - Records made for streets after dark.
  • Neon After Rain
  • Last Train to Dawn
• Live Rooms (live_rooms) - Concert recordings, small rooms first.
  • Last Train - Live at the Garage
  • Neon After Rain - Live in Osaka

Editor’s picks

Signed by Midori Circuit.

• Diesel Hymn - Five minutes of engine-room gospel.
• Estuary Mirror - Best heard with the window open.

Artists

• Midori Circuit - Japan
• Lighthouse Collective - Portugal
• Nine-Thirty West - United States
• Amber Ghost - Germany
• Vacant Canvas - Iceland

Albums by genre

The genre name comes straight from the genres_with_albums view, which reads the grouped albums_by_genre view and joins genres onto it (a view-to-view reference) - so the template no longer re-joins genres itself.

• Techno
  • Neon After Rain (2018)
  • Neon After Rain - Live in Osaka (2019)
• Psychedelic Rock
  • Tidal Atlas (2019)
  • Dawn Cassette (2022)
• Punk
  • Factory Lullabies (2012)
  • Last Train to Dawn (2015)
  • Last Train - Live at the Garage (2016)
• Post-Punk
  • Graphite Summer (2008)
  • Winter in the Machine (2014)

Genre hierarchy

• Rock
  • Punk
    • Post-Punk
  • Psychedelic Rock
• Electronic
  • Ambient
  • Techno

Labels

Concert recordings

These albums are surfaced by the live_albums view (where: { id: { startswith: live_ } }).

• Neon After Rain - Live in Osaka (2019)
• Last Train - Live at the Garage (2016)

Live tracks

Tracks whose title contains “Live” (where: { title: { contains: Live } }).

Band rosters

Flattened from the artists.members nested map.

Discography (LEFT-join view)

Every artist appears once, including those with no released albums (artist_album_pairs_all uses flatten: { preserve_empty: true }).

• Midori Circuit (midori_circuit) - Neon After Rain (2018)
• Midori Circuit (midori_circuit) - Neon After Rain - Live in Osaka (2019)
• Lighthouse Collective (lighthouse_collective) - Tidal Atlas (2019)
• Lighthouse Collective (lighthouse_collective) - Dawn Cassette (2022)
• Nine-Thirty West (nine_thirty_west) - Factory Lullabies (2012)
• Nine-Thirty West (nine_thirty_west) - Last Train to Dawn (2015)
• Nine-Thirty West (nine_thirty_west) - Last Train - Live at the Garage (2016)
• Amber Ghost (amber_ghost) - Graphite Summer (2008)
• Amber Ghost (amber_ghost) - Winter in the Machine (2014)
• Vacant Canvas (vacant_canvas) - no releases yet

Full track index

Each track joined to its album and the album’s artist (tracks_with_artist, multi-join list form).

Playlists

Each playlist’s track list comes from the playlists_with_tracks view, a two-hop view-to-view chain: playlist_entries joins tracks onto playlist_tracks (so the title travels with each link), and playlists_with_tracks nests those entries under each playlist - so the template neither re-filters playlist_tracks nor re-looks-up track titles.

Staff Picks

Curated by editorial. A short rotating selection assembled by the editorial desk.

1. Neon After Rain
2. Estuary Mirror
3. Last Train to Dawn
4. Graphite Summer

Late Night Drive

Curated by midori_circuit. Guest curation from Midori Circuit for long, dark motorway runs.

1. Quiet Districts
2. Tidal Atlas
3. Dawn Cassette
4. Boiler Room
5. Winter in the Machine

Side B

Curated by editorial. Slow burners and second-side closers - tracks that need at least five minutes of room.

1. Quiet Districts (Live)
2. Service Tunnel (Live)
3. Tidal Atlas
4. Dawn Cassette