Since its launch in March 2026, Diggercamp has helped listeners find independent music by sound. Now they can share those discoveries through public profiles, a community feed and playlists others can follow. The catalogue holds nearly 7 million tracks, with around 300,000 added each week.
Diggercamp starts with a track the listener loves and finds records that sound like it. Its AI analyses rhythm, timbre, energy, mood and harmonic character, then searches for sonic similarity across independent music from Bandcamp, YouTube and SoundCloud. Results are ranked by sound, without editorial selection, sponsored placement or popularity weighting. That gives listeners a way to follow a particular sound into records they might otherwise miss. A track with ten plays can be the right match.
A place to share the finds
Over the past two months, diggercamp has added ways for listeners to share what they discover. Search remains at the centre, with a simple aim for the new features: become the home of the digging scene.
Listeners can post a find as a community dig in a live public feed, with its own link. Each listener has a public profile for digs, playlists and scanned records, with separate privacy controls for each section. Playlists can be shared and followed, while every track and playlist has a share card for Instagram, TikTok or X.
The idea will feel familiar to anyone who uses Pinterest: save a record to a personal crate, browse someone’s collection and follow a find into a new search. A profile becomes a way to get to know another listener’s taste through the records they choose. The next discovery might start in their crate.
“Digging was never really a solo sport, it just looked like one. You dig alone at 2am,but the whole point is the moment you play the record for somebody else. We built that moment into the product.” (ti es, founder)
More ways to find the next record
Scan a Record identifies a record from its sleeve through a phone camera, returning the tracklist and best price. Generate Playlist builds and saves a playlist from one starting track, with an optional description of the mood and other parameters. Playlist Match finds a track that fits an existing set. Dig by Vibe searches by energy, BPM range and key, with new filters for multiple compatible keys. Deep Match focuses on rhythm, timbre and key, helping
DJs find connections across genres and eras.
The same search is available inside Claude, ChatGPT and Grok, with Gemini coming soon: listeners can ask for records similar to a favourite track and receive diggercamp results in the conversation. A Discord bot brings search to servers, and Discogs deep links connect each result to the marketplace. The weekly Crate Digest email and an in-app News Stand(which is a hidden easter egg) give listeners a way to catch up on discoveries and news from the scene.
What listeners are doing
One pattern stands out in diggercamp’s usage data: visitors arriving from ChatGPT search more than any other group. They run an average of 28.8 searches each, six times the average for organic visitors. For these listeners, an AI conversation appears to be the start of a longer search for music. The community feed launched in mid-September. In its first two weeks it collected 1,560 public digs, a pace of more than a hundred a day.
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A closer look at independent music
This summer, diggercamp launched a Substack to share findings from its catalogue:connections between scenes, changes in underground music over time and emerging patterns across nearly 7 million analysed tracks. The starting point is how the music sounds. The newsletter will explore what those patterns can tell listeners about independent music and where they might look next.
Giving less-heard records a chance
For independent artists, discovery sits alongside a wider debate about visibility and payment.
In April 2024, Spotify introduced a threshold of 1,000 streams over the previous 12 months for tracks to earn recording royalties (DJ Mag). Estimates published in 2023 suggested this would exclude more than half its tracks from those payments (MusicRadar). The royalty rules have since been challenged in court (Billboard). Liz Pelly’s reporting and her book Mood Machine also examined the use of low-cost commissioned music in mood playlists (background).
Diggercamp ranks records by their sound. An unknown producer can appear alongside an established artist when the music matches, without paying for placement. Results link to Bandcamp and Discogs, so listeners can go from finding a track to buying the release. The aim is to help more independent records
