DJWS: Music Discovery and Planning

DJ Wonder Sean guide library

DJWS helps people find music through ideas, relationships, and real occasions. Explore songs, artists, albums, themes, genres, and places, then turn what you find into a karaoke round, a research trail, or a shareable song book for an event.

Browse themes Create a song book Read the DJWS Blog

What DJWS is here to do

Most music catalogs are good at answering direct questions. They can find a song when you already know its title or show the albums recorded by a particular artist. DJWS is being built for the questions that begin less precisely: What belongs in this room? What connects these songs? What could make a memorable karaoke round? What music would make this event feel personal?

DJWS organizes music around those questions. A theme can begin with an exact word, a category of related words, a mood, a place, an artist, an album, an occasion, or a connection that deserves to be noticed. The catalog then helps visitors move among the songs, artists, albums, genres, and locations involved.

Choose your way into the system

Discover musicStart with a word, theme, artist, album, genre, place, mood, or occasion. Plan and shareCreate a personal music page for a party, karaoke night, research project, or other event. Build a better roundUse the catalog to research ideas, avoid predictable lists, and give singers more ways to participate. Improve the catalogSuggest missing music, corrections, new themes, and connections that only an engaged fan may recognize.

What you can explore now

Stories from the work

The guide library explains the permanent ideas behind DJWS. The blog shows those ideas being used and expanded.

Building for Alison “MetalBabe” CohenSee how a party, karaoke, music journalism, and deeper Metal representation became one connected DJWS project. DJWS Is Becoming a Music Planning SystemRead about searchable catalogs, hosted song books, event pages, and the current direction of the system.
Built from the working side of the room. Sean Arenas, known as DJ Wonder Sean, has been selecting music for audiences since the 1980s. His path includes mixtapes and mix CDs, DJ work, two bands, eight years as a KJ, and a karaoke list with more than 1,200 songs. Read the founder story.