Like an Artist We Don't Have Yet? Help Us Decide Who to Add Next

You typed an artist's name into search, hit enter, and got nothing. Maybe it's someone you've been dropping for years, or a producer whose EP just landed on your phone this week and you wanted to see how it'd sit against the rest of your crate. Either way, the result is the same: a blank search and a small "huh" moment before you move on to something else.

That moment isn't a dead end. It's the exact signal we need. Mixgraph's catalogue is built from what DJs are actually asking for, not from a fixed list someone drew up once and forgot about — and you're standing in front of the fastest way to get an artist added: Track Requests.

The catalogue is never finished

There's no version of Mixgraph where the catalogue is "done." New tracks get released every week across every genre we cover, and we're constantly pulling in both fresh drops and back-catalogue from artists who've been putting out music for years before we existed. That's not a gap to apologise for — it's just what a living catalogue looks like. A finished catalogue would mean we'd stopped listening to what's actually being played out, and that's the opposite of the point.

So when you don't find someone, the right read isn't "Mixgraph is missing this." It's "this hasn't reached the front of the queue yet." Those are different problems with different fixes, and the fix for the second one is you telling us it should move up.

Think of it the way you think about your own crate: it never stops growing, and most of what gets added starts with a track you heard and went looking for. Mixgraph's version of that just has more ears feeding it than yours alone — but only for what actually gets flagged.

Why an artist you rate might not be in yet

A few things usually explain the gap. Sometimes it's pure timing — a track dropped last Friday and we haven't analysed it yet. Sometimes it's depth rather than presence — an artist is in the catalogue but only with two or three tracks, so a deep cut from three albums back doesn't show up even though the name does. And sometimes an artist genuinely hasn't been requested before, which usually just means nobody's told us yet, not that we've overlooked them on purpose.

None of those reasons mean you're stuck until the request clears. If the artist you're after sits in a similar lane to someone we do have, open Compare and pick two artists already in the catalogue — you'll get their Sound DNA side by side and the tracks that bridge between them, which is often enough to find your way toward the sound you were chasing while the request works its way through.

Track Requests: how you flag who's next

Search first — it catches spelling variants, aliases, and remixes credited under a slightly different name than the one you typed. If nothing comes up after that, head to Track Requests and tell us who you want added. You don't need to know a release ID or a label — the artist name and, ideally, the specific track you had in mind is enough for us to go find it.

This isn't a suggestion box that disappears into a void. Requests get reviewed, and the ones that come up more than once naturally rise toward the top — if three different DJs all ask for the same producer in a week, that's a much stronger signal than any internal guess we could make about what to prioritise. You're not asking a favour so much as voting with information only you have: what you're actually reaching for at two in the morning when you're building a set.

One track vs. an artist's whole run

Sometimes you just need the one track — a specific remix you heard in someone else's set, or the single that made you look the artist up in the first place. That's a completely valid request on its own, and it's the fastest one for us to resolve because there's only one thing to go find and analyse.

Other times what you actually want is the whole run — an artist whose entire catalogue you'd reach for across different sets, not just one song. Say that explicitly in your request. "Add this artist's catalogue" is a different job than "add this one track," and telling us which one you mean helps us plan the right amount of work rather than resolving your request narrowly and leaving you back at square one for the next track by the same artist.

You don't have to sort that out in advance. Start with the one track you actually need this week, and widen the request the moment an artist turns into someone you keep reaching for across sets.

Don't wait on us — what to do right now

A request being open doesn't have to stall your prep. If you already own tracks by the artist — files sitting in your Rekordbox library that just aren't in our main catalogue yet — import your library and those tracks get picked up straight away. They won't carry the full chemistry treatment until they're properly analysed, but they score on BPM and key immediately, which is often exactly what you need to slot them into a set this week rather than next month.

If you've got two specific tracks from that artist you're trying to place next to each other, or next to something you already play, run them through Score My Transition — it checks the chemistry between any two tracks manually, so you're not stuck waiting for a full catalogue add just to answer "does this actually mix into that."

And if you're trying to build a whole set around a vibe that artist represents for you, describe it in plain English to AI Set Builder — something like "deep rolling tech house, warm and hypnotic" — and you'll get a draft flow built from what's already live in the catalogue. It won't include the artist you requested yet, but it'll give you a set you can actually play tonight while that request works through the queue.

Your request is already doing work

The catalogue you search next month is shaped by requests coming in right now, and that includes yours. It's a small action — a name, maybe a track title — but it's one of the few genuinely direct lines between what you need and what gets built. Most product decisions happen behind closed doors; this one doesn't.

Send the request, then get back to building. Once the artist lands, come back and favourite their tracks so they start surfacing in your recommendations automatically — the catalogue remembers what you asked for, it just needs you to ask.