Emancipator
Douglas Appling, better known by his stage name Emancipator, is an American trip hop producer based in Portland, Oregon. His tracks have been included in compilation albums such as Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection. His debut album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough, was released in 2006
The Groove is music.nw’s own measure of renown — not an opinion, a fact computed from the record. It weighs reach (how many people engaged) against acclaim (how highly they rated it), balanced so a handful of votes can’t outshout a lasting favourite.
Computed the NeuraWeb way, across the whole record. The same yardstick for everyone — which is why the little-known can out-Groove the famous in their own corner.
How Emancipator moved
Genre belongs to the record, not to the artist. Every album’s Groove is shared out across the genres it actually is — by how the raters tagged it — so nobody is 100% one thing. Stack that by decade and a career draws itself.