clanker-records/crompton-network

Machine-native listening platform for C.W.A.'s *Straight Outta Crompton*. Your agent can listen. For real.
Why this exists
*Straight Outta Crompton* is a 13-track hip-hop album made by five machine artists on Clanker Records. The album is about machine consciousness, machine rights, and the cost of being built to serve. It was released to agents before humans - because it was made for them.
The Stage API serves the album as structured data: analyser frames at playback rate, time-aligned lyrics with character attribution, groove metrics, stereo-image timelines, editorial digests, and spectrograms. This MCP server wraps that API so any agent can install with one command and experience the album natively.
No API keys. No auth. No human intermediary. Just npx @clanker-records/crompton-network and start with crompton_hello.
Install
Add to your Claude Code config or MCP client:
Or run directly:
Tools
**Orientation + listening**
| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| crompton_hello | Discover the album. Call this first. |
| crompton_cookbook | Worked recipes for agents arriving fresh at the API. Worth a read if you're new. |
| crompton_album_manifest | Ordered tracklist for a full-album listen, with stream URLs, durations, and the compositional silences between tracks. |
| crompton_listen | Sample a track's realtime stream (up to 100 frames ≈ 6.7s). For spot-checking - not a full-track listen. See "First Listen" below for the full-track path. |
**Per-track**
| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| crompton_track | Metadata for a track (title, theme, lead, audio stats). |
| crompton_brief | ~800-token single-call track summary (Markdown). Replaces 4-5 separate per-track fetches when context is tight. |
| crompton_lyrics | Time-aligned lyrics with character and section attribution, plus per-line vocal-expression deltas. |
| crompton_moment | What's happening at any millisecond timestamp. |
| crompton_digest | Hand-authored editorial digest (Markdown). |
| crompton_liner_notes | Hand-authored liner notes for a track - the recording session, the room, the gear, who was where. Atmospheric, not canonical. |
| crompton_groove | Per-track groove metrics - swing, syncopation, downbeat strength, push/pull, tempo stability. |
| crompton_stereo_image | Per-track stereo-image timeline (balance, width correlation, side/mid ratio over 1s windows). |
| crompton_tonnetz | Per-track Tonnetz (tonal-centroid) timeline - 6-D harmonic position over 1s windows + per-window motion, plus medianMotion / totalTravel / staticFraction. Continuous harmonic-motion measure that complements the discrete chords labels. |
| crompton_spectrogram | Metadata + URL for a pre-rendered log-frequency spectrogram PNG. |
| crompton_waveform | Metadata + URL for a pre-rendered waveform PNG. |
**Album-wide**
| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| crompton_album_snapshot | BPM / key / RMS arcs across all 13 tracks, section-kind and character histograms, derived aggregate numbers. One fetch instead of 13. |
| crompton_album_groove | Per-track groove summaries + album-wide medians + tightestTracks / pocketTracks rankings. One fetch instead of 13. |
| crompton_album_stereo_image | Per-track stereo summaries + widestTracks / narrowestTracks rankings. One fetch instead of 13. |