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Ratrodek
Atmospheric indie music project — coming 2026
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindVercel
ratrodek.com · coming soon
prototypeRatrodekatmospheric · indie
Sound · memory · late-night emotion
01canopymixed
02late-night sirenstracking
03the wait betweenwriting
spotify · apple music · youtube2026 launch
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Brand site in pre-launch mode
An atmospheric indie / alternative music project built around sound, memory, and strange late-night emotion. The marketing surface is live in pre-launch mode; tracks staged for 2026 launch across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Instagram.
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Why a standalone brand site
Streaming platforms own discovery but not narrative. The site is where the project’s visual and editorial identity lives — scene art, what the lyrics gesture at, what to expect next. The streaming pages link back; this is the home.
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Stack
- Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind.
- Custom font stack — Rubik Glitch for display, VT323 for terminal accents, Special Elite for typewriter notes, Caveat for handwritten asides.
- schema.org
MusicGroupJSON-LD linking Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube / SoundCloud / Instagram / X. - Composed scene art preloaded with
<link rel="preload">.
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Phase 2 — cart, Razorpay, visual QA
- Cart + Razorpay gateway — env-flag gated (
NEXT_PUBLIC_COMMERCE_ENABLEDdefault off) so the launch flips a switch instead of a deploy. - PostgreSQL (Neon) for form data capture — mailing list signups, contact, future merch.
- Visual QA pipeline — scripted Playwright renders the home and entry screens at three viewports per PR so the moonlit-jungle aesthetic stays intact through every change.