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I didn't get past the wanky declaration that he listens to classical, listing out dozens of composers. The term DJ is synonymous with modern, electronic music,
by walthamstow 7mo ago
I didn't get past the wanky declaration that he listens to classical, listing out dozens of composers.
The term DJ is synonymous with modern, electronic music, anyway.
- stavros 7mo agoYeah, that's where he lost me too. Strikes me as very pretentious. He didn't even say "classical", he was circumspect with "that moste illustriouse of musical traditionnes".
- sambapa 7mo agoBecause most of that list isn't classical music
- cheeze 7mo agoThe entire thing is written in a curmudgeonly fashion, led by that massive list of musicians. We get it, you like classical music and Spotify is a poor fit. That's... the article?
- aworks 7mo agoFor my classical music use case, listening to new releases, Spotify works very well, particularly with the help of 3rd-party services. I follow several thousand composers and musicians. I then get daily playlist creation by crabhands.com of any new releases by those I follow. I then export the crabhand playlist into my own local database via exportify.net. I then create Spotify playlists of music I haven't heard that I may like as well as the released works I like best. Then I score the works I've listened to and feed that back into the system. So I get a deluge of new releases but play it in an organized fashion.
- f33d5173 7mo agoIt's not a long article, and is quite amusing to read. People have such high expectation of free articles on the internet.
- BrissyCoder 7mo ago"wanky" Austraian/New Zealander detected lol
- defrost 7mo agoSpecifically one who disliked The Hard Road: Restrung and Metal in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hard_Road:_Restrung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hard_Road:_Restrung
- apublicfrog 7mo agoIt's a great album, but the term was around long before it.
- defrost 7mo ago> It's a great album Sure, leans a bit classical and not the least bit "wanky" (at least IMHO) > but the term was around long before it. Wanky? DJ? Classical? Term Of His Natural Life? .. Regardless of the specific etymological chronology you're thinking of, I feel there are non-wanky examples in the broad tent of "classical".
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- marliechiller 7mo agoThats a term thats used a lot in the British isles too, I doubt its an Australasian thing
- Mistletoe 7mo agoThe Spotify AI DJ makes some pretty cool sets for me, but I listen to Hyperpop and Outrun type electronic music, stuff like that. A DJ spinning sets of classical music is pretty weird haha. I’d recommend just listening to the Classical New Releases playlist, which is excellent.
- barbs 7mo agoGlad I wasn't the only one. Love how he goes on to say how he's aware that people are unfamiliar with all those names he just dropped.
- moonbucket 7mo agoOr someone cueing up well-known pop/dance tunes at a wedding/disco. Last time I was at one they weren't generally firing up symphonies, string quartets then doing a deeper drop of a heavy hitting baroque banger to see the bodies hit the floor.
- SonnyTark 7mo agoMe three. I thought it was an attempt at humor, but I got to the end and didn't find a punchline? I learned Windows programming from his book, I'm sort of shocked he doesn't seem to have a base-level understanding of how transformer models work.. That, and instrumental music. Seems to believe the set of all music = pop songs + western civilization tradition classical music ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Xenoamorphous 7mo agoAuthor comes off as what days is called “performative man”.
- paradox460 7mo agoIt almost feels like he asked an AI to write out a list of composers