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Against The Grain: Derek Walmsley on how Spotify distorts genre histories
['Derek Walmsley']
The Wire: Home
“We really want to soundtrack every moment of your life,” pronounced Daniel Ek, co-founder of Spotify, back in 2016.
Over the last 15 years, the streaming giant has pushed its listeners towards playlists for studying, working, working out, chilling, even sleeping.
But the obsession with the present moment has meant that Spotify, the world’s most powerful music streaming service, has become disconnected from the past.
In the case of genres such as drum ’n’ bass, garage and grime, it’s starting to blur and even distort the histories of how they came to be.
When this is applied to an underground movement such as drum ’n’ bass, important parts of its history go missing or get mixed up.
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