# Playlist #incubation #chaosstream #radio >In 1989, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. By the dawn of the ’90s, the internet had awakened everyone to new technological possibilities. Similarly, music and music listeners were becoming more forward-thinking than ever before. Grunge and heavy metal met in the gauntlet; hip-hop traveled from the underground to the pop charts (N.W.A. out-charted R.E.M. in 1991); pop music became more daring; electronic music began its ascent from small clubs to festival stages. 1991 marked the start of this aggressive reinvention. It was a year that shaped the music we’ve heard for the last three decades. Even today, these 13 albums that were once in rotation in six-disc Sony stereos are responsible for current digital playlists. >> https://www.spin.com/photos/1991-albums-shaped-future-music/ >https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106359487243544156 pluralistic@mamot.fr - Thus, when the internet was demilitarized and the general public started trickling - and then rushing - to use it, there was a widespread hope that we might break free of the tyranny of concentrated, linear programming (in the sense of "what's on," and "what it does to you"). >Much of the excitement over Napster wasn't about getting music for free - it was about the mix-tapification of all music, where your custom playlists would replace the linear album. >6/
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![[Pasted image 20210713135730.png]] --- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ## [[people.JaceClayton]] - worldmusic 2.0 + - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jun/29/popandrock1 - curatorship/djing ------------------------- ------------------------- - [Programming Your Own Channel](https://graceoneill.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/programming-your-own-channel/) - [Contextualize Your Listening: The Playlist as Recommendation Engine](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.302.1754&rep=rep1&type=pdf) - [DJ-boids: emergent collective behavior as multichannel radio station programming](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/604045.604089) - http://websdr.org/ - https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/03/31/how-netflix-is-creating-a-common-european-culture - [Aggregators aren't open-ended - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious](https://via.hypothes.is/https://subconscious.substack.com/p/aggregators-arent-open-ended ) > “You didn’t need specialist poets to create this kind of musicalised language, and the diction is very simple, so this was clearly a democratising form of literature. We’re getting an exciting glimpse of a form of oral pop culture that lay under the surface of classical culture.” >> - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/08/i-dont-care-text-shows-modern-poetry-began-much-earlier-than-believed https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/ ## Adjacent - [incubation.anarcheology](incubation.anarcheology.md) - [[incubation.attention.economy]] - [[concepts.linearity]] - [[incubation.compression]]