Category: music
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Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Archive.org has a special on archived muzak in aisle 89: In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash…
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What do machines sing of?
Martin Backes: “What do machines sing of?” is a fully automated machine, which endlessly sings number-one ballads from the 1990s. As the computer program performs these emotionally loaded songs, it attempts to apply the appropriate human sentiments. This behavior of the device seems to reflect a desire, on the part of the machine, to become…
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Tel Me More
Commodore 64 composer, Jeroen Tel, is looking to fund a greatest-hits remake album of his music from the C64 on Indie Gogo.
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Apple Music and Beats: 1
Apple’s streaming music subscription service, Apple Music, was released last week in addition to the new streaming radio station Beats: 1 and other features in the new versions of Music on iOS and iTunes on Windows and Mac OS X. I’ll admit that although I had tried Pandora and Spotify they’d never really stuck. Why not own my…