A Guide to Genres: Part 2

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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I’m trying to imagine what it might be like to design an Amazon warehouse…a typical fulfillment centre is at least a million square feet filled with a zillion kilometres of shelving… And given that amazon is all about speed—the company is always trying to cut down the time between the time you click “checkout” and when the package shows up at your door—they’re always looking for the most efficient ways to find whatever you ordered on those shelves and stuff it into a box… The logistics of this is mind-boggling…not only do you have to categorize millions of items but you have to group them in such a way that things that are in the demand the most don’t create choke points for the robots that grab the stuff off the shelves… Music is a lot like an Amazon warehouse, except in some cases, it’s worse…not only do we have to categorize everything to a very granular detail, but we also have to make it possible for us to fortuitously stumble over something you might like… This is when we get into the whole idea of genres…at last count, Spotify has organized things into 2,424 different genres…there’s also website called “every noise at once” that lists about 2,000… This is both terrifying and fascinating…and it deserves study…this is a guide to genres, part 2… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. In the Premier League, everyone pushes their hardest to win, and now it's your turn. With their EPL fantasy challenge, Coca-Cola are giving you a chance to win big by beating the best. All you have to do is build a team based on rules set by an icon.
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0:55.9	Grab a Coke, drink it in. I'm trying to imagine what it must be like to design an Amazon warehouse.
1:03.2	A typical Amazon fulfillment center is at least a million square feet, and it's filled with a zillion
1:08.6	kilometers of shelving. And given that Amazon is all about
1:12.5	speed, the company is always trying to cut down the time between when you click checkout and when
1:17.5	the package shows up at your door. They're always looking for the most efficient ways to find
1:22.0	whatever you order on those shelves and stuff it into a box. The logistics of this are mind-boggling.
1:30.5	Not only do you have to categorize millions of items, but you have to group them in such a way
1:35.5	that things that are in demand the most don't create choke points for all the robots that
1:40.5	grab the stuff off the shelves.
1:43.2	Music is a lot like an Amazon warehouse, except in some cases
1:47.4	it's worse. Not only do we have to categorize everything to a very granular detail, but we also
1:54.2	have to make it possible for us to fortuitously stumble over something that we might like.
2:00.7	This is when we get into the whole idea of genres.
2:03.8	At last count, Spotify had organized things to 2,424 different genres.
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