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This is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars

this week the radio audience got a rebroadcast of episode number 10 about Chris Downey the Blind Architect, which is often cited as an audience favorite, so you should go download it if you haven't heard it already.

That's episode number 10, called 99% sound and feel.

But for you podcasters, I'm pushing out a special never before released piece that served as the basis for episode number 3 of 99% invisible

but it's never aired in its full glory until now. Think of it as a slightly thesis shifted double length directors cut of episode

number three. The story is about how a new technology in this case the smartphone

and the R.J. D.J. Adoptive Music app can not only change your consumption of music,

but can also change the very nature of music itself.

I think it's actually a pretty stunning development in the evolution of music and has even

bigger implications than it seems on the surface.

So check it out.

When I moved out to San Francisco a dozen years ago, I stopped over in LA to visit my friend Max.

And as he drove me around the Hollywood hills, the song Screen Writers Blues by Soul Coffing

came on the car stereo.

Exits to Freeways, twisted like knots on the finger.

And it seemed to sink up with everything in the world at that moment.

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