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Playlist Culture Ate The Album
- Playlist culture changed how people discover and retain artists, making singles more powerful than albums for many listeners.
- Ken and John note this shift reduced album-focused rituals like sequencing and silence choices that once shaped records.
Danger Mouse's Crossroads Childhood
- Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) grew up between New York and Georgia, straddling rock and hip-hop cultures as a kid.
- That upbringing and a Pink Floyd epiphany pushed him toward trip-hop and later music production in London and LA.
Mashups Continue A Long Musical Tradition
- Mashup culture traces to long traditions of borrowing in music, from folk variants to 20th-century collage art.
- DJ and dub innovations made collage-style recomposition a new artistic practice, not merely theft.