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      10 months ago

      I hate the radio, I’m not talking about radio DJs unless it is the very occasional weird college radio station that is fun just for the curveballs.

      I’m talking about all the other DJs, real life human beings who for fun spend hours hunting down the kind of music you listen to and arrange it into mixes. Like a recommendation algorithm but a human! There are plenty of them, you might not know of one that exists for your specific niche, but rest assured they definitely exist.

      They play sets for bars and stuff with music they have collected in whatever genre they are into, it is a whole thing.

      I don’t know why I am explaining the concept of a DJ.

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        410 months ago

        I use Spotify to avoid other people. You go to clubs and listen to what people spin? Too crowded. I’m happy with an algo that knows my tastes and find that shit for me.

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          -310 months ago

          facepalm no, DJs often put mixes up for you to listen to. Again mixcloud is a good example.

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        310 months ago

        There’s a classical station in Dallas that calls their programming music with context. And they’re right! When there’s a good DJ in the booth you will end up learning something about the music being played.