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The machines are not pretending to be people. “(People) imagine metal humanoid robots sitting in chairs with silver headphones on nodding mechanically to songs and making up their robot minds,” said McDonald. Speaking to the Toronto Star last year, McDonald played down the notion that this could all lead to the kind of future that Arnold Schwarzenegger tried his best to prevent in the Terminator movies. McDonald's particular brand of alchemy involves the use of a tool known as ' machine listening', which does what it says on the tin machines listen to the music in a bid to find the perfect match for the oddly-named genre in question. But let's not forget that slightly sinister aspect mentioned earlier.

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The weird thing about 'Stomp and Holler' - apart from the obvious - is that it's not really a genre at all, but a specific playlist comprising of over 60 songs and thus a handy way for Spotify to lump in a bunch of like-minded acts who do indeed stomp and holler in search of 'driving rhythms, intricate instrumentation, and full harmonies'.

With such a highly important job, you'd expect him to sport a ridiculous title all of his own, and that's why he has the words 'Data Alchemist' above his office door.Īnd with a name like that, it's perhaps no surprise that he's responsible for genres like 'Permanent Wave' (Arcade Fire qualify, apparently) and 'Neo Mellow', which is actually a pretty hilariously spot-on way of describing Ed Sheeran.

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