Bruce Sterling has noticed LoFi House. Or rather he's noticed Google and Youtube's recommendation algorithm. "From heads who have been around since house’s beginnings, to a younger generation now thoroughly burned out on the vaporwave zeitgeist—both of which lie at the heart of the style’s burgeoning audience" O, RLY? https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/07/music-globalista-lo-fi-house-recommendations-machines-really-like/ Music Globalista: “Lo-Fi House” — the recommendations machines really like it | WIRED » It’s the lowest common machine-learned denominator In a paper written by Google/YouTube developers Paul Covington, Jay Adams, and Emre Sargin for the 2016 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, the researchers laid out a sketch of the basic mechanics now driving their Related Videos algorithm. As the site has shifted away from the primitive tagging system… [from: Google+ Posts] |
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