Streamed Into Oblivion: How Spotify Broke Experimental Music Discovery (And the Freaks Who Fixed It)
Spotify's recommendation engine is a masterpiece of behavioral engineering designed to keep you comfortable, engaged, and never too far from something that sounds like what you already like. For experimental and psychedelic music, that's basically a death sentence. Here's the case against algorithmic discovery — and the wildly creative ways underground artists are building their own pipelines straight to your ears.