I've just sold 3000 CDs - and i don't care!!

[jandl100]

Yes, some folks have reported that their musical tastes are such that they don't find a lot of what they want on the streaming services.
I only really know about the availability of classical music recordings, and that is a very broad and deep catalogue indeed. No homogenisation there as far as I am concerned.

[jandl100]

I've not investigated, but I'm fairly sure that some of my choices in listening will not be available from streaming services, simply because they are pretty obscure and some even nigh on impossible to obtain again in physical media.

Give some examples and I would be interested to have a look on Spotify.

[walpurgis]

Give some examples and I would be interested to have a look on Spotify.

Gobeil and Artificial Memory Trace spring to mind.

[jandl100]

Gobeil and Artificial Memory Trace spring to mind.

There are 3 artists called Gobeil on Spot. Dominic, Janine and Gilles.

Artificial Memory Trace - 1 album on Spot - Ama_Zone 1 : Black Water. 15 tracks, 79m long.

[jandl100]

Listening to Artificial Memory Trace now.

You really want to listen to this stuff?

[walpurgis]

'La Mechanique Des Ruptures' by Gilles Gobeil.

Gobeil and Artificial Memory Trace are electroacoustic acts. Not strictly music, depending on your point of view. Great for giving the system a work out though.

[NickB]

Gobeil and Artificial Memory Trace spring to mind.

Just found these on Tidal are they the ones?

[jandl100]

'La Mechanique Des Ruptures' by Gilles Gobeil.

Nope, can't find it.
There's just a single track by Gilles G - Nuit Cendre - 12m20s long.

Playing it now ..... weird stuff!
I do like Future Sound of London, which is kind of similar at times.

[walpurgis]

First one no. Second yes. There are quite a few Artificial Memory Trace releases and their content style varies.

[Pharos]

"Another point that strikes me, is that the selections made for streaming availablity are a form of control. Basically, if what you want to hear is not commercial enough for the vendor to make money from, you ain't getting it! Our listening will become homogenised, so it fits 'their' model of what people should hear. "

Good point Geoff, and one which extends to many areas in life; how often do you find a very good product has gone because it was either not commercial, or was perhaps politically controversial?

This happened with Safeway wholemeal muffins, delicious and good nutrition, but not popular.

Look at what has been done to heretical music by PWL and Simon Cowell; hi-jacked, cloned and made kitshe and mediocre with nothing to say. Mainstream TV is now IMO all non controversial banality.