As sounds, recording methods and technologies were blended and reshaped, the entire history of recorded sound was up for grabs, and listeners were (potentially) as aware of Louis Jordan as this week’s hottest mash-up. The result has been a new sort of temporal distortion, one completely bereft of historical and social context — suddenly any music ever recorded is “now.”
All the more reason to not fear a streaming network of every piece of music ever recorded.
