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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The History of Remixes
Description: When humans first started making audio recordings of music, they were limited as to how long those recordings could be...An original Edison cylinder could maybe hold two minutes of music, therefore any songs committed to the format had to be two minutes or shorter—otherwise you’d run out of space...When Emilee Berliner came along with his flat rotating disc that spun at 78 rpm, capacity increased a little bit...you now had around three minutes for a song before you ran out of space...so everyone who wanted to make audio recordings adapted to t...