Listening to Music by Decade and Geography

May 10, 2016

What if instead of organizing music by genre there was a way to select music preferences based on time and space? In 2012, Benjamin Moreau, an artist and DJ took a personal experience and inevitably turned it into Radiooooo (the five o’s represent the five continental landmasses). Simply, Radiooooo allows users to click on a country, select a decade, and lastly mood (slow, fast, or weird) to create their own “musical road map”. Unlike Spotify and Pandora, Radiooooo is limiting in songs skips. Actually, their users are not allowed to skip at all in the decade playing. Instead they are forced to change decades or countries entirely. Anne-Claire Troubat, an attorney specializing in international business, defends Radiooooo’s limiting choice, “I think right now on the Internet there are so many choices that you end up listening to always the same things, like you have your habits and if you listen to Spotify the algorithms will get you back to what you know” in an article with www.newyorker.com. The idea of Radiooooo is undoubtedly appealing and musically educational. It is important to have an idea of where musical roots stem from and inevitably led to what is playing on the radio today. Also, Radiooooo allows its users to musically travel international without the high costs or travel headaches. There may not be another option in the market that offers a glimpse into eighties Berlin, sixties Ethiopia, and NOW Colombia at your fingertips. Radiooooo is priceless musical education by letting people open their minds and ears to musical artistry and history.

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