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Re:The Wonder from Down Under: The Fairlight CMI Digital Sam... by coldtea on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:17AM (#18227897)
>Funny how the music business in general can be such a bunch of Luddites. Player pianos, the phonograph, the Hammond organ, magnetic tape, synthesizers, digital recording... all of them were going to just kill music.

Ever heard of the Spotify Top 20?

Those technical advances did eventually kill music (depending on one's point of view of what music should be, which for none of those musicians included Nicky Minaj and MIDI-orchestration -- they meant live music played as opposed to sequenced or reproduced).

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