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How We Reverse-Engineered a Music Taste, Part 2: The Madness
Percussive phrasing, the warble veto, a rap lane that was really a dance lane, a playlist that blew up, and musical family trees. Part two: what we found.

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How We Reverse-Engineered a Music Taste, Part 1: The Method
Thirteen years of Spotify data, a pile of named noise categories, blind predictions, and a voice measured in hertz. Part one: how we did it.
