She organizes music by color, each hue representing a different sound and emotion. Sam Weisband is the leader on all things EDM and Alternative. Kelsie has been discussing and curating music since the Tumblr era, eventually shifting her platform to Youtube in 2016, and now TikTok. She has several playlists that dive deep into the history of each genre, featuring the best from back in the day and the brightest of the new wave of music makers. Kelsie Herzog is a photographer and underground folk, dream-pop, shoegaze, midwest-emo folk connoisseur hailing from Wisconsin.
Before we dive in, here’s a brief introduction to each curator who contributed. I’ve taken the time to sit down with a few of the leading playlist makers to see just how they got their start, how they discover new music, how they support themselves as well as the artists they share, as well as what advice they have to give to those who aspire to follow in their footsteps.
Playlist curators have become the new tastemakers. They have been the first to break artists to the general audience. These music curators have traversed to the forefront of music discovery. Over the past few years, there have been a select few individuals with an extra-exquisite music taste that have been able to take their playlist making to a new, unprecedented level. Considering that analog mixtapes were largely bootlegged and therefore illegal, the idea that you could create a career out of the curation and distribution of themed playlists was unheard of until extremely recently - until the rise of the streaming service - until the rise of social media. Until fairly recently, the creation and sharing of these mixes have been (almost) purely for pleasure. From mixtapes to burned CDs to the modern Spotify and Apple Music playlists, people have been curating unique blends of songs to complement every mood, every experience, every relationship, and every other little moment in life for ages.
People have been making and sharing playlists since the invention of the cassette in the mid-sixties.
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