The detail often vary , but moststreaming radio appsfunction in the same world-wide room – cue up an artist station , start giving feedback in the sort of “ likes ” and “ dislikes , ” and let the app react by giving you medicine that fit the profile of what you ’ve told it you ’re into . The technology behind the scenes varies from app to app , but that ’s the basic idea .
Stereomoodbucks that trend by classifying songs according to their humour , put up the listener with several playlists specifically tuned to sure emotion . Most of us would rather palpate serious , so the moods tend to skew irrefutable – stations include “ Romantic , ” “ woolgather , ” and “ Just Woke Up . ” When they do go negative , as with playlists like “ Asleep On My Feet ” and “ experience Like call , ” it ’s always poetically so . We took it upon ourselves to find out out whether we could get the matter a lilliputian more agitated . Where was the tiresome music , the ode to being fright , accentuate out and exhausted ? If Stereomood is so good at making people feel a certain way , could it make me angry ?
I fired up the new Stereomood mobile app ( free for iPhone and Android ) and start out my quest for anger , discover the interface attractive if a little confusing . One page prompted me to select how it filtered “ Stereotags ” – a terminus that does n’t surface anywhere else in the app . I figured I ’d tell it to filtrate them by mood , since that ’s supposed to be the focusing of the app . “ Choose your mood and start out listening to create your aroused state of the workweek ! ” it tell me , before redirecting me back to the home plate covert , without appearing to have changed anything . I heed some more , then try again – no dice .
peruse the lean of modality - based play list instead of process through the moods , the closest thing I could obtain to unbowed - up raging was one called “ Gangsta . ” It appeared to be a catchall playlist for tap music , from ego - identify thugs like Tupac and Biggie to backpacker types like Mos Def who ’d probably bristle at the recording label . Also included , hilariously , is a track from noted non - gangsta Nick Cannon , the former Nickelodeon personality and current server of America ’s Got Talent .
Okay , so Stereomood at random lumps any and all hip - hop music into a “ Gangsta ” play list – that makes me angry for reasons I ’d rather not go into here . But what about music that ’s pissed off by its very nature ? I headed to theweb translation , which has a more - easy - browsable list of all useable playlists . There , I line up a more extensive list of moods , some of them pretty esoteric – Bible Study , Space Trip , State Of Hallucination – but the only playlist that overtly suggested music that might get me rag up was one just titled “ fast-growing . ” Bingo .
I was expecting the kind of poppycock that loosely gets lumped under the “ hard rock ” umbrella , like ill-shapen guitars , roar vocalists , and boneheaded sex metaphor , but was pleasantly surprised to regain quite the opposite . Here wereEvolver.fmstaff favoritesPixiesandThe Men , alongside hardcore legends Fugazi , Black Flag , and Void .
True to Stereomood ’s philosophy of mood over genre , there were artists that did n’t line up on the hardcore punk bloc , but completely fit the vibration of the play list : musicians like hip joint - hop slam poet Saul Williams , smuggled metallic element lightning rod cell Liturgy , and 8 - bit noiseniks Crystal Castles .
Thrashing around to these various bar of aggro noisemakers , I palpate a strange thing happen . I had finally find out my playlist full of loud , intrusive , discomfited music , but I was charmed . I wanted to be angry , dammit ! The whole time I had been searching for music to get me mad , and while I did n’t find any , I did get sort of angry with the mobile version ’s clumsy design , and deficiency of aid to detail in the playlist .
When I finally did find the respectable stuff , I was n’t unhinged ; I was satisfied .
So , can Stereomood make me angry ? Yes and no , I suppose .
Evolver.fm observes , tracks and analyzes the music apps view , with the belief that it ’s crucial to how humanity experience music , and how that experience is evolving .
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