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Thoughts on the artistic value of barber beats

In last week’s newsletter on barber beats, I introduced a niche internet genre whose producers act like underground DJs: They hunt for obscure tunes in certain subgenres of past eras, like trip-hop, acid jazz, and liquid drum’n’bass, they assemble these tunes, pitch them down, add reverb and other effects, and then they put out collections of these vers…