@LeslieBurns @plexus @akamran BBC TV made a doc about AI a few years ago. Team tried to build a tool to spot possible hit records, based on features of known hits from 60s onwards. Didn't really work, but they found that up to late 90s, they could identify period/style quite well but it was harder to do so later. Seemed to be linked to massive growth in sampling (also homogenisation in industry?).

Basically from late 90s, music really did "all sound the same", just as your parents always said.😉