The Last Mixed Tape

At turn of the century, quietly and without announcement, the language around music changed. Art became content and engagement., expressed in performance metrics.

This week’s video explores how capitalism colonised music culture, beginning with Napster, accelerating through streaming platforms like Spotify, and culminating in an ecosystem where art is increasingly treated as disposable data rather than human expression.

It’s an examination of how tech capitalism removed value from music in order to extract it more efficiently and what that has cost artists, audiences, and culture itself.

The Last Mixed Tape is hosted by Stephen White, and is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.