Day 14 (Slow day)

Surprisingly I have not been advertised or recommended Cartis new album either on release radar or any other playlist. Release radar is back though. 

My daily mix one is a drum n based playlist so it seems that the RA is taking my listening habits from yesterday into consideration. However apart from that not much has changed.

In future days I might listen to the moods playlist. 

One of my goals is to see if I can experience some new genres of music or some really niche genres so this might help. 

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