It’s been a “thing” for forever that art forms change, morph, mutate, and evolve. A very comprehensive look at how things are changing so slowly that you may not notice it, and that sentiment coming from a guy with BEAT in his least name talking about music, should be another indicator. We’re not sure how many people reading this may have taken a black cab in London, but cabbies there used to have to take a test to prove they had memorized EVERY SINGLE meter of road in the city… then Uber happened. This look at some of the major changes in the music production industry may be SLIGHTLY oversimplified, but is still incredibly poignant. The role of a recording studio engineer is going the way of the London taxi driver. No one cares anymore about the building of skill, just a marketable product. Lots of artists aren’t concerned as to why this happened, just that they feel like they don’t need to study to be an engineer any more. And the video article below describes why perfectly.