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Encanto Tropical Episode 46 features salsa songs only from the year 2000. Â Â Â
Remember the Y2K bug? It was supposedly a computer coding flaw which would cause worldwide problems with networking systems using files dated after 1999. As the end of the century approached, there was palpable concern that at the stroke of midnight heading into 2000 this bug would start wreaking havoc. However, nothing of the sort happened.Â
The Y2K scare seems rather quaint upon reflection. Fast forward 25 years and as another new year approaches, there are far more serious concerns in mind. Several issues foretell a dire year ahead. Whether it’s the climate crisis, disintegrating societies, political landscapes in turmoil, debilitating repercussions of advanced capitalism, regional and proxy wars which risk nuclear escalation, or the scary consequences of rapidly expanding artificial intelligence, civilization as we know it seems on the verge of going south one way or another.
How will everything work out? I don’t know, but at the risk of playing the proverbial fiddle while Rome burns, there is refuge in music.
Anything similar to a post-Y2K collective sigh of relief seems improbable, but let's stay tuned for tidbits of optimism like the recent news of a breakthrough in desalination technology that could benefit billions of people. For now, we carry on with Y2K as a theme. Playing salsa songs that were fresh at the beginning of the century -- shortly after I started deejaying -- will be a nostalgic trip.
