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Who hasn’t experienced the cosmic pressure felt as DJ of a group of unsuspecting people, and tasked with choosing the next song (although I write with admittedly a degree of melodrama)? To translate people’s mood into music is no easy task. I have many a time misread the room, and whilst I live to tell the dreadful tale, the grimacing faces and attempts to outbid my control over the speaker’s Bluetooth (which is a common occurrence within my house) have left me feeling rather more wary of picking just