Rants and Raves
Rants and Raves is the podcast that gets down to brass tacks about what’s too often sidelined in dance music discourse- YOU. And the culture we collectively create. Yeah, the DJs are important and all, but they’re hardly the center of the dancefloor- or the universe. The life of the party is all of us. Follow to hear about upcoming episodes featuring nightlife legends first.
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Host x Tovah Feinberg
Music x Claude Young Jr
Recording & Production x Eli Welbourne
Production & Mixing x Justin Cudmore
Logo x Michael Magnan
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Rants and Raves
In Your Ear : What BPM Doesn't Tell You
Numbers can add up, but say very little. So why do we often hear music described solely as BPM these days? A description distilled to tempo alone obscures the intricacies of melodies, harmonies, texture and tonality that moves us. Music reviews certainly don’t start and end with “the track is 142 BPM.” Summing up our feelings as digits does a disservice to the depths of our perception.
What BPM Doesn't Tell You
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Music x Claude Young Jr / Logo x Michael Magnan