House vs. Tech House vs. Techno: A Field Guide to the Family Tree
House swings at 120-130, tech house marries the shuffle to techno's lean toolkit, and techno subtracts the swing entirely. Here is how to read the family tree.
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Freeform radio, explained: the format without a format
Freeform radio hands every choice to the DJ — WFMU has run on that wager since 1958. What the format is, where it came from, and why shuffle isn't it.
Berghain Turns 20: What Two Decades of the World's Most Famous Club Built
Berghain opened in a Friedrichshain power plant in December 2004. Twenty years on: the format it codified, the tax ruling that made clubs culture in law, and what holds.
Catalog streams dominate as 100,000 tracks arrive daily
S. streams, per Luminate's year-end report — and the discovery crunch is the story.
What loudness normalization actually does to the records you stream
Streaming services and broadcasters now turn every track toward a common reference level — here is how that measurement works, where the targets came from, and what it changed about comparing releases.
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