This one goes to eleven… NO this one goes to 31! Levi’s all-in on expanding our musical palette. We talked about what colors and emotions are available in microtonality, how to get into the wild world, and the frontiers of music theory. Sometimes it feels like everything in music has been “figured out.” Levi’s here to tell us that couldn’t be further from the truth!
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Where it mostly all started. The peaks and the valleys. The life force. Opening doors. Heliocentricity. Coalesce. Comfortable enough. Embed the effect. A lot of beauty in doing that. Stereo picture placement. Reinforcing this idea. Actual practice. Treat the shimmer tone. Some very interesting intonation. A dash of cayenne. A weird sensation. A good blend. Different aspects. Through acoustic synthesis. Like a sonic photograph. Tactile experience. A really interesting mirror. Symmetry. Duplicating the signal. Genuinely connected. Dove into the bread and butter. That weird bag. Formant shifting. Wonderful and different. Everything kind of influences everything. At the continuum. The tributaries of creativity. Over the mountain. Through pitch. Justly intonated. The harmony of the spheres. Dig deep. The reason. In between the spaces. New tools. To innovate further. Load in microtonal tunings. Time and place. In the vast landscape. Fully enmeshed things. A lot closer together. Microtonailty. Something that’s real. Kind of like a diatonic approach. Such a good analog. Downstream. From the music theory lens. A bundle of instruments. More notes. Pitch shifted. New flavors. Get over that hump. In terms of frequencies. The math is elegant. A wonderful thing. About the harmonic series. The embodied self. Harmonic ratios. Shimmer chords. This really cool iconic sound. Perfectly reasonable. To the timbre of a given instrument. A cool project. Really beautiful. Pleasing sounds. Fluid. Play a series of notes. Play effectively. The wolf interval. Ear math. Utility. Map it to musical parameters. 🌌
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Podcast Produced by Beformer
Tap your foot? Whistle? Hum a tune?
I think you count too. Musician isn't a some high-and-mighty state. It's just being human.
I think by segmenting so much we all miss out. Musicians do best when we get community input (just look at New Orleans!) -- not just academic or commercialized competition.
It's not bad to hustle. But it's nice to have a mix of voices. Some going all-in. Some expressing the depths of the soul with no expectation of reward.
But even bigger than that, the coolest thing is watching people decide to play at whatever level. Even cooler: Watching them decide to write. I hope you do. It's never too late. And if you're a pro, it's good for the soul to make some random stuff that's not for a royalty.
Let's wax musical, people!
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Huddle around. The tone poem. Evocative and interesting. Fundamental. Timbre. Dynamics. Orders sound. Through the wind. Think and feel. A collection of artifacts. Distilling that. Infinite. Continuous. The acrobatics. Structuring sound. Enjoy something. Taste. That good. Mess with that. Just saying. Open to the idea. A vector to keep that going. The larger kinda meta-conversation of genre. What a musician actually is. Add elements throughout time. In time. The key element. Refinement. An exploration of sound. An extension of frequency. ⏰
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What makes a Beatles chord progression work? Why does that Stevie Wonder song sound the way it does? Music theorist and composer Dr. Guy Shkolnik joins the pod to breaks down all that good stuff and more: harmony, counterpoint, composition across all genres (even how Japanese music is different!!).
With a PhD in music theory and a social media following built from deep-dive breakdowns (and years of university teaching under his belt including international Berklee College of Music associated harmony, counterpoint, and ear training classes), Guy knows how to make it “click.” Let’s dive deep in, follow the white rabbit, and find out why music works. (And why we love it!)
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Play with the words. The gravity of harmony, The fundamentals. Gives direction. The environment is inviting. Those building blocks. Both sides of the mirror. Approachable. In tandem. That intrigue. The essence. Musical sense. What the groove is. How it feels. The notes that are dancing around. Full circle on these things. The mechanics of music. The beautiful possibilities. Melody and harmony came together. All the different tones. As splashes of color. Active notes. New techniques. Independent voices. Keep things open. Telling a story. Chorales. About communication. A cool way to differentiate. That dash of elegance. Different textures of the same thing. By learning both. Tendencies. To do the translation. Rotating around. Chromatic. Simplify stuff. Powerful notes. The whole thing. Connect with it. Showing the good. A fun exercise. The beautiful mix of new, weird, and familiar at the same time. Lightbulb moments. Draws from everything. New colors. A gift. Helping fellow musicians. Harmonic rhythm. The natural note. See through the details. 🔎
Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer
Want a better mix 2? Keep your mix engineer creative and proactive. Give them questions rather than answers.
In this pod, I cover how creative communication can empower your collaborators rather than box them in. Turn people into experts instead of tools, and watch how your network can perform! (And love working with you!)
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Passion and energy. Open up new doors. Unlocking brains. From one phase to the next. Creative notes. The challenge is always evolving. For later on in the phases. Leave a little bit of room. Really enjoyable. Wax poetically. Thinking of solutions. The pokiness. A positive flywheel. Beings of infinite creativity. Carve out some more space. Leave room for interpretation. Inverted. That wisdom. Making sense of some of the chaos. Being the CEO of your art. Alter the state of the listener. Asking great questions. Practically use that. Impassioned. In both directions. Keeps it fresh. 🥝
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Some musicians do better with chaos. Others under deadlines and with teams. Tristan Clopet is a rare pro who’s done both, and because of it knows the value of working towards a greater goal with a big team (and bigger pressure).
Tristan’s prolific work on film and TV scores gives him a deep insight into the nature of that side of the industry (and how different it is from his touring days supporting X Ambassadors, Billy Bragg, Tove Lo, Glen Hansard, and The Weeknd). It’s a collaborative, deadline-oriented, large effort, with hundreds of creatives contributing to the final work. He shares how inspiring that journey is, and how knowing the boundaries can unlock even more creativity. I loved his story about scoring to Martin Freeman’s solo acting in a car. (Martin Freeman happens to be one of my favorite actors.)
His credits include:
Sony Pictures Television’s StartUp, created by Ben Ketai and starring Martin Freeman, Ron Perlman, Adam Brody, Mira Sorvino, and Edi Gathegi. In 2020, Netflix licensed all three seasons and it quickly became the streamer’s #1 acquired series around the world.
The Universal Studios feature film River Wild, for which he earned an HMMA nomination.
The Infiltrator, starring Bryan Cranston, City of Lies, starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker, Sundance Film Festival winner Crown Heights, starring LaKeith Stanfield, AMC’s Pantheon, with Brandon Roberts, Marco Beltrami, and Buck Sanders, and CBS’s military procedural The Code.
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Put it into words. Putting those things together. Keep doing it. That progression. That magic energy. It’s a journey. A key to unlock the door. Creative parameters that do unlock other things. Just being in the room. Anchor points. Accepting imperfection. Discern so much emotion. Either direction’s profound. A nebulous cloud that shifts and moves. A rewarding effect. A wonderful exploration. This weird appetite for going further. Through that journey. The cut has a rhythm. A conversation of contradictions. The push and pull. Hilarious. Magnetizes back to. An apt question. Flowing from A to B, It’s timbre thing. A function for this music. A mix of craft and art. Room to play with. An array of options. Conveying goals. 🎬
Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer
Music is more athletic than you may think! I just watched on of my favorite drummers, Nate Smith, and he was like Bruce Lee up there, flowing like water.
Proper technique can save musicians from injury, make them play faster, and let them stay on the road for longer. It’s one of the best ways to break through the intermediate wall, but it’s not talked about enough… so I talked about it!
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Dynamic shifts and turns. Very much serving the song. Creative application of techniques. All of that to say. Draw the through-line. Within the rhythm. In interesting ways. Circumvent those limits. Add up to emotion. Progress the instrument itself. About articulation. Keep doing. Opens some doors and opens some minds. The way to shake. The arc of the piece. Unlocked another level. 🔓
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…and what if it could help us invent new instruments?
In this pod, I talk about how musicians can use “vibe coding” tools like Cursor (but how learning a little coding can go a long way)! I think there’s something here. I think it’s about to get a lot easier. And I invite you to try (and fail) with me. We might be able to make something truly new once again.
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Fresh ears. Fascinating and fun. Little tendrils. Set up to be creative. Start to bubble up. Opening minds. Interesting and intriguing and powerful. For the practical use of the modern musician. Really wonderful. What the song wants to be. A good example of context. Something far cooler. The digital to analog conversation. Through movement. Paddle out. 🏓
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As A&R at Safari Pedals, Abi brings a unique guitar pedal-driven approach to production. From making coffee disappear (she’s a professional magician!) to helping artists transform gut feelings into honest, soulful records, she shares her philosophy on trust, vibe, and the magic that happens when you strip away pretense. Whether working remotely or popping up in cities around the world for in-person sessions, Abi is out there building genuine connections and crafting records with the artist at the center of the frame. Plus, we dive into her work hosting The Safari Pedals Show and how guitar pedals became her secret weapon in the studio.
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From the jump. Pumped into this thing. Cool hanging spot. Time is a weird resource. Every which way. Just do the thing. Propel better. A unicorn that’s fallen out of outer space. Make something different. Seeds planted. Gotta figure it out. In a timely fashion. Lots of different paints. To start doing. Understand aesthetically. Open to ideas. The surrounding skills. Think modular. A healthy signal. Sonic fingerprint. Kinda found its groove. Ultimate vibe curators. Fluffy and wonderful. All camps are welcome. For fun ideas. Feel passionate. Physical to sound reaction. Get some crazy sounds. In a different way. Betters creative output. A whole new level of respect. Listenable. So much magic. This all-encompassing thing. Now is the time. Invent a future. Fill up cups. Really excited. In some weird way. Enjoying going all in. Make it happen. The technical. A dash of chaos. Knowing how to make both work. Embracing what is. Go through the journey. 🥾
Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer
Would a builder build a house without a hammer? A tattooer do a tattoo without a needle? Would a politician act without a businessman? Of course not!
Every job has the tools that the pro needs to succeed. Music theory is one of ours. Neglect at your own peril. Use the right tools to build cool stuff! Ignore them when you don't need them! (But 80% of the time, you'll need them! Especially if you want to do this every day.)
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Transmit ideas. Different shapes on top of the foundations. Build new shapes. A creative compulsion. Use the putty. Learn the language by doing. By knowing that. Based around tension and resolution. Sound good under that note. Tendencies. New nouns. In the most elegant and satisfying way. 📚
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Playing drums at Red Rocks or the O2 or the Greek are dreams made reality for Harry Terrell. As producer and multi-instrumentalist, he brings perspective to the drum kit, electronics to the acoustic, and vibe to the studio. In this pod, Harry shares some of his favorite techniques for getting killer drum sounds, navigating music theory, and what it means to be a modern musician. The drums are alive and well!
Chef Harry T is a drummer/producer/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/chef/tall guy based in the Los Angeles area. He likes to do lots of stuff, including play for Still Woozy, make silly funk jams, write serious love songs about personal development and feelings, push the boundaries of sandwich possibilities, learn new Spanish vocabulary, and stretch out his sore little legs. He also REALLY likes to make music with his best bud Eli Goss, who will join us in the interview at some point, in their best-friendship-band of over 10 years called The Breathing Effect, which basically makes complex-yet-familiar bangers with influences ranging from ambient noise music to 70s Japanese city pop and yacht rock to 2000s indie rock and softcore songwriters.
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Feel the momentum. Satisfying to like understand. In these ways that create new things. It’s this very symbiotic relationship. Like foundations of being. Kinda shape. So tactile. Brings the energy. Palpable. So nice to know. Like gravity and also like seasonings. Just kinda go for it. The show must go on, the show must go on. A deeper way of relating to art and humans and just the ways things are connected. Feel like the overtones are really ringing out. Also pushing boundaries. The chemical makeup of the music itself. Kinda newer golden age of recording almost. Sources of inspiration. Is like of the time. That dramatic surprise. Everything’s a new adventure. This visceral reaction thing. Totally scalable. Not waiting around. Kinda fascinating to just see. Sorta new like methodologies. At the source. Down the line. Like using audio. The musical vibe out there in the ethos. As far as like tone goes and stuff. In certain settings. Like a metric modulation. Such a pleasure. This parasympathetic reactive quality. Within the broader production. First things first. Be doing stuff. Finish stuff. To keep the momentum going. Play into the effects. Sounds vibey. A various array. Have the ears. So many people do so many things. Sense of like space. It’s just a beautiful thing. Pretty excellent. To facilitate the connection between people. A whole vast new room of stuff to explore. Like peeling back the secrets of the universe. 🥯
Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer
Welcome everyone to the astronaut era. Let the music video arms race begin!
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The technology was there. Make a spectacle. A fusion of all entertainment. Paradigm shift. Broadcast and medium based transitions. Just ride out the waves. Trending on this direction. Cultural force. All that fed back. Platform defining. It already kinda is. Incredible timing for that song. In terms of transmission. 📺
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New Orleans is a special place. Just ask Grammy Award-winning John Michael Rouchell. He’s from there and made incredible music with the legends. We talk the history, the prestige, the joy, and the energy of New Orleans. It’s that passion and dedication that led Disney to work with John on Tiana's Bayou Adventure, the ride that updated Splash Mountain at Disneyland. When you’re on a ride — with the music spilling over just like the water itself — now THAT’S a compositional challenge!
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Scaffolding of goals. It’s achievable, it’s doable. That’s when good things happen. A reflection of existence as a human. It’s a spell. Ingenuity. It’s a beautiful thing. The magic is among us. It’s about people. Kinda ripe to be told again. Invigorating. Brave and cool. Continue this legacy. Create a little creative borrowing. Those are the things. Like a wave at the beach. Is this kinda moment of discovery. Get a groove going. Make it feel real. It’s either like it is or it ain’t. Ambrosia. Everything’s getting into everything. There’s this unconscious thing. Learning about that was incredible. Well and good. That gravity. A pretty strange and amazing thing. Delight. In a pluralistic idea towards a common goal. Like collaborate. Make a win-win for both things. Growing together. By design. That is what it is. It’s like love music more, love people more. Be the wellspring of so much great music. Kinda this endless hypnotic thing. Absolute magic. People need to hear it. Very much just taking care of each other. Put it all together. Hafta figure out a way. Getting in the boat and rowing. That is fun. It’s this constantly feeling. What is the set and setting. Designing towards an end. Really met the moment. Bend the world. A reimagining and an elevation. 𓊍
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Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer
What can we do to prepare? What skills do we need to survive?
I think there are three simple (yet crazy hard) skills that will endure, regardless of robot takeover or software company supremacy.
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The analog and the digital in tandem. Everything is coalescing. A rising wave. Everybody wins, especially music fans. Part of the meaning of the song. Can channel that. Riding that wave. Highlighting it and centering it. About finding the points of interest. Seeing the systems. Sometimes it’s beautiful. They’re another musical instrument. Pick up a vibe. Osmotically. Like a pyramid. Focus on the things you can control. Want that authenticity. There’s a cool way to do it. Be clever, be creative, and have taste. The act of molding the clay. Developing all in pursuit of a future. Amplify. At that point. 🎯
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What’s it take to gear up, build a studio, and grow a career step-by-step? Kyle Pulley, a music producer, audio engineer, and bassist in Philadelphia, is here to share his journey, which includes working with greats like Alex G and Dr. Dog. His story includes his studio being sold out from under him!
Kyle co-owns and operates Headroom Studios, and co-formed and plays in the band Thin Lips.
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The inner detail. Unlocks all of this incredible potential. This incredible precipice walk. Brick by brick. Fun to keep figuring it out. Go again. Vibrate air. Moment in time. A show around the corner. All ties in. Peanut butter and jelly. A whole thing. Make it work with whatever. Part of the process. Just made stuff and kinda kept doing. Build a community around what you’re doing in the arts. Visualize a signal effects chain. Latitude. Awesome feeling to hear that song. Making sure it all works and is organized. Sorta duality. About parallel processing. This common denominator. ➗
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Use the traditional concert layout to open your mind to new ways of creating and experiencing music. Paint with sound, experience the depth, and notice the techniques artists use to create in three dimensions.
The visual art world has a longer history of this than recorded music, so borrowing some of their concepts helps a lot!
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Primary kind of knobs. It be fun to make, and it be fun to explore. The amount of presence. Psychoacoustic signaling. Almost in a synesthesia type way. A spotlight. A set of transformations. Place and segment. Splashes of color. Obscura. To disambiguate. Creates depth. We do now. Opens up some doors. A lot of vectors. This depth of field. Frequencies are living. The defining set of resonances. 🔦
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Josh plays instruments from all around the world, and that’s how he’s on a crazy number of recordings, including live on Broadway and for anime series’ like Naruto or Avatar.
We talk about building a wide set of skills, and how that curiosity and love of learning fits really well with the modern world.
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Josh Plotner is a producer, recording artist, composer, arranger, contractor, and saxophonist/woodwind multi-instrumentalist with a collection of over 150 instruments. He has become one of the most recorded woodwind artists of the last few years, with hundreds of recordings across film, television, video games, and albums, in addition to playing on Broadway. Josh also performs internationally as a soloist for 'Avatar the Last Airbender: Live in Concert' on 10 instruments, including flute, duduk, and Chinese woodwinds. His playing has been featured on Emmy winning, GRAMMY, and Oscar-nominated works. Highlights include Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Madam Secretary, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Babylon, Red Dead Redemption II, music for “Star Wars': Galaxy’s Edge” at Disneyland/Disney World, collaboration with Meghan Trainor while she was at No. 1 on the charts, and many others.
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Invent things instantly. It’s all happening now. Inferences in between different languages. Chaining from one to the next. That interdisciplinary thing. Constantly in conversation with this tool. Opening up doors for that which is imperfect. Embodied creativity. Start to get a sense. The frequency of the standing wave. Wide and expansive. A vibrating column. Building on similar things. That embellishment tradition. As people. An intuitive understanding, an embodied understanding. The coolest thing ever. Easy to keep going. Forever value. All the cool flashy stuff that’s fun. Basically all of these flutes. Hollow sticks with holes. The cool leaves. Calmer, more intentional, more intelligent person. Learning ornamentation. All the different notes. A woodwind generalist. Time plus sound. ༄
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Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer
Back in Black sold twice as many records as Abbey Road. It’s the most successful rock record (and 2nd most successful record period). So let’s dig into why. What’s the magic of this band, this album, and how can it make us love music a little bit more?
(Check out the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth podcast episodes and/or part one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, or fourteen of the accompanying Substack posts, with music examples!)
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Being glue and being transparent. Able to bend. Held very well constant. Blend of hammer-ons and pull-offs. Can still reach. A defining point. So approachable. That authentic nature. A celebration of life. Has the energy. A really cool way to do it. Swagger and time and articulation. Just enough funk. Use skill to speak. The perceptual effect. Emotional arc and interest. That’s pretty cool. Through this lens. Give that reason. Perceptual reality. Respecting the audience. Able to switch. Has a launchpad. A compressive effect. It rips. That whole energy presses through the entire record. Recapitulation. Just kinda in the air. Keeping the groove going, providing the backbone. 𓀗
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If you watch ad-supported streaming or TV, you’ve heard Mike’s work. From the Super Bowl to multi-year global campaigns, he’s the guy behind the musical storytelling for the world’s best brands.
Find out what actually makes a top music supervisor tick. How he discovers. What he loves. And also learn what goes into this wild job!
Mike’s one of the best (and kindest) in the business. Sync is how musicians make a lot of their money now, but it’s often a black box. There’s no one that shares wisdom so freely as Mike — a great guy who truly loves music!
Since joining Droga5 in 2016, Mike Ladman founded and developed the Music Department managing music and audio capabilities across the agency and client roster. During this time, Mike has helped lead the agency to win over 90 music and advertising industry awards, notably 1 sports Emmy, five Cannes Lions, two D&AD Pencils, four Clios including the Grand Music Clio, eight AMP awards, 2 Guild Of Music Supervisor Awards, a Ciclope award among others, across Droga5 clients such as Google, The New York Times, Facebook, Hennessy, Levi’s and others. He has created and supervised music across global campaigns including work for the Super Bowl, Olympics, Grammy’s Oscar’s, Emmy’s, and Presidential Elections. In 2018, Mike was named one of Billboard's Top Branding Power Players. He has been an international music delegate around the world at music festivals and conferences in Denmark, Amsterdam, Israel, Brazil, Mallorca and more. Prior to joining Droga5, he was a Music Producer at McCann for nearly seven years, where he provided music for clients, such as Microsoft, the United States Army, Verizon, MasterCard and more, across the agency’s roster. Mike received his first film credit managing the music supervision for an indie film, Tracktown, which premiered at the LA Film Festival in 2016. In his free time he DJ's under the alias DJ PuppyHiccups and produces music under many aliases with lots of collaborators.
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Double tap and dive a little bit deeper. Have the momentum. Awesome and weird and wonderful. And the consistency. In the zone. To figure out a thing. That’s the magic. Contributing to that joy. Sprinkle on something. It’s like, relax. If all we have is time. It was everything. It was wild. Find that new shirt. Kick off this whole cycle of feeling good. Wanna do cool stuff. Figure out what’s the best approach. Kinda rinse and repeat. The structure and the changes within a song. Chasing the dragon. Ideate. Transference. Aware. All of that. Chasing that thing. Keeps that carrot. A song can unlock that. The creative vibe. Can do this. Listen to everything. The consistency thing. That can endure. A great song plus time. Some cooler direction or genre. Coalesced into this moment. Being in the record store. It sounds strange now. Back into the show. Is when it’s really music is telling the story, A bunch of things in play. Cool crate digger. Recontextualized and repurposed and reimagined and brought to life. Hit the airwaves. Boom. A high-wire act. 🌉
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Set Design by Max Horwich
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What makes a sub-genre? Should an artist stick to what they're known for? Is it a burden to invent a genre?
I just got back from a Cro-Mags show, had a great time, and have a lotta takeaways about dance, movement, and how limiting (yet valuable) labeling music can be.
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Mechanisms at play. This ephemeral intangible thing. Drifting in between dream and reality. Cuts both ways. The collection of musical thought into physical mediums. The ways that they interact. Wrapped up in the other. Different ways of classifying. It evokes something else. It’s own sort of inspiration. A powerful force in both directions, Dance with it. The map. The levers that are like really cool. Coextensive. A species of classifiers. Unabashedly of the body. This branch. That analytical processing of organizing and sorting. All of this different stuff. A subtle sway or a rhythmic blinking. 🗄️
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The majority of bands don’t make it, and if they do, they don’t last. What’s the secret? How do you grow together, push each other, and keep innovating as a musical team? Mo Lowda & the Humble’s about to drop their fifth album, and in my opinion, it’s their best music yet. The whole band joins for this special episode on what it’s like to be a road-warrior, touring band in 2025, making records in studios on the journey along the way.
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Feels like now. With a different mindstate. Lifts all the spirits. Stabilizes the molecules. Keep everybody involved. Like to hang. Nice, warm, sizzly. Just have fun. It’s a muscle. So much human connection in music. The more you know. Elements playing off each other. A benefit to creative constraints. Being purposeful. Closing that hole-loop. Ways to approach. Excitement, pleasure, and purpose all in one. A wave and an energy to it. Soaking it up. Mixing at the source. Meticulous about tones. Hash it out. Like a fun journey. Map stuff out. Important to end on a good note. Riding that energy, finding that energy. Beautiful places all around. Music is a natural rhythm. Feels good to be excited. Keep that going. Bombastic and organic. Momentum on a record. Pulling through. Continual and everlasting. Magic about that interpersonal. 🌌
Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer