What's This Music For?

In case you didn’t know it, there’s a loudness war on in the music world.  Without getting too technical, popular music for nearly 20 years has had the dynamics squeezed out of it in order to appear to be louder (see the diagram).  The official starting shot of the loudness war was the 1995 Oasis album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?  and from there, new releases have gotten more and more compressed.  The result of this attempt to cram maximum volume into CDs is that the music is squashed, sounds terrible (and audibly distorted), and fatigues the listener’s ear more quickly.  Well, there is a movement underway to stop the loudness war and return dynamics to recorded music, and today is Dynamic Range Day.  You can read more here: http://dynamicrangeday.com.  We wholeheartedly support this effort and do not participate in the loudness war; Chameleon Red’s music is delivered to you with dynamics intact.