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Music Not Diving with Scuba

Paul Rose aka the musician, DJ, and label boss known as Scuba talks to people of significance from the world of electronic music about their experiences, observations, and attempts to cultivate a life for themselves in the murky and sometimes treacherous waters of the music industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:15:28

#086 Krust

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/09/19

A quick thank you to everyone listening in the UK... we made it into the top 10 music podcasts for the first time last week! Non-UK listeners: tell your friends so we can get up those international charts too! What is creativity? Why do we value it so much as a society? And how do you unlock it? These were not questions I was anticipating a deep dive on when I started researching this episode. As a long-time Krust fan, I was looking forward to talking about early Jungle and the Bristol DnB scene

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2:02:07

#085 Skream

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/09/12

Catch myself b2b with Chloé Robinson at the Skreamizm weekend takeover at fabric in London on 21 October! ---A lot of artists complain about the way success and the weight of expectation affects their output. But what about people who've been scrutinised in public since they were a teenager? This week's guest has spent every weekend since he was 15 in clubs, and been the headline DJ for most of that time. There's not many other people who can say that. It's almost impossible to describe Skream

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1:27:54

#084 Matthew Dear

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/09/05

What connects the overnight success of Oliver Anthony with alien landings in Brazil? This week's podcast will give you the answer. Matthew Dear is a musician, producer, and DJ, who also teaches at the University Of Michigan. He's also very much a part of the Ghostly Int. label, which he has in common with recent guest Sam Valenti. As the above might suggest, this was a wide ranging discussion also covering many of the AI-related issues I talked about with Mat Dryhurst last week, as well as minimal,

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1:43:48

#083 Mat Dryhurst

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/08/29

When I make a specific effort to talk to people about AI, the responses range from the occasional Chat GPT enthusiast to a much-more-common feigning of indifference, hinting at a deep insecurity and probably-quite-pronounced fear. This week's guest is perfectly placed to offer a degree of reassurance, or at least a bit more of a balanced view on the coming storm. And make no mistake, it is coming. Mat Dryhurst, along with Holly Herndon, has long been engaged in important work at the intersection of

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1:52:41

#082 Recondite II

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/08/22

Regular listeners will have noticed my frequent references to the comedy podcast circuit, which is a great ecosystem and rewards repeat appearances by guests and conversations which deviate from the sort of profile-type interview which music shows (including this one) often resolve into. So this week we welcome our first return guest, Recondite, who appeared all the way back on episode 002. We discuss his involvement in the phenomenon of Afterlife, the Ibiza incarnation of which he played last week

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1:58:01

#081 Bill Brewster

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/08/15

We do like a history discussion on this show. And who better to discuss the history of DJing with than the co-author of the most authoritative book on the subject?'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life' was originally published in 1999, but there's a 2022 edition and I highly recommend getting hold of a copy. It's a genuinely important work and something every fan of the culture should be familiar with. Actually my conversation with Bill Brewster is probably more about him than DJing at a wider level. We

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1:46:28

#080 Out Of Office... a conversation with Will Clarke

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/08/08

Despite the appearance given by my conversation with Sam Valenti, I was on holiday last week. I've latterly decided to extend my break by another seven days, just because I realised that I really need it. So to fill the podcast gap we present my appearance on the Will Clarke podcast from a few weeks ago. We discuss many familiar issues, including the music press, social media, and the running of record labels. It was a fun conversation to have and an illuminating look into the running of one of the

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1:39:44

#079 Sam Valenti

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/08/01

Any person who has run a label for knocking on a quarter of a century is someone I want to talk to.Ghostly International was launched in 1999 by Sam Valenti with a single by fledgling producer Matthew Dear which would go on to be sampled on a global hit by Fedde Le Grand. You know the one.This episode is actually almost a sequel to episode 077 with Shawn Reynaldo. Of course we discuss Ghostly, and particularly the early period of the label, but I really want to pick Sam's brain on a few of the key

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1:28:32

#078 Chloé Thévenin

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/07/26

Paris is rarely cited (somewhat unfairly) as one of the key cities of electronic music, but the influence of French musicians is absolutely huge. You know the names, and you definitely know the tracks. But there's a lot more to it than Daft Punk and Justice. Chloé Thévenin has been a key figure in Paris for the last two decades, as resident at the hugely important night Le Pulp, and at Rex Club, while also developing a reputation as a highly technical producer operating in different styles and in

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2:05:42

#077 Shawn Reynaldo

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/07/18

Is music journalism in as bad a place as people say it is? I've certainly said it... really quite a lot. Maybe to the extent that I've been a bit unfair on the overall quality of music writing today, and having a total ban on music writers on the show was also possibly taking things a bit too far. Today though, the ban is lifted. Shawn Reynaldo is a former editor of XLR8R, and contributor to many of the august music publications we all love to hate, but now operates mostly out of his First Floor

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1:03:20

#076 The End Of Recorded Music?

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/07/11

We haven't done a solo pod since the 'Thoughts On Releasing Music' two-parter which covered episodes 58 and 59. Those two were really popular, surprisingly so... to me at least. I enjoy doing these because it forces me to get my thoughts together in a way that I sometimes struggle to usually. And the topics we're covering today definitely require some clear thought. Obviously the episode title is a bit provocative. It could totally be happening though. Generative AI and LLMs are things we're going

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1:27:31

#075 Alinka

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/07/04

Welcome to Episode 75 of the Not A Diving Podcast. That's quite a lot of episodes, and probably more than I thought we'd get to at the outset but it's been a highly enjoyable ride and we're not slowing down any time soon. This week on the show we welcome a former resident of one of my favourite clubs, Smartbar in Chicago. Alinka is an Ukraine-born, American expat in Berlin, a great DJ and a producer making some really interesting music.We discuss her journey in music from the early 2000s, via a

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1:59:45

#074 Ambivalent (aka LA-4A)

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/06/27

In the storied days of vinyl, snooty record shop staff, and white label promos, the diligent producer would cultivate many aliases, seemingly at least one for every nuance of his studio output. With DSP tagging and the endless collaborations that are a featured of today's recorded music, does that approach make sense anymore?That is a paraphrasing of my first question to Kevin McHugh, aka Ambivalent, aka LA-4A, on today's podcast. You'll have to tune in to get his answer in full, but let's just say

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2:03:58

#073 DJ Bone

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/06/20

The majority of DJs spent the pandemic mostly of stood in front of a camera, attempting to perform the impossible task of transplanting a rave into the bedrooms of the few people lucky enough to be watching at the other end of a fibre optic cable.We are only beginning to come to terms with the implications of what the failure of that approach have had for our culture, but DJ Bone did something completely different. 'Further' was a hugely successful series of events which combined music, talking, and

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1:53:38

#072 Damian Lazarus

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/06/13

What does it mean to run an underground dance label for twenty years? Admittedly I should have the answer to this question but in reality every label is different and every story is different too. Damian Lazarus launched Crosstown Rebels in 2003, having previously worked at FFRR and run City Rockers with Phil Howells. It quickly became one of the most important house labels and has released an enormous amount of significant and generally great music over the years. He also runs the Get Lost party in

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1:41:25

#071 Jeremy P Caulfield

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/06/06

Is minimal the same as mnml? What about minimal techno? Microhouse? At least it's not HARD TECHNO anyway. That's the worst. Well maybe not the actual worst, but bad enough to spawn a popular musical movement in direct opposition to it. What that movement actually consisted of is more of a difficult question than you might imagine though. Just look at that first paragraph. Jeremy P Caulfield is a Toronto guy who moved to Berlin in 2003, just when the minimal sound of that particular city was

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1:30:58

#070 Shifted

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/05/30

It's all Business Techno now isn't it? Well, maybe. And who better to confirm or deny that statement than the man who coined the term itself, Guy Brewer aka Shifted. Prior to entering the Techno arena, Guy was part of the storied DnB combo Commix. They released some great music in the 2000s, before the call to Berlin became impossible to resist and the lure of late evenings in Kreuzberg discussing the nuance of kick drums proved just too strong. As we discover in this week's conversation, the above

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1:22:49

#069 Terr

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/05/23

Daniela Caldellas is an electronic musician from Brazil. Having broken through as part of Digitaria on DJ Hell's International DeeJay Gigolo Records and latterly on Jamie Jones' Hot Creations, she launched Terr as a solo project in 2016 and has just released a debut album entitled Consciousness As A State Of Matter under that name via Phantasy Sound. We discuss her journey from Bela Horizonte to Berlin via Barcelona, the culture shock of the touring lifestyle, trying to keep your perspective while

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1:27:37

#068 Taimur

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/05/16

One of my most vivid memories as a DJ was the first Blkmarket Membership party I played in 2010. It was at a disused gym in lower Manhattan and managed to evade the notice of the authorities til the rapid approach of Sunday afternoon. Our guest this week, Taimur, ran those parties from 2006 until 2017, booking some of the world's biggest 'proper' DJs to play in incredible locations across NYC. He now resides in Miami, runs a record shop called T Bag, and runs a vinyl-only label called Blkmarket

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1:16:52

#067 LIVE from IMS Part 3: Johannes Goller

Music Not Diving with Scuba ·

2023/05/09

This is final part of our series of podcasts recorded at the International Music Summit in Ibiza, better known as IMS. Cocoon was a the first party to bring Techno to Ibiza. Sven Väth was a huge name in 1998 but bringing the real sound to what, up til that point, been a musical landscape that was probably best described as light-hearted was a big risk. But they made it work at twenty seasons later a legend had been born. Johannes Goller was there from the very start, and despite youth and

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