Stay ConnectedPaul 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.
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Speedy J is a key figure in the history of Techno, most recently with the development of his improvisational collaborative project Stoor.
Check out some of the epic ADE performances:
2023 JakoJako x Karenn (Blawan & Pariah) x Surgeon x Speedy J - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9D0sPIaSY4
2022 Dasha Rush x Rod20 x Rødhåd x Surgeon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfbX6714j0
So of course we discuss that, but also the 30th anniversary of his landmark album Ginger. Released as part of the Warp Records Artificial Intelligence series, it was a key plank in the run of releases that made such a huge impact on electronic music. And an album that I smoked a lot of weed to as a teenager.
This is a bit shorter than usual, but it's a good one... you're gonna enjoy it.
If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.
You can also make a one-off donation to the podcast using either a credit or debit card, or with Paypal. Head over to scubaofficial.io/support.
Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do!
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
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The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here... for ONE FINAL WEEK!
For the next week, support the show and receive special benefits...
Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered
Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Option 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Thanking you in advance for your support!
What is culture anyway? This is a question which is delved into in depth on this week's episode, with a man whose work since the 1980s has covered many different areas.
Trevor Jackson is a storied designer of album covers and sleeve art, a prolific producer and remixer, and the man behind Output Records who helped ease acts including LCD Soundsystem and Four Tet into the public consciousness.
So there was lots to talk about, and in addition to the culture question, we tackled areas including the pre-Acid House London scene, Thatcherism, working in different art forms, counter-culture, UK Hip Hop, and a lot more...
This was a great conversation, straight into the classic episodes list. You're gonna enjoy it!
Join us in the Hotflush Discord Server.
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
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The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here... for one extra week.
For the next week, support the show and receive special benefits...
Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered
Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Option 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Thanking you in advance for your support!
Lockdown was a weird time for all of us. So many good intentions, so many regrets afterwards at not having done much except put on weight and watched a ton of Netflix.
NIKS, our guest this week did not fall into the Duolingo trap in 2020, and was instead a leading member of the team who launched Black Bandcamp which subsequently became the Black Artist Database.
So of course we discuss that, and also many of the issues around why such a thing is necessary. But we also get deep into her backstory as a station manager on student radio, working the door at key venues in London, and learning the ropes as a producer.
This is a great conversation with someone who makes things happen... you're gonna enjoy it!
Join us in the Hotflush Discord Server.
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here!
For the next week, support the show and receive special benefits...
Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered
Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Option 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Thanking you in advance for your support!
On the show this week we welcome a true legend of UK music, and a legend of Dub... it's Adrian Sherwood!
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
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Here's a bonus pod to give you a taste of what being a subscriber is like, because...
The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here!
For the next two weeks support the show and receive special benefits...
Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered
Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Option 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Thanking you in advance for your support!
There's a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do!
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here!
For the next two weeks support the show and receive special benefits...
Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered
Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Option 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00
Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp Store
Thanking you in advance for your support!
This week on the show we enter the world of modular synths. Think a Eurorack rig is going to kill your productivity and mean you'll never finish another tune? Well, think again.
Praveen Sharma is one half (with Machinedrum) of mega Hotflush duo Sepalcure, and also makes music as Braille on Hotflush, Rush Hour, Friends Of Friends, and other labels too. He also works a regular shift at the most valuable company in the world.
We discuss modular of course, but also more general issues including social media as music distribution, and music in New York, as well as his evolving approach to making music over the years.
This was a great conversation, and it was very nice to have an interlocutor after two weeks of solo pods. You're gonna enjoy it!
Join us in the Hotflush Discord Server.
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
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It's Bandcamp Friday this week! And we have a 50% sale on everything on the Hotflush Store. Head over there and cop some amazing limited edition vinyl.
Use the code nov50 to cop that discount.
We are late and in a confused state on the podcast this week... where are the guests?! That's the question I've been asking too over the last 10 days or so.
But luckily there have been developments in the Bandcamp story and there's lots to talk about there, so I have taken the opportunity to do so. The trade union movement is so emotive isn't it? We get into that side of things in detail this week, possibly too much detail.
And additionally, we announce this year's Pledge Drive! It starts next week so don't worry too much about it now... but if you're not already a supporter then the coming weeks will be the time to get started.
This month's show on SWU FM is here.
If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.
Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do!
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
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Solo pod today... thoughts on the developing situation over at Bandcamp, both on the platform itself and its position in the ecosystem.
I read a whole load of stuff so you don't have to:
https://components.one/posts/bandcamp-the-chaos-bazaar
https://components.one/posts/tactility-and-experience
https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-renaissance
https://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/recorded-music-market-2022-reality-bites
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-bandcamp-as-we-know-it-over/
https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/first-floor-190-waiting-for-the-other
https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/bandcamp-anxiety
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
https://www.theverge.com/23899461/discogs-sellers-vinyl-cds-community-fees
If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.
Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do!
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We now have a facility for one-off donations to the podcast... to make such a donation using either a credit or debit card, or with Paypal, head over to scubaofficial.io/support.
Presave my forthcoming Digital Underground mixtape: push.fm/ps/digitalunderground
Ever considered making an album using only the skeleton of a horse you managed to buy off ebay? Or perhaps a statement about the UK's departure from the European Union via the contributions of over a thousand musicians?
I didn't think so, but the catalogue of this week's guest is notable for the fact that those projects are not outliers. Making a political point through music, as he might put it, isn't an option but rather a necessity.
We discuss the musical landscape of today, the joy of working with highly proficient instrumentalists, the lack of crossover between that proficiency and other forms of musical accomplishment, the potential AI revolution in music, and the contributions of Timbaland and Missy Elliott.
Matthew Herbert is a unique person in music, and his contributions over the past couple of decades are unlike anything else. This was a great conversation that you're going love.
If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 (£3.50) a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 (£8.50) a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.
Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do!
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We now have a facility for one-off donations to the podcast... to make such a donation using either a credit or debit card, or with Paypal, head over to scubaofficial.io/support.
We've been talking development and mentorship on the podcast in recent weeks, and the theme continues with a man whose experience covers albums on labels as diverse as Brainfeeder and Ostgut Ton, running a label for well over a decade, and chronicling the legend of Goldie's Timeless record.
This is not a narrow discussion however, and as well as his mentorship programme we tackle topics including AI, the nature of art and creativity, the relative importance of concept and technical skill, the influence of football on dance music culture, and a lot more besides.
Martyn is a thoughtful guy with things to say, so that's always going to to be a good episode of this show.
If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else.
Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do!
Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlist
Follow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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