Not A Diving Podcast with Scuba
Music:Music Interviews
What constitutes a hit record? In the underground dance world the definition can be very different to one that, say, a major label exec living in LA might use. A genre-defining club track is not a "hit" on everyone's terms. But this week's guest has made records which can unambiguously be associated with the H-word.
Since starting out in the mid 2000s on Tiga's Turbo label, Duke Dumont has established himself as perhaps the leading UK exponent of what might be called 'pop house', and having decamped to Los Angeles a few years ago, he is able to give us a slightly different perspective on the industry to previous guests on the show.
We discuss topics including the mental bandwidth war in social media, the debilitating nature of depression on creativity, soundtracking experiences, and the freedom of writing albums.
This was a great conversation, you will enjoy it!
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#117 Quinn (Paranoid London): Anonymity and acid house, "We'd always press fewer copies than we had preorders for!"
#116 Ceri: Technique, vinyl, and Ibiza "You have to put your soul into the music"
#115 Cian Ó Cíobháin: 25 years of underground music on Irish public radio
#114 Laurent Garnier: Looking forward, "techno is about tomorrow, not yesterday"
#113 Luke Slater: What is techno? "Sometimes nothing happens... and that's the point"
#112 Doc Scott: DnB from Rage and Metalheadz to now, "it's all about the energy it creates"
#111 James Ellis Ford: producing Depeche Mode, Blur, and Pet Shop Boys, "sometimes it feels totally surreal"
#110 Steve Davis: Snooker, fame, and modular synths, "I was sh*tting myself!"
#109 Chloé Caillet: Circo Loco and classical training, "I had to unlearn all that theory"
#108 Nathan Micay: Making music for Netflix, "They said - we need this by next week!"
#107 Monty Luke: From the Dotcom Bubble to Planet E, "That was a wild time...!"
#106 Alex Paterson (The Orb): Inventing the chilll out room, "We knew what we were doing!"
#105 T.Williams: Tales from the UK Underground, "I was just making tunes and cutting dubplates"
#104 Danny Daze II: Spatial audio and the return of NFTs, "I'm future-proofing my work"
#103 Fracture: Pirate radio and the Nuum, "it was a community-based thing"
Dave Clarke (redux): Techno and politics, "people are scared to speak out"
dBridge (redux): A life in drum n bass, "I make music as therapy"
#102 Machine Woman: Studio efficiency and Tech House, "I'll still be making music whether RA writes about me or not""
#101 DJ Paulette: The Hacienda and gay clubbing, "The music is better and the DJs are better!"
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