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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 platform on Substack. He's just released a book entitled First Floor Vol 1, and we spend most of this week's episode digging into some of the issues covered in it.
These include... streaming platforms, musical gatekeepers, media snobbery, the commercialisation of dance music, local scenes, and a lot more meaty stuff besides.
I love this sort of conversation, and you're definitely going to enjoy listening to it.
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#121 Thoughts on Live Electronic Music
#120 Phil Moffa: Running a studio in 2024, "The hybrid is the one, whatever works - do it"
#119 Deas: Outboard vs plugins... is there a right answer? "I don't want to convince anyone!"
#118 Tom Vek: Blockchains, fragmentation, and a post-format world, "It always comes back to songs"
#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"
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