For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Maarten Walraven operates at the intersection of music, technology, communities, and education. He wears many different hats, from Co-CEO at Symphony.live to co-creator of the experiment in scene building, Wild Awake and from teaching at the University of Utrecht to being co-project lead for the Water & Music academy. If you want to follow his thinking, the best place is MUSIC x, the newsletter he co-edits.

MUSIC MENTIONS

• NOFX
• Green Day
• The Offspring
• Nine Inch Nails
• 2 Unlimited
• Ace of Bass
• Mirrors Festival
• Merzbow
• Keiji Haino
• John Cage
• Morton Feldman
• Brian Eno

Q&A

• Andrew McClusky
• Music Too
• “Maximum Overdrive” by 2 Unlimited
• Nyege Nyege

Discovering music today (21:06):

• Mary Anne Hobbs
• BBC Radio 6
• Opium Hum
• Hyper Real Radio

First album ever purchased (27:40):

• “Get Ready!” by 2 Unlimited

Most recent album purchased (28:41):

• “Piano Reverb” by Jasmine Wood

Artists discovered in the last year (31:12):

• Iceboy Violet
• MC Yallah
• Jalen Ngonda

Desert Island Discs (34:18):

• “For You Who are the Wronged” by Kathryn Joseph
• “The Downward Spiral” by Nine Inch Nails
• “Dekmantel Festival 2017 Mix” by Aurora Halal

Guest recommendations for future episodes (38:40):

• Tristra Yeager