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Community Matters + For the Record

053 For the Record || Ben James

Dec 10, 2024
49:14

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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Benjamin James is a contributor at Oscillator and Factory. He’s also the founder of Ziggy Ziggy, a music brand that celebrates on-chain music culture – named after one Ziggy Stardust. He’s also a writer for Billboard and a former artist and producer. He used to run a small record label in the north of the UK, where he joined forces with a brother-sister combo of vocalists and started a group called Mausi. Together they built a career as artists, touring with big names like Charli XCX and Rudimental before succumbing to the suppressive power of a major label.

MUSIC MENTIONS

  • David Bowie
  • The Cure
  • Talking Heads
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • The Strokes
  • “Meet Me in the Bathroom” by Lizzy Goodman
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • Interpol
  • Faithless
  • The Clooney (Newcastle)
  • Polarsets
  • SoundCloud
  • Hype Machine
  • Mausi
  • Charli XCX
  • RAC
  • Future Tape
  • Neon Gold Records
  • Water & Music
  • Catalog
  • Factory.fm
  • Oscillator
  • Spotify
  • Arcade Fire

Q&A

  • Little Simz
  • XL Records
  • Jamie xx
  • Boards of Canada
  • Black Dave

Discovering music today (34:20):

First album ever purchased (35:45):

  • “Marshall Mathers LP” by Eminem

Most recent album purchased (35:55):

  • “Wet Leg” by Wet Leg

Artists discovered in the past year (37:45):

  • Samara Cyn
  • Flying Lotus
  • King Hannah

Desert island discs (48:28):

  • “Disintegration” by The Cure
  • “XX” by The XX
  • “In Rainbows” by Radiohead

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