Community Matters + For the Record

New York City native and longtime contributor to its music and nightlife scene, W. Andrew Raposo is best known as a crazy dog dad and for his work with DFA records--most notably with Hercules and Love Affair, Still Going, and Jayson Green & The Jerk--and as a founding member of cosmic dance floor stalwarts Midnight Magic. His studio, La Piscina Recordings, has hosted such clubland luminaries as Justin Strauss, Eli Escobar, and Nomi Ruiz as well as rocketing torchbearers The Illustrious Blacks, Muscle Cars and Cesar Toribio. Raposo continues to tour both on stage and in the DJ booth with Hess Is More, Midnight Magic and 79.5 (Razor N Tape) bringing his three layer dip of post-punk, psychedelic disco, and haunted-house to sweaty basements and debaucherous mountain chalets all over the world. 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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Formed in 2009 by Tiffany Roth, W. Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley, and Carter Yasutake, Midnight Magic is responsible for some of the most beloved 'new classics' from the disco-revival era of the early oughts including club mainstays "Beam Me Up" and "Drop Me A Line." Through their collaboration with Brooklyn jazz legend Nick Roseboro, former Charles Bradley & The Extraordinaires drummer Caito Sanchez, saxophone and synthesizer wizard Julio Monterrey and past members Max Goldman, Andrew Frawley, and Jason Disu, Midnight Magic casts a genre defying spell on sweaty discotheques and festival stages across the universe. MUSIC MENTIONS Sonic Youth Johann Sebastian Bach Green Day LASPEES The Come Ons Early days of Midnight Magic (16:20): Bernard Herrmann Ennio Morricone Angelo Badalamenti Goblin ESG Siouxsie and the Banshees Grace Jones Chaka Khan Selda Bağcan “Yaz Gazeteci Yaz” by Selda Bağcan Wendy Carlos “The Shining” by Rachel Elkind & Wendy Carlos Sequential Dave Smith Patrick Crowley August Arnell Patsy Alley Jorge Roeder Patrick Adams “Journey into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story” album Larry Levan DFA Records Factory Records Beastie Boys Bernard Edwards Bootsy Collins Q&A H0L0 (NYC) Toribio Antenes “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by TLC “Let’s Talk About Sex” by Salt-N-Pepa Tyler Pope !!! (chk chk chk) LCD Soundsystem Interference Pattern “Australia und vorbei” by Angela Werner “Stop The War” by Örö “Suicide Commando” by Echo Park and No More “Síntesis Moderna (An Alternative Vision Of Argentinian Music 1980-1990)” by Various Artists “Ain’t That Better (Harari Edit)” by Toby Aphex Twin Sylvia Striplin Faze-O William Devaughn Denise Williams Patrice Rushen Weezer Discovering music today (34:19): Shazam Friends, DJ’s Justin Strauss James Mulry JKriv Razor-N-Tape First album ever purchased (43:10): “Violator” by Depeche Mode “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd Most recent album purchased (46:05): “I hit the water” by Lollise “Pay Attention To The Bass” by Tyler Pope Artists discovered in the past year (49:58): Kate Fagan Tik and Tok Todd Terje Jex Opolis Angela Werner Örö No More Desert island discs (59:28): “Standing On a Beach” by The Cure “Catching Up With” by Depeche Mode “Champion Sounds (Funk)” by Various Artists “Selected Ambient Works II” by Aphex Twin “Roseland NYC Live” by Portishead “King Sunny Ade” by Juju Music

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Jack Spallone started his music career talent-buying for live performances and artist management while still an undergrad. In 2016, he became an early contributor of Ujo Music, the ConsenSys project that introduced the first music cases on Ethereum. While at ConsenSys, Jack also worked with Harry Fox Agency and SESAC to secure the winning bid to be the technology partner of the MLC, among other enterprise client work. Jack has built a reputation as a web3 music pioneer. He has helped artists enter into the web3 ecosystem to explore new format releases, artist DAOs, and crypto-based community building tools. Apart from continuing to help artists, Jack is an investor and advisor to several music web3 startups and an active participant in the dialogue shaping web3 music. Today, along with long time collaborator and grammy-winning Andre Anjos (aka RAC), Jack leads a team of people building a data sharing protocol for music applications; Oscillator, and a music review and sharing app, Factory. MUSIC MENTIONS The Beatles “Hey Jude” by The Beatles Kazaa LimeWire Napster iTunes iPod CMT MTV Fuse Death Cab for Cutie The Postal Service Kanye West Daft Punk Pretty Lights Ultra Music Festival Jack Johnson Big Makk Knife Party Flume The Knocks Krewella RAC SoundCloud Mr Little Jeans Ujo Music and RAC (22:08): DJ Nexus Full Sail University EDMSauce Thomas Jack Kygo Imogen Heap Resonate (app) Oscillator Noise DAO factory.fm Q&A Led Zeppelin Dire Straits Fleetwood Mac The Eagles Bob Seger Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel Two.C Blood Cultures Kenny Chesney Garth Brooks Discovering music today (46:53): Spotify SoundCloud First album ever purchased (51:57): “1” by The Beatles Most recent album purchased (52:30): “When It’s Happening” by Scott McMicken and the Ever-Expanding Artists discovered in the past year (53:43): Goth Babe two.C Scott McMicken Desert island discs (54:23): “When It’s Happening” by Scott McMicken and the Ever-Expanding “Flume” by Flume “1” by The Beatles

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Latashá is a defiant visionary music artist, founder and world builder. She creates music and experiences that evokes feelings of aliveness and lightness, crossing genres to express the full spectrum of her human ingenious. Known for her transcendent performances, Latashá utilizes her voice, curation, theatrical talent, and dream-like storytelling to convey her perspectives on identity. She is also a leading pioneer in Web3 and innovative creative integrating cutting-edge technology into her artistic practice and independent innovation. Latashá is actively building TASH55 and her company TOPIA, a unique multi faceted world of music, art and next level experiences that ties tech, culture and music to human emotion. She continues to tour the world to reach and impact the present and future of both the music, experience and tech industries. MUSIC MENTIONS DMX Ruff Ryders Celia Cruz Buju Banton Mad Decent Fool’s Gold Records Ninjasonik M.I.A. Santigold Sleigh Bells Kid Cudi Kanye West MTV Jadakiss The Writer’s Block (NYC) Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) Nuyorican Poets Cafe (NYC) The Notorious B.I.G. Opening for Kanye early on (16:13): Kendrick Lamar ScHoolboy Q Jay-Z Ghostface Killah SoundCloud Big Sean Q&A Bandcamp Santo Gafacci Nervous Records Boiler Room Doechii Tyler, the Creator “Call Me If You Get Lost” by Tyler, the Creator “good kid, m.A.A.d city” by Kendrick Lamar Discovering music today (35:56): Homies Shazam Spotify Vinyl shops First album ever purchased (38:39): “CrazySexyCool” by TLC Most recent album purchased (39:21): “Brat” by Charli XCX Artists discovered in the past year (41:22): Dizzy Fae Valé Ayesha Erotica Kito Desert island discs (43:25): “Kala” by M.I.A. “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” by Kanye West “Because the Internet” by Childish Gambino Guest recs for future episodes (47:48): Douda Leonard

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 JKriv is a Brooklyn-based producer, DJ, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and label owner. Widely known as a co-founder of the stalwart label Razor-N-Tape, J is also a highly respected producer, prolific remixer, and incendiary DJ. As co-founder of Brooklyn label Razor-N-Tape, JKriv has had a sizable impact on both the local NY and global dance music scenes. The label’s prolific and consistent quality output across 150+ releases over 12 years of operation has earned them eminent respect and support from club DJs, radio selectors and listeners around the world. MUSIC MENTIONS Sly & the Family Stone Parliament Funkadelic Red Hot Chili Peppers  Rage Against The Machine Tortured Soul Shelter (NYC) Sound Factory (NYC) Tunnel (NYC) Limelight (NYC) Escort Razor-N-Tape Metallica Napster Limewire The Grateful Dead Led Zeppelin Jazz as a career alternative (12:20): Smalls (NYC) Topaz Izzy Bar (NYC) Baby Jupiter (NYC) Knitting Factory (NYC) Defining Razor-N-Tape (15:46): SoundCloud Guinu BaianaSystem Jimpster Diogo Strausz Prince Marcos Valle Stevie Wonder Asha Puthli Q&A Far Out Records “Merida” by Prince of Queens Combo Chimbita Discovering music today (26:15): Other DJ’s Bandcamp Shazam Discogs First album ever purchased (32:18): “Pyromania” by Def Leppard Most recent album purchased (33:01): “No Reino Dos Afetos 2” by Bruno Berle Artists discovered in the past year (34:13): Retromigration Little Simz Inflow Daniel Villarreal Desert island discs (37:15): “Portrait in Jazz” by Bill Evans “Masterjam” by Rufus & Chaka Khan “Chill Out” by Black Uhuru Guest recs for future episodes (51:59): Megatronic Kim Anh Prince of Queens Phenomenal Handclap Band Midnight Magic

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 VISUALS is the music of Andrew Fox. A veteran musician, Fox has released his brand of psychedelic songcraft on Nicolas Jaar‘s imprint Other People, Bruno Pronsato‘s Berlin-based label The Song Says, and now New York’s House of Feelings.  Collaborating with Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE, Michael Lovett of NZCA LINES / Metronomy, The Range & others, VISUALS filters folk, psych, and soul through a pulsing, electronic prism.  Kinetic and lyrical, this is music you can see. MUSIC MENTIONS George Martin Dolby Atmos Influences for upcoming projects (24:47): Bert Jansch Jimmy Page John Rebourn Hamza El Din Shivkumar Sharma Washington Irving William Basinski Hiroshi Yoshimura “Green” by Hiroshi Yoshimura “Surround” by Hiroshi Yoshimura Tanger Drew McDowall Coil Q&A Mozart Paco de Lucia Discovering music today (36:07): NTS Radio BBC Radio 6 WFMU Superior Elevation (Williamsburg) Record Shop (Red Hook) Radio Shop (Cron Heights) Chances With Wolves Apple Music Pitchfork The Wire First album ever purchased (41:34): “Collective Soul” by Collective Soul Most recent album purchased (44:05): “Flamenco” by Manitas De Plata Artists discovered in the past year (47:04): Arooj Aftab Camarón de la Isla Sword II Desert island discs (49:08): “Astral Weeks” by Van Morrison “Blue” by Joni Mitchell “Smoke” by White Williams Guest recs for future episodes (51:59): Maryam Turkey

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Brandon Stosuy is the co-founder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent. He previously worked as director of Editorial Operations at the online music publication, Pitchfork. Brandon curates the annual Basilica SoundScape festival in Hudson, New York, and has been a music curator at MoMA PS1 in New York City and the Broad museum in Los Angeles. For over a decade, he and the visual artist Matthew Barney have collaborated on a series of live art and music events in Long Island City. Up Is Up, But So Is Down, his anthology of downtown New York literature, was a 2006 Village Voice book of the year. Brandon is also the author of three books on creativity, Make Time for Creativity, Stay Inspired, How to Fail Successfully (all published by Abrams) and two children’s books, Music Is... and We Are Music (both published by Simon & Schuster). In November of 2024 he published the anthology, Sad Happens: A Celebration Of Tears, also on Simon & Schuster. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons. MUSIC MENTIONS 7 Seconds Minor Threat Bad Brains 3rd Street Jazz Philadelphia Record Exchange Zipperhead Tower Records Factsheet Five Maximum RocknRoll Slumberland Records Versus (band) Helium Grifters Sub Pop Records Pitchfork Trash Talk Animal Collective Moor Mother Pussy Riot From small town perspective shifts (9:15): Mark Richardson The National The Jesus and Mary Chain Chromatics Rihanna Kelly Moran The Cure Fugazi Helado Negro Caroline Polachek Chelsea Wolfe Curatorial evolution over the years (20:00): True Panther Sounds DFA Records Black Dice Grimes Gang Gang Dance Pig Destroyer Julianna Barwick Pharmakon Evian Christ Jonathan Bepler The Haxan Cloak Nick Zinner Hanif Abdurraqib Godspeed You! Black Emperor Explosions in the Sky Basilica Music Festival Justin Vernon Bon Iver The Village Voice Interpol Liturgy JD Samson Laughing Hyenas Q&A Sacred Bones Records Treefort Music Festival SXSW Cassandra Jenkins MJ Lenderman Waxahatchee Youth of Today Depeche Mode Swirlies Black Tambourine Velocity Girl Majical Clouds Horsegirl Public Enemy “Edutainment” by Boogie Down Productions Chuck D Flava Flav Pallbearer Sumac Neutral Milk Hotel Jeff Mangum Swans Discovering music today (31:00): Michael Miller Ed Park Ariel Gordon Greta Rainbow Jen Pelly Max Friedman Jeffrey Silverstein Evan Minsker Phillip Sherburne Anthony Fontana Ed Horrox 4AD First album ever purchased (41:00): “Doolittle” by The Pixies Most recent album purchased (42:28): “Come With Me If You Want To Live” by Devon Welsh Artists discovered in the past year (45:17): Marina Allen Freak Slug Aoife Nessa Frances Hannah Stratton Lucky Break Desert island discs (50:09): “Disintegration” by The Cure “Loveless” by My Bloody Valentine “69 Love Songs” by The Magnetic Fields

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Suzan Peeters (°1999) is a Belgian accordionist, composer, and experimentalist. She is constantly looking for new timbres and sound textures within the accordion, pushing its acoustic spectrum to its limits by manipulating the interplay between her body and the body of her instrument. Suzan studied classical accordion at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. She is currently studying Live Electronics at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. MUSIC MENTIONS Eurovision Maria Kalaniemi Sara Salvérius Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF) Sonda Festival Q&A TLF Trio CTM “Wind” album by “CTM” Discovering music today (26:00): Concerts, friends Spotify Artists discovered in the past year (28:55): Able Noise BEX Astrid Sonne Lucy Walton First album ever purchased (33:35): “STUFF.” by Stuff. Most recent album purchased (00): “Bitterzoet” by Eefje de Visser Desert island discs (37:01): “Het Will” by Hendrik Lasure “Sweet Harmony” by TLF Trio “Grapes from the Estate” by Oren Ambarchi

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Natalie Crüe is a cultural producer, consultant, and activist leveraging arts, culture and emergent technologies for social change. She co-founded #CultureFix, a global network fostering civic engagement through creative initiatives. Natalie's work spans blockchain technology, including co-developing the Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF) and stewarding numerous grants and communities across the blockchain landscape. As founder of Web3Uncut, she leads a consultancy exploring and interrogating decentralized technologies, and recently founded a creative crowdfunding platform.

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Sébastien Devaud aka Agoria, born in Lyon on January 16, 1976 is a French electronic music producer, DJ and digital artist. Agoria started his music career in the mid-1990s and gained popularity in the early 2000s with his debut album "Blossom" released in 2003. He is known for his unique blend of techno, house, and ambient music, which has earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential electronic music producers of his generation. Agoria has released several albums, EPs, and singles throughout his career, including "The Green Armchair" (2006), "Impermanence" (2011), and "Drift" (2019). He has released 5 albums with both major Universal Music, Virgin and indie labels Pias. Agoria has been an early contributor to the French electronic music scene with the creation of his own label Sapiens, and Lyon electronic music festival Les Nuits Sonores. He has also collaborated with various artists, including Tricky, Ela Minus, Carl Craig, Neneh Cherry, Noemie, Rami Khalifé and Blasé. Agoria has performed at major music festivals and clubs around the world, including Coachella, Sonar, Melt, We Love Green, 3points east,… He has also been very active and creative in the art scene, he collaborated with Philippe Parreno and Nicolas Becker on art exhibitions and performances at the Armory Park in NYC (2018), at the turbine hall of Tate Modern in London (2018), and started his own solo show in Miami Art Basel (2019). Combining art, music and science in his work, he collaborates with biologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. He is considered the trailblazer of Biological Generative Art. Agoria’s work has been exhibited all around the world lately at major NFT events: in NYC on Times Square during NFT.NYC, in Barcelona at Sonar (co-curated by Antonia Folguera and Diane Drubay), at Refraction festival in NYC, at Proof of People show in London (curated by VerticalCrypto), and during Berlin Art Week (curated by Anika Meier) in September. Last but not least, he has been invited last March to exhibit Phytocene and share his vision about web3 in front of United Nations.

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. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Rising UK-based electronic artist and producer Jamie Reddington (aka Sound of Fractures) announces his groundbreaking project, "Scenes.” The interactive album invites fans to contribute their favourite memories and photographs in response to each of the record’s songs, encouraging a lean-in, emotional connection that’s been lost in our passive streaming environment. “Music isn't just about sound; it's about the memories and emotions they evoke. ‘Scenes’ is an effort to give a tangible form to this abstract connection and capture it in something we can recognise,” shares Reddington. “Each song and its accompanying ‘Scenes’ will populate a digital gallery – an archive that's a living testament to how music interacts with life moments in today's social media-dominated era." Hundreds of listeners have contributed Scenes, embarking upon what fans are calling a “journey through the rich tapestry of our inner worlds.” The BBC Radio-featured artist and web3 pioneer chooses one Scene to be each track’s primary artwork, encapsulating it as a digital collectable that forever links artist and listener. “Scenes” is Reddington’s most salient experiment to date. It builds upon a reputation based as much on championing music communities as his unique sonic signature, which blends elements of Jamie XX and Burial with found sounds like his daughter’s heartbeat. Be sure to check out Scenes here: https://scenes.soundoffractures.com/