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May 23, 2024 • 1h 3min

037 For the Record || Dicky Trisco

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 Dicky Trisco is a DJ and music producer who lives and breathes what he does. His passion for music and desire for good times is well known. He has spent years chasing that sound and that feeling around the globe as an international DJ. For him DJing is all about people. He is addicted to the way music connects people and makes for better days. Dicky really broke through as a DJ and producer in the Nu Disco/Disco Revival years from around 2004. In particular, his run of DJ edit, original and remix releases alongside Balearic House hero Pete Herbert on Disco Deviance and Maxi Discs led to him becoming an increasingly in demand DJ with a busy international touring schedule. He is also rumoured to be the force behind the rather legendary Secret Squirrel vinyl only imprint. But who knows??? It’s a secret. Since those early days, Dicky has toured constantly around Asia, Australia, Central/South America, USA, Europe and the UK sharing the music and the sound he loves. He has also become a regular at a long list of high profile festivals including the legendary Glastonbury, Electric Elephant, Mareh, Love International, Festival No 6 and many more. Dicky is also a mainstay of the local scene in his hometown of Dundee, Scotland where he was a resident of the infamous ‘Small Town Club’ aka Reading Rooms for over a decade. At nights like Autodisco, Disco Deviance, A Night With and Non Stop, he learned his trade playing alongside many of his heroes and legendary DJs from around the world such as Andrew Weatherall, Optimo, Rahaan, Jazzie B, Horse Meat Disco, Farley Jackmaster and many more. Dicky also ran and curated the well-respected House music label Home Taping Is Killing Music for many years putting out a run of amazing releases. Home Taping broke a number of great House artists who have gone on to become household names in the scene including The Blessed Madonna, The Revenge, Nicholas, Borrowed Identity, Eddie C & Medlar amongst others. Dicky continues to discover, produce and remix music for a number of quality imprints including Razor-N-Tape, File Under Disco, Home Taping, Barefoot Beats, Nervous Records and many more. He has also remixed major artists such as Bryan Ferry, Belle & Sebastian, L’Impératrice, Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice), Danielle Baldelli, Faze Action, The Orielles, Golden Dawn Arkestra and Tensnake down in his basement studio. Most recently Dicky has been creating original music alongside NYC music machine JKriv under the name Sentimental Animals for the Razor-N-Tape imprint. Their Love Vibration EP was very well received by disc jockeys around the world and has been played by the likes of Craig Charles who made it one of his Tracks of 2021 on his BBC Radio 6 Funk & Soul show. Dicky became a resident DJ at Pikes in Ibiza in the summer of 2023 playing in every area - poolside, terrace, Freddies, bathtub - in this legendary club. He also kick started a monthly radio show out of Ibiza called International Sounds on OpenLab Radio where he showcases the music he discovers, makes and plays while travelling around the globe. As a disc jockey, DT packs a little bit of everything into his sets of International Sounds and is committed to the idea that music and club nights should be all about escapism, joy and togetherness. As Dicky says love and dancing is what we need. Amen to that. Explore more of this conversation and others: www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr037-dicky-trisco
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May 22, 2024 • 52min

036 For the Record || Chris Corsano

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 Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's. He's been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of "jazz" (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and "rock" (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O'Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee). The Guardian has called him "one of the world's great drummers." Explore more of this conversation and others: www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr036-chris-corsano
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May 21, 2024 • 1h 10min

035 For the Record || Daedelus

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 Under the alias Daedelus, Alfred Darlington has been an instigator of electronic music culture for the past 20+ years. A fore-figure of Los Angeles' Beat Scene they have released over 20+ LPs, countless EPs, remixes, and additional productions on labels such as Ninja Tune, WARP, Brainfeeder, and more. As a performer they're synonymous with controllers, from the Monome to computer-free modular, and have played over 1,000+ shows on 6 continents at venues ranging from the underground Low End Theory to festival mainstages such as Coachella. A founding dj at Dublab, founding faculty member for the Berklee College of Music's EDI (Electronic Digital Instrument) program, and S.E.T.I. artist in residence. Explore more of this conversation and others: www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr035-alfred-darlington-daedelus
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Apr 25, 2024 • 1h 7min

034 For the Record || Tristra Newyear Yeager

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 Tristra is Chief Strategy Officer at rock paper scissors, the music innovation PR agency, as well as co-host of the Music Tectonics podcast. An experienced writer and PR strategy generator, she has two decades of experience working across a broad range of industries and a doctorate that dealt with the history of the performing arts in Siberia and Mongolia. She's passionate about cross-cultural stories, sounds from all over, and insights into tech, science, and society. That passion has translated into thousands of media placements for clients, including in major publications around the world. She loves writing stuff so much, she also does it in her spare time, resulting in four novels. Explore more of this conversation and other episodes: https://www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr034-tristra-newyear-yeager
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Apr 17, 2024 • 1h 10min

033 For the Record || Jing Yi Teo + Armen Nalbandian

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 Jing Yi Teo is a curator, writer and strategist. Her work focuses on seeking new formats, understandings and alliances for creative practices, resulting in more systematically propositional bodies of work. From 2019–2022 she led ArtBizTech, an innovation and strategy consultancy and incubator, whilst serving as Curator of bang. Prix, its non-profit arm that supports practices that intersect art, technology and science. Her approach bridging the theoretical and the applied spans various fields, from contemporary art and music to emerging tech and start-ups. She is currently building Outlyr-e, a distributed strategy practice aiming to create the conditions for creative thought applied to organizations in the arts. Armen Nalbandian is an avant-garde and experimental composer and pianist whose practice seeks to expand the possibilities of sound and performance through spontaneous group composition, prepared piano and Fender Rhodes, and electronically layered improvisations. With 23 albums over 17 years, Armen has performed and recorded with Chris Corsano, Jeff Parker, Alex Cline, Steve Lehman, Han Bennink, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Makigami Koichi and other notable musicians, whilst pursuing multidisciplinary collaborations with writers, visual and performance artists. In 2023, Armen co-founded the distributed strategy practice Outlyr-e, with the objective of exploring ‘other ways’ of championing the arts. MUSIC MENTIONS Giuseppe Verdi Giacomo Puccini Frank Sinatra Tony Bennett Thelonius Monk Ornette Coleman John Coltrane Jeff Parker Chris Speed Alex Klein Eric Revis Dave King The Bad Plus Chris Corsano Spontaneous Composition & the Avant Garde ethos (28:55): Johann Sebastian Bach Johannes Brahms Ludwig van Beethoven Cecil Taylor John Cage Karlheinz Stockhausen Roman Kyn Q&A Glenn Gould Discovering music today (49:19): Thom Yorke NTS Radio Jim O’Rourke First album ever purchased (53:20): Armen: “License to Ill” by Beastie Boys Jing: “For Emma, Forever Ago” by Bon Iver Most recent album purchased (57:18): “Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral Artists discovered in the last year (57:18): Catherine Lamb Laurel Halo Kali Malone Desert Island Discs (58:38): “Shutting Down Here” by Jim O’Rourke “Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral “Ashioto / Ashiato“ by Tatsuhisa Yamamoto
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Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 6min

032 For the Record || Michelle Lhooq

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 Michelle Lhooq is a writer who, by some combination of tenacity and youthful stupidity, decided to make a career out of being really, really good at partying. She was born in Singapore, an anti-hedonic country that William Gibson famously called “Disneyland with the death penalty,” and growing up under its extreme restrictions on assorted freedoms made her obsessed with drugs and nightlife like a bad kink. These days, like every romantic-turned-cynic, she prefers complaining loudly about the vanities of the rave scene – although when she is in a good mood, she also sometimes throws her own psychedelic parties in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Her work has been published in The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and her gonzo newsletter Rave New World. MUSIC MENTIONS Showtek Broken Social Scene Metric Ed Banger Records Uffie Dorian Electron Burial “Untrue” album by Burial deadmau5 Crookers Boyz Noise Baauer Kaskade Armin van Buuren Avicii TYGAPAW Eartheater Physical Therapy Michael Magnet Discwoman The Lot Radio Ministry of Sound Travels in Asia (24:58): Strange Weather DJ Daniel (SG) obese.dogma777 Sai Versailles Endless Return (collective) vangogh666 Pawnshop (club in Taiwan) Tsui Adam O Raja Kirik East Forest Bryan Kasenic Paige Emory Leaving Records “Intercommunications” album by Paige Emory Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith otodojo Q&A Resident Advisor Dancing Astronaut The Wire Discovering music today (53:09): Tone Glow SoundCloud Desert Island Discs (57:50): “Irisiri” by Eartheater “Healing Is a Miracle” by Julianna Barwick “Orbital 2” by Orbital Guest recommendations for future episodes (1:03:29): Paige Emory Lil Internet
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Apr 10, 2024 • 41min

031 For the Record || Maarten Walraven

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 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
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Mar 15, 2024 • 37min

030 For the Record || Rocco Tyndale

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 Rocco Tyndale has been following an invisible thread surrounding music since he was born, but professionally for over 20 years, leading him in all kinds of interesting directions prior to settling into Design, from music festivals to record labels, and more. In 2016 he founded a small label and artist collective called Subtempo, where he's been releasing forward thinking music, left-field, electronic and genre blurring projects. Everything they do aims to offer you a carefully curated visual and sonic environment to immerse your senses in. MUSIC MENTIONS Radio 3 Najwa Nimri Cesaría Evora The Eagles Red Hot Chili Peppers The Smashing Pumpkins Rage Against the Machine The Prodigy Tricky Massive Attack Portishead Goldie Roni Size Label inspiration; intersection of Design & Music (9:10): Project Mooncircle Erased Tapes Ghostly International Six Degrees Records Starting a label - identity and inspiration (13:53): Ninja Tune Q&A COLORS Studios Discovering music today (24:57): Spotify Rhythm & Sound First album ever purchased (27:32): “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd Most recent album purchased (28:23): “Unfixed” by Barker Artists discovered in the last year (29:20): Hailey Knox Enny James Vickery Dream artist to work with (44:30): Lorde Desert Island Discs (33:17): “Lahai” by Sampha “Actual Life” by Fred Again.. “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” by Red Hot Chili Peppers Guest recommendations for future episodes (36:03): Robot Koch James Drake Synkro
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Mar 5, 2024 • 52min

029 For the Record || Cassidy Murphy

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 Cassidy Murphy is a New York based A&R. She was most recently an A&R at Connection Music Publishing, the publishing entity of Glassnote Records. Before joining Connection, Cassidy garnered industry experiencing by managing producers and songwriters, tour managing, and most notably, co-founding a small independent record label, Good Boy Records. She now is an A&R at Live Nation and Element1’s new label venture, where she will be focused on developing talent through the act of touring. On her own time and with the help of She Is The Music, Kensaltown East, and her friend and collaborator Archana Gopal, Cassidy hosts a yearly songwriting camp to promote community amongst up and coming female and non binary songwriters and producers where they are provided access, tools, and connections to other creatives. The next camp will be held in March. Explore more of this conversation (and others): https://www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr029-cassidy-murphy
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Feb 28, 2024 • 33min

028 For the Record || Maceo Whatley

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 Maceo is the Founder of We Them Media, a community-driven media platform featuring the stories and perspectives of POC creators. He is also host of the ‘We Them Niggas’ podcast. Explore more of this conversation and others: https://www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr028-maceo-whatley

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