Music Not Diving with Scuba

The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here!For the next week, support the show and receive special benefits...Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp StoreOption 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp StoreThanking you in advance for your support! On the show this week we welcome a true legend of UK music, and a legend of Dub... it's Adrian Sherwood!Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here's a bonus pod to give you a taste of what being a subscriber is like, because...The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here!For the next two weeks support the show and receive special benefits...Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp StoreOption 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp StoreThanking you in advance for your support! There's a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 2023 Annual Not A Diving Podcast Pledge Drive is here!For the next two weeks support the show and receive special benefits...Option 1 - Patreon Musicality Tier (£8.50 per month)Pledge Drive Bonus = the 2024 Musicality t-shirt! Free of charge, postage and packing covered Option 2 - Patreon Solidarity Tier (£3.50 per month)Pledge Drive Bonus = a 50% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp StoreOption 3 - a one-off donation of £8.50 or USD$10.00Pledge Drive Bonus = a 25% off voucher to use on a basket containing any items at the Hotflush Bandcamp StoreThanking you in advance for your support! This week on the show we enter the world of modular synths. Think a Eurorack rig is going to kill your productivity and mean you'll never finish another tune? Well, think again. Praveen Sharma is one half (with Machinedrum) of mega Hotflush duo Sepalcure, and also makes music as Braille on Hotflush, Rush Hour, Friends Of Friends, and other labels too. He also works a regular shift at the most valuable company in the world. We discuss modular of course, but also more general issues including social media as music distribution, and music in New York, as well as his evolving approach to making music over the years. This was a great conversation, and it was very nice to have an interlocutor after two weeks of solo pods. You're gonna enjoy it! Join us in the Hotflush Discord Server.Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Bandcamp Friday this week! And we have a 50% sale on everything on the Hotflush Store. Head over there and cop some amazing limited edition vinyl. Use the code nov50 to cop that discount. We are late and in a confused state on the podcast this week... where are the guests?! That's the question I've been asking too over the last 10 days or so. But luckily there have been developments in the Bandcamp story and there's lots to talk about there, so I have taken the opportunity to do so. The trade union movement is so emotive isn't it? We get into that side of things in detail this week, possibly too much detail. And additionally, we announce this year's Pledge Drive! It starts next week so don't worry too much about it now... but if you're not already a supporter then the coming weeks will be the time to get started. This month's show on SWU FM is here.If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else. Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Solo pod today... thoughts on the developing situation over at Bandcamp, both on the platform itself and its position in the ecosystem. I read a whole load of stuff so you don't have to:https://components.one/posts/bandcamp-the-chaos-bazaarhttps://components.one/posts/tactility-and-experiencehttps://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-renaissancehttps://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/recorded-music-market-2022-reality-biteshttps://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-bandcamp-as-we-know-it-over/https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/first-floor-190-waiting-for-the-otherhttps://firstfloor.substack.com/p/bandcamp-anxietyhttps://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/https://www.theverge.com/23899461/discogs-sellers-vinyl-cds-community-feesIf you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else. Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We now have a facility for one-off donations to the podcast... to make such a donation using either a credit or debit card, or with Paypal, head over to scubaofficial.io/support. Presave my forthcoming Digital Underground mixtape: push.fm/ps/digitalundergroundEver considered making an album using only the skeleton of a horse you managed to buy off ebay? Or perhaps a statement about the UK's departure from the European Union via the contributions of over a thousand musicians?I didn't think so, but the catalogue of this week's guest is notable for the fact that those projects are not outliers. Making a political point through music, as he might put it, isn't an option but rather a necessity. We discuss the musical landscape of today, the joy of working with highly proficient instrumentalists, the lack of crossover between that proficiency and other forms of musical accomplishment, the potential AI revolution in music, and the contributions of Timbaland and Missy Elliott. Matthew Herbert is a unique person in music, and his contributions over the past couple of decades are unlike anything else. This was a great conversation that you're going love. If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 (£3.50) a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 (£8.50) a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else. Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We now have a facility for one-off donations to the podcast... to make such a donation using either a credit or debit card, or with Paypal, head over to scubaofficial.io/support. We've been talking development and mentorship on the podcast in recent weeks, and the theme continues with a man whose experience covers albums on labels as diverse as Brainfeeder and Ostgut Ton, running a label for well over a decade, and chronicling the legend of Goldie's Timeless record. This is not a narrow discussion however, and as well as his mentorship programme we tackle topics including AI, the nature of art and creativity, the relative importance of concept and technical skill, the influence of football on dance music culture, and a lot more besides. Martyn is a thoughtful guy with things to say, so that's always going to to be a good episode of this show. If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else. Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We now have a facility for one-off donations to the podcast... to make such a donation using either a credit or debit card, or with Paypal, head over to scubaofficial.io/support. Record labels, music journalism, artist careers, and the historical developments of the dance scene have maybe been the most enduring themes of this podcast to date. And they all get discussed on this episode. Tom Lea has been running the excellent Local Action label since 2010, and is also, since 2021, label manager for Peggy Gou's Gudu imprint. His CV also includes stints as Editor In Chief of Fact Magazine, and as manager to artists including I.Jordan. So there was plenty to talk about this week, and we got stuck into topics including the travails of the dance press, the pros and cons of Boiler Room, and the role of labels. We also discuss whether the 2010s was a bad decade for music, the AI conundrum, and what it's like to work with Peggy. This is a good one, get involved! If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else. Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Berlin is the centre of the European dance scene. It's changed almost beyond recognition in the past two decades but its influence has steadily grown in that time, and while those two things mean that some people will inevitably be sniffy about it, the reality is that it's still the place to be. Paul Hanford literally wrote the book on coming to Berlin as an outsider, and even though the path is extremely well-trodden at this point, the experiences continue to develop. The stories in his book are similar to my own experiences of moving over from London in 2007, but there are points of culture and geopolitics which distinguish the narratives entirely. Paul is also the host of the Lost And Sound podcast, a musician with major label releases to his name, the former head of music at Secret Cinema, and a lecturer the BIMM Institute. So additionally to the book and Berlin, we discuss a range of topics including alternative media, cancel culture, and politics and populism in modern culture. This is a good one, you're gonna enjoy it. A reminder that the vinyl-only release of Hardcore Heaven II is imminent - grab a copy here. And here's some more info about my forthcoming mixtape 'Digital Underground'. Grab a preorder of Digital Underground here. (will be live shortly)If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else. Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics discussed include creativity, the Bristol DnB scene, unlocking creativity, Krust's coaching and consultancy business, his creative process, his last album The Edge Of Everything, touring with Reprazent, the development of Jungle and DnB, the impact of the music industry on creativity, the need for an education system upgrade, the history and future of education, the evolution of creativity in various industries, the role of music production tuition, the pressure and influence of the Bristol jungle music era, the golden era of jungle drum and bass, taking a break and rediscovering purpose, and the role of creativity and work ethic in music production.