Music Not Diving with Scuba
Paul Rose aka the musician, DJ, and label boss known as Scuba talks to people of significance from the world of electronic music about their experiences, observations, and attempts to cultivate a life for themselves in the murky and sometimes treacherous waters of the music…
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#56 Nathan Fake: Border Community, playing live, and the beauty of vintage Cubase (opens the original)
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I'm playing all night long at Venue MOT in London on 14 Nov. Grab a ticket here: https://ra.co/events/2527068 Sign up for free to join our community. -- Nathan Fake is a producer and live performer from the UK. He has released albums on Border Community , Ninja Tune , via his own channels, and most recently through French label InFiné . That latest album, Evaporator , is discussed during the conversation, as well as his wider journey through production processes and methods of work. We discover
#55 Gavilán Rayna Russom: politics, DJing, analog synths, and LCD Soundsystem (opens the original)
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I'm playing all night long at Venue MOT in London on 14 Nov. Grab a ticket here: https://ra.co/events/2527068 Sign up for free to join our community. -- Gavilán Rayna Russom is a producer, DJ, and interdisciplinary artist based in New York. A former member of LCD Soundsystem , she has a new album under her Black Meteoric Star alias entitled Wet . We discuss her time working at DFA and eventually joining and then leaving LCD Soundsystem, her previous time as an analog synth engineer, as well as t
#54 Jend: new ways of connecting music to people (opens the original)
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I'm playing all night long at Venue MOT in London on 14 Nov. Sign up for tix here: https://ra.co/pre/2527068 Sign up for free to join our community. -- Jend is a producer and DJ who has built an impressive following on streaming platforms and social media using a very interesting set of strategies adapting from his time in drop shipping. So we are getting deep into the weeds of digital music marketing on this week's podcast, and while it gets a bit technical in places this is a really interestin
#53: How to be a DJ (opens the original)
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I'm playing all night long at Venue MOT in London on 14 Nov. Sign up for tix here: https://ra.co/pre/2527068 Sign up for free to join our community. -- On the podcast this week... What you need to do to become a DJ in 2026. I mean a good DJ. Why you should learn to beat match, preferably on vinyl. Why you should learn to use Ableton. Why you should take digital marketing seriously. Why you should respect the worst aspects of the industry. This is not an exhaustive study, but it does contain some
#52: Did the promise of AI-human hybrids drive the deals for Distrokid and Kobalt? (opens the original)
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On this episode... Why Distrokid selling to CVC will lead to more AI music. What Kobalt selling to Primary Wave means for the majors. Why the industry is counting on the hybrid musicians of the future. Were the Odyssey casting decisions part of the marketing campaign? And what Suki Waterhouse could learn from Boy George...! Read my 2000 word essay on the Burial / dubstep conundrum: https://www.patreon.com/scubaofficial/posts/eyes-back-puzzle-164702147 -- NEW MERCH STORE: Support the podcast with
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