Paul Rose aka the musician, DJ, and A&R 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 industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Paul Rose aka the musician, DJ, and A&R 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 industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Recent Episodes of Not A Diving Podcast with Scuba
#126 Regal: Pressure and success, "It's a matter of how you manage it"
The pandemic is a topic of conversation we studiously avoided for the first year or so of the podcast, it just seemed a bit boring and predictable. It was shit, basically, and there's only so much you can say about being locked inside for 18 months.
But what if you suddenly became a successful DJ in 2019? That was some of the worst timing possible, and must've posed a series of challenges to keep it going, both professional and psychological.
This week's guest had to deal with exactly that scenario, and he just about managed...
Episode 126 • 23 July 2024 • 1h, 16m and 28s
#125 Kitty Amor: House music from Nottingham to Johannesburg, "Marginalised people are being seen on big stages now"
Afro House is not something we've covered in depth on the show to date, but this week we welcome one of the UK's foremost exponents of the form.
Kitty Amor was born in London, but cut her musical teeth running nights as a student Nottingham where she and her associates were instrumental in bringing the second wave of Grime, Funky, and other key London genres out of the capital.
Her sound as a DJ was also developed during that stint in the midlands, and upon returning to London she made a success in...
Episode 125 • 15 July 2024 • 1h, 21m and 34s
#124 Danny Whittle: Running Ibiza clubs large and small, "My strategy changed the island"
Join us at the D:U:2 listening party -> https://scubaofficial.bandcamp.com/merch/d-u-2-listening-party
Listen to the awesome Laurus Ascending EP by Bodhi -> https://ingrv.es/laurus-ascending-ya4-9
It's been a while since we had a promoter on the show, and this week's guest is one of the most influential in Europe since the turn of the century.
Having spent his 20s servicing in the military and fire brigade, Danny Whittle joined the Renaissance team direct from the job centre and since then has been running parties...
Episode 124 • 9 July 2024 • 1h, 11m and 11s
#123 Steve Bug: Where are the anthems? "We need the big new tunes to unite people"
Are we partying like it's 1999? I mean what it was actually like in 99, not how Prince imagined it might be back in 1982.
Millennium eve was supposed to be the best thing ever. I was beside myself with excitement for months beforehand, possibly years. But when push came to shove, my group of friends didn't even bother going to a rave and spent an underwhelming evening drinking warm champagne on Brighton Beach before attending a number of deeply boring house parties.
The subsequent inquest carried out in the pages of Mixmag, DJ Mag, and...
Episode 123 • 2 July 2024 • 1h, 34m and 2s
#122 Radio Slave: Social media vs dance music, "there shouldn't be any rules"
At what point does criticism of changes in culture become overly reactive? This is a question I've wrestled with continuously over the past couple of years, but I can't get past the conclusion that if something isn't good then pointing that fact out is never really a bad thing... right?
My conversation with Radio Slave this week doesn't pull any punches on what is wrong with dance music currently. It's no longer cool. Social media is rewarding the wrong stuff. The history of the thing is being trampled on and turned into something that bears no...
Episode 122 • 25 June 2024 • 1h, 10m and 52s
#121 Thoughts on Live Electronic Music
It's the week after the week before.... no guest this week, but a deep dive into my experiences with live electronic music in the audience as well as being on stage myself.
And on stage I was, last week in London, Bristol, and Manchester. Huge thanks to all of you who attended the shows, had so much great feedback it's been a bit overwhelming actually. If you missed it then there will be more later in the year!
If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the...
Episode 121 • 18 June 2024 • 40m and 4s
#120 Phil Moffa: Running a studio in 2024, "The hybrid is the one, whatever works - do it"
D:U:LIVE is coming this week!! My first live shows since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live
How many proper recording studios are there left in big cities in 2024? And how many of those are used regularly for making proper dance music?
Probably not that many but one of them is run by this week's guest, a recoding engineer with a ton of house and techno credits and one half of the Lost Souls Of Saturn alongside previous NDP guest Seth Troxler.
Phil Moffa is a born-and-raised...
Episode 120 • 11 June 2024 • 1h, 42m and 34s
#119 Deas: Outboard vs plugins... is there a right answer? "I don't want to convince anyone!"
D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live shows since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live
We've been covering techno quite a lot on the show recently, but mostly from a legacy perspective. This week we are joined with one of the last few years' breakdown names on the production side.
Based in Krakow, Poland, Karol Mozgawa aka Deas emerged largely via the Audio River festival, a truly world class event which is now its seventeenth year. Releases on CLR, Dynamic Reflection, Planet Rhythm, Materia and others have...
Episode 119 • 4 June 2024 • 1h, 22m and 47s
#118 Tom Vek: Blockchains, fragmentation, and a post-format world, "It always comes back to songs"
D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live shows since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live
Tom Vek is a solo artist from the UK who has been signed to majors, indies, and been self released. He was in the news recently in the debate surrounding James Blake's Vault platform, penning an opinion piece on the subject in the Guardian.
So obviously we discuss all that stuff in this conversation, as well as his own contribution to the music distribution development conversation - the Supercollector blockchain platform.
Episode 118 • 28 May 2024 • 2h, 8m and 40s
#117 Quinn (Paranoid London): Anonymity and acid house, "We'd always press fewer copies than we had preorders for!"
D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live shows since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live
Is it possible for the music to do the talking in 2024?
Maybe, but probably not the extent that Paranoid London managed it for the first few "vinyl-only, no interviews" years of their career. Quinn joins us on this episode for a chat that includes a lot more laughter than usual for an episode of this podcast. But that's a good thing!
And we talk about some interesting stuff too...
Episode 117 • 21 May 2024 • 1h, 22m and 11s
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