Originally from Yorkshire in the UK, Helen Dickinson can teach most of us a thing or two about never giving up on our dreams. At the age of 42, she taught herself to mix on vinyl and began uploading mixes to the internet which are listened to by thousands of people across the world. Deciding that playing music was what she wanted to do professionally, Helen started to seek opportunities to play but found it difficult to break through in the UK. In 2016, she visited Ibiza for the first time a ...
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As the dance music industry grows and grows, Katie digs deep into the lives of DJs, producers, managers, tour managers, publicists, club owners, label managers, promoters... (basically all of the people who get asked for guestlist) to find out how they started out, challenges they’ve come across, achievements, opinions, goals and, of course, all of the exciting stories that they’ve made along the way... And there's definitely some good ones out there.
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From the crazy homeland of carnivals and legendary club events, Brazilian Artist Kerol Garcia has graced the club scene from Brazil to Ibiza and London. Performing in front of thousands of club goers with her unique sound of House, Tech House and commercial House, She has quickly become a very sort after DJ within the circuit. Leaving Brazil in 2006 to move to London, Kerol studied at the London School of Sound, fine-tuning her skills as a DJ up until 2008. Also recently completing her advan ...
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Demi Riquisimo: How people like to be fed music, planning ahead and previous aliases
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Semi Delicious label owner, Demi Riquisimo is up next on the podcast! We talk about starting a label to release his own music, finding balance between studio time and traveling, the start of Demi Requisimo and previous aliases, planning ahead, highdeas, Glastonbury, dad jokes and more!
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Meg Ward: Navigating the highs and lows of the music industry, Glastonbury and handing over to your idols
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This week I sit down with rising star Meg Ward and lots of giggles were had! We chat all about how she started out, the challenges that she has come across so far, navigating the highs and lows of the industry as well as bands that are making comebacks, the best festival on earth- Glastonbury and more! Find Meg here: https://www.instagram.com/meggy…
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Will Clarke: podcast disasters, DJ fees and weird fan requests
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Welcome to season 6 of Can U Put Me On Guestlist?! And what better way to kick things off than with fellow podcaster and all round legend, Will Clarke. From podcast disasters, to DJ fees, life on the road, weird fan requests, deathbed meals and more - we cover it all in this episode. If you haven’t yet checked out Will’s podcast yet, then you need …
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Olivier Geynot: DICE's mission to get people out more
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Ending season 5 of the podcast is a guest that I have wanted to get on the show for such a long time, and we finally made it happen! Olivier started his career in marketing, working in senior roles at global consumer brands including, O2, Vueling and Lucky Strike. However, his passion for music, and a firm belief that it is a powerful way to connec…
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Francis Mercier: 'the more you do, the more you want to achieve'
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Haitian-born, New York based DJ and produce, Francis Mercier is next up on the podcast! With over nearly 150 sold out shows last year, including shows that he’s always dreamt of such as Burning Man, Coachella, Tomorrowland and Space Miami as well as 11 releases, Francis is on fire right now and has no sign of slowing down. We chat all about his rap…
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Jess Bays & MC DT: Staying relevant in a fast moving industry
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This week I am joined by not one, but two incredibly talented artists, Jess Bays and MC DT. Known worldwide for his famous hook, 'We're loving it, loving it, loving it®' award-winning MC DT is one of the UK Garage scenes pioneers. Coinciding on past line ups with Jess Bays, who over the last few years has become one of the standout artists of recen…
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Esther Chan: Being PA to Jamie Jones and the logistics behind Paradise Ibiza
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It's always strange interviewing one of your best friends! But also the perfect excuse for a good catch up and a giggle on the sofa :) Esther Chan is up next. Esther was PA to Jamie Jones for 7 years until recently transitioning into Artist and Production Coordinator for Paradise Ibiza. We talk all about working so closely with one of the biggest D…
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Rossi.: 'I feel like I’ve just figured out what it takes and what it’s like to be a DJ'
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We're kicking off the year with a chat with one of the nicest guys in the game, Rossi. And what a pleasure it was to sit down with him and look back on his incredibly successful 2023, whilst getting to know more about his journey so far. From being an actor, starring in London's Westend shows such as Mary Poppins (playing Michael Banks btw!) at the…
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Neurodiversity and the dance music industry with Alexandra Annable and Tristan Hunt
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On today's episode we explore the relationship between neurodiversity and and its wider relevance within the dance music scene with Alexandra Annable who is the head of brand partnerships at Jukebox and Tristan Hunt who is a Music Industry ADHD Coach. We talk all about their own experiences and how the dance music industry has allowed them to be th…
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Baloo: Saudi Arabia's booming music scene - From behind closed doors to 750k+ festival goers in 3 years
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‘I didn’t expect this to happen in my lifetime’, Chief Creative Officer of MDLBEAST, Baloo is next on the podcast, and what an insightful conversation it was. Before private events went public in 2019 in Saudi Arabia, with the establishment of the General Entertainment Authority, Saudi’s music scene had been thriving for the past two decades behind…
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Drunken Kong: What’s the dance music scene like in Japan?
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Discovering what the dance music scene is like in other parts of the world is something that fascinates me. And when it’s somewhere as exciting as Japan, it fascinates me even more. And honestly, I don’t think there is a better duo to tell the story than Tokyo based techno duo, Drunken Kong. Recently releasing on Drumcode and playing Ultra Tokyo a …
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Indira Paganotto: When your dreams come true… What’s next?
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After playing in over 4 continents, 92 cities and 29 countries in 2023, headlining over 40 festivals globally including Kappa, EXIT, Monegros, Sonus, Extrema, DGTL and Time Warp as well as all major clubs and venues around the world, curating her own nights at Amnesia Ibiza, playing Tomorrowland Main Stage and so much more, two questions come to mi…
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ADE directors Meindert Kennis and Jan-Willem Van de Ven: What not to miss at ADE 2023
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ADE (my favourite event of the year) has grown into the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music, featuring over 2,900 artists taking part in over 1000 events across 200+ venues throughout the city, welcoming around half a million visitors to the city. With only a few days left until the 28th edit…
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Emma Chambers - Techno to Tennessee, PR and the blurred lines between working and socialising in the music industry
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Is going to events an essential part of your role in the music industry? How do you balance your professional and social life when a lot of our jobs consist of going to clubs and festivals? As a PR, how much time do you need to spend with your artists? Emma Chambers is the Founder of Acrylic Artists, a global PR company based in the UK that special…
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Leticia van Riel - Managing headline acts ANNA, Sama’ Abduhadi and Victor Ruiz
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Behind every successful artist is a team of hard working, passionate people, that put everything they’ve got into growing their artist’s career. And Leticia is proof of that. From starting to manager ANNA when she was just starting out, to together, as a team, building ANNA’s career to what it is today, Leticia’s passion, persistence, support and t…
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Originally from Saudi Arabia but now living in London, the incredibly talented Nooriyah has been making waves over the last few years with her unique style of mixing Middle Eastern and North African music with popular records, Trap music, and old-time classics. Her insane Boileroom was the first Southwest Asian and North African Boileroom lineup in…
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For Elizabeth Cyprian the answer is simple: the success of a brand is dependent upon each department correlating while it creates, nurtures and maintains a distinctive identity. Everything ties back to the ethos and origin. For 10+ years she has been putting this statement to the test. What started as a dancefloor chat led to a career in the event …
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This week I'm joined by ALISHA, an artist who over the last couple of years has rapidly begun to appear on line ups at some of the best clubs and festivals around the world as well as releasing music on some of electronic music’s biggest labels. ALISHA has recently released Changes on Jamie Jones' Hot Creations, made her debut with Music On, and ha…
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Alex is the CEO & Co-founder of The Pete Tong DJ Academy, an online e-learning platform that was launched last year and is made up of over 90 lessons that cover every aspect of a career in DJing, taught by some of the biggest names in the game, including Carl Cox, Nicole Moudaber, Jamie Jones and Adam Beyer. During this year’s international music s…
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After 15 years of creating content from some of the world's biggest electronic music events, recording literally any DJ that comes to your mind right now, Luca Dea has become one of the industry's most renowned content creators. What started off being videos just for himself to keep as memories, has now turned in to being a source for thousands of …
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Welcome to this International women’s day special in which I highlight and celebrate some of the wonderful things women in music have worked on or taken part in this year, with two of my favourite girls - Lydia Laws, founder of Lydia Lwas PR and Roberta Hickey, founder of the women in dance music platform, Little Pink Book. Besides talking about pe…
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Puerto Rico-born DJ and producer, Natalia Roth, is up next on the podcast! From working at the door at Space Miami to becoming one of the club's main residents and now playing all around the world as well as releasing on some of the biggest labels in electronic music, Natalia is an example of hard work and dedication. A beauty of a person, inside a…
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From music journalist for platforms such as VICE, Mixmag, Resident Advisor and CBC Music to editor of Dance & Electronic at Spotify, Corinne is one of those people you could listen to for hours, what an exciting career she has had so far! We talk all about how she started out in journalism, what her role as an editor at Spotify consisted of, how ho…
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This week we're talking all about music and surfing with the wonderful Tara Brooks! Tara is a DJ and producer from LA and has played at some of the biggest events around the globe- BPM, Burningman, Coachella, SXM Festival, Ultra, and many more as well as releasing on labels such as Bedrock Records, Desert Hearts, Get Physical amongst others. Tara h…
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Becoming an international artist was his biggest dream as a kid. From a small town in Italy called Luca, Marco Faraone has now played all over the world and released on some of the biggest dance music labels out there. We chat all about his career from the beginning up until now, his new chapter as a father, his latest collaboration with Stella Bos…
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Julian Prince & Olivia Gottlieb (SXM Festival)
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On this next episode of the podcast, we're traveling to the gorgeous island of Saint Martin to talk about the first and only electronic music festival to be held on the island, SXM Festival, with the founder of the festival, Julian Prince and VP Marketing & Business Development of SXM, Olivia Gottlieb. I was so curious to know how Julian ended up c…
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With the festive season just around the corner, I chat with my wonderful friend Laura who is a holistic health consultant all about how we can stay healthy and grounded during a time when there's lots of partying, traveling, drinking and eating involved, as well as end of year rituals to make sure we kick off the new year the best way possible, han…
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Bina Fronda - VP of Marketing at Ultra Records
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Well what a lovely chat this was! Bina talks me through how growing up surrounded by the music her Uncle and Nono would play at Bina's home in New York as a child led her to pursue a career in the music industry, and what a career she has had so far! From Marketing coordinator to now being the VP of Marketing at Ultra Records, Bina shares her amazi…
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Desde que empecé el podcast en 2019 he querido tener a Paco como invitado, y por fin lo hemos conseguido! Este verano he disfrutado muchísimo de sus sesiones, tanto en su nueva fiesta Now Here en Hi Ibiza como cerrando grandes festivales como Monegros, Dreambeach y Untold. Y ahora que ha pasado toda la locura del verano, me senté con él para conoce…
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DJ, producer, broadcaster and founder of Sous Music, Anja Schneider, joins me on today's episode! We take a deep dive into Anja's beginnings, first gigs, the music industry, career highlights, her label Sous, the most challenging part of her job and so much more. Oh and her guest list rule is the best one so far on the show!…
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Hoy hablo con un artista detrás de la camera, un creador de contenido que ha trabajado en los eventos masivos más importantes del mundo como pueden ser Tomorrowland, EDC Las Vegas, Ultra, Amnesia Ibiza, Hi o Ushuaia. Hoy hablo con Fede Lucena de Gateway Team, quien me cuenta sus inicios en la industria, como es su workflow en festivales tan grandes…
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Paul is not only the operations and logistics manager for Defected Records and Glitterbox and a production assistant for High Scream who operate all of the production for Hi and Ushuaia, he's also the world's number Swedish / Welsh trance DJ, Croc ambassador, interviewer and Sainsbury's deliveryman. Find out more in this podcast.I don't think I've …
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¡Bienvenidos al primer episodio de esta nueva temporada de CUPMOG en español! Arrancamos esta serie con el DJ y productor Sevillano, Rafa Barrios. Con lanzamientos en sellos como Intec, Stereo, Suara y Knee Deep In Sound, Rafa es un artista que en los últimos años no ha dejado de crecer y crecer, llevando su sonido por todo el mundo y actuando en l…
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We're kicking off season 4 with one of the most respected and hard working women in the industry (as well as someone I've wanted to have on the podcast for such a long time!), Emma Hoser. Emma is a long-time agent and works with the biggest names in underground music such as Adam Beyer, Nicole Moudaber, Alan Fitzpatrick, Jamie Jones, Patrick Toppin…
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Welcome to the last episode of season 3 of Can U Put Me On Guestlist! I couldn't think of a better way to finish this season than with one of my best friends in the entire world, Michelle. If you've partied in Ibiza or at any of the biggest festivals around the globe, the chances are you've seen Michelle dance. Michelle has danced for Carl Cox, Ric…
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Welcome back to the podcast! This week I am joined by Rosanne Janmaat who is the COO of ID&T, a Dutch company that has been running since 1992, organizing some of the biggest events in dance music such as Awakenings, Sensation, Mystryland and many many as well as being the co-founders of Tomorrowland. Recently they organized a Fieldlab test festiva…
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This week I am joined by Ali Shirazinia, aka Dubfire. The Grammy Award-winning producer, artist, DJ, SCI+TEC boss, 1/2 of Deepdish, gastronome, wanderlust and level 2 certified Sake professional is just one of those people that you could chat to for hours and hours about so many different topics so I was so excited to have him on. We talk about the…
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There is nothing that I love talking about more than the fascinating world of broadcasting, so having Jay on the podcast was just fab! Jay Forster is a DJ and producer at BBC Radio 1 where he produces shows such as Danny Howard, Radio 1 Dance Presents and Wind Down Presents. We chat all about how Jay got into the music industry and how his journey …
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This week I get to know more about the incredibly creative Lisbon-based musician, Luis Clara Gomes aka Moullinex. Although music had always been a big part of his life when growing up, before making music, Luis studied software engineering in the fields of astronomy and neurology so in this episode we talk about how these studies have influenced hi…
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Welcome back to Can U Put Me On Guestlist?! Chelina Manuhutu is this week’s guest and what a fun episode it was to record! When I asked Chelina to come on to the show she said “why don’t we record it at the beach?!”. At first I didn’t know how I felt about taking all my equipment down but we did in the end and wow, it was so amazing! We sat on a ro…
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This week I am joined by the lovely Hannah Wants. Back in December Hannah moved to Ibiza with her gorgeous dog Ivor to reset and work on herself after battling breast cancer for the second time whilst simultaneously going through the difficulties that covid brought to the world. In this podcast we talk about her journey and how she is taking contro…
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Mark Lawrence has done so much in the music industry as well as for it. This includes 10 years at PRS as well as being the former CEO of AFEM. Mark is now the director of Black Rock Publishing as well as Sentric Electronic, working side by side with some of the most exciting established and upcoming talent in the industry. Before this interview, I …
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On this week’s episode of Can U Put Me On Guestlist? I am joined by the lovely Lilly Palmer. Born in Germany but spending a lot of time in Zurich with its great and flourishing underground scene, her devotion for music got stronger and stronger which finally led her to the decision to fully dive into the realm of the underground in 2015. Since then…
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Welcome back to ‘Can U Put Me On Guestlist?’! I’m very excited to kick off 2021 with one of life’s gems, Farah Syed. After spending half of her life in California, Farah’s career began in Los Angeles working for powerhouse talent agency, WME, where she spent over five years focusing on brand partnerships and commercial endorsements for the agency’s…
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Laura Williams (The Secret Inspirer)
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After fishing the 21 days of resilience challenge with Laura, I knew I had to get her on the podcast. Laura Williams aka The Secret Inspirer works with different individuals and teams in the entertainment industry to build their resilience and find the fuel we need to cope well with the rollercoaster of life and avoid burnout. With everything that’…
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This week I am joined by someone who I love and admire very much, Hector. With more than 20 years of experience in music behind him, Hector has recently started a new project called VL Camp in which attendees will learn and work side by side with different professionals in the music industry. From building a brand to career management, new tools an…
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Kami Tadayon is an entrepreneur, world-wide party promoter, and founder of the renowned Lost Beach Club in Montañita, the only town where clubs and bars can open at the moment (due to Covid) in Ecuador.For those who do not yet know Lost Beach Club, it is… A-ma-zing. It’s been voted many of times in the top 100 clubs in the world, the party ends whe…
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This week my guest is agent and all-round lovely guy, Dave Blackgrove. Dave is an agent at Paradigm, a worldwide talent agency that provides global representation to a diverse and dynamic roster of artists not only in music but also in television, comedy, theatre and beyond. Representing artists in the electronic music department such as Fisher, Ca…
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A very inspiring chat full of great stories, brilliant advice and on how Paul made his own transition.
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This week I am joined by one of my favourite people to interview as he's so down to earth and never fails to give such great answers whilst always putting a massive smile on my face... Today's guest is Dan Pearce AKA Eats Everything!This podcast is full of so many brilliant stories from Dan’s career, alongside conversations about his latest EP 8 Cu…
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