I'm on holiday currently but since we never actually take days off here's an unprecedented episode of the show with two guests and two separate interviews! Gregor Tresher is DJ and producer from Frankfurt, Germany who's been releasing music since the 90s under his own name and under the Sniper Mode alias. We focus on production in this conversation…

The potential of NFTs to save musicians was always pretty tenuous, and the more excitable proponents of the whole thing always sounded a bit too much like they were either trying to convince themselves about the whole, or maybe that they were just scamming. Our guest this week is deep in the world of digital art, but doesn't make any bold claims to…

In 2020, our guest this week was named an Artist in Residence at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Thus we are finally able to continue the theme established on episode 84 with Matthew Dear, a line of enquiry which I know many of you were keen to see more fully interrogated on the podcast. Daedelus has been making music since the…

Mike Parker is one of the most singular practitioners of the discipline of Techno as is possible to identify. His biography describes his approach to music as 'experimental and ritualistic' and on detailed listening you'd have to agree. He's also a professor of fine art at Daemen College in Buffalo, and a graduate of the art school at Carnegie Mell…

Stream the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/WoQuHAjWYMs And listen to Triple Transit: https://push.fm/fl/tripletransit This is the first in a new series entitled Studio Stories, in which I'll be sitting down with a producer and discussing a release in detail. Today I'm talking to Praveen Sharma, aka Braille, about his awesome new LP …

What is future music anyway? And is it any different from the future OF music? Simon Reynolds is one of the most influential music writers of the last two decades, authoring such seminal works as 'Energy Flash' (on acid house and rave, 'Rip It Up And Start Again' (on the post-punk era), and 'Retromania' (on the obsession of popular culture with the…

What do you call a music scene with no name? The lack of a commonly-accepted moniker for the mid-to-late 90s movement centred around Ninja Tune and Gilles Peterson amongst others is a real anomaly in contemporary music. One of the most interesting insights from our guest this week, Mr Scruff, is the revelation not even the DJs themselves referred t…

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,…

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 Lon…

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. Havi…

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 u…

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 pu…

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 actua…

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 reco…

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, K…

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 subje…

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 episod…

D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live shows since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live Ceri is a DJ, producer, Find Your Own Records label owner, and Find Your Own Sound music production masterclass host. A former resident of the legendary after hours party Jaded in London, she has really taken off on the c…

D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live set since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live Radio is not something we've covered massively on the podcast to date but this week's guest is often (and somewhat lazily) referred to as the Irish John Peel, so this is a step towards rectifying that. Cian Ó Cíobháin has b…

D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live set since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live How could we possibly follow last week's episode with the techno legend Luke Slater? Well, with another legend of techno of course! Laurent Garnier is, in fact, and all-time great of dance music PERIOD. He was playing the H…

D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live set since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live If you were discussing, as people sometimes do, the possible identity of ' the best techno producer of all time' then Luke Slater would surely be mentioned in that conversation. At least if I was involved in the debate it c…

D:U:LIVE is coming in June! My first live set since 2013.... London / Bristol / Manchester - all tickets: scubaoficial.io/live We haven't covered Drum n Bass anywhere near as much as I'd like. dBridge was an early guest, and we've also had Fracture, Chris from Hospital, and Krust. So that's not even 5% of the episodes so far, and DnB really is a fa…

Sign up for London / Bristol / Manchester Scuba live shows! scubaoficial.io/live What's it like to mediate a disagreement between members of one of the biggest bands in history? And to do that while you're trying to produce their new record? This is a question which is answered in this week's episode, in which our guest is one of the most prolific …

How many elite sportsmen know their way round a modular synthesiser? Steve Davis was the first modern star of snooker. He dominated the game in the 1980s, winning six world titles, appearing in 8 of the 9 finals between 1981 and 1989. He was ranked number one in the world for seven consecutive years, posted the first ever 147 maximum break in offic…

Coming to you from Dehli, India.... via dodgy mic in a hotel room so don't watch the sound quality! I play Vent in Tokyo this Friday, and will be making my debut in Shanghai this Saturday. On the show this week... What makes an Ibiza DJ? And does anyone want to be one anymore? Chloé Caillet is always talked up that way in the press, but there's a l…