For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Dougal Perman is a seasoned figure in Scotland's music industry, with a career spanning over two decades. In 2001, he co-founded Radio Magnetic, one of the UK's pioneering internet radio stations, dedicated to promoting underground and alternative music. His leadership extended to the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA), where he served as Chair from 2016 to 2023. During his tenure, Dougal played a pivotal role in launching and developing the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award, now recognised as Scotland's national music prize. He was actively involved in lobbying government and industry representation during the pandemic.

Beyond his contributions to music media and industry development, Dougal loves playing music. He began DJing at 16, ran hip hop clubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow later was a resident at Kinky Afro at Glasgow's Sub Club and various Radio Magnetic nights around Scotland. He plays piano, guitar and oboe, and occasionally creates electronic music. Music is a family affair, Dougal enjoys jamming with his girlfriend and children. He believes that music is in all of us, it's part of what makes us human.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Radio Magnetic (31:00):

Q&A

Discovering music today (1:01:24):

First album ever purchased (1:07:45):

Most recent album purchased (1:08:25):

Artists discovered in the past year (1:11:15):

Desert island discs (1:17:00):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Daniel Collás is the founder and producer of the Phenomenal Handclap Band, whose works have attracted critical acclaim as well as praise from such luminaries as Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Gilles Peterson, Elton John and Simon LeBon, to name but a few.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Balancing different musical identies (15:23):

Q&A

Discovering music today (25:20):

First album ever purchased (29:21):

Most recent album purchased (30:20):

Artists discovered in the past year (31:12):

Desert island discs (37:05):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Benjamin James is a contributor at Oscillator and Factory. He’s also the founder of Ziggy Ziggy, a music brand that celebrates on-chain music culture – named after one Ziggy Stardust. He’s also a writer for Billboard and a former artist and producer. He used to run a small record label in the north of the UK, where he joined forces with a brother-sister combo of vocalists and started a group called Mausi. Together they built a career as artists, touring with big names like Charli XCX and Rudimental before succumbing to the suppressive power of a major label.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Q&A

Discovering music today (34:20):

First album ever purchased (35:45):

Most recent album purchased (35:55):

Artists discovered in the past year (37:45):

Desert island discs (48:28):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Wyatt is SoundCloud's director of music intelligence and analytics and leads a team analyzing streaming trends and artist and fan communities on SoundCloud. His team's work informs fan, creator, and editorial strategy, and plays a pivotal role in A&R. He's also a journalist and photographer, write about music, music + data, culture, science, food and healthcare. With Ian Chainey, he's been writing Stereogum's monthly metal column, The Black Market, for over a decade.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Q&A

Discovering music today (37:37):

Artists discovered in the past year (42:47):

First album ever purchased (47:10):

Most recent album purchased (48:07):

Desert island discs (48:28):

New York City native and longtime contributor to its music and nightlife scene, W. Andrew Raposo is best known as a crazy dog dad and for his work with DFA records--most notably with Hercules and Love Affair, Still Going, and Jayson Green & The Jerk--and as a founding member of cosmic dance floor stalwarts Midnight Magic. His studio, La Piscina Recordings, has hosted such clubland luminaries as Justin Strauss, Eli Escobar, and Nomi Ruiz as well as rocketing torchbearers The Illustrious Blacks, Muscle Cars and Cesar Toribio. Raposo continues to tour both on stage and in the DJ booth with Hess Is More, Midnight Magic and 79.5 (Razor N Tape) bringing his three layer dip of post-punk, psychedelic disco, and haunted-house to sweaty basements and debaucherous mountain chalets all over the world.

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Formed in 2009 by Tiffany Roth, W. Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley, and Carter Yasutake, Midnight Magic is responsible for some of the most beloved 'new classics' from the disco-revival era of the early oughts including club mainstays "Beam Me Up" and "Drop Me A Line." Through their collaboration with Brooklyn jazz legend Nick Roseboro, former Charles Bradley & The Extraordinaires drummer Caito Sanchez, saxophone and synthesizer wizard Julio Monterrey and past members Max Goldman, Andrew Frawley, and Jason Disu, Midnight Magic casts a genre defying spell on sweaty discotheques and festival stages across the universe.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Early days of Midnight Magic (16:20):

Q&A

Discovering music today (34:19):

First album ever purchased (43:10):

Most recent album purchased (46:05):

Artists discovered in the past year (49:58):

Desert island discs (59:28):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Jack Spallone started his music career talent-buying for live performances and artist management while still an undergrad. In 2016, he became an early contributor of Ujo Music, the ConsenSys project that introduced the first music cases on Ethereum. While at ConsenSys, Jack also worked with Harry Fox Agency and SESAC to secure the winning bid to be the technology partner of the MLC, among other enterprise client work.

Jack has built a reputation as a web3 music pioneer. He has helped artists enter into the web3 ecosystem to explore new format releases, artist DAOs, and crypto-based community building tools. Apart from continuing to help artists, Jack is an investor and advisor to several music web3 startups and an active participant in the dialogue shaping web3 music.

Today, along with long time collaborator and grammy-winning Andre Anjos (aka RAC), Jack leads a team of people building a data sharing protocol for music applications; Oscillator, and a music review and sharing app, Factory.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Ujo Music and RAC (22:08):

Q&A

Discovering music today (46:53):

First album ever purchased (51:57):

Most recent album purchased (52:30):

Artists discovered in the past year (53:43):

Desert island discs (54:23):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Latashá is a defiant visionary music artist, founder and world builder. She creates music and experiences that evokes feelings of aliveness and lightness, crossing genres to express the full spectrum of her human ingenious. Known for her transcendent performances, Latashá utilizes her voice, curation, theatrical talent, and dream-like storytelling to convey her perspectives on identity. She is also a leading pioneer in Web3 and innovative creative integrating cutting-edge technology into her artistic practice and independent innovation. Latashá is actively building TASH55 and her company TOPIA, a unique multi faceted world of music, art and next level experiences that ties tech, culture and music to human emotion. She continues to tour the world to reach and impact the present and future of both the music, experience and tech industries.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Opening for Kanye early on (16:13):

Q&A

Discovering music today (35:56):

First album ever purchased (38:39):

Most recent album purchased (39:21):

Artists discovered in the past year (41:22):

Desert island discs (43:25):

Guest recs for future episodes (47:48):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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JKriv is a Brooklyn-based producer, DJ, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and label owner. Widely known as a co-founder of the stalwart label Razor-N-Tape, J is also a highly respected producer, prolific remixer, and incendiary DJ.

As co-founder of Brooklyn label Razor-N-Tape, JKriv has had a sizable impact on both the local NY and global dance music scenes. The label’s prolific and consistent quality output across 150+ releases over 12 years of operation has earned them eminent respect and support from club DJs, radio selectors and listeners around the world.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Jazz as a career alternative (12:20):

Defining Razor-N-Tape (15:46):

Q&A

Discovering music today (26:15):

First album ever purchased (32:18):

Most recent album purchased (33:01):

Artists discovered in the past year (34:13):

Desert island discs (37:15):

Guest recs for future episodes (51:59):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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VISUALS is the music of Andrew Fox.

A veteran musician, Fox has released his brand of psychedelic songcraft on Nicolas Jaar‘s imprint Other People, Bruno Pronsato‘s Berlin-based label The Song Says, and now New York’s House of Feelings.  Collaborating with Dave Harrington of DARKSIDE, Michael Lovett of NZCA LINES / Metronomy, The Range & others, VISUALS filters folk, psych, and soul through a pulsing, electronic prism.  Kinetic and lyrical, this is music you can see.

MUSIC MENTIONS

Influences for upcoming projects (24:47):

Q&A

Discovering music today (36:07):

First album ever purchased (41:34):

Most recent album purchased (44:05):

Artists discovered in the past year (47:04):

Desert island discs (49:08):

Guest recs for future episodes (51:59):

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Brandon Stosuy is the co-founder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent. He previously worked as director of Editorial Operations at the online music publication, Pitchfork. Brandon curates the annual Basilica SoundScape festival in Hudson, New York, and has been a music curator at MoMA PS1 in New York City and the Broad museum in Los Angeles. For over a decade, he and the visual artist Matthew Barney have collaborated on a series of live art and music events in Long Island City. Up Is Up, But So Is Down, his anthology of downtown New York literature, was a 2006 Village Voice book of the year. Brandon is also the author of three books on creativity, Make Time for Creativity, Stay Inspired, How to Fail Successfully (all published by Abrams) and two children’s books, Music Is... and We Are Music (both published by Simon & Schuster). In November of 2024 he published the anthology, Sad Happens: A Celebration Of Tears, also on Simon & Schuster. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.

MUSIC MENTIONS

From small town perspective shifts (9:15):

Curatorial evolution over the years (20:00):

Q&A

Discovering music today (31:00):

First album ever purchased (41:00):

Most recent album purchased (42:28):

Artists discovered in the past year (45:17):

Desert island discs (50:09):