I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee

Last year, EERA (Anna Lena Bruland), released her fabulous latest record, Speak….in her own words "a search for a balance in life, acknowledging myself, and being proud of who I am. To become braver and more confident, and stop questioning so much. Accept and move on instead. This album is more who I am.”

In this episode, we talk about the emotions of looking back at, and performing, earlier work, classical training, evolving as a person, looking ahead - not backwards - as an artist, giving advice to herself, anxieties, self acceptance, not growing up, discovering life and the uncertainties of a musician's life.

Fascinating, deep stuff from a progressive thinker and wonderful musician, and a big shout out for Maya, Anna Lena's dog, who quite rightly deserved to play some part of the show!



I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste.

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Carol Hodge exemplifies what punk rock really means - empathy, self awareness, respect, humour, uniqueness, tolerance and understanding.

This is a brilliant convo. I thoroughly enjoyed being enlightened with Carol's world view and experiences. There's something for everyone in here, especially those who have battled with life - that's pretty much all of us, right?

To quote Carol:

“Always waiting for things to get better, for the perfect time, but it doesn’t exist. Change is gradual, one day a time. Progress has been made, if you take the time to stop and look back, you’ll see it. "

She's an amazing songwriter, performer and pianist, crafting searing melodies and poignant lyrics that will make you lurch from joy to heartbreak. She also performs as a keyboardist/backing vocalist Ryan Hamilton,  has also guested with Ginger Wildheart, Headsticks and The Membranes.  She also sings and plays keys with Steve Ignorant and I can't wait to hear more of this!

(And she has the ability to "knock out a bloody tune" (© Pete Postlethwaite) - have a laugh at my cringe as Carol clarifies that she is NOT, and never has been, a brass band.)



I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently.

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste.

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Calling all introverts with a passion and aspiration to create - this is for you.

James Chapman is the creative wizard that is MAPS. He is producing some stunning, ambitious, symphonic soundscapes, inspired by melody and emotion and supported by his knowledge of and training in classical. It really is very powerful. 

He’s also opened himself up to the worlds of remixes and reworks of artists such as A Certain Ratio, Depeche Mode, Kid Moxie, Polly Scattergood, Goldfrapp, The Killers, Moby and Bombay Bicycle Club, remodelling songs so that they turn into kinda living organisms.

Take a listen to James' story, there's something in it for all of us.



I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste.

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Ian Devaney is the lead singer of Nation of Language, the wonderful Brooklyn trio who are creating a modern day synth wave infused with 70’s and ‘80’s scapes. Their songs speak of personal experiences, vulnerability and humility.

One thing that resonated with me before even speaking to Ian was their collective and individual resilience of mind to get through an incredibly uncertain music landscape to where they are now which is two really excellent LP’s, "Introduction, Presence" and 2021's "A Way Forward".

Ian is a multi-instrumentalist, creates the band's artwork, and is also part of Machinegum - an artist collective with Delicate Steve, Chris Egan, Martin Bonventre, and Erin Victoria Axtel and Ian's pal, The Strokes' Fab Moretti, who has helped Ian with self belief and expanding his creative mindset.

Thanks Ian, this was a really great convo!


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently.

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste.

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Wow. Gordon Raphael!

You're probably most familiar with Gordon through his work producing two timeless and hugely influential records in 2001 and 2003 for a band who re-captured the rock n roll romance and mythology - or is that reality?  - of New York City…..

…..they are, of course, The Strokes.

He’s also a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and performer who has released an amount of music that I’m ashamed to say took me by surprise. He is also an author with an imminent debut memoir which promises to be a fascinating insight into his life’s journey up to working with The Strokes. His subsequent production work has been with wonderful artists such as Blonde Redhead, Regina Spektor (Soviet Kitsch), Jody Porter, Hinds, Colleen Green and Atomic Stop.


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste 

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Agustina Ruiz plays keys in the magnificently retro slash futuristic, surfy, psychedelic cumbia band Los Bitchos. 

Their debut album Let The Festivities Begin has just come out and a UK and Euro tour starts on 15th February 2022. Their music is a gloriously frenzied kaleidoscope of rhythms, percussion, guitars, synths and the wonderfully evocative keytar. 

And no vocals.

Agustina was doing some fashion modelling but then her punk rock roots came calling like the 1-2-3-4 of Dee Dee Ramone and she joined Los Bitchos for some serious surf, psychedelica, cumbia and party times. The rest, as they say, is history.

📸 Tom Mitchell


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste 

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Vara Sky (aka Amy Swart) is a fabulous electronic music artist living in Los Angeles. She hits that very, very sweet spot of abrasive industrial and aggressive pummelling beats that on one hand feels very austere and almost desolate and on the other, incredibly democratic and communal.

I love Amy's story of how she went from being classically trained to finding her people, her safe space in the underground industrial electronic scene. She is a great example to us of the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people and the right environment.

Amy has been DJ’ing since 2001 and producing her own music since around 2015.  She’s also the boss of Corporatocrazy Records which, like her own music, specialises in, let’s say, the darker, more underground side of electronica.





I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste 

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

“DJ Food is best described as Food for DJs, simple as that, just flip it around and it begins to mean something entirely different."

DJ Food is a project that started back in 1990 when Jonathan More and Matt Black's Coldcut innovation lab started producing collections of breaks, beats, loops and samples which were ideal for mixing, remixing - metaphorical food for DJ's - as well as actually for our own armchair listening and the no-so-armchair dancefloor. The project attracted like-minded collaborators like Patrick Carpenter, Paul Brook, Paul Rabiger, and Issac Elliston and eventually the mantle of DJ Food was passed into the hands of Strictly Kev (aka Kevin Foakes).

It's a real honour to have a chat with one of the continually most inventive, future thinking and experimental DJ’s of the past 30 years.






I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste 

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

"What we need is a revolution driven by a philosophy of personal activism"

Meg Lee Chin is a visionary of the underground, DIY music and culture scene.

One of her early bands was Teknofear with Becky Wreck of Lunachicks and then Crunch who were one of the first Western bands to tour Ukraine shortly after the Soviet Union dissolved. Brilliant stories!

Meg is probably best known for her work with Pigface. She appeared on their 1997 LP "A New High in Low" as well as its follow-up, "Below the Belt". 

She released her solo debut "Piece and Love" in 1999 which was critically acclaimed as a forerunner in the home studio revolution. 

She has used her educational background and practical experience in music, art and video production and tech to support humanity, resistance, equality and individual empowerment, and all the while with counter-culture and personal activism pretty much playing lead roles.

Her DropUMentary England’s Mask is a series of 4 short films exploring the state of play in Britain, in particular why it is in danger of losing its creativity and innovation and needs to change its trajectory and revalue its biggest asset – its people.





I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste 

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Nemone Metaxas has gained a vast range of skills and knowledge through her education, sport and her career in broadcasting and DJ'ing. As we'll hear, she is using her experience and passions to create a multi-hyphen life in the worlds of music and psychotherapy.

She has some fascinating insights into how she has found that these worlds  - which, at first glance appear very different -actually do intertwine.

Thanks Nemone, this was an awesome chat!

About Nemone

Nemone has been broadcasting and DJing for the best part of a quarter of a century, two decades of which she has been a familiar voice across the BBC. Joining Radio 1 in 2000, she has taken stints broadcasting to mainstream audiences on Radio 2 and Five Live before finding her spiritual home at BBC Radio 6 Music, latterly producing and presenting her own weekly electronic show - Electric Ladyland - from 2013 to 2021. She has produced and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 2 and has hosted numerous television shows reflecting her passion for sport and music.

Nemone holds a degree in psychology and a masters degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling and having had many years of hearing people’s stories through her broadcasting work, she now runs her own integrated counselling practice alongside DJ'ing, radio show hosting and innovative music projects.

She has been a huge advocate for breathing and grounding exercises; during the COVID pandemic producing her own 15 minute mid afternoon meditations to help people cope in isolation.



I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. 

I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.


- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.
- podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste 

https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com


I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently.

Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives.

- brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™
- cover art by Giles Sibbald 
- doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste