I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee

Gina has been a massive influence on culture and society throughout her life and inspiration for many. She’s done film direction, videography, she’s a painter and she is a co-founder of the hugely seminal post-punk band The Raincoats.

What has struck me, both in her music and her painting is that she is her unique self, going where her heart and mind takes her, vandalising existing narratives with humour, subversion and vulnerability and, really importantly, having a lot of fun whilst doing it. 

I think it’s this complete relatability that makes Gina’s impact so powerful.

Thanks Gina, this was just brilliant!

“They seemed like ordinary people playing extraordinary music. They had enough confidence to be vulnerable and to be themselves without having to take on the mantle of male rock/punk rock aggression.… or the typical female as sex symbol avec irony or sensationalism.”

- Kim Gordon, talking about The Raincoats


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

Parquet Courts are a band who has experimented and brought individual influences into their sound.  With their latest and 8th studio album, Sympathy for Life, they have pushed the boundaries yet again to create another wonderful record. 

Sonically the Parquet Courts totally squared with my music evolution: from the melody and nihilism of Velvets and Ramones, through to post-punk of The Fall and Raincoats and the discordant no wave of Sonic Youth.  But they threw it forward to the present day. Emotionally, it resonated with the nervousness, paranoia, nonchalance, panic and urgency that I often felt as I was growing up. They were a band that I could relate to and they sounded like music fans.  

It was an honour to spend some time chatting to A. Savage, singer and songwriter for the band and also an instinctive artist in his own right as well as being responsible for most of Parquet Courts' artwork and other visuals.


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

I knew from the moment that Bahar said she was up for doing an episode that I'd made the right decision to pluck up the courage to ask her. 

It's colourful, full of smiles, full of positivity, full of humanity and just bloody awesome. 

She embodies the experimental mindset and I totally dig her attitude to life.  Try new stuff, enjoy trying it, see what happens, enjoy the results.


About Bahar

Bahar Canca moved to London in the mid-1990’s to study media and became pretty much fascinated with the diversity of the electronica clubbing scene. Immersing herself in this environment allowed her friendships to grow and, through house sharing and hanging out with DJ’s, she started to take up DJ’ing as her own hobby, promoting club nights, set up her own record label - SubBubble -and is now one of the leading psy-trance/techno DJ’s with a kaleidoscopic love for music and experimenting with new stuff. 

Bahar is also the founder and creative genius behind Psy-Boutique – an electronica music festival that looks absolutely amazing with DJ’s such as Gaudi, Shane Gobi, Aphid Moon and System 7 (Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy formerly of Gong). 

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

Maria Uzor has opened up a world that fuses the subversion and aftermath of the years that followed punk with the after hours, stripped back, defiant underground, counter-culture vibe of Miami’s Kitchen Club or New York’s Danceteria and flipped it forward to the present day.

She is highly creative, open-minded and empathetic and is confronting and understanding her past in order to understand who she is now and celebrate her own uniqueness with no apologies.

Maria is one half of the irresistible Sink Ya Teeth. She recently released her second solo EP called Innocence and Worldliness, a fabulous document of discovery, resilience and awareness. She is also a regular collaborator with A Certain Ratio.

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

We kick off Season 5 with James Spectrum, founder of Pepe Deluxé. 

There hadn’t been an album from Pepe in 10 years but…..things have happened…..they recently released their fifth album called Phantom Cabinet Vol 1 and the story that James tells us about the journey behind this release is extraordinary….

….as is the rest of my conversation with James, where we also got into some fascinating topics, like:

- why we continue to define ourselves by our work
- whether it's a good thing to be goal-oriented
- the paths we choose
- curiosity
- fear of making mistakes
- the importance of different languages in helping understand the world and each other



About Pepe Deluxé

For 25 years, Pepe Deluxe have been creating, recording, breaking and at various stages sampling and remixing. 

Their music is a timeless kaleidoscope. It feels experimental – and it is certainly experimenting with influences – but the clear differentiator is that it is experimental and incredibly catchy: take Beatitude from 2003 – it’s got Black Cadillac, Numa, Daddy’s Blazin BBQ, Cruel Youth and Lying Peacefully – all with their own unique style – surf, spaghetti, Middle Eastern, psychedelia, downbeat, trip hop. 

Listening to a Pepe Deluxé record offers the warmth and uplift that you get from familiarity yet the thrill of not knowing quite what’s coming next.





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 a fabulous way to end a fabulous Season 4 with Ray Ahn, co-founder of one of my favourite bands of all time - The Hard-Ons.

In this fantastic episode, when Ray's not humming Ferry 'Cross the Mersey, we're talking about playing Liverpool (I was there!), Dave Grohl, what drew him to punk, what living with freedom means, the importance of truth, friendships, taking risks, gut instinct and not worrying about what people think of you.

Thank you Ray, this was so memorable for me.


(if you didn't know already, the Hard-Ons are back with a new record, magnificently called “I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Taken”)


About Ray and the Hard-Ons:

If not Australia’s most successful independent band, they are certainly the most influential. And they remain resolutely underground, DIY and bloody fantastic. 

Along with Blackie (Peter Black), Ray is one of the original members and bass player with the band as well as the fella responsible for the band’s very distinctive artwork. 

He released a book of around 750 pieces of his wonderfully subversive art in What I did during my School holidays and also one covering his Comic Book art. They’re available from all good book stores. And some not so good ones too I imagine. And probably from Ray as well.

He also formed Nunchukka Superfly, which is a much more avant garde, psychedelic wig out combo, and has written some very amusing blog posts – the ones about the ”punk pastry chef “ whipping up a magical $100 dessert, the shirt tucker and the case of mistaken Smashing Pumpkins identity are slabs of comedy gold from a highly talented curmudgeon

 A few years ago, when asked what to expect from a new Hard-ons album, he said “Tons of melody – concise but exciting tunes played very well by old idiots”

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

Bringing different influences, ideas and ways of working together is one of the most exciting and satisfying way to live your life and grow as a person.  I think this also goes for creating music - take Bowie, Zappa, Nina Simone, Prince, Led Zep, Little Simz, Miles Davis, Hendrix, Tina Turner. We've also seen it with many of my guests here.

Kelsey Warren is a proponent of this way of living and creating. I hugely admire his curiosity, open mindedness and drive to use his immense talent and expansive influences to constantly evolve and overcome the fear of stepping out of the constraining boxes that society likes to impose and breaking new ground.

Kelsey's latest project is Blak Emoji, who have just released Eclectro - and this is again something that I love - a record that breaks boundaries, genres and pigeonholes. Kelsey has quite rightly received a variety of accolades from notable publications including Rolling Stone, Clash, Afro-Punk, Line Of Best Fit, BUST, Popmuzik, Vampire Freaks and Ghost Cult Magazine.

Thanks for an inspiring conversation, Kelsey!



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

It’s hard to overstate the influence that Richard Norris has had on the music industry over the past 40 years. 

In his youth in St Albans, Richard got involved in the experimental and creative punk rock scene, forming the Innocent Vicars, creating a DIY fanzine called 99%, working as a label manager for Bam Caruso and writing for Strange Things and the NME. Following a, let's say, "educational" collaboration with Genesis P. Orridge, Richard formed The Grid with Dave Ball (from Soft Cell) in 1988 and released their debut single, the Balearic-inspired Floatation in 1990. It was their 1994 single, Swamp Thing with the inspired banjo reel that catapulted the band to commercial success. 

Richard has been at the front of the ever-evolving electronic scene, from the early days of Shoom and The Clink, to covering the emergence of Amnesia in Ibiza, to releasing his own house, acid house, ambient, meditative, drone and psychedelic tracks. He's worked with Joe Strummer, has run record labels, DJ'd, wrote Paul Oakenfold’s official biography and remixed and produced artists like Armand van Helden, Soft Cell, Saint Etienne, Cornershop, Billie Ray Martin, Shakespeare's Sister and has collaborated on the experimental project Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve with Erol Alkan. The list is almost endless!

Recently, he has been doing his own thing - releasing a series of totally hypnotic, ambient, healing experiences, raising money for MIND. And latterly he released Hypnotic Response, a more psychedelic, experimental set of tracks.

There's more exciting stuff in the works….take a listen to the wonderful mindset of one of music's legends.



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

Having been hired to produce a Circle Jerks record that never happened, Dimitri Coats developed a strong bond with Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) and, hey, waddyaknow…...OFF! was born.

Formerly a drama student and actor, Dimitri's musical background is in classic hard rock with Burning Brides, so OFF! was something way different for him. He took on lead guitar,  learned the art of downstrokes, songwriting, production and band management duties and here we are - one of the most thrilling bands around.


It was totally engrossing talking to Dimitri about deep stuff like:

- the importance of emotional intelligence in today's world
- adaptability
- the excitement of improvising and getting weird in the studio
- how he continues to push himself out of his comfort zone,
- how he and his bandmates -  Keith, Justin and Autrey - thrive off each other's growth mindsets to experiment, do things differently and improve collectively and individually.

"Keith is making some of the most relevant music of his life - right now. We've really entered into a unique phase for a band like us"


2022 promises to be a defining year for OFF!




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

Kira Roessler joined Black Flag in 1984 at what was possibly the most polarising point in the band’s career. 

They had just released the game changing My War and were going on an extensive tour to promote the record. The band had moved away from the ferocious assault of Damaged and was venturing into songs that were much more experimental and freeform, yet still retaining the relentless intensity. The punk rock community were ironically divided at this non-conformist change of direction.

Although her time in Black Flag was a hugely important and formative  part of Kira’s story, it's one part of her life and there is much, much more to tell.

Whilst on the road and in the studio, she was studying Economics/System Science at UCLA which she then used to help create a career in post production and dialogue editing – she has won 2 Emmy’s as a dialogue editor and been part of Oscar winning sound editing teams (Mad Max Fury Road). She has also been writing and playing music intermittently with another immensely innovative bass player, Mike Watt, as dos…..

Now, and very excitingly, she is about to release her first solo album called, quite simply…..Kira: ten tracks of beautifully sculpted, innovative musicianship and personal expression that reveal her exquisite bass and vocals.

I'm so grateful to Kira for such an open and fascinating conversation about formative influences, identity, fears, experimentation, non-conformism, vulnerabilities, anxieties and how we live and work in a volatile and complex world.



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