PUTF Podcast

PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 7 featuring Josh Cheon

Josh Cheon grew up in northern New Jersey, just outside New York City where he spent his weekends dancing at goth clubs and digging for records. He moved to San Francisco in 2006 and joined gay DJ collective Honey Soundsystem from 2007 to 2017. His love of underground ‘80s music pushed him to start Dark Entries in 2009, a record label specializing in reissuing lost music from that era as well as contemporary bands referencing those analog sounds.

Website . Soundcloud . Instagram . Bandcamp

Dark Entries is a project of Josh Cheon, a vinyl-focused DJ and collector, Dark Entries was born in the Spring of 2009 to release out of print and unreleased underground music as well as contemporary bands. All of their releases are a carry over from the DIY days of the 1980s independent record labels. https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/

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#joshcheon #darkentries #darkentriesrecords #sanfrancisco #recordstore #vinylreissues #PatrickCowley #archive #reissues #nyc #sf #music #culture #art #80s

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PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 6 featuring Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele

Love Injection is variously known as a publication, a radio show, a DJ partnership, production duo, and a record label. Co-founded by Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele in 2015 as a monthly print fanzine, Love Injection’s continued multi-faceted expansion and evolution reflects the ongoing process of celebrating people and culture, seeking to fill in the gaps of dance music and nightlife culture’s untold stories and histories, and bring new perspectives to familiar ones.

The pair host the Love Injection radio show on NYC’s beloved online radio institution, The Lot Radio, on the air every Saturday morning since February 2016. This sonic extension of Love Injection the print fanzine provides the duo, and their occasional esteemed guest hosts, the latitude to explore sounds unrestricted by the demands of the nocturnal dance floor. The newest branch of the Love Injection family tree is its record label, Love Injection Records. Conceptually, the label lives and operates with similarly fluid aesthetics, with one foot in the dance world and one outside of it.

Counter to the modern trend of increasingly short DJ sets that leave little room for texture and nuance, Barbie and Paul’s preferred mode of DJing is the all-nighter – an extended journey/narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. 

Instagram | www.loveinjection.nyc | Bandcamp | Soundcloud | [email protected] | Resident Advisor

10 Years of Love Injection: A Declaration of Universal Love

https://loveinjection-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/10-years-of-love-injection-a-declaration-of-universal-love-compiled-by-barbie-bertisch-paul-raffaele

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#loveinjection #nyc #music #community  #nycculture #zine #radio #barbiebertisch #paulraffaele

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PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 5 featuring Jon Dieringer 

Jon Dieringer is the founder and editor-in-chief of Screen Slate. He has written for BOMB, TIME, n+1, and elsewhere. He has programmed many screenings and series, most notably at Spectacle (2011-2015), Anthology Film Archives, Roxy Cinema, Low Cinema, and many other venues both in NYC and abroad. His video work has shown at spaces including MoMA PS1, the Squeaky Wheel Art Center, Salon 94, and The Museum of Arts and Design. From 2012-2021 he oversaw the preservation and archiving of moving image artwork as the Technical Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI).

screenslate.com 

Jon’s Film & Video Programming: https://jondotd.com/film-and-video-programming/

Screen Slate's IG: https://www.instagram.com/screenslate/

This episode was recorded at Public Sound Studios in NYC: https://www.publicsound.net/

PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.

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#jondieringer #nyc #screenslate #filmculture #repertorycinema #film #movingimage #nycculture 

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PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 4 featuring Bob Bellerue

Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and A/V technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 35+ years he has been involved in creating and producing a wide range of sonic activities – experimental music, sound art, junk metal percussion, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, Balinese gamelan, and sound / video installations. Bob’s sound work is based in improvised free-noise within multidimensional feedback systems, using amplified instruments, objects, decontextualized field recordings, and resonant spaces, processed by electronics and software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language.

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https://www.instagram.com/halfnormal/

https://www.instagram.com/endetymes/

bobbellerue.net

Ende Tymes 16

16-18 April 2026

Pioneer Works and TV Eye

Tickets: halfnormal.com/endetymes 

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#bobbellerue #noise #nyc #music #endetymes #festival #soundart #experimental #curator #nyc #community 

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PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 3 featuring Ali Rosa-Salas

Ali Rosa-Salas is a curator who believes that the arts are a public good. Raised by a Nuyorican family in South Brooklyn, she draws creative inspiration from New York City’s cultural ecosystems. Ali is currently the Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts at the Henry Street Settlement and director of the Settlement’s Lower East Side cultural institution, the Abrons Arts Center. When not at Abrons, she is probably taking a very long walk. 

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Photo courtesy of Ali.

Mentioned in the episode:

Abrons Arts Center: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/

Abrons EXP: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/abrons-exp

Deadline: April 12th, 2026

PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. This new 4th season is shortened to approximately 30 minutes, with guests invited to focus on their projects and current work.

Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. 

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#alirosasalas #nyc #community #lowereastside #creative #pickuptheflow #entrepreneurship #curator #radio #abrons #abronsartscenter #nyc #socialservice #henrystreetsettlement #art

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PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 2 featuring Zenat Begum

Zenat Begum is a native New Yorker, owner of Playground Coffee Shop, founder of Playground Youth, and an alumni of The New School. Zenat intentionally seeks to center BIPOC, marginalized bodies, the arts, and community engagement in order to foster change in a shapeshifting and gentrifying BedStuy.

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Playground was founded in 2016 as a coffee shop and community space in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

https://playgroundbk.net/

https://www.instagram.com/playgroundbk/

Playground Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@playgroundradiobk

Playground Wines: https://www.instagram.com/playgroundwines/

Photo courtesy of Zenat.

PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. This new 4th season is shortened to 30 minutes, with guests invited to focus on their projects and current work.

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#zenatbegum #nyc #community #bed-stuy #creative #pickuptheflow #entrepreneurship #business #radio

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PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 1 featuring Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson

Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson is the founder of Dweller Festival, a festival platforming Black artists. Previously, Frankie co-founded Discwoman, an agency focused on representing and promoting women and nonbinary DJ producers talent. 

https://www.instagram.com/frankiefatgold/

https://www.instagram.com/dwellerforever

Get your tix here: Dweller 6 Tickets: https://ra.co/promoters/95905

Lineup: https://dwellerforever.club

Merch: https://dwellerforever.bigcartel.com/

Dweller Blog & Library/Resource: https://dwellerforever.blog/library

Photo courtesy of Frankie.

PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. This new 4th season is shortened to 30 minutes, with guests invited to focus on their projects and current work.

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#frankiedecaizahutchinson #pickuptheflow #music #nyccafe #curator #dweller #festival #career #inspiration 

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The PUTF Podcast: Laraaji Interview at Dripping 2025

This interview was recorded at Dripping Festival in New Jersey in June 2025.

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Laraaji is a seminal figure in ambient and New Age music—a pioneering multi-instrumentalist, composer, and spiritual practitioner. Known for his expansive body of experimental and meditative work, he has released dozens of albums and led laughter meditation workshops worldwide, weaving together sound, joy, and mindfulness into a deeply transformative practice.

Laraaji’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official/

Laraaji’s Website: laraaji.blogspot.com

Dripping explores the authentic connections between sound-system driven club music and the experimental avant garde.

Dripping is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Leo Miller. Dripping at Nowadays is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Sol León. Design and website by M.C. Madrigal.

Dripping’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/dripping.fyi/

Dripping’s sonic archive: https://soundcloud.com/drippingfyi

Dripping’s website: https://www.dripping.fyi

Dripping's linktree: https://linktr.ee/drippingfyi

Laraaji's photo courtesy of Dripping.

PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.

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#laraaji #dripping #pickuptheflow

#creativeprocess #artist #nyc #spirituality #drippingfestival #music #sound #career #newage #ambient #dripping #consciousness #spirituality

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The PUTF Show - Episode 19 / Doug Henwood

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Doug Henwood is a journalist and broadcaster based in Brooklyn. From 1986 to 2013 he published Left Business Observer, a newsletter on economics and politics. Since 1995 he’s been the host of Behind the News, a weekly radio show originating on KPFA, Berkeley, that enjoys a vigorous afterlife as a podcast. He’s the author of four books, notably Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997), After the New Economy (New Press, 2004), and My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency (OR Books, 2016). He’s written for many publications including Harper’s, The New Republic, The Nation, and Jacobin. He’s been working for all too many years on a book on the rot of the American ruling class.

Doug's Website: https://lbo-news.com

Follow Doug on X: https://x.com/DougHenwood

Doug Henwood's Radio Archives: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

Wall Street book: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/WSDownload.html

We also requested Doug to share with us some of his favorite things.

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The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.

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#doughenwood #journalism #behindthenews #news #radio #economics #politics #nyc #writer #leftbusinessobserver

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The PUTF Show - Episode 18 / TYGAPAW

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TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in Mandeville, Jamaica. Today, the Artist,

producer, DJ and label owner resides in Brooklyn, New York, where they have spent the

better part of a decade uplifting frequencies representative of the Black electronic music

diaspora. Their sonic palette—informed by the dancehall of their hometown as much as

it is the techno emanating from the warehouses of Detroit—has made them an

indispensable figure in Brooklyn's electronic music scene.

Since 2014, McKenzie has been carving spaces in New York for queer people of color

through their queer club night, and now label, Fake Accent. The platform is part of their

broader mission to forge liberating spaces for marginalized people, particularly Black,

queer and trans people, an agenda embedded in the various layers of the artist's work.

Early records like the breakthrough EP Handle With Care (2019), Ode To Black Trans

Lives (2020) and their debut album, Get Free (2020) established McKenzie not only as

a skillful producer, but further as an emotive storyteller. Through their production, they

are known to weave together stories of queer immigrant life, radical self-preservation

and Black communal joy.

Their music, much like New York, is a cultural stew made vibrant by influences as local

as New York's ballroom community and as distant as Berlin's hard techno circuit. In

2021, one of techno's most vital institutions, the Berlin venue and record label Tresor,

enlisted MacKkenzie to contribute to their 30th anniversary compilation, where the

musician was in the company of techno luminaries like fellow contributors Juan Atkins,

K-HAND and Robert Hood. In 2022, McKenzie brought their visionary take on techno to

life with a three-part techno opera, Devil Woman (Obeah Woman)—the first iteration of

which premiered at New York's The Chocolate Factory Theater, and Queens Museum

before the project traveled to Berlin.

2023, TYGAPAW's second album love has never been a popular movement, was

released on fabric Originals in the spring. This album is a special one for several

reasons: It's the first album the musician produced with hardware rather than Ableton,

their first record that features their vocals prominently and it also sees McKenzie try

their hand at songwriting. In eight tracks that hopscotch across atmospheric techno and

East Coast club, love has never been a popular movement addresses, with unshakable

confidence, fierce self-love and TYGAPAW's journey as a Jamaican reckoning with their

trans identity.

https://www.instagram.com/tygapaw/

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