Yooooooo,

Welcome back after our holiday hiatus. It's been a lovely little break but we are happy to be getting back to it over at the podcast and bring you all some tasty informational music production & DJ nuggets.

For episode four Guava is joined by Breaka and our good friend who travelled all the way down from the freezing cold north to join them, Adam Pits.

On the discussion menu that evening they found the topics of mix downs for clubs, performance anxiety and where to find inspiration for your tracks. They also attempted to write the squelchiest track of all time. 

Good good times.

Big thanks to Bradley Hutchings aka Guava as ever for producing the pod. We all love you.

Tracklist
1. SHOULDACOULDAWOULDA - GALLEGOS
2. Spiral Galaxy - Electric Universe
3. Balsam Drum - JAY
4. Submerged - Om Unit
5. Underwater Excursion - Gallegos & Baby Rollén
6. 8 - Bushwacka!
7. LIFT - Guava
8. I Got You - Timmy S & JB

Here we have part 2 of episode 3 featuring Tape Fear which concludes our discussion and finishes things off with a new musical game; Random Objecty Song Makey

This whole podcast thing is new to us and we are still working out the best way to release these episodes. How far apart they should be and also how long we should cut them down to. If you have any thoughts on the matter then do please let us know in the comments.

Thanks again to Bradley Hutchings for the wonderful work on producing the podcast and to his Grandma for letting us record in her flat. What a legend!

Tracklist

1. Gypsy Moth - Desert Sound Colony & Guava
2. 8 - Bushwacka!
3. B45 - Gallegos & Baby Rollen
4. Can Can Wingspan - Desert Sound Colony
5. Mox Diamond - Desert Sound Colony

For episode 3 Desert Sound Colony was joined by the duo Tape Fear to discuss collaboration in the studio. The conversation was relatively silly for sections including renditions of Henry's school band and an anecdote from Desert Sound Colony about the time that he was cast as a beatboxing cow on a nationwide Ambrosia Custard TV advert.

We had such a good time recording this one and struggled to cut too much down so we have decided to try releasing it as a two parter with the second part going out in a couple of weeks.

This whole podcast thing is new to us and we are still working out the best way to release these episodes. How far apart they should be and also how long we should cut them down to. If you have any thoughts on the matter then do please let us know in the comments.

Thanks again to Bradley Hutchings for the wonderful work on producing the podcast and to his Grandma for letting us record in her flat. What a legend!

Tracklist
1. Desert Sound Colony - Can Can Wingspan
2. Dawl - Overdub
3. Tom Place - Forthcoming Bade Tune
4. Guava & Breaka - Jupiter
5. CJ Bolland - Ain't Gonna Be Me
6. Buck Bumble Theme Tune
7. Breaka - Stretch
8. Basic Bastard - Deep City

In the second episode Desert Sound Colony, Fred Quest & Baby Rollén discussed the tricky topic of inspiration. 

What do you do when it strikes? How can you make the most of it? and what do you when it disappears again?...

Music
1. Desert Sound Colony - Aunt Wendy's Wedding In Wales
2. A1 People - Do It (Metamatics Mix)
3. Jack Michael - Menace
4. Huerta - Hey Freddo
5. Jack Michael - Bad Bwoi Sound (Desert Sound Colony Remix)
7. Fred Quest - Pearls
8. Desert Sound Colony & Baby Rollén - I C Jangles
9. Desert Sound Colony - The Woodcutter

Produced by Bradley Hutchings aka Guava

We are very excited to welcome you all to the very first Holding Hands Podcast! Featuring Desert Sound Colony, Breaka and Guava.

Over this series we are going to be exploring and discussing a wide variety of topics within the world of music production, Djing and the music business in general. We will also be talking about some of our current favourite jams and playing some musical games :D There will be different guests each time, starting with artists on the label and then branching out into all strands of the musical hemisphere.

In the first episode we spoke about the pros and cons of studying electronic music production at university and how best to survive and make a living whilst you are on the journey to becoming financially stable as a musician.

We hope that firstly it makes for entertaining listening, but also that everyone can gain some insight into areas of music the life of a producer that they might be wondering about, or didn't even know that they wanted to learn about.

We've never made a podcast before and are learning as we go but we thoroughly enjoyed doing it and we hope you all enjoy coming along for the ride with us.

Liam, Charlie and Bradley xxx

Music

1. Adam Pits - Stagga
2. EBE Audio - The Energy EP
3. Gemini - Swimming With Sharks
4. Client_03 - Hope Repeater
5. Breaka - Puffer Jackets
6. Desert Sound Colony & Guava - The Sorcerer
7. Yutaro Sugawara - Warp
8. Breaka & Guava - Jupiter
9. Desert Sound Colony - The Furnace

Produced by Bradley Hutchings