Tag: music
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Chat with Tim & Adam from Total Bike Forever – Ben Around the World Podcast: Episode 7
I chat with Tim and Adam from Total Bike Forever who are 10 months into their cycle from London to Tokyo. Along the way they’re producing and preforming with their mini electronic music setup. Subscribe to Total Bike Forever: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ3r7jPQ-eUs6v2ss3frs_g
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Playlists Getting Me Around the World
Goooo Ben! My friend Flick from the music world back in London created this playlist for me. A range of British indie, disco-funk and reggae that I can’t stop listening too. Particularly because it reminds me so much of the UK. Those accents. Producer Focusses I’m really interested in how producers influence the sounds of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 39 – 11th September 2018
ODO 4450km Location A remote Turkish Plateau Weather 11-22 Avoiding showers As the day before I began the day with a climb and decent onto another plateau basin. This time, cold from my morning pre sunrise routine, I put on a playlist my friend Flick has made me for my trip. The small speaker of…
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Ben Around the World Diary – Day 38 – 10th September 2018
ODO 4314km Location Bagkonak Weather 15-25 Strong head wind I spent another day following the winding D330 highway as I picked across the plateaus and turned south to skirt the banks of a deep blue lake. The banks sitting at 1000m above sea level themselves. The road climbing and descending gradually with the features of…
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The Japanese Music Market and Tokyo Dance Music Event
This month I’ve been exploring Tokyo. The neon city is more different from London, New York or LA than I ever could have imagined. The language, the customs, the music industry. Wandering the streets of Shibuya in the west of the city I came across a glowing monument to CDs. Long since the preserve of…
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Talking Chew, Seedrs and Future Bounce with @PureSoulMusic on Hoxton FM
Yesterday I was invited at short notice to join Petar from WatchMoreTVRadio on Hoxton FM to talk Chew, Seedrs and Future Bounce as well as playing some old DnB I happened to have on my USB. Hoxton FM are constantly pushing the boundaries with Chew and that’s undoubtedly why they were the most played show…
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Why DJs Need to do More Than Mix – Spotify Party
Everyone is a DJ. It’s true more and more every day. But as is the way with technology, the democratisation of the skill does not always lead to dilution of the profession. In terms of DJs, while it’s never been easier to become a DJ, professional DJs are now earning more that ever before in…