“It’s really important to believe in your own artistic vision. If I’m going to question my vision, it better be because I think I can do better than this — not because I’m thinking that I’m not good at this. If I’m going to question myself like that, I might as well just listen to other people’s music.”

“The question of imposter syndrome is very self-absorbed, by nature. I think in dance music especially, you’re faced with what music does for people around you… When you see 200 smiling faces dancing or 10 people messaging you to say they liked your music, letting imposter syndrome win means shitting on all their faces! I think that’s such a waste of energy.”

“This careful balance that I’ve built, it was grueling work over the past 15 years. It’s a delicate balance — and imagine if I expected more of myself? I think I would probably fall apart. And it’s not worth it. So I just focus on the fact that I’m so happy right now in my life. I never thought I would be, but I am. So that, to me, is proof that I have a good level of expectation for myself that I can answer to… What other do I need?”

“Music helps drown out all the unimportant, untrue things around it and I get to the core, which is sadness, and I sit there by myself. That’s how I get through it.”

This is a great interview, really liked the part on imposter syndrome!

Good interview and an interesting insight into Object Blue as an person as well as an artist 

Episode 39 is the second instalment of our talks about mental health with producer and DJ object blue.

London based object blue has quickly established herself as a producer and live performer to be reckoned with, finding solace in the making and playing of music. She has often been outspoken about battling with depression since she was a teenager, and has talked openly about how dark thoughts can interfere with her work. In this conversation, we delve into imposter syndrome, mental health and creativity, and the power of music as a healing force. 

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Music:
"Cerco de Deus" - object blue (2018)
"Bipp" - SOPHIE (2015)
"Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" - object blue (2019)
"Even in You" - object blue (2019)
"Closed Open" - object blue (2021)

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Manchester king-pin & Shotta Tapes bossman Tom Boogizm joins us every month for 2 hours of many styles & flavours.

https://www.nts.live/shows/tom-boogizm/episodes/tom-boogizm-25th-february-2023

Robbin' Lobsters From Mobsters w/ Tom Boogizm 250223

home session recorded 11 may 2023

Monoiz - The svr
Toxido Mask - Nebula [Accent Records]
Recent Arts - Invisible waves [Reiten]
C Mantle - A:rth [Kaer’Uiks]
Rude solo light - cuzn
CO2 Flow - X25 [ANA]
Low Gravity - Eclittica [Camera Magnetica]
Ethno Service - ES AMB 04 [Unizone]
Silvan Nicca - Low Drift [Les Points / Gentrified Underground / Infoline]
AGILITÄT - Explore/Exploit [Project90]
Flore - Peninsula [SFX]
Earl Grey - Infinite loop [Western Lore]
Sepehr - Furys edge [SPE:C]
Foreseer - Through the depths [Starry Earth]
Lazyfish/Mewark - Flaong [Lagunamuch-records]
unbuilt - oddsse [throughout records]
Senglar - Paalmax
Woulg - Through
Alternate Current - Organic Dysfunction [Diffuse Reality Records]
Billy Spike Iland — Depth [CommonSense Records]
Olorun - Instability Of Opacity (Estrato Aurora Remix) [Danza Nativa]
Brüne - Embryo VI [Aedi Records]
Mordio - Ago [Øbskure]
Laima Adelaide - Blue Fog [DNC Limited]
Foreign Material - Eulogy of the sun [Annuled Music]
Mbizo - Shuffle (Gavnlig Remix)
Alfredo92 - Stacker [Electric Shapes]
Sohcn - Melting Point [Subhills]
Clarence Rise - Lissajous
Kletis - Krasno [Accent Records (^^^)]
Marcelus - Reversed [OUT-ER]
Insane Blind - Cage [Concrete Tbilisi]
Manent - Phase Invert [Aura Dinamica]
lil zoid - nave [DYSPHORIA RECORDS]

soft neon hit - recorded @home 11may2023

Straight from Sheffield, @unpersonuk’s mix is an arcane of styles, and feels like he’s deconstructing electro-acoustic experimentations to their deepest roots. From grimy ghetto verses dissolving over native folk chants, to improvised jazz cuts blended together with grunge noises, Jake digs ambidance prototypes, percussive field recordings and Asian strings, making unexpected choices between niche artists and inedit productions. Worth the attention of @crackmagazine, @bleep_bot and DJ Python’s show on @rinsefm, his productions are a mindful collage of both sampled and synthetic sound-crafts.

Decadance #032 | unperson

https://www.nts.live/shows/8ulentina/episodes/8ulentina-2nd-august-2023

8ULENTINA 010823

North London native and Hyperdub signee Loraine James is an electronic producer who effortlessly blends Electronica and IDM with whispers of jazz and ambience all wrapped up in the artists key avant-garde aesthetic and sensibility.

https://www.nts.live/shows/loraine-james/episodes/loraine-james-3rd-august-2023

Loraine James 030823

Twin System // NOODS // 30.9.23

JEROME Mixfile #981 - ǝɯǝɐ

https://linktr.ee/emeaaeme

JEROME Mixfile #981 - ǝɯǝɐ

A riff on Jon Hassell's _Fourth World_ series. Where Hassell focused on creating ritual music of potential societies that _didn't_ exist; Ian Kim Judd seeks to evoke the notion of potential utopian societies that _could_ exist. In these times of global instability and uncertainty, Fifth World seeks to posit an alternative, with scenes from an optimistic future.
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/fifth-world/episodes/fifth-world-25th-october-2023

Fifth World w/ Ian Kim Judd 251023

Visual artist and ceramicist Aaron Angell plays a vinyl-only monthly selection of music from his collection - usually focussing on guitar soli, privately pressed UK folk, psychedelia, and the occult new age.
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/aaron-angell/episodes/aaron-angell-20th-november-2023

Aaron Angell 201123

Lucía Meliá is a writer and dj based in Mexico City. As unmade she focuses her creative practice on exploring the affective flows between sound, literature and theory.

She is the founder and creative director of the platform perpetual_field, an experimental space inspired by the thought of Gilles Deleuze, where she currently curates sinister flower, a series of experimental mixes broadcast monthly via radio.syg.ma. In 2023, she began her personal residency at Hong Kong Community Radio.

Tracklist: 
Romance, Dean Hurley - The Flesh is Weak
Ben Bondy - The Only Part of You That I Ever Really Need
Vanessa Amara - Pipe Organ
Cool Maritime, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Daybreak
Acronym - In the Swamp
Pataphysical - Dream Reveal
Kareem Lotfy - Plant Nursery
Liila - Silent Illuminating
Liai - Fous Directions in Flowers
KMRU - resonant sharing
Dylan Henner - Harrisburg
Masahiro Takahashi - Torch Dance
Maxime Denuc - Edo

Garden Of Motion #06 - w/ Unmade - 07.04.2024

AIR is an interview podcast series with a different theme each episode. 

Created in 2017, AIR aims to be something different in the wide world of music journalism. Tired of the usual promotional fluff, host Emma Robertson invites artists, DJs, and musicians to get deep on one topic that inspires them — everything from nature, to film, to spirituality — in the hope that it inspires you, too.

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