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A fantastic chat with the legend Krust, about growing up in Bristol, the beginnings of Fresh Four, Reprazent, winning the Mercury Music prize and so much more. Thanks for being part of the Unintententional Podcast.


Unintentional Conversations  with DJ Krust

Extraordinary catch ups with the desert-dwelling Adam Freeland. Topics covered include surviving off-grid, too many breakbeat bootlegs, why he quit DJing and is now back at it, the reverb found in Canyons and Bill Hicks.


Unintentional Conversations  with Adam Freeland

Frank is a fantastically warm-hearted and humble man, an electronic music pioneer. As part of AME, co-founder of Innversions records and one half of Howling he has helped push a unique warm techno sound all his own.

Unintentional Conversations  with Frank Wiedemann (AME)

Beautiful chats about formative times in the dance music explosion of the early '90s.

Unintentional Conversations with Dave Seaman

Here we catch up like old times, talking about her mentorship programme, being sober at raves and wishing we remembered more from the old days. Growing up and not fitting in, and how that helped her become the unique tour de force she has become.

Unintentional Conversations with Mc Chickaboo

Line Noise typically concerns itself with electronic music. But we couldn’t resist the opportunity to have a word with two genuine musical legends. Noah Lennox, better known as Panda Bear, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founding member of the band Animal Collective; Pete Kember, also known as Sonic Boom, is a psychedelic pioneer, guitarist, producer and vocalist, known for his work with Spacemen 3 and Spectrum. Together, they made one of our favourite albums of 2022, with the gorgeous Reset. We met them in Barcelona, before their brilliant gig, to talk about intros, Pete’s (lowbrow) love of Queen, a stage show, children, appearing on the Simpsons and working with Daft Punk.

Line Noise Episode 123 (Panda Bear And Sonic Boom)

Ben Cardew welcomes dub legend Mad Professor, a man who has worked with everyone from Lee “Scratch” Perry to Sade, onto Line Noise, ahead of his performance at the Jazztronica festival in Barcelona this weekend (April 22, 2023). They talk about the inspirational Scratch, remixing Massive Attack, dub as social commentary, white privilege and the lasting impact of dub.

Line Noise Episode 126 (Mad Professor)

Ben Cardew welcomes his old Line Noise cohort, Pitchfork contributing editor Philip Sherburne, to look back on the first day of Sónar 2023 and look forward to what is to come at the Barcelona festival, including personal recommendations. Philip also talks about the Balmat label he runs with Albert Salinas and his Futurism Restated newsletter.

Line Noise Episode 133 (Sónar special with Philip Sherburne)

"These records changed my emotional perspective on music." Recorded live at Dekmantel, the Italian techno artist dissects the records that shaped his approach to DJing and production.

There are few artists as widely respected as Donato Dozzy, who is known for his unique approach to building hypnotic, acid-infused atmospheres as a solo artist and as one half of Voices From The Lake. He is also a singular curator at the head of Spazio Disponibile alongside Neel, and a DJ with a reputation for building sophisticated and slowly unwinding sets at festivals like Labyrinth, Terraforma and Horst, as well as in public spaces and museums.

In this Exchange live from Dekmantel 2023, Resident Advisor's editor-in-chief, Whitney Wei, asks Dozzy about the songs that shaped his craft in our Playing Favourites flagship series. He takes us back to his childhood, playing the first track that introduced him to electronic music before moving chronologically through his life and the pieces that acted as lynchpins in his creative development. He discusses how he grew up in a musical household, listening to classical orchestrations with his parents before finding Italo disco and the stylings of Giorgio Moroder, Lory D and The Future Sound of London. These albums, he says, influenced how he builds his sets, leaning into slowly unfolding narratives as he moves from one track to another. "When I started releasing albums, I decided that I wanted to create stories," he says. Listen to the episode in full.

Tracklist:
Franco Battiato - Summer on a Solitary Beach
Giorgio Moroder - The Chase
Lory D - Abrupt Interruption
The Future Sound of London - Cascade
Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks 1996
Mike Parker - Dispatches
Die Woodys - Fitchtl's Lied
Verde Prato - Nina Sonando
Donato Dozzy - Valentina

EX.675 Donato Dozzy

To me the Plump DJs were at the forefront in the early Nuskool Breaks scene back in the 2000's, leading the way with new  innovative tunes and tight DJs mixes of some very underground music at that time. Lee Rous and Andy Gardner make up the duo that is the Plump DJs with over 20 years experience in the game and while the breaks musical style has changed over the years they are still touring and producing great music till this day.

This mix was made for Annie Nightingale and her BBC Radio 1 show called Annie On One back in 2005.

Please note: This mix includes a little interview at the start. The mix starts around the 6 minute mark.

For more information about the Plump DJs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plump_DJs

https://www.facebook.com/plumpdjs
https://soundcloud.com/plump-djs

Plump DJs - Annie On One - 17.6.2005

With over 2 decades experience as a DJ and Producer Deekline has cemented himself in Breakbeat folklore with a huge back catalogue of music and mixes that can be heard and seen all over the interwebs. With early collaborations with his sidekick and friend Wizard releasing a full album called "Breaks, Beats and Blondes" on Botchit & Scarper Records in 2004. Another one in 2009 and 2 mix compilations.

Nowadays with tracks such as Got to Believe, Deepa and jungle anthem Good to Have the Feelin, with the legendary Tippa Irie, have picked up play and support from DJs such as MistaJam and Annie Mac, on Radio 1 and 1Xtra. Deekline is still doing the EDM business to this day, touring and making music.

https://www.facebook.com/djdeekline
https://soundcloud.com/djdeekline

Deekline Feat MC Kie - Triple J Mixup - 20.2.2010

Both Ellis D & Rennie Pilgrem have been in the EDM scene since the beginning of time (haha) and both were a part of an act called Rhythm Section along with Richie T & Nick Newton. Rhythm Section were an electronic rave act before Ellis D & Rennie Pilgrem moved onto their own careers as an artist. This mix from 2010 was recorded LIVE at Rough Tempo Radio a place at that time that had guest mixes from top breakbeat acts. The mix itself starts out with some old school breaks sounds as Rhythm Section then moves on to individual mixes from Rennie Pilgrem & Ellis D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennie_Pilgrem

Ellis D > https://www.westburymusic.net/ArtistDetails?Aid=WBM_AR_226

Ellis D & Rennie Pilgrem - LIVE @ Rough Tempo Radio June 2010

Hailing from the streets of Paris local Parisian DJ & Producer Morlack wants to take you on a journey back in time as he pays homage to breakbeat tunes from around 10 years ago with this exclsuive mix for Old Breaks Mixes. Charting the top of Juno Download Morlack is one funky artist and he has put together this special DJ mix just for Old Breaks Mixes, not an old breaks mix as such but a great mix of old tunes. This mix is pretty damn good too !

https://soundcloud.com/morlack
https://www.mixcloud.com/morlack
https://www.facebook.com/Morlack1

Morlack - Massive Breaks (Old Breaks Mixes Exclusive) - 23.7.2019

The Breakbeat Junkie rose to fame in the early days of the Nu Funk Breakbeat mid tempo scene with a tonne of Funky Breaks tracks mostly released through the Goodgroove label. His tracks and remixes have graced other labels too such as Breakbeat Paradise Recordings and he secretly known to be part of the duo Second Hand Audio. This mix was a promo for Goodgroove Records for the year 2008.

https://soundcloud.com/the-breakbeat-junkie
https://www.facebook.com/TheBreakbeatJunkie/  
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1207416-The-Breakbeat-Junkie

The Breakbeat Junkie - Dope Fresh Mixtape 2008

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Unintentional Conversations with Adam Freeland

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