Kazim Rashid is an artist, manager, and creative director based in Berlin and London. 

I found out about him through my good friend David Okumu who is our magical, mutual connection.

Aside from his work as a manager, Kazim is chief creative officer at Resident Advisor, the world's largest and most influential electronic music platform. 

His work often focuses on collaborating with artists, record labels, and brands to help them achieve their goals in the music industry.

We get into the current state of things for artists navigating the changing tides of music commerce.

Strap in!

Music for this episode comes from a chap I met in Berlin thanks to Hainbach.

Mr Ayjay Nils plays Viola in the Berlin Phil and is a great improviser :)

A rare combo! He's also super into weird and wonderful electronic music which is featured in this show. It's all from an upcoming album

Here's his Bandcamp to check the action!

https://ayjaynils.bandcamp.com

Im going to read from the press release this time coz its a good'n

The simpatico sophomore album by the unstoppably prolific Alex Paterson and fellow Orb original Andy Falconer is an epic sail through the sky at night. Helmed by gentle spirits with warmth in their hearts, 'SETI' feels cold and dark, yet also glowing and welcoming. Aboard a cosy candlelit spacecraft, the duo experience the cosmos as somewhere overwhelmingly infinite, yet reassuring and friendly. A sort of 'ambient unplugged', it's full of acoustic instruments and nostalgic samples, folding space between the old world, and places where no man has gone before.

Dr Paterson speaks

"The first LP had a great reception and sold so well I couldn't even get a copy myself. Andy is brilliant at making ambient music, and working with him is always rewarding. We understand each other's brains – it's easy and organic - so doing another made total sense." He adds, "SETI stands for Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, but it's also something you sit on, to chill out, which is why the album contains a Three Piece Suite. This record is musical ambience, which is what we like to make, rather than drone ambience, which there's a lot of these days."

That last point struck me as it describes the sensations I associate with the music of the Orb which is a sort of maximal ambient rush.

It's a sound that whizzes me right back to my dreamy youth tbh when these guys were so responsible for making the soundtrack that accompanied me through my last years at school. It was a time when I needed music to blow my mind.

When I was told I could speak to an original member of the orb I was so curious to ask Andy how it was all made back in those days. We get into that right at the end of this chat as well as a walk down memory lane and up the present. 

It was great to catch up with Andy in Portugal. He's had quite the life!

Let's get into it

Merriment abound ! It's that time again when sonic stockings are stuffed. This time with a fireside ramble twixt myself and the legend that is Dj Shadow as we celebrate his new LP "Action Adventure"

Welcome. 

I hope this finds you in good health and merry mood as the season sheds it's joy upon you. If joy is in short supply and the period feels claustrophobic and the family is doing your head in then I trust yule be able to duck out for a spell and use this as an escape pod.

Who am I rambling with on the sonic sleigh?

Dj Shadow really needs no Endroducing but in case you're not hip to his MPC60 masterpiece from 1996 you MUST inhale that now.

What a record. I recall having both of my Christmas stockings blown off by this LP and it's humbling to be sat on a zoom with the chap now. 

Such is the mystery of the digital time ghosts. 

Twas a mighty pleasure to chew the cud with such a master of the chops.

I hope this offers you some sonic solace this holiday 

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I wish to alert you to a new way to give to this show, should you find it appealing :) 

https://www.patreon.com/howa/membership

It's the new $1.50 tier on Patreon, a wonderful idea that came from Hainbach. 

A way to chip in and directly support the show as a kind of digital high five :) I really do pour my heart Into the HOWA podcast. As you can imagine, it all takes loads of effort. From finding the guests and organizing the chats, to trying to find new areas of sonic joy to explore and share in the episodes. Then there's all the time editing, uploading, promoting and all that. If you enjoy the show and feel you can spare a little over a dollar a month to help me carry on, that would be rather ace! thanks!!

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Welcome to another remote LA pod!

It's a REAL treat to have had a sit down and chin wag with the fabulous gent and badass musical mind that is Si Bonobo!

We've orbited in the same musical lands since the early 2000's and yet this is the first substantial convo we've had.

Bring it on I say :) he welcomed me into his home, we killed the AC and sweated it out for your listening pleasures.

Twas a top chat. We get into the come up and the evolution of Si's styles and touch on his amazing live show setup and philosophy.

Couple of Brits at the end of the rainbow as it were. Chatting in the hills of LA. Must be doing something right!

Feeling very lucky. 

In the nitty gritty I get into a tricky gritty trying to tame the forces of feedback once again. This time feeding an eq into it's own mind.

Does it work??

Av a listen!  

Thank yee 

Thank yee

The Funk Lordz have boarded the pod.

we go waaaaay back and yet we've rarely had a chance for a proper chin wag. They were rolling thro Nashville so I HAD to hang with these  2 legends!

We talk about surviving and evolving, keeping it fresh, staying power, LA, New York, Prince and what not.

Freestyle rambles of funk. Enjoy!

In today's nitty I'm discovering what sonic salt might be. 

Go easy. Remember they add more at restaurants. 

Jake Aron on the metaphor. Too true.

I'm happy to say that I'm also sponsored today by plugin alliance. The place to get some MAJOR sonic power tools. chuffed! thanks dudes :) check them here.  https://www.plugin-alliance.com

Welcome to 27.
I'm in the distance pod this time chatting to the man like Chrome Sparks in Australia of all places…
Not in person but over the magic Skype ping pong. It was a top treat to pick the brains of this intellectual craftsman.
He's a trained percussionist with a very good ear and bold song writing moves. Since 2010 he's just not stopped
Much inspiration as we talk about his past, the rise and the current set up both in the studio and live.
We brave the eternal question… how does an electronic artist play live??? HOW??!?!

HOWA??!?!?

I dig into the multi tracking and phasing of effects to see if there are any simple pleasures hiding.

Also I demo sounds from my NEW splice.com sound pack "TIME MODULATOR"

Happy days

Hello I'm chuffed! Why?? This episode marks one year in the land of pod! Hard to fathom but tis true. I wanted to thank everyone for listening and for all your stupendous feedback. It's highly motivating to know you're out there enjoying the show and I'll keep em coming! biweekly massive. Today's guest is a serious heavyweight with a far reaching understanding of the facets of the music world and a considered and egoless manner to boot. Perhaps it's the Scandinavian in him? Let me put it this way, he's not the kind of alpha that struts in the room fanning his accolades. He remains open and curious. Something to strive for! We had a tip top time making music for a day and I was very unhappy I'd not managed to sit him down for a chat after. He was kind enough to come back to sit in the hot chair. He got a car to the house with his bags on the way to airport. Mightily generous and definitely above and beyond considering his workload in Nashville and the long-haul that was imminent. Martin's list of accolades is long. A 2 time grammy winning producer . A potent writer across genres. An owner of multiple studios in London and New York. A developer of artists. He's worked with Jason Mraz, Train, Cat Stevens (Yusuf), Jamie Cullum, James Morrison, and KT Tunstall, with many more. Welcome some wisdom to the pod! Today's nitty is all about DI guitar fuzz. I run multiple preamps into one another, introduced some curves and let it burn. Somethings got to represent the candle on this pod cake! Thanks for making with me to my first birthday J

Hello and welcome an American hero. Larry Crane! The man deserves a standing ovation. Just imagine interviewing peoples for 22 years. Giving a platform to the unsung experts that make all this amazing art alongside fascinating portraits of the household names. Larry has been producing one the most beloved audio publications around. TapeOp! Wiki tells me that the first issues were published by photocopying, hand-stapling and spray painting the covers. Look how far it's come! Larry came by the house and interviewed me for the tapeop podcast and mag (major honour) https://tapeop.com/podcasts/ After our chat we let the tapes continue to roll and I had a good ole fashioned ramble with the man. He's got anecdotes for years. 22 years. It's surreal doing this show. I feel mighty lucky to get to hang with such distinguished folk. Thank you Larry! Thank you also to Audeze for their sponsorship of todays show. Damn those LCD headphones are rather amazing. Even if you have a decent room with treatment these headphones can reveal hidden details. The transient response alone is hard to match in speaker land. I love tech that is new AND incredible. These headphones might allow you to leave the conventional studio behind. Yep! in a Biweek dudes.

It's about time I had him on the pod! He's the man that came along and blew the bloody doors off for me around 2003-2004. We wrote and produced my album Multiply together and then went on to do Jim in much the same way. Nothing would be the same for me. He showed me the 2,5,1 the cycle of 4s. The minor 9... all that jazz. He was always the guy that would have a crew of musicians over and jamming at his place in Berlin. Music is communication and community with him. Something I miss a lot about those days. Just jumping on an instrument and playing for hours. It's good for the soul. He always evolves his craft. These days making more magical sounds than ever. Check his solo work for the range of humanity. From the light and playful to heavy and woeful he uses music to talk. This time we used words. Great to have ya man Welcome my friend MOCKY ! I get into a topic the two of us discussed back in the day. Sampling at high sample rates. What are the advantages when making sampled instruments? Turns out they are pretty significant. Hello! Almost a year of the show. Thanks to all for listening :)

Francisca Valenzuela and her partner Vicente Sanfuentes are a superb example of how couples can turn their deep connection into great art. The alchemy of love! OH yes!!! They have both been making big waves. Francisca Valenzuela for example has had Gold and Platinum records. No big deal. She remains extremely down to earth but make no mistake, she's a huge star in the latin music community and remains very committed to expanding awareness of women in the scene. Her festival Ruidosa is so important. It's an all female series of events that not only highlights a host of incredible music but also brings together speakers and topics that have long been neglected, relating to women working in music and art in the Latin world. Vicente ? Oh yes, he's a force. He's got such a positive outlook on life and art and it's contagious! I love hearing his perspectives on making music and his ability to grow and evolve his craft is mighty inspiring. I love these guys! Hope you all enjoy our chat. Nitty gritty is all about making randomness work toward intrigue and (hopefully)beauty :) Dice are nice! Hello!

Tony Tony Tony! Yes! Very happy to have spent a mo getting to know the fellow. (not sure I can keep up that rhyme scheme!) There's so much one could say about Mr Maserati.. or so little.. So little might be "He mixes Beyonce" for example. I mean MIXES BEYONCE!! It's insane. I think I'd probably have a heart attack if I had that stress on my shoulders but Tony is a mightily chill gent. I was so impressed by his LA space and his commitment to moving forward and forging his own path. He's a major inspiration! Once again. Thanks to the man. Hope you enjoy the rambles :) In the nitty gritty I get into a sampling technique I picked up from electronic pioneer Matthew Herbert. Such a simple idea that really can get you new sounds with next to no gear! lo-fi joy. Thanks again to www.sounds.com for their continued support of the show. They have some of the best material available for making that competitive music in 2018. I even found a slew of zither sounds. You never know when you might need to zither it up! They have it all! cheers guys J

Super happy to have Mark on the show! Modern legend with the hefty pedigree and the skills to move with the times What a crazy road he's had working alongside some of the biggest and brightest in the biz We chew the cud in a comfy part of his new studio zone at the sound factory in Hollywood Where many a badass record has been made and where WHATS GOING ON was mixed… no biggie. What's so cool is Mark keeps that spirit going so well with a great crew around him and a revolving door of top talent We chat about his new record label and the uber talented KING PRINCESS, we chat AMY WINEHOUSE we chat about inspiration And beyond Good stuff. I get into the transformation game in nitty gritty. The alchemy of vocal to synth, guitar to synth I crack out my old pal the MS20 for a ride into change town. Thanks again to the excellent people at www.sounds.com for the kind show sponsorship Cheers all Was a fun one to make J

Hanging Out With Audiophiles - Ep21 - MARK RONSON by hanging out with audiophiles

Quiz time. Who's recent LP did Thom Yorke executive produce? Answer: Clark. Pretty obvious from the title of the show but think about that for a minute. Thom Yorke. Bloody hell. I mean in terms of endorsements, there's few higher and there's good reason for TM to be Clarking, the C man is pumping out the goods and has been for yonks. Ack eye. We met an age ago me the C and shared a path in certain ways as label mates on warp records. I used to play shows with him and we both flocked from Brighton to Berlin and he back to Brighton in search of the muse. His work for dance, film, TV and video games is just one side of his polygon talent and we roll the dice here for a good while catching up as old pals whilst it's caught on tape. It's one of those chats that's a little more personal than some others as we haven't spoken in ages and just mostly linger on ideas like mushroom hunters. Catching sonic fungi here and there for appreciation before consuming and staggering/rambling on. Lovely to reconnect and good news his new LP is out NOW! Here's a perfect link for yahttps://throttleclark.com/album/cave-dog/

Thanks to Soundtoys for their kind sponsorship. This episode is the last in a six part dive into their excellent plugin line. This time I mangle it with alter boy :) Head over for a free trail and see if it's your thing. They craft some of the best plugins in the known universe if you ask me ! https://www.soundtoys.com

Atrak in the house! So pleased to spend some 1 on 1 time with the man at his new abode in LA. The house is STUNNING! wow. Such good taste! Comes as no surprise. If you want to learn about making moves you should pay attention to this guy! He's made so many good decisions and takes his craft super seriously whilst remaining completely down to earth and full of enthusiasm. One of the best scratch djs of all time, owner of the badass fools gold record label which has been around over 10 years..... Hugely successful producer and entrepreneur!! He's the real deal! Yes! Today on the show I'm exploring the secret life of the lav mic. Small enough to fit inside drums and get lost in places mics usually cant probe. I probe away in the nitty gritty. Also I'm very happy to say the show is sponsored by the excellent folks at www.sounds.com A new way to get the freshness in your music. Everything from harps to hammers, full loops to tiny sfx. There's a HUGE array of stuff to chose from and thanks to a very impressive filtering system you can quickly navigate through the library and get exactly what you need. 2018 style! Nothing in the way of that idea!! Cheers dudes!

Hello! A trip to LA anyone?? why yes!! There were so many tip top interviews made on my last jaunt over to the west coast. meet my new friend mr Lappin! http://www.andrewlappin.com Andrew is a friend of the pod by proxy as he's pals with my spiritual advisor Jake Aron! yes. We all love Jake as we shall discuss further on the show. We get into the way it feels to be in a potent shed by sunset sound. How to make your drums sound modern (aka the holy grail of recording) The joy is in the journey! I dive into the pool of convolution to see what OTHER than room impulse responses can be used to yield the funk. yep. I even ask YOU a question a question>? yes!

Yo! Welcome to my 18th Birthday. The show is now a ripe 36 weeks old and I'm chuffed to have Sean Obrien on the show. He's a top chap and really down to ground fellow who's a relatively under the radar badass and someone I'd not heard of until our meeting but now he's very much a part of the extended family :) He's worked with Moses Sumney, the national and a whole host of folks include Tony Berg who is a recurring figure on the pod having mentored Blake Mills and Shawn Everett so it's that LA knowledge in the house! check this link: http://seanobrienmusic.com I get into the making MUSIC with delays.. what? yeah THAT! Music from pure feedback. Bucket in a brigade all sining their weird wobbly song! Kiss the hand that feeds you :) Hello hello

Eh up! We've got Kimbra on a bus, $20 tapes, silly songs and some brain food. You into that? Kimbra has a new album out! Primal Heart. Give it a listen peoples! In the nitty gritty I get tapes and slam them together to phase the shit out of some phase Kimbra mentions some interesting Brain stuff at the end. https://www.wired.com/2011/01/the-neuroscience-of-music/ your brain on music!!! let's go

My chat with Ruban Nielson aka Unknown Mortal Orchestra :) What a top chap. He took precious time before tour to muse and ramble with me on the methods behind his wonderful madness. Super creative, super inventive Ruban is the real deal. Really chuffed to have him on the show. I'm a fan of his music and productions! His new album "sex and food" is out NOW on al the good platforms. Grab a physical copy I'd say :) Support for the show comes from fjord fuzz. A quality maker of brutal fuzz and exciting boxes to explode and erode signals in all those ways we love. check em here!! https://www.facebook.com/fjordfuzz/ nitty gritty this show sees me testing the power of a $30 mic on drums. what can be done? I mean really WHAT can be DONE!!! cheers !

I made a new friend on my latest trip to LA. This gent has already made some seriously badass records. Nick Hakim, Big Thief, Show me the Body and more! Not bad for 29. Not at ALL bad :) Just goes to show what good ears and a good mind can do. We talk of his less is more mix setup which make Andrew a real shining example of the new school to me. This interview was conducted in a friends apparent in downtown LA (thanks Silvia!) You hear a weird dog at one point. Not in pain, just sounding off about the canine situation no doubt. Nitty gritty this episode is a gated affair. MULTI gates! It's new to me. I just thought of it and tried it for this show. It's a bit of a time consuming process but it YIELDS! gate the evil y'all expand the gold :)

HI Guys This is a special one for me. Roger and his whole family have really made our time in Nashville something magical. As you'll hear, he's a warm and deeply knowledgable chap with SO many incredible stories from his journeys in the madcap world of music. From his raw garage band days, to the heady rushe of a major MAJOR studio job in New York in the 80s, to the trips around the world as a heavily in demand freelancer and now to his superb Nashville studio he's seen it all. Grab a quality beverage and sip down some of his wisdom. Having worked with everyone from Lou Reed to Grandmaster Flash. Yo la tengo to Pat Carney of the Black keys he never stops and we're talking about 1000s and 1000s of sessions at the controls. Such a wonderful person, a great Dad and Husband to our good friend Barbara (who you'll discover has exceptional ears and taste!) We are friends with the whole family coz they are all just ace. Hi Marshall! Hi Malcolm! YES!! It's a real privilege to call Roger a friend :) Meanwhile in techy bits I get my feet wet in the heady world of MIDI files. Take and remake for 2018! The bad thing about MIDI is it's pretty old and clunky.. the good thing is it's old and full of the fruits of people's hard toil. The amazing resource that is www.midiworld.com has changed it all for me. Grab some MIDI and mash it up! Made with love from Nashville Hello!

A Deep and Tech heavy dive into the Knowledge pool that is Darrell Thorp! He's a multi grammy kind of dude and yet there's no pretense. He has worked with some of the best in the biz like Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Beck, Outkast and more! yep. Mad audiophilatiousness hangs. We chat about his time with Dr Dre and all the red lights on the board. The good the bad n zee ugly in gear and signal. Foo fighters and a great deal more! I also nitty the gritty out of the Altec 9067b filter. The fabled King Tubby filter is now my grubbies and I throw some bits into it to hear how it sounds. ALSO I made a couple of patches for you ableton live users to check so you can get a taste of the altec in the digital domain! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7dzrttyja7o3yp8/AACoi5vvjFJhqPWUXtyg2cSFa?dl=0 follow the read me and you should be golden! I posted a quick vid of it on the hangingoutwithaudiophiles instagram to show it in action :) Cheers friends Jamie

Amazing times that we can find and talk to our heroes! Here's Susan Rogers and she's responsible for making the best prince records (imho) the BEST ones. I mean the VERY best ones. She was by his side and in the studio at all times.. day and night. The 4 year tour of duty was time well spent. I owe her a huge debt of gratitude. Without her energy, Prince would have not been able to create and share his ideas in the same way. I'd have Never heard the music in the same way over the Atlantic. I'm THRILLED to share this one with you all. She's a wonder! Thanks to Universal Audio once again for their kind support.. Let's get on with the show! Uptown!

YES! Money Mark is in the hot chair. Quite literally as Ahmed Gallab had only just finished our chat. 2017, Turin.. we delve into the many minds of Mark. The kind of mind that will take things apart and rebuild them. The kind of mind that is not content to settle. He's a very curious and unique fellow who's got WAY too many good stories for a solitary podcast but there you go.. this is PART 1!! I get gritty with a cheap contact mic and probe the strings of pianos and tenor guitars before destroying the signals with plugins. Thanks again to the good folks at UNIVERSAL AUDIO www.uaudio.com for their excellent support and to all you lovely lot for your ears n brains. cast away! Money Mark's fantastic machine link!! www.Frankolodeon.com

He's worked with Donny Hathaway. That's it. That's all the intro he really ought to need. I mean can you IMAGINE being in the room with Donny singing? Too much. Ah but Jimmy has worked on music from Aretha, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones not to mention his extensive collaboration with Timbaland. Yeah, Jimmy is heavy. What's more he's a very friendly and engaging chap that has a pioneering spirit and he is not overly nostalgic in that way that can hold a person back. No wonder he's been so busy and in demand for all these years. A true master. Jimmy's in the HOWA house (literally.. this was a rare face to face. So fun)

The show is kindly sponsored again by the excellent Soundtoys. 

I delve into the world of the panman to do things other than just your average spinning.

Micro nitty!

This Episode sees Paul Epworth in the hot chair! His OWN chair as we got to speak in the LEGENDARY studio that is known as "The Church" for good reason. It's a yeah.. it's a church! An immense and potent zone of creativity! we learn of Paul's journey from shed to Holy rooms and his incredible rise :) Producing Adele. Let's just think about that for a second shall we!?! I get deep with a bit of mono to poly joy in my studio B nitty gritty experiments As promised here's a link to the Max for Live patch to control your KENTON PRO 2000 you will need Live 10 to run it (as it uses sysex) https://www.dropbox.com/s/n31o23sx0w15a14/kenton%20pro2000.amxd?dl=0 Thanks to Universal Audio for their sponsorship :) check them out at www.uaudio.com

Episode 9 Happy new bits guys! This week I'm a chattin with the joyful soul that is Chris Taylor of the fabulous grizzly bear! We delve into the tents of life both real and metaphorical. We ponder the sublime and sup on a bloody good cuppa! It's pod time dudes! Welcome to the first of the year :)) Today's show is helped along nicely by the good folks at reverb.com. For a limited time they are offering 10% off a selection of plugins that I have hand selected. so.... I can vouch for every one. Get yer savings ! Go to reverb.com/jamielidell and use the promo code jamie to get your discount!! Yeah !!!

Episode 8 and ITS CHRISTMAS :) I didn't plan it like this but the schedule said yes so here we are! Happy holidays all This week I've Hrishikesh Hirway, the master mind behind the fantastic SONG EXPLODER podcast. He is super generous with his insights and just a very good natured chap. Good chat! In the nitty gritty I get into the bluetooth speaker as fx tool. Cheap n cheerful! Happy happy!

EPISODE 7 ! Welcome to the hot chair the wonderful soul that is Ahmed Gallab. We talk about his musical lines. Both historical lines and compositional lines. We love on his band mates and generally love on all things music. This week I SHOOTOUT samplers! I took a short sound and fed it into the SP1200, MPC60, PROPHET 2000, AKAI S612, OTO BISCUIT, CASIO SK-1, MIRAGE and more. Comparing what these lo-fi legends are all about. Thanks to Fabfilter for the use of Pro-L2 ! the baddest limiter in the game. Cheers dudes!

I got to catch up with this amazing fellow as we cruise into the 6th episode. Shawn has his own ways to the gold and gold he HAS! Yes, we are talking about a grammy winner here. He fears no obstacle. He actually CREATES problems for himself along the way to be able to avoid the dull ways of normality. He shares backstory and explains WHY the low ways are as potent as the high ways! I get into realtime beatbox and chop stick beat making and there's a winner in the izotope competition!

Welcome to Episode 5! Please say hello to a true master of his craft(s)! Mr BLAKE MILLS!! I feel very lucky to have been invited into his home to have a coffee and catch up. He's a truly inspired gentleman and very humble man. We cover a little of the binaural history, production tips from the top. We delve into some of the sound making processes from the wonderful perfume genius record he produced and the incredible power combo that forms when he gets together with the fantastic mr Shawn Everett. I'm very pleased to announce that the show is sponsored by https://www.izotope.com WIN WIN WIN a copy of Neutron 2 standard :)))

Episode 4 is here with UK bad boy @Mura Masa ! We chat backstage at the Wiltern in LA for a good while. He's a fascinating fellow and a very easy going chap with a solid radio voice! Ha. this show is sponsored by the exceptional goodhertz plugins :) www.goodhertz.co

3 is the magic number. We have Dave Stewart in the pod! On the pod! Find out how the Eurythmics got their first studio up n running. Find out the unorthodox ways in which all that amazing music was created. I mean it's DAVE STEWART! What do I really need to say!! He's on the web here: http://www.davestewartent.com Today's show is sponsored by the good folks at oeksound. Makers of SOOTHE, the intelligent problem solving plugin that's really rather good! There's a chance to win a copy on the show by reposting the soundcloud episode. I'll pull one of the posters from the digital hat and https://oeksound.com

Welcome to Episode 2! This time with Jaquire King !!! I run through my live show vocal effects setup. I talk with Jacquire about AI, the skills it takes to make it as a producer. How he got to be one of the biggest producers in the game. Such a good dude. Top chats. This time I'm sponsored by polyend. Makers of super fresh and unique tools for making music in 2017. Check them at www.polyend.com

Episode 1 of Hanging out with AudioPhiles!! A dive into the mind of Pat Carney. The thing about lo-fi. Digital joy and pain. 

Super happy to be releasing this podcast on my birthday.  I'm very lucky to know so many cool people, like Pat, legendary drummer in The Black Keys and all around top bloke.  He came over to the house and we just chatted with the microphones on.  We cover his beginnings as a musician and some lesser known secrets about his early recording career.  I'm also so happy that this first podcast episode is sponsored by FabFilter, makers of exceptionalaudio plug-ins www.fabfilter.com check them out immediately :)

Grab a tea and a bickie and give it a listen.  

-Jamie

Great to chat with Brian and Josh from the band !

we talk minidisk, the joys of analog, hurdy gurdy and fish. I mean if that doesnt tickle yer fancy I dont know what to say :)

Various links feel like they cropped up in the show

--Valentin Clastrier - Master of the Gurdy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRsJw7UW98g

--TAGO MAGO by can - go and listen (you can find it with your preferred music environment )

--If you need good tinned fish in the USA go here !

https://rainbowtomatoesgarden.com

--MODBAP - OSIRIS badass oscillator 

https://www.modbap.com

--JORANALOGUE DELAY 1

https://joranalogue.com/products/delay-1

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kind sponsorship comes from the excellent SOUNDTOYS

https://www.soundtoys.com

My guest on the show is James Ford who is really one of the most badass producers in the business. 

Im talking about the kind of low key English badassness and not the Tarantino variety if you know what I mean. James is involved in so many things and yet he does it without needing a big spotlight on himself. Humble badass. That's the one. 

He's been active for many years. I mean we used to see each other in that classic ships in the night stylee when I was touring with Cristian Vogel back in the late nineties. We are talking about a man with Multiple decades of energy dedication and knowledge a go go!

He's got the quadfecta mad skills as composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter which is probably one of the reasons he's been able to be so nimble and effective working with a huge range of incredible artists from Arctic Monkeys to Depeche Mode via Foals, Gorillaz and Kylie Minogue.

You may know him as one half of Simian Mobile Disco, alongside longtime creative partner Jas Shaw or perhaps as a touring member of The Last Shadow Puppets.

The hat cupboard in the house is ample!

I was lucky enough to feature on a track with SMD a while back and got to see the studio when it was at the Premises in Hackney. 

Now he's got a supreme attic room that is beyond decked out. We have a little tour of that for anyone who is curious about his gear choices after all this time. 

Then we get deep into the world of making, art, the hurdles, the path. The good stuff of rambling! Welcome to the mind of a sonic chef.

His first solo album "The Hum" is out now on warp records and it's a corker!

https://www.jamesellisford.com

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STAGER MICS

http://stagermicrophones.com

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NITTY!!!

Jon Hopkins pays attention. He has a ear for the smallest details and a deft touch both as a pianist and a producer. 

I feel this interview is very timely as the rise of psychedelic therapy has caught the imagination of so many.

Jon has made music that is so perfect for those wishing to go deeper with their experiences in that hugely rewarding domain. 

His is the mindset that wants to expand and to meditate instead of flex and win the popularity contests in the game of music. Very refreshing. 

We get into his beginnings in the classical world, his lack of patience with distracting factors and on to his success story and on to his musings on the current state of being a musician releasing music in this arguably confusing time.

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The nitty returns !

I was fortunate enough to get an early copy of Andrew Huang's first plugin :)

It's a collaboration with Baby Audio called "Transit"

It really inspired me to get my hands dirty and to explore it's outer ways. 

I stacked up about 30 or so instances to pull off a tonal transition that is rather epic !

I learned from an older me on this one. In EP 58 I explored a related idea in Melodyne.

Here's that show 

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Also..

Here's the Ableton session called "The Bends" that I made to demo this 

(sadly I forgot it's the 11.3.10b5 Beta version of Ableton you'll need to run this .. oops!) 

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Big ups to Catechism and REZN for their music on this show. 

It's from an album called "Infected Ambient Works"

Here's the link to it

https://rezzzn.bandcamp.com/album/infected-ambient-works

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A massive shout to show sponsor Soundtoys!

At the start of this episode I add the New SUPER PLATE and the classic PHASE MISTRESS plugins to a tape jam that's fresh from my new studio and it just enters into a whole Different dimension. 

These are Shockingly good plugins! Some of the very best you can find. 

That's why I'm so chuffed to work with these legends ! 

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All sounds from this episode will go to those on the upper tier !

After a hefty and well needed break I'm back

The pod returns :)

I trust y'all are hanging in.

I hope in fact you're more than just hanging in.

I hope you are diving in and thriving and embracing the endless realm of possibility that presents itself to you.

Don't worry, I'll not linger on the guru talk. Just stating the obvious !

As you can see from the show title I got to finally chat with the brilliant Benn Jordan.

We met at NAMM a couple of years back (I've had some great hangs at NAMM I must say)

He's a smart, witty man with endless curiosity and it's really fun to explore all manner of mind realms with him.

We can TALK! Oh how we can talk. This conversation was at least 3 hours long and it's been cut down a fair bit but there's no end of tangents and insights into

The mighty Benn. I think those of you who are familiar with his excellent YouTube material will enjoy hearing an extended ramble portal into his many ways.

It's great to be back

This show has 2 excellent sponsors

1st off I'm super happy to get to work with my pals at Soundtoys for a few shows.

They agreed to come on board and I couldn't be happier. Just love them and their excellent plugins.

Top shelf stuff! In this episode I show off 2 of my faves, decapitator and devil lok.

They are both such wonderful tools. Potent and endlessly useful in equal measure.

Like Salt in cooking, they amp up the tasty.

Head over to Soundtoys if you know what's good for you!

I'd also like to thank "a tasty pixel" for sponsoring the show.

They are makers of the unbelievably good LOOPY PRO.

Absolutely stunning software for anyone who really wants the last looper.

It is the most fully featured pure looper Ive ever used.

Beardyman uses it. If you were wondering if it were capable I think that's all you need to know!

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Tycho is Scott Hansen and

Scott is a deeply friendly and humble chap.

I didnt know too much about his background or what made him tick but I tried to get to "know" him and makes some guesses about that by tuning into his music.

It's clearly so well crafted and put together with meticulous attention to detail that this man had to be fastidious but how would that quality manifest?

He manages to ride us on a carpet of textures which guide the process of musical flight, once a mood is found, it's held with patience so the listen can dwell in a land. It's a style that has been really honed and has found a large following for good reason!

It was a real treat to get on the ramble road with him. I left the interview unedited for maximum deviation potential (you're welcome)

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This episode is sponsored by A tasty pixel and their excellent

LOOPY PRO!

As many of you are aware, I've spent years of my life with loopers of all kinds from the crudest guitar pedals to my own Max/MSP effort in 2000 to Tim Exile's wonderful "flow machine"

Making a looper setup that fits your style is everything and to do that, a tool that is very flexible and open to configuration is needed. I'm happy to report that this is perfected inside loopy pro. I'm also happy to say that It's one of the best loopers I've ever used and has become the heart of beardymans new setup so you know it's capable.

Needless to say Im really happy to be working with A tasty pixel.

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I made a new video to highlight a specific use of Loopy Pro that came to me one evening.

There's plenty of excellent tutorial videos to get started online so I wanted to show something a little unique.

I took 4 instances of the Chamberlin M1 samplepack I made (which is now available at decentsamples.com!)

fed each to an array of 4 speakers around a Neumann head for some quadra funky tape loopidelic delightfulness.

Yes, it's A little nitty basically :)

Watch

HERE!!

Hainbach must be such a busy man!

Just today I received a post on his patreon that he uploaded to Medium where he eloquently described the history and character of the electronic music company Vermona that started in the GDR and now lives on. It was a review of sorts of the DRM drum machine from 1987 but he surrounded that feature with some wonderful insights into the company's history whilst painting a picture of former East Germany.

He put all this together after having made a highly compelling video on the same subject for his now legendary youtube channel where so many of us find ourselves happily gazing in on his wild sonic adventures.

I've learnt so much from him over the years and feel a undeniable connection with him.

I certainly share his passion for beguiling tone and that marveling at human inventiveness and endeavor.

A tremendous story teller and tireless adventurer, we could have discussed any number of things. There was absolutely no plan to this chat and you're going to hear what is essentially our first phone call. Yes there's Ample deep dives a tangents a go go.

It was a great pleasure to speak with this fountain of knowledge.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome on to the show

Hainbach

Nitty 109 is all about Tape Delay. I put the new Echofix EFX3 through its paces in some odd ways! This nitty is also a rare VIDEO nitty. Link to that here

I have an affiliate link to the Echofix machine I used here

or for the rack version here

buying a unit from that link helps the channel :) thanks!

Music for the show comes from

https://atlanticrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/eraserhood

Carl Craig worked with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson back in the day

I mean that could be all the intro you need to hear to know how heavy he is!

Wait til you find out about the HANGS they had in Detroit. They were cooking up a sound of techno that has never been surpassed in my opinion.

Mr Craig has really never stopped. It's pretty mind blowing to me

He's already left behind a superb and ultra varied stack of music that springs from an insatiable hunger for the new. I mean the sheer number of aliases he has is hard to keep up with!

Not content with just putting out bangers, he's been expanding his experience to fill a museum and the process is truly epic. We get into what went into his work called Party/After Party which was commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and is opening soon at Moca LA.

and is on view APR 16 – JULY 23, 2023. Here's a link!

Increasingly on this show, I've been trying to stay away from too much gear talk coz it's really not that interesting often quite frankly BUT in this case I felt like we needed to get somethings cleared up. At least I was really curious about what made it on to those early Detroit cuts. Some of the findings are shocking, in a great way and ought to be inspiring to anyone who feels they need all manner of fancy machines to rock the house. Carl is living proof that you just need to get it all out with whatever you have in front of you but also it illustrates to me the importance of a crew and a little friendly competition. That can really up your game.

The thing I take away from this chat is just the searching. The fascination and passion to keep making. It's super inspiring to me and I hope it spurs you all on to dig in and make noise!

In other news, Im off to superbooth!

Let me know if you're going :)

boring news,,, I've been sick

good news, new studio looking good

next show will have a nitty.

Cheers!

Bones....

Wind....

Caves....

A simpler time

When we apes first tooted.. the fluuuute

Yes it's wild how far we've come and Matthew Herbert and I go back a bit too .. I mean not to the flute tooting era but we go back.

He speaks during this chat of his achievements as an evolved ape and many had me gasping ! 

He tells of multiple slippers that he can slide into to tap different sonic personas.

The making of 1000 pieces of music a year!

The upkeep of his musical organ filled with pigs blood.

Yes

The stories are wild in this one so

Strap in!

Did I mention we go way back?

Yes !

I was lucky enough to collaborate with him on a few notable pieces of music.

1) He played on the second super_collider LP raw digits on a track called gravity rearranging 

2) I was a singer on his album Goodbye Swingtime and joined him and the bigband at the Hollywood Bowl opening for Bjork in 2003 alongside Bonnie Prince Billy.

Hollywood bowl bigband? I mean come on!!

3) He joined me alongside Arto Lindsay, performing the most monumental show of my career at Sonar 2003.

That show was the real unveiling of all my efforts in the lab to make an impov looping performance with max/msp. Something I'd dreamt of for years and finally made real.

It was so fitting to have him and Arto come on for the final number and make a total racket with me.

We just all clattered it to the ground. A moment I'll never forget and it was all down to Matthew really as it was watching him show using multiple boss echos in short looping mode that got me started on that road.

A brilliant and restless musical mind that has always moved in his own lane.

It's a treat to welcome onto the show

Matthew Herbert

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It's been a while but I've some music to play from an artist and pod listener 

This time it's from an LP called TRIPLE TRANSIT 

The artist is Braile and he makes some really solid Modular YouTube pieces too 

His new record is out August 8th on Hotflush recordings. 

Link!

https://braillesounds.bandcamp.com/album/triple-transit

Hi ! Yep, a tad delayed this one. I apologize.

This time I have the wall of blinkers to blame.

The eurocrack has opened up and swallowed me! Haaaaaa. I've enjoyed being in the belly of the beast though I must say and now Im emerging with many a sonic memory etched on tape. I'll try to share these via a new venture, HOWA records. Yeah, its a new idea. Somewhere to put all this work. I pour so much of my heart and soul into these sounds and pieces that linger on the drive. Perhaps it's time to release them into the wilds.

EP107 is with Emmy Award winner Angelo Palazzo. He is a sound designer and editor on the highest level. His recent work on Stranger things session 4 was beyond epic. It's a pleasure to have him on to enlighten us about the dark art of TV sound on this grand scale.

We had the sad news of Dominic Hawkins passing away last week. Really really sad. He was such a positive and uplifting gentleman. I didnt know him well but always thoroughly enjoyed my chats with him on the sonic state pod. RIP Dom.

David Haskell is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow.

His 2017 book The Songs of Trees won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the Reed Environmental Writing Award.

His new book, Sounds Wild and Broken is out now and I was thrilled to have a chance to sit down in person with him in my studio here Nashville to discuss it briefly.

Here's a quick summary of the book from the official press release:

Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today's convulsions and crises of change and inequity.

Here's a link to the book in all it's various formats (the link is slow but it works)

I can highly recommend you give it a read. It's just a wonderful read and full of insights that will stay with you.

There's a Soundcloud link with sounds pertinent to the chapters which you can check out here

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I also wanted to give a shout out to pod listener Simon Taylor and his book

AUDIO MASTERING IN A PROJECT STUDIO: A PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR A PROFESSIONAL SOUND

Some great ideas and knowledge that's not too overwhelming check these whee links:

US  Or UK 

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As always send music and stuff to

lidellmakeswaves@gmail.com

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Merry Chrimble y'all!

Here's a sonic present for your ears to unwrap. 

It's in the form of a nice fireside ramble with the excellent Stephen James Wilkinson aka Bibio. 

He's a wonderful and thoughtful chap with a very unique touch and a searching soul. 

I love his musical range, his tones, his playing. YES

He's rather good!

Im assuming you all know his stuff? If not you fools! 

You must immediately have a listen 

As in go here NOW!

https://bibio.co

It's super ooper dooper inspiring stuff and I was mighty chuffed when he agreed to come on the pod.

Our paths never crossed as label mates on warp records which is a shame. God knows why. 

A couple of shy dudes making waves in different countries might have had something to do with it!

Ha.

Anyway we are finally in a chat and even talking about working on something together which sounds good to me. 

Watch this space.

He's a wise lad so of course he has a nagra. A stereo nagra in fact. 

In fact it was this conversation that really made me want to find one of my own which thankfully I did.

He's the one guest that actually recorded a backup to the tape machine. Proper legend

Roll it

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Thanks for tuning in folks!

It's been another bonkers year and having this show has been a huge part of keeping me going.

Cheers to all the wonderful patrons for helping me keep this dream alive

Thanks to distrokid for their continued support as the most epic and long running sponsor of the pod. 

If you make music and need it putting out, just use distrokid! It'll be everywhere like Santa before you know it 

Dropping that sonic magic down the chimneys of the world.

Thanks to Bibio

And I'll catch you in 2023!

Make merry y'all 

Such a treat to chat with Jeremy aka Red Means Recording. Now you must know who he is right? If not well you're in for a treat. He's an amazing creative soul and funky chap that makes excellent music, teaches and creates exceptional YouTube videos that go deep into the synth and electronic musical world. Highly recommended viewing. He's just great.

Link to his YouTube here

HELLO!

Yes, I realize this has been a lonnnnng time coming.

What's been up?

The studio build is now hitting a new level of intensity and my Mum just left after a long visit and things have been a tad upside down so Im off my funk but here we are!

LINKS

Please go and grab this new release from friend of the pod Marta Salongi and Floating points.

It's a fund raiser for the charity Free Youth Orchestra which focuses on removing financial barriers between children and access to musical equipment and lessons

so cool.

the music is here to buy and thus support

looking for something to fill the digital stocking?

I can recommend this max for live device from the wonderful friend of the pod Ned Rush. It's called MIDI WAVES and it's ace and not expensive. grab here

Jim Keller has been helping me design the new studio. Great to work with him. So much knowledge! Check his beautiful work here

Thanks for Diana Walsch for pod support. Find her here

Website: dmwalshmusic.com

IG: @dmwalshmusic

Hello!

Jamie again.

I caught up with this busy Fred on his current US tour. 

He's been busy you ask? 

Oh yes. I mean so so busy. 

For one thing he's penned massive pop numbers with Ed Sheeran, Stormy and other huge acts

Did you know that? 

I mean BIG BIG songs. 

And YET his mentor and good friend is none other than 

Brian Eno!

Wait.. what? Ah yes, all shall be revealed.

See the thing about Fred is he will write a huge song for an act like Clean Bandit in the afternoon, then be on the phone to fourtet for arrangement advice on his solo work by dinner time. 

He can write on the road, he can write in the club. He's prolific as they come this man!

Fred has been doing so well and it was great to get this chance to chat with him 

What an exceedingly positive and fun chap he is. So much talent and a very good outlook

Lots of nuggets in this chat. Obv we get into the Eno connection and the come up and 

Fred reveals some massive beat making secrets he learned directly from Boi-1da. 

I get some advice mid show too which I think might be a first :)

We are here in part to discuss his ace new LP "Actual Life 3" which you can find in the usual streaming zones.

It's a real pleasure to welcome on to the Show for the first time Fred….. Again

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Max Tundra is Ben Jacobs

A man that was a child that grew up in London.

As pointed out on his bandcamp, he went to the same school as Jude Law and a Chemical Brother, but didn't know them.

In this disposable content age, there's an undeniable urge to go for quantity over quality is there not?

The music Ben makes as Max Tundra comes as rarely as a celestial event.

We forget the rising and falling of the sun each day but we don't forget a total eclipse now do we?

This is how it felt when Mocky and I came across the LP "Mastered by guy at the exchange".

We were without sun for a while. In an unknown land that felt Most welcoming and yet most peculiar.

It was genuinely new music. Something so rare that still feels fresh all these years later.

Here's what hyper pop bloke A. G. Cook said of Max Tundra's legacy:

"'Mastered by Guy at the Exchange' is a true cult album - a playful monolith that sounds both nothing and everything like the 2000s. Stumbling across it as a teenager, it reinforced a hunch I had: that music is a place where anything could happen, and total chaos could be held together by the lightest of pop hooks. There's an oddly British quality to Max Tundra's work, a soft and polite maximalism - pioneering, eccentric and infinitely remixable."

Ben Jacobs invented hyper pop

As they say in the UK

FACTS

It's a good time to be a Max Tundra fan as domino has reissued his first three studio albums to be found HERE

2000s Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be,

2002's Mastered by Guy at the Exchange,

and the 2008 masterwork Parallax Error Beheads You.

We get into a lot of his formative years and thankfully he kept so much of his sonic ramblings from that time and they can be found on his band camp page

It's a real treasure trove.

Here it is

What a legend. If you've never heard of him before, I'm so glad I get to make the intro.

He's a true original and a very nice man

Please welcome on the show

Max Tundra