The PUTF podcast aims to shed lights on inspiring creatives from the PUTF community & beyond. Guests are invited to talk about their career paths, story and vision.
Pick Up The Flow is a NYC based online resource aiming to democratize access to opportunities.
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 7 featuring Josh Cheon
Josh Cheon grew up in northern New Jersey, just outside New York City where he spent his weekends dancing at goth clubs and digging for records. He moved to San Francisco in 2006 and joined gay DJ collective Honey Soundsystem from 2007 to 2017. His love of underground ‘80s music pushed him to start Dark Entries in 2009, a record label specializing in reissuing lost music from that era as well as contemporary bands referencing those analog sounds.
Dark Entries is a project of Josh Cheon, a vinyl-focused DJ and collector, Dark Entries was born in the Spring of 2009 to release out of print and unreleased underground music as well as contemporary bands. All of their releases are a carry over from the DIY days of the 1980s independent record labels. https://darkentriesrecords.bandcamp.com/
PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities.
Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele (Love Injection's Evolution, NYC Music & Culture, Parenthood)
Season 4 · Episode 6
Friday, July 3, 2026 • Duration 01:07:47
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 6 featuring Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele
Love Injection is variously known as a publication, a radio show, a DJ partnership, production duo, and a record label. Co-founded by Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele in 2015 as a monthly print fanzine, Love Injection’s continued multi-faceted expansion and evolution reflects the ongoing process of celebrating people and culture, seeking to fill in the gaps of dance music and nightlife culture’s untold stories and histories, and bring new perspectives to familiar ones.
The pair host the Love Injection radio show on NYC’s beloved online radio institution, The Lot Radio, on the air every Saturday morning since February 2016. This sonic extension of Love Injection the print fanzine provides the duo, and their occasional esteemed guest hosts, the latitude to explore sounds unrestricted by the demands of the nocturnal dance floor. The newest branch of the Love Injection family tree is its record label, Love Injection Records. Conceptually, the label lives and operates with similarly fluid aesthetics, with one foot in the dance world and one outside of it.
Counter to the modern trend of increasingly short DJ sets that leave little room for texture and nuance, Barbie and Paul’s preferred mode of DJing is the all-nighter – an extended journey/narrative with a beginning, middle, and end.
Native to New York City, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo consisting of Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield. As musicians, they nod to great classic and soulful dance music, but with their added twists of transcendental jazz, deep elements, and cinematic mood. They also run the NYC staple party Coloring Lessons (now also a record label and radio show), pulling on a musical lineage passed down by the generations before them, and influenced by their black and brown ancestors. They aim to spread the music that has been influential to them, and share it with a younger generation of their peers.
Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. (Being a Full Time Artist in NYC, Photography, Community)
Season 2 · Episode 16
Monday, June 3, 2024 • Duration 01:09:41
Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. is a Dominican-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. His work explores the ways in which diasporic unity and niche musical movements have served in the creation of community and identity in the recent past and present. Simultaneously, he experiments with analog techniques to bring elements of abstraction to his figurative images. This manual practice heightens the intimacy of his work while additionally asking himself and the viewer to consider the ways in which we influence and are influenced by our surroundings.
Rodriguez has been featured in various publications including Forgotten Lands, Hola Pardo, It’s Nice That, and Musée Magazine. Currently exhibiting at Busan’s Museum of Contemporary Art. He has been selected as a finalist for Aperture’s 2023 Portfolio Prize, a finalist for Lucie Foundation 2023 Open Call, and long listed for Foam Talent Call 2023.
Dreamcrusher is a New York City-based musician and artist, who describes the project as 'nihilist queer revolt musik.' Dreamcrusher’s work is at once personal and abstract, revealing and antagonistic; performances and recordings shift between genres while subjecting the characteristic elements—melodies, beats, instrumentation—to distortion until the point of transformation. Dreamcrusher has released dozens of recordings with labels such as PTP, Fire Talk, and Corpus, as well as on Bandcamp and other online platforms. Dreamcrusher is also a member of the duo Centennial Gardens with King Vision Ultra.
“Unfortunately I’m navigating 2024 unemployed and overdrawn… in desperate need of kind donations yet again. I hate asking, and I hate how hard I’ve worked this past year with little to no yield (and I’m definitely not the only one). I hope that the work I have coming this year truly supplements my life in a real way. Twenty-one years in now! THIS YEAR WILL BE BETTER FOR US ALL!!! If you’re reading this and have the means, please consider donating and sharing. As always, I very much appreciate the continued support. https://account.venmo.com/u/drmcrshr “
Kyle Garner (NYC, Design, Community, Light And Sound Design, Last Saturday Dance)
Kyle Garner (aka KG) is an artist, designer, curator, DJ, and the visionary behind Light and Sound Design studio. He has been hosting a gathering called Last Saturday Dance since 2016 and in 2022 launched an offshoot weekly deep listening series called Present Sounds. His work investigates the intersection of community, happenings, architecture, performance and music.
http://www.lightandsound.design
https://lightandsounddesign.substack.com
http://instagram.com/lightandsounddesign
We also requested Kyle to share with us some of his favorite things.
Catch them all in our newsletter: https://putf.substack.com/
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
https://wavdwgs.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Music Career, Organizing Music Festivals: Sustain-Release, Dripping)
Season 2 · Episode 13
Saturday, May 4, 2024 • Duration 01:19:20
Relaxer is the project of Daniel Martin-McCormick, fka Ital, member of Black Eyes & Gaze, ex-Mi Ami, Halal & Relaxer, Sleeper Cell, Interplanetary Prophets, and more. Rooted in the US punk/noise underground of the late '90s and early 2000s, Martin-McCormick's music embodies a sensual, visceral edge that reflects and extends that legacy. His hardware live sets, honed over a decade of tours, are exhilarating, white knuckle rides, while his DJ sets fluidly cross genres and eras with a cathartic sense of play.
He's been a repeat performer at Berghain (where the Relaxer project made its live debut), De School, Unsound, Nowadays and many others. On albums "Concealer" (Planet Mu), "Coconut Grove" (Avenue 66) and "Hedonic Fatigue" (Climate of Fear), his productions stretch out, weaving strands of wormhole techno, minimal, noise, UK hardcore continuum and fractured ambient into a rippling, mesmeric tapestry. Recent club-focused EPs "Licking" and "Candy" (Lovers Rock Recordings) sharpen the blade, amping up his music's animialstic snarl and erotic undertones.
Following his recent composition studies with Morton Subotnick, Relaxer's music has evolved a new modality: alongside his club works there have been concerts of long form durational works featuring spoken word and richly spatialized sound design. His debut performance in this new style was a standout at Sustain-Release Year Seven. These works were released in the Summer of 2022 as "Force Field: A Guide for the Perplexed" on Club Night Club. "In Softening Air," the follow up, is out on Lovers Rock Recordings April 1st.
Behind the scenes, Martin-McCormick has been a consistent force shaping the US underground. He is the co-founder of Dripping camping festival and NY-based event series. He was a key member of Sustain-Release from its inception and co-director from 2017-2021, founded the labels Lovers Rock Recordings & Climate of Fear, was one of the first residents at Bossa Nova Civic Club. He currently holds residencies at The Lot Radio and Mansions.
Ruth Saxelby (early 2000’s dance music in UK, Music Journalism, Dummy, The FADER)
Season 2 · Episode 12
Sunday, April 28, 2024 • Duration 01:13:06
Ruth Saxelby is a writer and editor based in Queens, New York, with a background in electronic music journalism. Born and raised in the UK, she got into writing through clubbing in the north of England in the late '90s. She was the clubs editor at The Leeds Guide (2001 -2003), new music editor at Dummy (2009-2013), and managing editor at The FADER (2014-2018). Some of the things she's written include a column about listening for NPR, record reviews for Pitchfork, memoir essays for Hazlitt, and a libretto for an opera by Actress's Darren Cunningham.
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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Meriem Bennani (Growing up in Morocco, Art Practice, Life on the CAPS, Collaboration)
Meriem Bennani (b. 1988 in Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high production aesthetics, she explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of magical realism and humour. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations, composed with a subtle agility to question our contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies. Bennani’s work has been shown at the Whitney Biennale, MoMA PS1, Art Dubai, The Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Public Art Fund, CLEARING and The Kitchen in New York. Her animated series, 2 Lizards, a collaboration with director Orian Barki, premiered on Instagram during Spring 2020 and was described by The New York Times as “hypnotic…deploying a blend of documentary structure and animation surrealism…both poignantly grounded in actual events and also soothingly fantastical” and its animated protagonists “art stars.” (Jon Caramanica, April 2020)
We also requested Meriem to share with us some of her favorite things.
Catch them all in our newsletter: https://putf.substack.com/
Baby Leo (Touring in “Animosity” as a teenager, Landscape Architecture, DJing, Dripping Festival, Building a House)
Season 2 · Episode 10
Friday, April 12, 2024 • Duration 01:02:18
Baby Leo is a DJ, designer and builder based in San Francisco, CA. He is a cofounder of the festival and event series Dripping and the former frontman of the pioneering extreme metal band Animosity.
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities.
Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.
The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.
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