Ending season 5 of the podcast is a guest that I have wanted to get on the show for such a long time, and we finally made it happen! Olivier started his career in marketing, working in senior roles at global consumer brands including, O2, Vueling and Lucky Strike. However, his passion for music, and a firm belief that it is a powerful way to connect brands with their audience, saw him place music at the core of the marketing strategy for those brands. From that point his career would connect...

Ending season 5 of the podcast is a guest that I have wanted to get on the show for such a long time, and we finally made it happen! Olivier started his career in marketing, working in senior roles at global consumer brands including, O2, Vueling and Lucky Strike. However, his passion for music, and a firm belief that it is a powerful way to connect brands with their audience, saw him place music at the core of the marketing strategy for those brands. From that point his career would connect...

Haitian-born, New York based DJ and produce, Francis Mercier is next up on the podcast! With over nearly 150 sold out shows last year, including shows that he’s always dreamt of such as Burning Man, Coachella, Tomorrowland and Space Miami as well as 11 releases, Francis is on fire right now and has no sign of slowing down. We chat all about his rapid growth to fame, growing up in Haiti, organising soccer games when he's on tour, how his sound has evolved, challenges he has come across and...

This week I am joined by not one, but two incredibly talented artists, Jess Bays and MC DT. Known worldwide for his famous hook, 'We're loving it, loving it, loving it®' award-winning MC DT is one of the UK Garage scenes pioneers. Coinciding on past line ups with Jess Bays, who over the last few years has become one of the standout artists of recent times, we talk about how they have each cut through the noise in such a quick-paced industry. We also got a freestyle from DT!

It's always strange interviewing one of your best friends! But also the perfect excuse for a good catch up and a giggle on the sofa :) Esther Chan is up next. Esther was PA to Jamie Jones for 7 years until recently transitioning into Artist and Production Coordinator for Paradise Ibiza. We talk all about working so closely with one of the biggest DJs in the world and all of the responsibilities that the job entailed, Paradise, Ibiza and lots of stories she's made along the way! Please...

We're kicking off the year with a chat with one of the nicest guys in the game, Rossi. And what a pleasure it was to sit down with him and look back on his incredibly successful 2023, whilst getting to know more about his journey so far. From being an actor, starring in London's Westend shows such as Mary Poppins (playing Michael Banks btw!) at the age of 8 to now playing some of the biggest festivals and clubs in the world, Ross' story is one of hard work, dedication and a lot of passion...

On today's episode we explore the relationship between neurodiversity and and its wider relevance within the dance music scene with Alexandra Annable who is the head of brand partnerships at Jukebox and Tristan Hunt who is a Music Industry ADHD Coach. We talk all about their own experiences and how the dance music industry has allowed them to be their authentic selves as well as the challenges that undiagnosed neurodivergence brought them over the years and how being diagnosed allowed them to...

‘I didn’t expect this to happen in my lifetime’, Chief Creative Officer of MDLBEAST, Baloo is next on the podcast, and what an insightful conversation it was. Before private events went public in 2019 in Saudi Arabia, with the establishment of the General Entertainment Authority, Saudi’s music scene had been thriving for the past two decades behind closed doors.    So what was growing up, partying, and for artists, developing your sound and DJing skills without being able to perform publicly...

Discovering what the dance music scene is like in other parts of the world is something that fascinates me. And when it’s somewhere as exciting as Japan, it fascinates me even more. And honestly, I don’t think there is a better duo to tell the story than Tokyo based techno duo, Drunken Kong. Recently releasing on Drumcode and playing Ultra Tokyo a couple of months ago, Kyoko and D have been making waves, representing Japan in the techno scene throughout the globe. Digging deep into the story...

After playing in over 4 continents, 92 cities and 29 countries in 2023, headlining over 40 festivals globally including Kappa, EXIT, Monegros, Sonus, Extrema, DGTL and Time Warp as well as all major clubs and venues around the world, curating her own nights at Amnesia Ibiza, playing Tomorrowland Main Stage and so much more, two questions come to mind for Indira Paganotto: One, how do you feel after the biggest year of your career so far and two, what's next? Becoming one of the most...

ADE (my favourite event of the year) has grown into the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music, featuring over 2,900 artists taking part in over 1000 events across 200+ venues throughout the city, welcoming around half a million visitors to the city.  With only a few days left until the 28th edition, I had a quick chat with ADE directors Meindert Kennis and Jan-Willem Van de Ven about this year's hot topics, how the conference has grown...

Is going to events an essential part of your role in the music industry? How do you balance your professional and social life when a lot of our jobs consist of going to clubs and festivals? As a PR, how much time do you need to spend with your artists?  Emma Chambers is the Founder of Acrylic Artists, a global PR company based in the UK that specialises in the promotion of electronic music for artists, labels, clubs and events via online and print media. She worked in the city of London as...

Behind every successful artist is a team of hard working, passionate people, that put everything they’ve got into growing their artist’s career. And Leticia is proof of that. From starting to manager ANNA when she was just starting out, to together, as a team, building ANNA’s career to what it is today, Leticia’s passion, persistence, support and talent, took her to leaving agency life and starting her own company, LvR Management, where besides ANNA, she now also manages headline acts, Sama’...

Originally from Saudi Arabia but now living in London, the incredibly talented Nooriyah has been making waves over the last few years with her unique style of mixing Middle Eastern and North African music with popular records, Trap music, and old-time classics. Her insane Boileroom was the first Southwest Asian and North African Boileroom lineup in UK history and has had over 1 million views already, she’s also a radio host, pushing Middle Eastern/North African sound on the UK airwaves, she...

For Elizabeth Cyprian the answer is simple: the success of a brand is dependent upon each department correlating while it creates, nurtures and maintains a distinctive identity. Everything ties back to the ethos and origin. For 10+ years she has been putting this statement to the test. What started as a dancefloor chat led to a career in the event management and dance music industry. For six years she held a variety of positions with The BPM Festival including Talent Buyer, Project Manager,...

This week I'm joined by ALISHA, an artist who over the last couple of years has rapidly begun to appear on line ups at some of the best clubs and festivals around the world as well as releasing music on some of electronic music’s biggest labels. ALISHA has recently released Changes on Jamie Jones' Hot Creations, made her debut with Music On, and has a huge summer ahead of her, especially here in Ibiza, playing at some of the island's biggest parties such as Paradise, elrow, Ants and more. We...

Alex is the CEO & Co-founder of The Pete Tong DJ Academy, an online e-learning platform that was launched last year and is made up of over 90 lessons that cover every aspect of a career in DJing, taught by some of the biggest names in the game, including Carl Cox, Nicole Moudaber, Jamie Jones and Adam Beyer. During this year’s international music summit in Ibiza, the winner of the academy’s DJ competition was announced, so we chat all about what is was that the mentors were looking for in...

After 15 years of creating content from some of the world's biggest electronic music events, recording literally any DJ that comes to your mind right now, Luca Dea has become one of the industry's most renowned content creators. What started off being videos just for himself to keep as memories, has now turned in to being a source for thousands of people to live some of the most special moments in electronic music. We talk all about how he started out, the videos that have worked the most,...

Welcome to this International women’s day special in which I highlight and celebrate some of the wonderful things women in music have worked on or taken part in this year, with two of my favourite girls - Lydia Laws, founder of Lydia Lwas PR and Roberta Hickey, founder of the women in dance music platform, Little Pink Book. Besides talking about personal projects and experiences as women in music, we also talk about some of the other initiatives and communities and women that are constantly...

Puerto Rico-born DJ and producer, Natalia Roth, is up next on the podcast! From working at the door at Space Miami to becoming one of the club's main residents and now playing all around the world as well as releasing on some of the biggest labels in electronic music, Natalia is an example of hard work and dedication. A beauty of a person, inside and out, we chat all about what the dance music scene was like in Puerto Rico when she was growing up and what it’s like now, her own brand Melódie,...

From music journalist for platforms such as VICE, Mixmag, Resident Advisor and CBC Music to editor of Dance & Electronic at Spotify, Corinne is one of those people you could listen to for hours, what an exciting career she has had so far! We talk all about how she started out in journalism, what her role as an editor at Spotify consisted of, how hours and hours of listening to music pitched for Spotify playlists has contributed to her own sound as a DJ, advice for anyone looking to pursue...

This week we're talking all about music and surfing with the wonderful Tara Brooks! Tara is a DJ and producer from LA and has played at some of the biggest events around the globe- BPM, Burningman, Coachella, SXM Festival, Ultra, and many more as well as releasing on labels such as Bedrock Records, Desert Hearts, Get Physical amongst others. Tara has had an incredibly strong passion for music from such a young age, but a few years ago she found another one of her passions- surfing, which has...

Becoming an international artist was his biggest dream as a kid. From a small town in Italy called Luca, Marco Faraone has now played all over the world and released on some of the biggest dance music labels out there. We chat all about his career from the beginning up until now, his new chapter as a father, his latest collaboration with Stella Bossi that has gained over 9 million views on social media and the importance of doing what makes you happy in life. 

On this next episode of the podcast, we're traveling to the gorgeous island of Saint Martin to talk about the first and only electronic music festival to be held on the island, SXM Festival, with the founder of the festival, Julian Prince and VP Marketing & Business Development of SXM, Olivia Gottlieb. I was so curious to know how Julian ended up creating a festival on the island, what it has brought to the area, and how it has helped grow the local music scene as well as challenges...