Digital Underground - a mixtape
Out now all platforms
CD available on Bandcamp and FOR FREE at @phonicarecords in London
Cassette preorder now live on bandcamp
Links in bio !
This week’s guest on the Not A Diving Podcast is Steve Bug.
Are we partying like it’s 1999? As in what it was actually like in 99, not how Prince imagined it might be back in 1982.
Millennium eve was supposed to be the best thing ever. @scubaofficial was beside himself with excitement for months beforehand, possibly years. But when push came to shove, his group of friends didn’t even bother going to a rave and instead spent an underwhelming evening drinking warm champagne on Brighton Beach before attending a number of deeply boring house parties.
The subsequent inquest carried out in the pages of Mixmag, DJ Mag, and the rest suggested that our experience wasn’t unusual. Promoters lost unfathomable amounts of money that night and the overall impression was that an enormous bubble had prematurely burst with the least fanfare possible.
While the current landscape lacks a similar finishing line, the bug-eyed faux enthusiasm and lip-smacking commercialism which seems to define everything in the dance scene right now has a very similar feel to the end of the 90s.
But what, if anything, is going to let the air out this time?
1999 was also the time that our guest this week, Steve Bug, and some of the Superstition Records gang from Hamburg started Poker Flat Recordings, one of the labels that would define the minimal sound that emerged from the wreckage of Millennium Eve.
Steve has been pretty outspoken in his interviews of the last few years on above topics, so of course we wanted to get him on the podcast to talk about it. This conversation dovetails nicely with last week’s episode with Radio Slave, in which the host noted that ‘if something is sh_t, then you should say it’s sh_t, and this [the current dance scene] is sh_t’. Fair?!
Don’t worry though, there’s a good amount of constructive comment in this episode, it’s it all doom!
Get it wherever you get your podcasts!
Hardcore Heaven III is now shipping on wax…!
Six tracks of rave goodness from the forthcoming D:U:2 mixtape 🤟🤟🤟
Link to all shops in bio but there’s a limited edition printed sleeve version on Bandcamp ONLY
Thanks to @oldskoolhardcore for the vids 🔉🔉🔉
🔊 NEW RELEASE ALERT 🔊
After 4 years since the last remix EP it’s back in full force with a killer line up of remixers showcasing their own unique style:
On the vinyl release:
1. Wave 2 @christiansmithofc
2. Wave 2 @scubaofficial
3. Bodega @blenk_sound
4. Room Mode @theremin_music (Remix contest winner!)
And the remix contest digital release winners:
5. Room Mode @allanaletm
6. Room Mode @nemoral909
Killer remixes all around, please show some support and follow the artists, buy their music, & play their music ❤️🔊🙏🏻
Release available on all major digital platforms and will also be on VINYL soon… being pressed at @onyxrecordpress as we speak 🤙🏻
Thank you for your continued support ❤️🙏🏻
Videos by @activity_vision 👁️
Talked life, creativity and Triple Transit in conversation with @brucetantum for @djmagofficial . Probably the most vulnerable I’ve let myself be in an interview situation. 😅 You can still order the May issue on their site if you’re interested in the full interview! 🙌🏽 Triple Transit is out August 8th on @hotflushuk . 💿 (Hot tip - preorder the vinyl to get it early) Thanks to 📸 @philistinedsgn 📸 for making me look good. See you in the next 📺 Braille Sounds 📺 - out Friday. 🫡🫶🏽
This week’s guest on the Not A Diving Podcast is Radio Slave
At what point does criticism of changes in culture become overly reactive? This is a question we’ve wrestled with continuously over the past couple of years, but I can’t get past the conclusion that if something isn’t good then pointing that fact out is never really a bad thing... right?
The conversation with Radio Slave this week doesn’t pull any punches on what is wrong with dance music currently. It’s no longer cool. Social media is rewarding the wrong stuff. The history of the thing is being trampled on and turned into something that bears no resemblance to the original vision.
But over the top of all that is a sense that good things are still happening, and that maybe it wouldn’t take much for the forces of commercialism to be swept away and something great to emerge. Kind of like what happened after the turn of the millennium, a period which felt quite a bit like it does now.
We also discuss the new Radio Slave album, the changing nature of running a label in this space (Rekids, in this instance), and try to anticipate how it’s all going to develop... positive or negative!
Matt Edwards is a don of the scene and you’re going to enjoy this conversation…
Get it wherever you get your podcasts!
On this week’s episode of the Not A Diving Podcast… Scuba discusses his run of live dates last week in the UK, as well as some of his prior experiences with live electronic music as a performer as well as in the crowd.
Meanwhile on the Patreon feed we had a Singles Club rundown of the current Spotify Global Top 10, including tracks from Billie Eilish, Eminem, and Sabrina Carpenter.
Get it wherever you get your podcasts! And our Patreon 🥶
This week’s guest on the Not A Diving Podcast is Phil Moffa.
How many proper recording studios are there left in big cities in 2024? And how many of those are used regularly for making proper dance music?
Probably not that many but one of them is run by this week’s guest, a recoding engineer with a ton of house and techno credits and one half of the Lost Souls Of Saturn alongside previous NDP guest @stroxler
Phil Moffa is a born-and-raised New Yorker, with the accent to prove it. He’s also a great person to discuss many of our favourite topics with, including the historic club scene of NYC, the ethics of music technology, and the current state of house and techno.
We also get deep into Phil’s journey through music as a DJ, engineer, and lecturer.
Get it wherever you get your podcasts!
The week is finally here… D:U:LIVE in the UK
12 June Peckham Audio London with @alexis.alexis.alexiss
13 June The Love Inn Bristol with @bodhi_music and @chris_farrell_dj
14 June Yes Basement with @noellenoelleno
Will have a few copies of brand new Hardcore Heaven III vinyl to give away each night too 🤟
See you there!
![This week’s guest on the Not A Diving Podcast is Steve Bug.Are we partying like it’s 1999? As in what it was actually like in 99, not how Prince imagined it might be back in 1982.Millennium eve was supposed to be the best thing ever. @scubaofficial was beside himself with excitement for months beforehand, possibly years. But when push came to shove, his group of friends didn’t even bother going to a rave and instead spent an underwhelming evening drinking warm champagne on Brighton Beach before attending a number of deeply boring house parties.The subsequent inquest carried out in the pages of Mixmag, DJ Mag, and the rest suggested that our experience wasn’t unusual. Promoters lost unfathomable amounts of money that night and the overall impression was that an enormous bubble had prematurely burst with the least fanfare possible.While the current landscape lacks a similar finishing line, the bug-eyed faux enthusiasm and lip-smacking commercialism which seems to define everything in the dance scene right now has a very similar feel to the end of the 90s.But what, if anything, is going to let the air out this time?1999 was also the time that our guest this week, Steve Bug, and some of the Superstition Records gang from Hamburg started Poker Flat Recordings, one of the labels that would define the minimal sound that emerged from the wreckage of Millennium Eve.Steve has been pretty outspoken in his interviews of the last few years on above topics, so of course we wanted to get him on the podcast to talk about it. This conversation dovetails nicely with last week’s episode with Radio Slave, in which the host noted that ‘if something is sh_t, then you should say it’s sh_t, and this [the current dance scene] is sh_t’. Fair?!Don’t worry though, there’s a good amount of constructive comment in this episode, it’s it all doom!Get it wherever you get your podcasts!](https://sp1.pixwox.com/p/pt_6811693136406448106238_0_b743e1ee095b91754bded66267036db7.jpg?v/t51.29350-15/449785037_831941208872704_4638509195416447737_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s640x640_sh0.08&_nc_ht=scontent-hou1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=104&_nc_ohc=sGktxiTFZ2IQ7kNvgH9cxAw&gid=2b7c4359b45b452abfb3370d202a9a85&edm=AOQ1c0wBAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzQwMzQ0ODg4NzE2NTQ0MzYyNg%3D%3D.2-ccb7-5&oh=00_AYDLfr_MzROJJ2Rcil6oOEJUhCbiu1KQmj1uPaZayRiK6g&oe=668CFE52&_nc_sid=8b3546)
