Tales From The Dancefloor
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Tales From The Dancefloor
A podcast from Phil Morse that each week explores the life and times of a guest who has followed his or her passions and made a career out of DJing, producing, parties, dance culture, or some other intriguing corner of the music industry.
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Podcast #045: Phil Morse – Founder, CEO & Visionary Of Digital DJ Tips
We've been featuring DJs, producers, artist managers and industry leaders in Tales From The Dancefloor, and in this 45th episode, our last for the fir...
#44: Ben Stowe, The DJ Tech Genius Who Just Loves to Teach
Ben Stowe got his love of the geeky side of audio and visual gear from kicking around a TV shop as a kid. But his growing tech-savviness became his sa...
Podcast #043: Brandon Block - His Journey From Infamous Party DJ To Life Coach
As well as being a wicked DJ, Brandon Block was seen as one of the biggest party animals of the 90s in the UK rave and club scene, living larger than...
Podcast #042: Tall Paul On Residencies, Bootlegs & UK Retro Clubbing
Tall Paul was one of the biggest UK DJs of the 1990s, made famous originally via his residencies at Turnmills in London. In fact, his Turnmills Friday...
Podcast #041: Dominik Sobanski - Shaking Up The DJ Agency World
Like many a young DJ, Dominik Sobanski spend the obligatory ten years enjoying the music scene - promoting, DJing bars, hustling, living the DJ dream...
Podcast #040: Mark Luvdup - From "Madchester" To Wedding DJing
As one half of the "LuvDup Twins", Mark van den Berg - originally from Cape Town, South Africa - made a name for himself in the Manchester (or "Madche...
Podcast #039: John 00 Fleming, "Just Don't Call My Music Trance!"
For those who know, John 00 Fleming is one of the flag bearers for a certain kind of underground music that was once called "trance", but that in the...
#038: Ean Golden On Controllerism, Rave Culture & His Way Forward
Ean Golden is a name closely associated with the rise of digital DJing and controllerism, mainly through his championing the scene in San Francisco at...
Podcast #037: Patrick Danaher's Journey With Innofader
For many in the know, Innofader is held as an example of all that's right about boutique companies in the DJ industry. It's a company that exists sole...
Podcast #036: Grahame Farmer On Pivoting To Be A DJ Success Coach
Grahame Farmer is behind the Data Transmission website, which at its height employed 19 people and has spawned an online radio show and record label....
#035 Seb Fontaine On Cream, Radio 1, And THAT Fiji Track...
Seb Fontaine was EVERYWHERE in the 1990s - he had a Radio 1 show, he had a long-standing Cream residency, he mixed compilations for Ministry of Sound,...
#034: Morgan Page Share His Secrets for Long-Term Success
Morgan Page is one of the hardest working DJ/producers in the scene, playing festivals the world over, providing music for Tesla and Space X, collecti...
#033: EJ On Providing Soundtracks For Racetracks
Imagine what it's like curating the music for, and DJing at, Formula E race meetings around the world each and every season, and having your DJ sets n...
#032: Aston Harvey: The Secrets To A Successful, Long-Running Music Career
Aston Harvey was there right at the beginning of the explosion of DIY dance music in London in the late 80s - but little did he know when he formed hi...
#031: Luca Schreiner: Remixing, Collaboration & Finding Your Sound
German producer and DJ Luca Schreiner is an up and coming name to watch. Still only 24, he's self-taught, with a keen eye for what works both on the r...
#030: David Dunne's life-long career in radio & club DJing... with a BIG twist
Received wisdom has it that a bunch of British DJs went to Ibiza in the late 80s and brought house music to the UK via London - something Manchester h...
#029: MOGUAI on working with Deadmau5 & playing to 750,000 at Berlin's Love Parade
From his worldwide touring schedule, to his long-running record label Punx, to his work with names like Deadmau5 and Oliver Heldens, MOGUAI is not onl...
#028: Jonas Norberg of Pacemaker talks AI DJing and collaborative mixing
Growing up in a hippy collective, the young Jonas Norberg was always around music - but it was when he sold his bass guitar and bought decks and recor...
#027: Music PR Company Boss Stephanie Dell Shares DJ Stories & More...
When Stephanie Dell's teenage boyfriend left his job in the parts department of Denon, she thought "I'll apply for that!" - and immediately found hers...
#026: Techno DJ Alex Zinn on working with Richie Hawtin & playing Ultra's main stage...
Alex Zinn (aka SpinnZinn) is a techno DJ and producer who recently played a homecoming gig at Ultra, and in front of 60,000 people at Madrid's A Summe...
#025: Sam Gribben - From pirate TV to Serato then Melodics, a life of innovating...
Sam Gribben was one of the first four people to work at Serato... and when he left the company 10 years later, he'd been CEO for over half a decade, a...
#024: Rik Parkinson - My career helping to design Pioneer DJ gear
Rik Parkinson, like so many, basically got into the music industry from being a fan and a DJ. Little could he have guessed at the start of his career...
#023: DJ Angelo - Turntablist, International DJ, Educator & Brand Ambassador...
Burma-born, UK-raised, DJ Angelo is one of the world’s most respected and versatile DJs, with a style that blends a scratch DJ's technical skill with...
#022: Rachel Lynch, top USA event DJ who's spun for George Clinton, Gloria Gaynor...
When her brother dramatically fell ill hours before a wedding he was booked to DJ at, Rachel Lynch decided that the show had to go on: Despite zero DJ...
#021: Robb McDaniels, Beatport CEO & Music Industry Disruptor
Robb McDaniels always knew he wasn't going to spend the rest of his life working in merchant banking, where he started his career. He knew the pull of...
#020: DJ TLM: Dutch hip-hop DJ and hugely popular YouTube DJ tutor
DJ TLM will be best known to fans of Tales From The Dancefloor as the man behind scores of supremely helpful YouTube DJing tutorials, and his #shareth...
#019: Simon Walsh, Radio Plugger & DJ Promo Pool Boss...
Tapping into an unusual reserve of “get up and go”, a young Simon Walsh did just that. His jet-setting start to his music career involved things like,...
#018: Scotty Hoogerbrug, Serato's Top Marketing Guy, Shares His Inspiring Story So Far...
Scotty Hoogerbrug always loved dance music and owned decks - but it wasn't until he was offered the top marketing job at Serato as its CMO that his lo...
#017: Laidback Luke - On his rise to fame, the state of DJing today & achieving balance in life...
Talk to any DJ who's been around long enough about Laidback Luke and you hear a similar story: He's incredibly passionate about the art of DJing, and...
#016: Jay Cunning - The UK breakbeat scene, pirate radio, running a DJ school & more...
From his first love of UK "hardcore" (the "old school rave" scene, not the guitar "hardcore"), Jay Cunning has been involved neck-deep in all things b...
#015: Olga Heijns - Laidback Luke's Manager shares some of the secrets of her success
Olga Heijns drifted into the music industry just by virtue of going out and getting to know people, at a time when there was no real career path in d...
#014: Paul Dakeyne - My life as a Top 10 producer, remixer, podcaster, photographer...
Paul Dakeyne has been in this business for a third of a century. Cutting his teeth as a DJ and remixer way before Acid House and the Summer Of Love to...
#013: Judge Jules - Legendary UK/Ibiza DJ - but also A&R man, producer, band leader... oh, and music industry lawyer!
Judge Jules is often mentioned in the same breath as Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong and many other "first wave" UK DJs. But as well as having had...
#012: Dan Bewick: An amazing journey from London rave DJ, to hit music producer, film & TV scoring in LA
Dan Bewick was one half of prolific dance production outfit Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - but before that, he was an illegal rave promoter and DJ in Londo...
#011: Jason Jani - America's leading wedding and event DJ reveals his formula for success - and how he nearly ended up as a pro wrestler
Jason Jani is one of America's top wedding and event DJs. He's DJed at celebrity parties galore, including the Superbowl afterparty. When Wedding Wire...
#010: Ferry Corsten - Revealing stories from his 25 years as a superstar trance DJ & producer
Ferry Corsten is a trance superstar. In the late 90s and early 2000s he produced worldwide hits as System F, Moonman, Pulp Victim and Gouryella, work...
#009: DJ Dan - From student promoter to running one of the biggest nightclub events companies in the UK...
When DJ Dan started promoting indie club nights at university, he was doing everything himself (including the DJing), and working as hard as he could...
#008: Lohan Presencer - Ministry of Sound's Chairman talks about his unique journey through the music industry
When he left university, Lohan Presencer didn't want to join the world of work. He didn't really want to grow up and leave the student life at all. So...
#007: DJ Rasp - UK-based scratch champion talks touring China and working with an orchestra...
Just how do you go from teaching yourself to make mixtapes with a cassette player, to being a two-times DMC UK Supremacy Champion, five-times IDA UK C...
#006: Adam Dutch - Renowned mashup artist who still finds time to play 150+ gigs a year...
Ever wondered what it's like being a world-renowned mashup artist? US-based DJ Adam Dutch knows, having had huge success with a succession of mashups,...