The official Ninja Tune Podcast featuring exclusive interviews and music from the artists of Ninja Tune & guests from beyond. Expect the likes of Bicep, Actress, Jayda G, Marie Davidson, Amon Tobin, Bonobo, The Bug, Sampa The Great, Music Declares Emergency, The Cinematic Orchestra, Coldcut, Ed O’Brien (Radiohead), Kae Tempest, Kelis, Machinedrum, Mr Scruff, Romare, Roots Manuva, Thundercat, Young Fathers and many more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Deep conversations, Immersive documentaries, compelling stories and everything in between. Created by sound designer Tom Whalley, SGR is made to make every listen feel special. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Caspar Henderson's book A Book of Noises - Notes on the Auraculous is a beautiful read about the sound world we inhabit. Caspar joins Tom to talk about the sound of the Northern Lights, whale song, murmurations and Korean opera. A Book of Noises by Caspar Henderson. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo200525016.html Sounds Good Ri…
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S.H Fernando Jr. aka Skiz talks MF DOOM, "the greatest rapper with no chains that you never heard." Skiz is the author of the new book The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast which tells DOOM's extraordinary story in brilliant detail. It covers DOOM's childhood in New York, his early success with KMD, the tragic loss of his brot…
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Ishmael Ensemble's Pete Cunningham on rituals.
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15:26Ishmael Ensemble's Pete Cunningham talks about the daily rituals that help us stay creative and deal with our anxieties. Pete also talks about the 'Bristol hum' and why you should record everything. This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley https://www.tbone.productions Sounds Good Right merch. https://www.tbone.producti…
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Sounds Good Right returns for season 2 beginning with an interview with producer and sometime Hot Chip member Joe Goddard. Joe's new album is called Harmonics and it's out now via Domino. This episode was produced by Ashley Clivery. https://twitter.com/ashleyclivery Get in touch with us here. https://www.tbone.productions Sounds Good Right Merch ht…
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Amon Tobin is a producer, composer, musician, film maker. Originally from Brazil he spent many years with the legendary Ninja Tune label releasing some classic albums. He is now releasing music on his own NoMark imprint and is readying the follow up to 2023's Hole In The Ground. Ash Clivery https://twitter.com/ashleyclivery Get in touch. https://ww…
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By the end of 2024 the NYPD will have encrypted its radio dispatches. Photojournalists Bruce Cotler and Lloyd Mitchell come to terms with the impact this will have as the sound of the city changes forever, This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley https://www.tbone.productions Sounds Good Right merch. https://www.tbone.p…
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A broadcast is picked up from across the English channel. It changes a city forever. FIP https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip Asta Hiroki https://astahiroki.com/ Ash Clivery https://twitter.com/ashleyclivery?lang=en Get in touch. https://www.tbone.productions/ Merch https://www.tbone.productions/store Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…
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Pascal Wyse is a sound designer, composer and musician. https://pascalwyse.com/ Cautionary Tales https://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/ This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley https://www.tbone.productions Sounds Good Right merch. https://www.tbone.productions/store Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for …
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James Alexander Bright is a musician from Winchester, UK. In this episode he talks about his UFO experience, talking about aliens with nightmares on wax, echoes, playing in tunnels, changing the nature of existence, field recordings, and how everything vibrates. This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley It was made by Tb…
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Sonic Wonderland author Trevor Cox talks about playing saxophone in the space with the world's longest echo. There's also a piece with Wren Brier taken from the One Cool Thing podcast. Wren is a game artist, game designer, and BAFTA-award-winning narrative designer who created Unpacking. This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom…
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DJ Harrison is a grammy nominated musician, producer and remixer from Richmond, VA. A member of jazz / hip hop group Butcher Brown, DJ also has a solo record out on Stones Throw. In this conversation he talks about what it's like to have perfect pitch and how his super power was discovered. D.J Harrison - Shades of Yesterday Archive: The World's Ha…
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Illa J is an MC and producer from Detroit. His brother, J Dilla, would have turned 50 this month. Illa reflects on his brother's life and work, the challenges the family have faced in protecting his legacy, and his own love of the piano. This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley It was made by Tbone Productions. Sounds G…
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Cappo is one of the finest MCs the UK has ever produced. He's just released the triple album Canon and completed his PHD, both of which he talks about here. He also talks the sound of drums, breath and the global hum. Canon This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley It was made by Tbone Productions. Sounds Good Right? mer…
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In 2023 Say She She released Silver, one of the albums of the year. You may not know this but Tom has been supporting them since the beginning in his other role as producer of The Huey Show on BBC 6Music. In this ep Tom sits down with Say She She's Piya Malik to chat Big Crown, El Michels Affair, Bollywood soundtracks, being a restaurant brat, and …
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From Los Angeles the one and only Egyptian Lover. www.stonesthrow.com/artist/egyptianlover/ This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Ash Clivery It was made by Tbone Productions. Get some rad Sounds Good Right merch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Don Leisure talks bootleg Asian pirate radio adverts, Russian and Turkish vinyl, the art of sampling, and the story of his Uncle Shaboo who attempted to launch a Bollywood career from Canada. This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Ash Clivery It was made by Tbone Productions. Get some rad Sounds Good Right merch. Hosted on Acast.…
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Anna Bogutskaya is the host and producer of the excellent horror anthology podcast series Eerie, and the author of Unlikeable Female Characters. Anna spoke with Tom about the sounds that chill us to the bone. Pontypool trailer Out Of Sync trailer This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley It was made by Tbone Productions.…
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In part 2 of this mini-series on Lost Wave, Tom speaks to members of Panchiko. Panchiko is a band whose badly degraded CD was found in a charity shop, 20 years after its creation, which then inspired an internet treasure hunt that literally changed lives. This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley It was made by Tbone Pro…
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Lost Wave: The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet.
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22:55Finding the artist behind a song, recorded from radio onto cassette in 1984 has become an obsession for many. A wild ride of spreadsheets, frequency analysis, rediscovered bands, fraudsters, meltdowns and endless dead ends. But this is just one of many songs that various reddit and discord communities are trying to identify, with varied consequence…
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Tom finds a haul of cassettes in his parents' loft, artist and producer Scrimshire revisits his teenage demos, Sommer McCoy takes us to the mixtape museum, and Jonathan Mael tells the story of the Harlem World Battle and the cassette that sparked a hip hop debate that still rages to this day. The Harlem World Battle cassette recording. https://www.…
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Rhi is a London-based producer, singer, songwriter and musician who creates minimal, ethereal electronic soundscapes. Here she explores her love of the night, the way it feels, and the way it sounds. Links to Rhi's music This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Ashley Clivery It was made by Tbone Productions. Music courtesy of Epid…
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Andy Mead is co-lead of the acoustics team for the Galileo Project run by Avi Loeb out of Harvard University. The Galileo Project sets out to watch the entire sky in order to collect data on UFOs/UAPs by using a vast network of sensors. It's the first rigorous scientific study of its kind and Andy's role is to collect and analyse audio data. He lis…
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Joseph Assad is a former CIA case officer who worked in many dangerous situations in the Middle East, most notably in Iraq. Here Joseph talks about the use of listening devices in espionage, the techniques used by intelligence services to record and monitor conversations, and the sounds he heard in Iraq that will stay with him forever. This episode…
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Some of the music is real... most of it is not.
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11:53Caitrin Innis is a writer who works in arts funding. Originally from Vancouver, she now lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the north of England. Shortly after giving birth to her first child, Caitrin starts to hear music, music that no one else can hear...... Caitrin's article for Motherly https://www.mother.ly/life/motherly-stories/musical-ear-postpa…
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Tom speaks to Andrew Benfield and Richard Horsey who have visited the most remote regions of India, Nepal, Myanmar and Bhutan, exploring what the Yeti means to the people who live in these places and gathering their stories of the creature. This journey became the BBC Radio 4 podcast, Yeti, which was beautifully sound designed by Dan King and Pereg…
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Bastien Keb is a musician, HIs music is "Psychedelic, soulful, eerie, experimental, ambient and avant garde" and his latest album The Only Angel I Ever Saw Wore Black is out now. Here he talks about his love of distant sounds, eavesdropping, inner-monologues, taxi driver, car alarms, and walking through the city at night. bastienkeb.bandcamp.com/mu…
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The story of The Mad Writer, Zach Kashkett's intimate documentary about hip hop producer L'Orange covering three years of his life. The documentary explores the way hearing loss has impacted both him as a person and the way he makes music. https://www.themadwriterfilm.com/ This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whalley It was…
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During lockdown in London, Ash Clivery is troubled by a mystery sound. On the other side of the world, across the bay from the city of Vancouver, Glen MacPherson has been tracking occurrences of the sound for a decade. The World Hum Map and Database Project https://www.thehum.info/ This episode was recorded, produced and sound designed by Tom Whall…
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Two stories about the deeply personal and internal sounds that we experience. Claudia Molinari is a creative designer and co-founder of WeAreMuesli, an independent design studio based in Milan specializing in narrative games with cultural, historical and artistic themes. wearemuesli.it Renu Arora is a performer based in London. Her podcast The Burg…
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Beautifully crafted documentaries, stories and interviews from producer Tom Whalley. Each episode takes sound as a starting point and then strays far and wide. Sounds Good Right? is a creation of Tbone Productions. tbone.productions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Tom Whalley
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This month on the Ninja Tune Podcast, our producer Azariah Mai sat down with DJ Seinfeld to discuss his beginnings in music, his recording process, and the 2021 release of his most recent album ‘Mirrors’ released via Ninja Tune. They delve into the unusual topic of UFO’s, as Seinfeld expresses a fascination with flying saucers, we find out what his…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Julianna Barwick
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1:50:12Guest host James Heather sits down to chat with Julianna Barwick on a cold winters day in January. Julianna is a composer, vocalist and producer who makes deep, reflective compositions out of the human voice. Her fourth and latest album, “Healing Is A Miracle”, released in 2020, is a distinctive meditation on sound, reverb and the voice and was rel…
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On this months episode, host Azariah Mai sits down with London Based band PVA for an interview they recorded in Autumn 2022, to chat about PVA's newly released album ‘BLUSH’.’ We’ll hear about the comical moments from their performance on Jools Holland, the formation of the band and some of the artists who are inspiring them at the moment. Hosted o…
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On this episode of The Ninja Tune podcast, our producer Azariah Mai sits down with grammy nominated producer, composer, and graphic designer Scott Hansen, known professionally as Tycho. Highly respected for his musical output and graphic design work, Tycho has produced and released a hugely successful back catalogue - the albums ‘Epoch’ and ‘Weathe…
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Halloween is upon us, and with Halloween comes a creepy plethora of freaky cult films, scary soundtracks, and a fascination with the horrific and the macabre that overtakes culture by a storm. For this episode, host Azariah Mai sits down with saxophonist, multireedist, and composer Colin Stetson for our very own Halloween special. We’ll be getting …
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Hello and welcome back to the Ninja Tune podcast with your host Azariah Mai. On this episode Azariah will be sitting down with Edinburgh born, London Based producer Barry Can't Swim to chat about his upcoming EP 'More Content' dropping this June 24th. He'll give us a run down of his musical journey so far, we'll hear about some of the artists that …
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Matt Black (Coldcut) & James Heather (Ambient Music Special)
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1:49:58Interview with Matt Black, co-founder of Ninja Tune and one half of Coldcut. We explore his relationship with ambient music via some song selections that have signposted his life and also play music from and speak about the @0 ambient compilation he put together in aid of the charities Calm, Mind and Black Minds Matter. We discuss and play music fr…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Mind w/ ELKKA, Percolate, Yaya Bey & Peach
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1:01:13On this episode of the Ninja Tune Podcast, we teamed up with Mind to organise a panel discussing mental health in the electronic music industry. The panel was hosted by Emma Mamo, Head of Workplace Wellbeing at the mental health charity, Mind. Mind have been working in partnership with Ninja Tune, Paradigm, POLY and Percolate to raise awareness of …
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Black Country, New Road & Slint
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55:19In this episode of the Ninja Tune Podcast, Luke Mark and Isaac Wood from the band Black Country New Road chat with Britt Walford, the drummer and founder of the influential band Slint. BC,NR and Slint are often compared to each other, so for the podcast we asked both groups to compile a list of records that they were listening to which either inspi…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Benny Wenda (Free West Papua) & Matt Black
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25:10In this episode of the Ninja Tune Podcast, Matt Black, Ninja Tune founder and 1/2 of Coldcut talks with Benny Wenda, the West Papuan independence leader. Coldcut — who are friends of the Wenda family and long term supporters of the Free West Papua campaign—invited Benny Wenda to contribute to the Keleketla! record that was released last year. The r…
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On this episode of the Ninja Tune Podcast, we listen back to Rough Trade Shop’s Zoom Q&A with Matt and Andy from BICEP, who were joined by special guest host Joe Muggs for an intimate conversation, with an opportunity for audience questions. This live-streamed Q&A event celebrates the release of Isles, the new album from BICEP that is out now. Two …
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On this edition of the Ninja Tune Podcast, journalist Lauren Martin chats with Travis Stewart, also known as Machinedrum. “A View Of U”, Stewart’s new album on Ninja Tune is his most collaborative to date, featuring a cast of collaborators including Sub Focus, Chrome Sparks, Father, Freddie Gibbs, and more. On this episode Machinedrum talks about t…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Music Declares Emergency
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46:55On this edition of the Ninja Tune Podcast, journalist and broadcaster Kate Hutchinson sits down with Ninja Tune MD Peter Quicke, Fay Milton from the band Savages and Chiara Badiali from Julie’s Bicycle. All three are co-founders of Music Declares Emergency, a group of artists, music industry professionals and organisations that stand together to de…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Sampa The Great
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1:08:07On this month’s Ninja Tune podcast, Sampa The Great sits down with Natty Kasambala, journalist and author for gal-dem. They discuss everything from the importance of femininity, being proud of where you come from and what’s next for Sampa. The Return, Sampa’s new LP is out now on Ninja Tune. If you enjoy this episode don’t forget to subscribe to th…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - A Winged Victory For The Sullen & Mary Anne Hobbs
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37:23A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the name of ambient, post rock and modern classical duo Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie. In this Ninja Tune Podcast, Adam sits down at Rough Trade East with music journalist and broadcasting legend, Mary Anne Hobbs. They discuss everything from winning Wimbledon, the influence of John Peel to playing the BBC Pr…
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It’s a Brainfeeder affair! Longtime affiliate and Brainfeeder rep Paul “PBDY” sits down with beat scene veteran Teebs to discuss everything from the importance of collaboration to becoming a father. Teebs has just released Anicca, his fourth album on Brainfeeder and his first in five years. The record features artists such as Sudan Archives and Pan…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Jon More (Coldcut) & James Heather (Ambient Music Special)
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1:29:20Jon More, co-founder of NInja Tune and one half of Coldcut is interviewed by the composer and pianist James Heather, who is signed to another of Coldcut’s labels, Ahead Of Our Time. James chats to Jon about his musicial history and focuses on his relationship with ambient music. Subjects covered include talking about the composer Elgar being a fami…
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This Month we have a special edition of the Ninja Tune Podcast, our producer sat down with Jamie and Dan of the charity War Child to discuss their involvement in this year’s Independent Music Cup, a 5-a-side football tournament bringing together 32 teams from across the music industry to raise money for a good cause. This year’s chosen charity is t…
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Ninja Tune Podcast - Marie Davidson
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1:04:32Marie Davidson is a self-confessed workaholic. Her fourth album ‘Working Class Woman’, released in October of last year, is perhaps her most self-reflective to date. A veteran of the global club music scene, her most recent album is some of her most introspective, cutting work to date, and she’s ready to poke fun at the industry she’s spent her car…
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What do Quincy Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Flying Lotus have in common? They’re all fans of Louis Cole. He’s had the rare pleasure of performing in Quincy Jones’ living room, been invited on tour with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and signed to Fly Lo’s label Brainfeeder, which isn’t bad going for someone who’s first 2 albums were released throu…
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