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For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Dicky Trisco is a DJ and music producer who lives and breathes what he does. His passion for music and desire for good times is well known. He has spent years chasing that sound and that feeling around the globe as an international DJ. For him DJing is all about people. He is addicted to the way music connects people and makes for better days.

Dicky really broke through as a DJ and producer in the Nu Disco/Disco Revival years from around 2004. In particular, his run of DJ edit, original and remix releases alongside Balearic House hero Pete Herbert on Disco Deviance and Maxi Discs led to him becoming an increasingly in demand DJ with a busy international touring schedule. He is also rumoured to be the force behind the rather legendary Secret Squirrel vinyl only imprint. But who knows??? It’s a secret.

Since those early days, Dicky has toured constantly around Asia, Australia, Central/South America, USA, Europe and the UK sharing the music and the sound he loves. He has also become a regular at a long list of high profile festivals including the legendary Glastonbury, Electric Elephant, Mareh, Love International, Festival No 6 and many more.

Dicky is also a mainstay of the local scene in his hometown of Dundee, Scotland where he was a resident of the infamous ‘Small Town Club’ aka Reading Rooms for over a decade. At nights like Autodisco, Disco Deviance, A Night With and Non Stop, he learned his trade playing alongside many of his heroes and legendary DJs from around the world such as Andrew Weatherall, Optimo, Rahaan, Jazzie B, Horse Meat Disco, Farley Jackmaster and many more.

Dicky also ran and curated the well-respected House music label Home Taping Is Killing Music for many years putting out a run of amazing releases. Home Taping broke a number of great House artists who have gone on to become household names in the scene including The Blessed Madonna, The Revenge, Nicholas, Borrowed Identity, Eddie C & Medlar amongst others.

Dicky continues to discover, produce and remix music for a number of quality imprints including Razor-N-Tape, File Under Disco, Home Taping, Barefoot Beats, Nervous Records and many more. He has also remixed major artists such as Bryan Ferry, Belle & Sebastian, L’Impératrice, Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice), Danielle Baldelli, Faze Action, The Orielles, Golden Dawn Arkestra and Tensnake down in his basement studio.

Most recently Dicky has been creating original music alongside NYC music machine JKriv under the name Sentimental Animals for the Razor-N-Tape imprint. Their Love Vibration EP was very well received by disc jockeys around the world and has been played by the likes of Craig Charles who made it one of his Tracks of 2021 on his BBC Radio 6 Funk & Soul show.

Dicky became a resident DJ at Pikes in Ibiza in the summer of 2023 playing in every area - poolside, terrace, Freddies, bathtub - in this legendary club.

He also kick started a monthly radio show out of Ibiza called International Sounds on OpenLab Radio where he showcases the music he discovers, makes and plays while travelling around the globe.

As a disc jockey, DT packs a little bit of everything into his sets of International Sounds and is committed to the idea that music and club nights should be all about escapism, joy and togetherness.

As Dicky says love and dancing is what we need.

Amen to that.



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Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's. He's been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of "jazz" (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and "rock" (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O'Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee). The Guardian has called him "one of the world's great drummers."



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Under the alias Daedelus, Alfred Darlington has been an instigator of electronic music culture for the past 20+ years. A fore-figure of Los Angeles' Beat Scene they have released over 20+ LPs, countless EPs, remixes, and additional productions on labels such as Ninja Tune, WARP, Brainfeeder, and more. As a performer they're synonymous with controllers, from the Monome to computer-free modular, and have played over 1,000+ shows on 6 continents at venues ranging from the underground Low End Theory to festival mainstages such as Coachella.

A founding dj at Dublab, founding faculty member for the Berklee College of Music's EDI (Electronic Digital Instrument) program, and S.E.T.I. artist in residence.



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Tristra is Chief Strategy Officer at rock paper scissors, the music innovation PR agency, as well as co-host of the Music Tectonics podcast.

An experienced writer and PR strategy generator, she has two decades of experience working across a broad range of industries and a doctorate that dealt with the history of the performing arts in Siberia and Mongolia. She's passionate about cross-cultural stories, sounds from all over, and insights into tech, science, and society. That passion has translated into thousands of media placements for clients, including in major publications around the world. She loves writing stuff so much, she also does it in her spare time, resulting in four novels.



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Jing Yi Teo is a curator, writer and strategist. Her work focuses on seeking new formats, understandings and alliances for creative practices, resulting in more systematically propositional bodies of work. From 2019–2022 she led ArtBizTech, an innovation and strategy consultancy and incubator, whilst serving as Curator of bang. Prix, its non-profit arm that supports practices that intersect art, technology and science. Her approach bridging the theoretical and the applied spans various fields, from contemporary art and music to emerging tech and start-ups. She is currently building Outlyr-e, a distributed strategy practice aiming to create the conditions for creative thought applied to organizations in the arts.

Armen Nalbandian is an avant-garde and experimental composer and pianist whose practice seeks to expand the possibilities of sound and performance through spontaneous group composition, prepared piano and Fender Rhodes, and electronically layered improvisations. With 23 albums over 17 years, Armen has performed and recorded with Chris Corsano, Jeff Parker, Alex Cline, Steve Lehman, Han Bennink, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Makigami Koichi and other notable musicians, whilst pursuing multidisciplinary collaborations with writers, visual and performance artists. In 2023, Armen co-founded the distributed strategy practice Outlyr-e, with the objective of exploring ‘other ways’ of championing the arts.

MUSIC MENTIONS


Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Thelonius Monk
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Jeff Parker
Chris Speed
Alex Klein
Eric Revis
Dave King
The Bad Plus
Chris Corsano

Spontaneous Composition & the Avant Garde ethos (28:55):


Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cecil Taylor
John Cage
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Roman Kyn

Q&A


Glenn Gould

Discovering music today (49:19):


Thom Yorke
NTS Radio
Jim O’Rourke

First album ever purchased (53:20):


Armen: “License to Ill” by Beastie Boys
Jing: “For Emma, Forever Ago” by Bon Iver

Most recent album purchased (57:18):


“Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral

Artists discovered in the last year (57:18):


Catherine Lamb
Laurel Halo
Kali Malone

Desert Island Discs (58:38):


“Shutting Down Here” by Jim O’Rourke
“Spectral Evolution” by Rafael Toral
“Ashioto / Ashiato“ by Tatsuhisa Yamamoto


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Michelle Lhooq is a writer who, by some combination of tenacity and youthful stupidity, decided to make a career out of being really, really good at partying. She was born in Singapore, an anti-hedonic country that William Gibson famously called “Disneyland with the death penalty,” and growing up under its extreme restrictions on assorted freedoms made her obsessed with drugs and nightlife like a bad kink. These days, like every romantic-turned-cynic, she prefers complaining loudly about the vanities of the rave scene – although when she is in a good mood, she also sometimes throws her own psychedelic parties in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Her work has been published in The Guardian, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and her gonzo newsletter Rave New World.

MUSIC MENTIONS


Showtek
Broken Social Scene
Metric
Ed Banger Records
Uffie
Dorian Electron
Burial
“Untrue” album by Burial
deadmau5
Crookers
Boyz Noise
Baauer
Kaskade
Armin van Buuren
Avicii
TYGAPAW
Eartheater
Physical Therapy
Michael Magnet
Discwoman
The Lot Radio
Ministry of Sound

Travels in Asia (24:58):


Strange Weather
DJ Daniel (SG)
obese.dogma777
Sai Versailles
Endless Return (collective)
vangogh666
Pawnshop (club in Taiwan)
Tsui
Adam O
Raja Kirik
East Forest
Bryan Kasenic
Paige Emory
Leaving Records
“Intercommunications” album by Paige Emory
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
otodojo

Q&A


Resident Advisor
Dancing Astronaut
The Wire

Discovering music today (53:09):


Tone Glow
SoundCloud

Desert Island Discs (57:50):


“Irisiri” by Eartheater
“Healing Is a Miracle” by Julianna Barwick
“Orbital 2” by Orbital

Guest recommendations for future episodes (1:03:29):


Paige Emory
Lil Internet


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