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Carl Craig worked with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson back in the day
I mean that could be all the intro you need to hear to know how heavy he is!
Wait til you find out about the HANGS they had in Detroit. They were cooking up a sound of techno that has never been surpassed in my opinion.
Mr Craig has really never stopped. It’s pretty mind blowing to me
He’s already left behind a superb and ultra varied stack of music that springs from an insatiable hunger for the new. I mean the sheer number of aliases he has is hard to keep up with!
Not content with just putting out bangers, he’s been expanding his experience to fill a museum and the process is truly epic. We get into what went into his work called Party/After Party which was commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and is opening soon at Moca LA.
and is on view APR 16 – JULY 23, 2023. Here’s a link!
Increasingly on this show, I’ve been trying to stay away from too much gear talk coz it’s really not that interesting often quite frankly BUT in this case I felt like we needed to get somethings cleared up. At least I was really curious about what made it on to those early Detroit cuts. Some of the findings are shocking, in a great way and ought to be inspiring to anyone who feels they need all manner of fancy machines to rock the house. Carl is living proof that you just need to get it all out with whatever you have in front of you but also it illustrates to me the importance of a crew and a little friendly competition. That can really up your game.
The thing I take away from this chat is just the searching. The fascination and passion to keep making. It’s super inspiring to me and I hope it spurs you all on to dig in and make noise!
In other news, Im off to superbooth!
Let me know if you’re going :)
boring news,,, I've been sick
good news, new studio looking good
next show will have a nitty.
Cheers!

Hi ! Yep, a tad delayed this one. I apologize.
This time I have the wall of blinkers to blame.
The eurocrack has opened up and swallowed me! Haaaaaa. I've enjoyed being in the belly of the beast though I must say and now Im emerging with many a sonic memory etched on tape. I'll try to share these via a new venture, HOWA records. Yeah, its a new idea. Somewhere to put all this work. I pour so much of my heart and soul into these sounds and pieces that linger on the drive. Perhaps it's time to release them into the wilds.
EP107 is with Emmy Award winner Angelo Palazzo. He is a sound designer and editor on the highest level. His recent work on Stranger things session 4 was beyond epic. It's a pleasure to have him on to enlighten us about the dark art of TV sound on this grand scale.
We had the sad news of Dominic Hawkins passing away last week. Really really sad. He was such a positive and uplifting gentleman. I didnt know him well but always thoroughly enjoyed my chats with him on the sonic state pod. RIP Dom.

David Haskell is a professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and a Guggenheim Fellow.
His 2017 book The Songs of Trees won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the Reed Environmental Writing Award.
His new book, Sounds Wild and Broken is out now and I was thrilled to have a chance to sit down in person with him in my studio here Nashville to discuss it briefly.
Here’s a quick summary of the book from the official press release:
Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth history, Haskell illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world. In mammoth ivory flutes from Paleolithic caves, violins in modern concert halls, and electronic music in earbuds, we learn that human music and language belong within this story of ecology and evolution. Yet we are also destroyers, now silencing or smothering many of the sounds of the living Earth. Haskell takes us to threatened forests, noise-filled oceans, and loud city streets, and shows that sonic crises are not mere losses of sensory ornament. Sound is a generative force, and so the erasure of sonic diversity makes the world less creative, just, and beautiful. The appreciation of the beauty and brokenness of sound is therefore an important guide in today’s convulsions and crises of change and inequity.
Here’s a link to the book in all it’s various formats (the link is slow but it works)
I can highly recommend you give it a read. It's just a wonderful read and full of insights that will stay with you.
There’s a Soundcloud link with sounds pertinent to the chapters which you can check out here
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I also wanted to give a shout out to pod listener Simon Taylor and his book
AUDIO MASTERING IN A PROJECT STUDIO: A PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR A PROFESSIONAL SOUND
Some great ideas and knowledge that’s not too overwhelming check these whee links:
US  Or UK 
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As always send music and stuff to
lidellmakeswaves@gmail.com
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Merry Chrimble y’all!
Here’s a sonic present for your ears to unwrap. 
It’s in the form of a nice fireside ramble with the excellent Stephen James Wilkinson aka Bibio. 
He’s a wonderful and thoughtful chap with a very unique touch and a searching soul. 
I love his musical range, his tones, his playing. YES
He’s rather good!
Im assuming you all know his stuff? If not you fools! 
You must immediately have a listen 
As in go here NOW!
https://bibio.co
 
It’s super ooper dooper inspiring stuff and I was mighty chuffed when he agreed to come on the pod.
Our paths never crossed as label mates on warp records which is a shame. God knows why. 
A couple of shy dudes making waves in different countries might have had something to do with it!
Ha.
Anyway we are finally in a chat and even talking about working on something together which sounds good to me. 
Watch this space.
 
He’s a wise lad so of course he has a nagra. A stereo nagra in fact. 
In fact it was this conversation that really made me want to find one of my own which thankfully I did.
He’s the one guest that actually recorded a backup to the tape machine. Proper legend
 
Roll it
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Thanks for tuning in folks!
It’s been another bonkers year and having this show has been a huge part of keeping me going.
Cheers to all the wonderful patrons for helping me keep this dream alive
Thanks to distrokid for their continued support as the most epic and long running sponsor of the pod. 
If you make music and need it putting out, just use distrokid! It’ll be everywhere like Santa before you know it 
Dropping that sonic magic down the chimneys of the world.
 
Thanks to Bibio
And I’ll catch you in 2023!
 
Make merry y’all 
 
 

Such a treat to chat with Jeremy aka Red Means Recording. Now you must know who he is right? If not well you're in for a treat. He's an amazing creative soul and funky chap that makes excellent music, teaches and creates exceptional YouTube videos that go deep into the synth and electronic musical world. Highly recommended viewing. He's just great.
Link to his YouTube here
HELLO!
Yes, I realize this has been a lonnnnng time coming.
What's been up?
The studio build is now hitting a new level of intensity and my Mum just left after a long visit and things have been a tad upside down so Im off my funk but here we are!
 
LINKS
Please go and grab this new release from friend of the pod Marta Salongi and Floating points.
It's a fund raiser for the charity Free Youth Orchestra which focuses on removing financial barriers between children and access to musical equipment and lessons
so cool.
the music is here to buy and thus support
looking for something to fill the digital stocking?
I can recommend this max for live device from the wonderful friend of the pod Ned Rush. It's called MIDI WAVES and it's ace and not expensive. grab here
Jim Keller has been helping me design the new studio. Great to work with him. So much knowledge! Check his beautiful work here
Thanks for Diana Walsch for pod support. Find her here
Website: dmwalshmusic.com
IG: @dmwalshmusic

Hello!
Jamie again.
I caught up with this busy Fred on his current US tour. 
He’s been busy you ask? 
Oh yes. I mean so so busy. 
For one thing he’s penned massive pop numbers with Ed Sheeran, Stormy and other huge acts
Did you know that? 
I mean BIG BIG songs. 
And YET his mentor and good friend is none other than 
Brian Eno!
 
Wait.. what? Ah yes, all shall be revealed.
See the thing about Fred is he will write a huge song for an act like Clean Bandit in the afternoon, then be on the phone to fourtet for arrangement advice on his solo work by dinner time. 
He can write on the road, he can write in the club. He’s prolific as they come this man!
 
Fred has been doing so well and it was great to get this chance to chat with him 
What an exceedingly positive and fun chap he is. So much talent and a very good outlook
Lots of nuggets in this chat. Obv we get into the Eno connection and the come up and 
Fred reveals some massive beat making secrets he learned directly from Boi-1da. 
I get some advice mid show too which I think might be a first :)
We are here in part to discuss his ace new LP “Actual Life 3” which you can find in the usual streaming zones.
 
It’s a real pleasure to welcome on to the Show for the first time Fred….. Again
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