Accidentally FaceTiming house music royalty from my pocket wasn’t perhaps the way I’d hoped the conversation would begin. I recovered my composure by remarking how having listened to Kathy Brown sing so many times it felt like meeting an old friend. She was typically reassuring: “You are meeting an old friend!” The first thing youContinue reading “Can’t play around with Kathy Brown”
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In full Effect once again
Circle March 27th 2020 on your calendar I realised I hadn’t provided much of an update since the successful first Disco Effect fundraiser. Well, the good news is we’re doing another one! Once more we’re raising funds for the Countess Mountbatten Hospice in Southampton and once more we’re going to be all about our favouriteContinue reading “In full Effect once again”
6 steps to set up your studio for an interview
Someone asked the other day about how they could easily set themselves up in their home studio to have a guest call into their radio show for an interview. I’ve done a few interviews from home and have found a setup and approach that at least works for me, so thought I’d share the mainContinue reading “6 steps to set up your studio for an interview”
Making friends with Tasha LaRae
On spanning the genres, picking a winning track and covering the greats with confidence “Most of the time they find me!” I’d always been intrigued how producers and their vocalists found each other so thought I’d ask. “I’ll get a message from Spen or Tommy Davis, and they’ll say ‘hey, we got a great trackContinue reading “Making friends with Tasha LaRae”
3 things vinyl DJs should love about going digital
It actually took me a while to get a controller but when I finally took the plunge in late 2017 I grew to love it. There’s just so many things a controller (or CDJ) lets you do now that software’s in control. I wouldn’t pretend to have mastered all of them but as someone whoContinue reading “3 things vinyl DJs should love about going digital”
Martin Gale 