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Podcast looking at what DJing means to us at different points of our lives, for better and for worse, hosted by @_adamgow

Spotted: Porto. 2 of my fave guests @djmrthing @ma Spotted: Porto. 2 of my fave guests @djmrthing @marktrae
More nuggets from the @eddie_otchere once a dj int More nuggets from the @eddie_otchere once a dj interview - such a lovely chat with loads of wisdom and insights, check it out if you haven’t!

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We’re back with the decks at @189allestree in a co We’re back with the decks at @189allestree in a couple of weeks for a Saturday evening session, myself and tha man of many aliases @richard.gardner.photography - if you like good drinks and good music on your doorstep get yourself down!
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This week’s guest on Once a DJ is Eddie Otchere (@eddie_otchere )— and even if his name’s new to you, his pictures absolutely aren’t.

Eddie has spent the last 30 years documenting London’s hip hop, jungle, drum & bass, garage and grime scenes. He was Metalheadz’s official photographer. He shot Wu-Tang as teenagers, Aaliyah while he was still at college, Biggie, Jay-Z, So Solid, Estelle, Chronixx. His work is in the V&A East right now.

We got deep on this one. Growing up in Brixton when the record shops of Soho were the only education that mattered. Picking up a Praktika camera left behind by a friend’s granddad. Shooting jungle raves so the tabloids couldn’t paint dancers as wrong’uns. Why drum & bass was run by women. Lee Scratch Perry. Meta glasses. AI as a personal archivist. Why Theo Parrish playing his record at the wrong speed turned out to be a win.
It’s a long one. It’s wide-ranging. I came away from it feeling like I’d learned something — and that’s not always the case.

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Car boot season is fully upon us. 🤌🏻 Car boot season is fully upon us. 🤌🏻
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This week I sat down with Carl Loben, Editor-in-Chief of DJ Mag. He’s been chronicling dance music since the early 90s — from blagging gig reviews for Melody Maker, to running one of the most influential titles in the game for the last decade.

We got into the lot. His acid house epiphany at Glastonbury. Beat-matching with no lessons in Hackney freestyle rooms. Painting himself into a corner as the drum & bass guy. The cult of the superstar DJ. Founding Westway Records with Barry Ashworth from the Dub Pistols, and Jack Said What with Irvine Welsh and the other Steve Mac. Co-authoring Renegade Snares with Ben Murphy and the whitewashing he set out to address.

A proper one for anyone who cares about the people who’ve quietly shaped the culture from behind the printed page.

🎙 Ep 83 — Carl Loben (DJ Mag)

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