#088 Tom Lea

We now have a facility for one-off donations to the podcast... to make such a donation using either a credit or debit card, or with Paypal, head over to scubaofficial.io/support. Record labels, music journalism, artist careers, and the historical developments of the dance scene have maybe been the most enduring themes of this podcast to date. And they all get discussed on this episode. Tom Lea has been running the excellent Local Action label since 2010, and is also, since 2021, label manager for Peggy Gou's Gudu imprint. His CV also includes stints as Editor In Chief of Fact Magazine, and as manager to artists including I.Jordan. So there was plenty to talk about this week, and we got stuck into topics including the travails of the dance press, the pros and cons of Boiler Room, and the role of labels. We also discuss whether the 2010s was a bad decade for music, the AI conundrum, and what it's like to work with Peggy. This is a good one, get involved! If you're into what we're doing here on the pod then you can support the show on Patreon! There are two tiers - "Solidarity" for $4 a month, which features regular bonus podcasts and extra content. And "Musicality" which for a mere $10 a month gets you all the music we release on Hotflush and affiliate labels AND other music too, some of which never comes out anywhere else. Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation there in the public channels, so please do! Listen to all (most of) the music discussed on the show via the Not A Diving Podcast Spotify playlistFollow Scuba: twitter instagram bandcamp spotify apple music beatport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.