Producer Life Podcast

The Producer Life Podcast brings actionable ideas for improving your music production and getting your tracks heard so you can level up your music career.

Discover new ideas for creating income streams, tips and tricks for taking your music to the next level, and inspiring artist success stories.  Past guests include Approaching Nirvana, a prolific indie producer with over 300 million streams across platforms, major label artist Julian Gray, of Mau5trap and Anjunabeats, Grammy nominated music educator Zak Jablow, head of A&R at the producer Dojo  Sean Naughton, multiple record label owners, and even a Guinness world record holder.

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Informative! This is an excellent podcast I love how it goes into depth about all kinds of topics of the music industry. Highly recommend. ~Neotheone15, 06/17/2021

A must listen for music industry insight
Great host that keeps things entertaining with intriguing questions and topics! ~GIO TN, 06/30/2021

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PLP 099: Ignacio Arfeli on Patience, Plugins, and Producing Techno

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Ignacio Arfeli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There wasn’t much of a techno scene there, so he moved to the mecca for techno: Berlin. Ignacio’s music blurs the line between the techno underground and the mainstream. 2019 was a breakout year for him as he landed some of the most respected labels in techno including Kraftek, Suara, Octopus Recordings, and several more. Charlotte De Witte has frequently opened festivals with his tracks, and he has had support from Alan Fitzpatrick, Eric Pryzd, Dense & Pika, and Dj Rush.

PLP 097: Shakes on Event Promotion and the Twisted Lines Experience

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Today’s guest is Yera, better known in the Atlanta techno scene as Shakes. Yera is a die-hard techno fan, fashionista and the founder of Twisted Lines. Twisted Lines began in 2018 in the alleyways of L.A., but has grown into an Atlanta-based community of techno and house music lovers who build art events inspired by the underground warehouse raves of the 90’s. Her events are much more than just themed music nights: past events have incorporated sports car collectives, art installations, and they recently closed out Atlanta’s Digital Art Week.

PLP 095: Sean Giovanni on Storytelling in Songwriting

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Today we welcome back Sean Giovanni. Gio is an audio engineer, producer and the multitalented owner of The Record Shop in Nashville, Tennessee. During his career Gio has worked with big acts and labels to include: Alabama, John Legend, Lil Jon, Meatloaf, Sister Hazel, The Wallflowers, Sony Music, Warner Music Group, Universal, and many more.

PLP 094: Bruce Zalcer on Life, Branding, and Techno in Panama

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Today we’re talking with Bruce Zalcer from Panama. Bruce is a multi-instrumentalist who began with music in his teens playing in rock bands and DJing. After school, he largely left the scene and moved on to a more conventional life selling insurance and raising a family for many years until 2018 when he decided to return to music. Since then, Bruce’s unique approach to techno incorporating synthesizers, drum machines, and sounds sampled from daily life has been making waves in the techno world. He’s released a dozen tracks including his Lifeblood EP and already has tracks signed on some of the biggest techno labels in the industry including Terminal M, 1605, and Codex Recordings. Additionally, his first live performance in 20 years was in Amsterdam for ADE! Finally, because there isn’t a huge techno following in Panama he created Dialectic Live: an organization that is dedicated to growing the techno movement in that country.

PLP 093: Mauro Somm on Producing Techno by Avoiding Rules

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Today’s guest is Mauro Somm, an up-and-coming techno producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s been signed on Christian Smith’s Tronic label and has had support from some of the most creative artists in the industry, including UMEK,  Gallya, Joyce Mercedes, and Space 92. 

PLP 092: Heather Johnson CEO of Ninty9Lives on Labels, Better CTAs, and Spotify

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Today’s guest is Heather Johnson, the CEO of the Nintey9Lives. Heather also serves on the advisory board of the American Association of Independent Music which advocates for independent music rights holders. This episode was actually recorded LAST April, but due to a super secret announcement at the end of the podcast, I couldn’t release it until now.

PLP 091: Sam WOLFE on Techno Music, Chasing Your Dreams, and Touring Internationally

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Today I’m excited to introduce Sam WOLFE: a breakout techno star from Atlanta. His 2020 debut EP Triangulum reached #1 on overall Beatport releases which lead to a collaboration with techno legends the YellowHeads.  That collab, Hippodrome, then went on to chart #4 for Beatport hype and #16 on techno world top 100 and received support from top techno artists including UMEK.   Since then he’s released his debut EP on Christian Smith ‘s imprint, Tronic, which topped the Beatport overall release charts at #1, and received support from Bart Skils, Joyhauser, Lily Palmer, Marco Carola and others.   In 2021 he signed exclusively with UMEK’s 1605 label and has big plans for 2022.

PLP 090: Gig Log for Boos in the Bubble + Comparing Promo Only and BPM Supreme Record Pools

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We’ve been on a roll with interviews for a couple of months now and I wanted to pause and do a little reflecting on my Halloween gig at Line Creek Brewery and share some thoughts for mobile DJs. Today I talk about how I prepared, the gear I took, and what went right and wrong.   I also talk about why I recently swapped record pools from Promo Only to BPM Supreme and how that helped with music selection for the event.

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