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

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 085: aboywithabag on House Music, Label Releases, and Branding

Today I’m joined by Sai Aditya, better known as aboywithabag.  Sai is a multi-talented producer who was born in India and spent time growing up in both south India and in Chicago.  He’s an up-and-coming house music producer with his first release on Dim Mak Records two months ago.  Sai has been generating a lot of interest online with his high-energy, danceable tracks which resulted in a recent interview with EDMIdentity.  

PLP 082: Key Takeaways From the 2021 DIY Music Conference

I spent the last three days attended CD Baby’s 2021 virtual music conference. On today’s episode I’m recapping many of the surprising things I learned about Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, branding, and more. I’m not going to try to cover all three days in one podcast (I took 17 pages of notes!), so instead I’ll highlight … Read more

PLP 077: Pony on Branding, Soundrop and Launching a Distribution Service

his week we’re joined by Zach Domer, better known as Pony. Pony is a CD Baby veteran hailing from the early days when they only offered distribution of physical CDs. More recently, he has served as the brand manager and public face of Soundrop, a CD Baby sister company which focuses on distribution for cover songs. Soundrop currently pays out over $1.5 million in artist earnings per month making it one of the top digital music distributors in the world.

PLP 048: RIP Kenny on Podcasting, Producing, and Spotify Strategies

Today we talk with RIP Kenny: a producer Dojo Sensei, host on the Human Music Podcast and producer of rock-infused dubstep. RIP Kenny has multiple official remixes to his credit, including his recent remix with ill.Gates of the Dead Kennedy’s – Nazi Punks Fuck Off. Between his remixes and original tracks, he has nearly 20,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and in part two of this interview he goes into detail about his Spotify strategy.

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