For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Maarten Walraven operates at the intersection of music, technology, communities, and education. There are many different hats, from Co-CEO at Symphony.live to co-creator of the experiment in scene building, Wild Awake and from teaching at the University of Utrecht to being co-project lead for the Water & Music academy. If you want to follow his thinking, the best place is MUSIC x, the newsletter he co-edits.

MUSIC MENTIONS

- NOFX
- Green Day
- The Offspring
- Nine Inch Nails
- 2 Unlimited
- Ace of Bass
- Mirrors Festival
- Merzbow
- Keiji Haino
- John Cage
- Morton Feldman
- Brian Eno

Q&A

- Andrew McClusky
- Music Too
- “Maximum Overdrive” by 2 Unlimited
- Nyege Nyege

Discovering music today (21:10):

- Mary Anne Hobbs
- BBC Radio 6
- Opium Hum
- Hyper Real Radio

First album ever purchased (27:44):

- “Get Ready!” by 2 Unlimited

Most recent album purchased (28:45):

- “Piano Reverb” by Jasmine Wood

Artists discovered in the last year (31:16):

- Iceboy Violet
- MC Yallah
- Jalen Ngonda

Desert Island Discs (34:22):

- “For You Who are the Wronged” by Kathryn Joseph
- “The Downward Spiral” by Nine Inch Nails
- “Dekmantel Festival 2017 Mix” by Aurora Halal

Guest recommendations for future episodes (38:44):

- Tristra Yeager