Inside electronic music after the set ends.
The Will Clarke Podcast is an interview-driven look at electronic music from the working side of the booth. Artists talk through record deals, club culture, touring strain, sobriety, ambition, and the strange business of turning a loved craft into a livelihood.
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The Will Clarke Podcast is a brisk, interview-led window into electronic music as work, culture, and personal history. It is less concerned with tidy career mythology than with the messy decisions that sit behind a DJ set, a record deal, a label, or a long run on the road. Guests are given room to talk in detail. The result feels close to a green-room conversation that keeps widening into a map of the industry. Aluna frames music through power, storytelling, and the painful lesson of not deferring to every supposed expert. TEED questions the weight artists give to numbers and argues for the deeper value of simply putting music into the world. Lee Foss brings the darker side of touring into view, including drugs, sobriety, pressure, and the volatility around big shows. Anabel Englund turns toward shyness, family, therapy, and the way music can become the place a person disappears into before learning to face herself. Doc Martin, Claude VonStroke, Layton Giordani, and Cinthie bring a wider scene memory. They talk about clubs, labels, record stores, Berlin, Ibiza, festivals, ticket sales, and the difference between a community room and a spectacle built for scale. The show is often nostalgic, but it is not stuck there. It keeps asking what changed, what was lost, and what still works. A repeated tension runs through the episodes: underground credibility now sits uncomfortably close to EDM spectacle, social metrics, and business pressure. That gives the show its edge. It can admire ambition while questioning the machine around it. It can celebrate a great room while worrying about what headliner culture does to clubs. The conversations are practical, affectionate, and sometimes blunt. For listeners who know the names and places, it offers scene-level texture. For newer fans, it explains the culture through stories rather than lectures.
Made for: For electronic music fans, DJs, producers, and club regulars who want the lived reality behind records, tours, labels, and rooms. It especially suits listeners interested in the business and emotional pressure beneath dance music culture.
What sets it apart: The show gets unusually practical about DJ culture, letting artists connect personal turning points to wider changes in clubs, festivals, labels, and numbers. It feels insider-friendly without turning into jargon or promo copy.
The Will Clarke Podcast is a weekly show where Will sits down with likeminded creatives, artists and industry people from the world of Music, Food & Art. Discussing their winding journeys that got them to where they are today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Will Clarke turns electronic music career talk into a candid account of how clubs, contracts and industry pressure shape creative lives.
Will Clarke keeps returning to the pressures that shape an electronic artist's working life. His conversations with Aluna, Claude VonStroke, Cinthie, Pan-Pot, Layton Giordani and Doc Martin move through contracts, booking agencies, ticket sales and the uneasy traffic between…
Will Clarke gets past the booth glamour and into who pays, who decides, and who burns out.
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An artist looks back on a label relationship and learning to trust their own judgment.
For this artist, going solo raises a practical question: who gets to make decisions, and where does the money go? The guest recalls a label arrangement in which all the money would go to the label, along with the feeling that their own work had no value.
Dirtybird's free park parties set up a discussion of ticket pressure on DJs.
Dirtybird's early club nights had a purpose beyond the venue: one speaker recalls putting the money they made into free parties in Golden Gate Park. That memory gives the conversation a clear point of comparison when he turns to present-day shows.
Two DJs discuss career changes, laptop-made records and the scale of live shows.
One DJ remembers touring Europe while still feeling unknown in the States. He also recalls opening for the other in Miami, giving their talk about sudden career changes a personal angle.
A Panorama Bar set opens a conversation about festival scale, records and the closeness of a house party.
Playing Panorama Bar close to home gives the guest an unusual view of the room: the venue is a short walk away, and family and friends may be in the crowd.
Records, broken trust, weekends away from family, and the pleasure of playing music.
The DJs start with records they played for years, then get into the choices that changed their working lives: leaving a label, starting their own, and moving on from a booking agency. Business decisions meant difficult conversations with people close to them.
Zerb and Will Clarke discuss touring, self-promotion, and the work that follows a viral remix.
Zerb's viral remix with Vintage Culture opens a conversation about the work that followed. He recalls joining a booking agency and touring Brazil every weekend.
Melodic house from the Purified world.
From the beach to the dance floor.
Weekly trance selection with a human pulse.
Fresh electronic energy, straight into the mix.
Fresh trance, built for lift-off.
Progressive house, mixed with festival context.
Max Styler discusses his early music career, from playing weddings and school dances to his first release and opening for Above & Beyond.
Loco Dice discusses his journey in music, the importance of belief and hard work, and his recovery routine with physiotherapy.
WME agent Bailey Greenwood handles touring contracts and schedules across a roster of roughly 24 artists, often with several colleagues on each team.
Aluna discusses why many artists feel powerless, sharing her own experiences with exploitative label contracts and the importance of storytelling for human progress.
Doc Martin discusses the decline of club culture due to headliner obsession, sharing his 35-year journey from raves to opening for James Brown.
A musician reflects on the disconnect between streaming numbers and meaningful engagement, and the challenge of turning a passion into a business.
Lee Foss discusses his journey to sobriety and the challenges of the music industry, including drug use and touring mishaps.
Anabel Englund discusses how music was her only option and her journey to sobriety and self-discovery.
The Will Clarke Podcast hosts DJ and producer Claude VonStroke (Barclay Crenshaw), founder of the Dirtybird label, for a wide-ranging conversation about his career from Paramount tour guide to dance-music veteran.
Will Clarke interviews Drum Code-turned-independent techno artist Layton Giordani (LG) about resetting his career after COVID, shifting focus from Europe to the U.S.
Cinthie says Panorama Bar is a two-and-a-half-minute walk from her flat, so a Berlin booking can still feel like a hometown night with family and friends in the room.
Will Clarke interviews Pan-Pot about maintaining a creative partnership that began in 2003 and has lasted 22 years.
Zerb tells Will Clarke how “Mwaki” moved from 1,000 streams to 100,000 a day after Hato’s reaction video and a wave of TikTok posts.
Max Styler discusses his early music career, from playing weddings and school dances to his first release and opening for Above & Beyond.
Loco Dice discusses his journey in music, the importance of belief and hard work, and how tools like Songstats help track career progress.
HAAi discusses avoiding burnout in the music industry, sharing insights on career progression and the importance of not overworking.