Electronic Music Podcasts

RA Exchange is the place to hear electronic musicians talk at length and with some candour. EX.795 Avalon Emerson is a 45-minute conversation pegged to her second album with her band. The interviewer pauses for a close reading of the lyrics to Happy Birthday, and Emerson ranges well past the record. She says "we're living in kind of like a post taste world," where fans track streams and metrics. She is blunt about big companies buying up venues and festivals during COVID. She also credits coding, and the database she keeps of her music, as part of why she is a good DJ.

Where RA Exchange follows careers in motion, ROAD PODCAST (Reflections Of A DJ) looks back, with DJs from the Las Vegas nightclub industry interviewing their peers. In Episode 379: RICHARD VISSION (Pt.1): "The Architect of L.A. Dance Culture", Vission dates the LA scene to 1980 and a club called the Casa. There, all-ages crowds of 2,500 heard freestyle, high energy and new wave, and the only way to find out about it was a flyer. He remembers drive-by shootings at late-80s house parties as part of why DJs moved into venues that felt safer. He also tells a lovely story about paying himself $75 to DJ dances that were making the school real money. The janitor's verdict: "I'm winning, dog."

Radio Vostok - La Quotidienne leaves the club for rap in the French-language Première Loge : Invité – Housmatikee, where the conversation asks whether outlets in Geneva favour the city's own rappers. It belongs with the Hip-Hop page.

That argument about content leads to The DJ Sessions, where host Darren treats electronic music as a working life and talks to industry professionals alongside DJs. In Chad Shearer - Music Festivals, PR Strategy, and Building Artist Visibility on the Virtual Sessions 3/10/26, Shearer is asked what mistakes festivals make. He answers that "if you see mistakes it's too late already," then names the signs: only a first round of the lineup announced two months out, and ticket deals that undercut early buyers. In Nicky Roland - Independent Labels, AI Marketing Tools, and Reclaiming Creative Control on the Virtual Sessions 2/27/26, Roland recalls being locked into a deal with a major while making a Christmas track. He calls labels signing artists only to shelve them "kind of like a dirty secret of the industry." The talk is loose, and both episodes wind down with plugs for the show's website, but they are concrete about how careers get built.

Some shows put the talk in service of the music. CiTR -- Techno Progressivo, presented by DJ Wah, has been on air since October 2010, as its Fundrive 2026 Episode notes. In Shay De Castro Interview, a Bart Skills and Weska collaboration plays before the feature. De Castro says she uses Ableton "because it's what I've always done" and recalls a Berlin set where "I think I cried like half that set." Near the end, the show sets "the controls in the time machine" for a track from the past: a 2011 Christian Smith and John Selway remix of Funk DeVoid's Diabla.

Breakdown with MC Dino & Fury is the rowdier neighbour. Breakdown with MC Dino & Fury #039 runs 120 minutes, and the talk between records goes wherever it likes. One host reports surviving a Disney show with his children by drowning it out with AirPods. Later the hosts joke that three or four people listen each week, and an attempt at praise becomes, in the speaker's own words, "the most crap backhanded compliment I could ever give." There is substance too, in an exchange in which the speakers suggest that dubstep's production quality climbed quickly while drum and bass started out ahead. Near the end comes a throwback of the week, which they admit they have "promised and not delivered very often." It is Wishing on a Star, described as an old Aphrodite and Mickey Finn tune, "kind of like the roots of jungle." For more shows built on argument, try the Music Commentary page.

In DA032-Dark Audio Podcast, from Dark Audio // Techno // House // Deep // Minimal // DJ Mixes: Dj Mixes and lives sets from Dark Audio, the talk includes a short spoken note. It names tracks by Mark Romboy, Umek, Marco Bruno and Jeff Mills, flags a new Dark Audio track, Conversion, as the last in the mix, and says every track is on the Dark Audio playlist on Spotify. That settles part of the curation argument neatly: hear one selector's sequence first, then take it apart.