Why Does Every Dance Record Sound The Same? | Mista Jam
Will Clarke
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Mista Jam has been on national radio for 21 years, which makes him one of the few people who can answer this properly: why does everything in dance music sound the same now? His answer isn't that producers got lazy. It's that the music was born from struggle, and the people who can afford to make it now never had any.
We get into no new genre in a decade and whether that's even a fair claim, the free community studios that don't exist any more, what a ten grand booking fee actually leaves an artist once everyone else has been paid, why he calls it attention media rather than social media, the difference between integrity and credibility, the record that got ripped from SoundCloud and released as an edit before the original, the health journey behind "operation see my kids get old", getting dropped by a major last year, and the line that reframed his whole career: you can stop begging for a seat at the table and go build your own restaurant.
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Chapters
00:00 Cold open
00:22 Sponsor: Intellijel
01:06 40 stone, and Operation See My Kids Get Old
06:00 Why food addiction is the least understood addiction
10:34 Sponsor: Playlist Push
10:58 What finally worked when nothing else had
15:44 The fitness industry, and everyone selling you a shortcut
18:15 It's not social media, it's attention media
19:26 Sponsor: N.A.P
23:41 Integrity vs credibility
26:58 Dirty Bird, ceilings, and being told you could be the next someone
34:18 Edits, bootlegs, and the record that got ripped
39:37 Why the last lucky breaks all happened in lockdown
46:26 Who actually gets paid, and when the money left music
53:16 What a ten grand fee leaves you with
56:29 Who can afford to make music now
1:01:03 The death of monoculture, and why nothing sounds new
1:16:46 What 30,000 streams actually means
1:19:52 Turning your hobby into your job
1:29:00 Fatboy Slim's five Fs
1:33:30 Getting dropped, and building your own restaurant
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Then he started a family, and suddenly he had a real decision to make: keep making exactly the music he wanted and potentially not make enough money, adapt his sound so he could actually earn a living from music, or quit and find another way to support his family.
I think that’s a very real side of the music world. Of course, everyone wants to make exactly what they feel, but for some people, making music that isn’t 100% their dream sound is still better than giving it up completely and working a job they don’t care about.
Why Does Every Dance Record Sound The Same? | Mista Jam
Will Clarke
12,280 views
This episode is sponsored by the following:
Playlist Push - use code WILLPUSH for 15% off at checkout https://playlistpush.com/spotify-play...
intellijend - use code WILL for 30% off Lifetime Subscription https://go.intellijend.com/will-clarke
N.A.P - use code WILL at checkout for Free Shipping & 2 Discovery Sets https://www.notanotherperfume.co.uk?s...
Mista Jam has been on national radio for 21 years, which makes him one of the few people who can answer this properly: why does everything in dance music sound the same now? His answer isn't that producers got lazy. It's that the music was born from struggle, and the people who can afford to make it now never had any.
We get into no new genre in a decade and whether that's even a fair claim, the free community studios that don't exist any more, what a ten grand booking fee actually leaves an artist once everyone else has been paid, why he calls it attention media rather than social media, the difference between integrity and credibility, the record that got ripped from SoundCloud and released as an edit before the original, the health journey behind "operation see my kids get old", getting dropped by a major last year, and the line that reframed his whole career: you can stop begging for a seat at the table and go build your own restaurant.
⏲ Follow Will Clarke ⏱
https://willclarke.komi.io/
https://djwillclarke.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1OmOd...
Instagram: djwillclarke
Facebook: willclarkedj
Twitter: djwillclarke
TikTok: djwillclarke
Chapters
00:00 Cold open
00:22 Sponsor: Intellijel
01:06 40 stone, and Operation See My Kids Get Old
06:00 Why food addiction is the least understood addiction
10:34 Sponsor: Playlist Push
10:58 What finally worked when nothing else had
15:44 The fitness industry, and everyone selling you a shortcut
18:15 It's not social media, it's attention media
19:26 Sponsor: N.A.P
23:41 Integrity vs credibility
26:58 Dirty Bird, ceilings, and being told you could be the next someone
34:18 Edits, bootlegs, and the record that got ripped
39:37 Why the last lucky breaks all happened in lockdown
46:26 Who actually gets paid, and when the money left music
53:16 What a ten grand fee leaves you with
56:29 Who can afford to make music now
1:01:03 The death of monoculture, and why nothing sounds new
1:16:46 What 30,000 streams actually means
1:19:52 Turning your hobby into your job
1:29:00 Fatboy Slim's five Fs
1:33:30 Getting dropped, and building your own restaurant