musikator
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004 – Darryl Swann
Darryl Swann is a Grammy-winning record producer based in Los Angeles. He won the award, then watched the financial side fall apart. This conversation is about what he rebuilt — and what the music industry doesn’t tell you about what comes after a career peak.
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From Rebellion to Unity: How Heavy Metal Bridges Cultural Divides
Drawing on Jeremy Wallach’s research, this piece looks at why heavy metal travels across cultures better than almost any other genre — and what that tells us about music and identity.
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Ep 003 – Jeremy Wallach
Professor Jeremy Wallach is a US-based ethnomusicologist who has spent decades researching heavy metal music across Southeast Asia. His argument: metal is more globally distributed than any other genre — and what that says about music, identity, and culture is worth paying attention to.
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Building Local Music Scene
What it actually takes to build a durable local music scene — infrastructure, community, and the long-term thinking most markets skip.
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Ep 002 – Orbis Bo
Orbis Bo manages one of Taiwan’s independent music venues. We talked about K-pop capital, what happens when the wrong people start running music spaces, and how independent venues survive in a market dominated by major promoters.
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The Taiwan Insider
Orbis Bo on running an independent venue in Taiwan, the influence of K-pop capital on local music spaces, and what gets lost when profit becomes the only metric.
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Showcase Festivals: A Launchpad for Emerging Talent
How showcase festivals work as entry points for independent artists into international markets — and what music professionals need to understand about how they’re programmed.
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G2G – From Grunge to Government
Piyapong Muenprasertdee on moving from music fan to music policy in Thailand — and why the industry needs people inside government who actually understand how music works.