Podcasts
Musikator’s podcast features long-form conversations with artist managers, bookers, festival directors, venue operators, label heads, and music policy advocates from independent music markets worldwide. New episodes publish every Monday.
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Ep 007 – Anton Wirjono
Anton Wirjono is a Jakarta-based DJ, promoter, and events producer who has spent two decades building music experiences across Indonesia. This conversation is about how you turn a music career into a sustainable business — and what it actually takes to run one.
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006 – Didier Zerath
Didier Zerath is a Paris-based music manager whose career spans decades and multiple continents. He has worked at every level of the industry — from artist development to major label negotiations — and has clear views on where independent music management is heading.
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005 – Mak Wai Hoo
Mak Wai Hoo ran independent labels and organized music events in Malaysia for years. There was always an agenda behind it — building infrastructure for local artists in a market where that infrastructure didn’t exist yet.
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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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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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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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Ep 001 – Piyapong Muenprasertdee
Piyapong Muenprasertdee is a music policy advocate based in Bangkok who helped shape Thailand’s national music industry framework. He went from Nirvana fan to government adviser — and started talking openly about mental health in an industry that rarely does.