Beat Wala

After nearly a decade producing mostly mainstream artists in LA, Osunlade headed East, took a two-year spiritual sabbatical and launched Yoruba Records. Early on, he established two rules: 1) only sign artists willing to be mentored, and 2) only release works you believe in. In today´s podcast with Jo Youle, he explains how these artists have become his family and he only starts to release records...

Henrik Schwarz, an internationally renowned music producer and composer known for his eclectic musical approach to composition and sound design, joins us in Ibiza for Episode 11 at Sunset overlooking Dalt Vila. As a producer and performer, he has successfully maintained a balance between electronic music, classical and jazz, and between energetic, highly charged dance sets at huge Techno events an...

One half of Groove Armada, Andy Cato, joins us as we celebrate 25 years of House music record label, Defected. The electronic duo, made up of Tom Findlay and Andy, put out their latest EP, Freejamm on DFTD, a sub label of Defected back in May and in this episode Andy shares how they created the tracks and plan to release more new music very soon with them. Tom recently made a trip to New York wher...

New York-based DJ and Grammy nominated record producer Danny Tenaglia joined music journalist Jo Youle for an explosive start to Series 02 in front of a live audience on the rooftop of W Hotel Ibiza. They first met at DC10 more then twenty years ago and Danny spent an hour revealing some of his finest stories, from starting to DJ at the tender age of 15 after his brothers snuck him into a club to...

Róisín Murphy has been performing live for almost 30 years and her music has always stood out in terms of the eclecticism from record to record. As she has morphed from one half of being Moloko, to striking as a solo artist, her sound has changed dramatically, especially with her latest and sixth studio album, Hit parade, that came out last year. A brand new remix package of some of those tracks h...

Today we are joined by Matt Black, one half of Coldcut, who are renowned as pioneers of pop sampling in the 1980s. The duo are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music due to their innovative style, which features chopped up samples of hip-hop, soul, funk, spoken word and various other types formats as well as video and multimedia.... The British born electronic duo also starte...

Ben Westbeech has his roots steeped in the Bristolian music scene and is a producer, vocalist, DJ and classically trained cellist and pianist who lives in Ibiza. As a teenager, he got hooked on knock-off rave tapes and bought his first decks when he was only 12 and went to his first parties at Bagleys in London´s Coal Drops Yard. He has since worked under many aliases and switched music styles, wh...

Martin Stimming joins us to talk about his latest album Elderberry, which is a Live Techno concept LP in our next episode, which he says in parts is “mildly aggressive.” The fifth track on board, called The Seeker, is a moment where things get a little bit harder on the all hardware effort and he says it was created during lockdown at his Hamburg home. The german music producer is well known for u...

Ten years ago we met French electronic duo, dOP at the Pacha Hotel, before their gig at Wisdom of the Glove with Guy Gerber. In today´s Episode we hear what wisdom they have collected through 30 years of friendship after meeting at school. The pair play and perform 100% their own music and we had an honest heart felt chat at Pikes about their party days, becoming a father (Damian Vandesande) and h...

Christian Löffler joins us to talk about his new album, "A Life" for our third edition of Beat Wala and explains why his latest record is a departure from his usual love of melancholic music. Löffler   delves into unexplored territory by looking into the influence of artificial intelligence in music making and reflects on his personal musical journey in this podcast recorded before his show at Aka...

Our second guest in the Beat Wala series is Tulum based artist Eduardo Castillo. He seeks out spaces in which self-expression, rediscovery and human connection can prosper, adapting musically to each environment. His sound encompasses the depth of his studies in the industry and influences stemming from a South American and European upbringing. He crafted his art through music composition, orchest...

Our very first Episode of Beat Wala is Live featuring New York Artist, DJ and producer OVEOUS, who tells us how the death of his brother inspired him to create the uplifting music and words he shares today. His younger brother Carlos Paul, who used to go by the name of Ziiinc Blue suffered from depression and tragically ended his time with us on October 6 2002. OVEOUS says he was an incredible lyr...

This is Beat Wala. Serving up the stories behind the beats - and taking you straight to the soul of exceptional artists, as we sit down every week to unravel what fuels their artistic expression and creation with Music Journalist Jo Youle.