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In May we returned to The Standard Ibiza for our third Nightcappers event to talk Mental Health in the Music Industry before the hot summer and intensity of the season kicked off. Powered by island treatment centre, Ibiza Calm , co-hosts Jo Youle and Christian Len were joined by DJ, producer and psychotherapeutic counsellor, Mathew Benjamin aka Bushwacka, psychotherapist and certified equine psych...

This week on Beat Wala, Jo Youle sits down with legendary label founder and house music pioneer Mike Weiss to celebrate 35 years of the iconic Nervous Records. From its beginnings in New York City in 1991 to becoming one of the most influential independent dance music labels in the world, Nervous Records has helped shape the sound of house music across multiple generations. Home to countless class...

We sit down with Amsterdam based label boss, Jordi Pronk to talk about the launch of the PIV Academy in Ibiza at The Hub ahead of their huge PIV festival in the city next week on 05 June Straight off the back of a major move into the A’DAM Tower offices, the  PIV Academy follows and will give serious house music producers direct access to the people who shape the PIV sound, like Kellie Allen who a...

We return with our second NightCappers, this time looking at Nightlife safety on a panel of the islands club culture lynchpins. Recorded live at The Standard Ibiza, this episode of NightCappers brings together voices from across Ibiza’s nightlife scene to ask: how do we make the island’s nights safer without losing the magic? Hosts, Jo Youle & Christian Len are joined by Beatriz Murillo from A...

Sister Bliss of legendary electronic outfit Faithless joins Jo Youle for a special live conversation recorded at the International Music Summit in Ibiza. From the enduring legacy of Faithless to the evolution of the Faithless Soundsystem shows, Sister Bliss reflects on navigating life and music after the loss of Maxi Jazz, keeping the spirit of the project alive, and what the future now looks like...

Music is more than sound. It carries identity, memory, community, resistance & even rebellion. It builds bridges across generations, defines places, and reflects the social and cultural realities we inhabit. In Ibiza, music has long been a defining cultural force — shaping the island’s stories, rituals, and global imagination. For a very special episode of Beat Wala, we invited an audience to...

In this special Beat Wala conversation recorded at International Music Summit in Dubai, I sit down with London born DJ/producer, songwriter and Femme fest founder, Megatronic. She has been immersed within the music scene for over 20 years, fortifying her unmatched talent and know-how around the industry. From her roots in techno and electro to her long-running work as a broadcaster and scene conne...

In this special live edition of Beat Wala recorded at the CultTech Summit in Vienna, host Jo Youle sits down with French electronic artist and producer , DeLaurentis, also known as "The Woman Machine" — to explore how artificial intelligence and human emotion can co-exist in the creative process.   DeLaurentis shares her journey from classical piano to crafting her own unique “musicalism...

Episode 24 is a very special edition of Beat Wala recorded in front of a LIVE audience on the rooftop of The Standard Ibiza overlooking Dalt vila for our first collaboration with Beat Hotel. It was a pleasure to explore the intersection of sound, identity, and creativity in this very special release and mixtape from Nightmares on Wax, Echo45 Sound System. The Tape comes as the latest release from...

In this episode of Beat Wala , Jo Youle catches up with GoldFish – the South African live electronic duo whose fusion of jazz, dance, and deep house has taken them from the beaches of Cape Town to some of the world’s biggest festival stages. We dive into: 🌍 How Cape Town shaped their sound and musical identity 🎷 Blending live instruments with beats 🎶 Stories from their breakout albums and inter...

We sit down in Ibiza with the legendary Kevin Saunderson – one of the founding fathers of Detroit Techno, a member of the Belville Three along with Juan Atkins & Derrick May, as well as a true pioneer of electronic music. From shaping the sound of techno in the ’80s to his iconic work with Inner City and his groundbreaking sets at clubs and festivals worldwide, Kevin shares an inside look at h...

Bailey has been entrenched in drum & bass and jungle since the earliest chapters of the movement. From his role on pirate station Energy FM to his residency with Metalheadz during its most era-defining Blue Note moments and his 10 year tenure at BBC Radio 1Xtra and RINSE FM, he is one of the pioneers of the scene and has been right in the heart of it for more than four decades. In this special...

In this special edition of Beat Wala, recorded live at IMS Ibiza, we sit down with a true trailblazer in electronic music: the world’s first female drum & bass and jungle MC. With raw honesty and vibrant energy, she shares the untold story of carving a path through a male-dominated scene at a time when women on the mic were unheard of. From underground raves to international stages, her voice...

In this episode of  Beat Wala , we speak with leading neuroscientist  Dr. Julia Basso  as part of AlphaTheta’s documentary: We Become One . Julia shares her research into how the brain processes music, how rhythm and sound influence emotion, and what happens neurologically when people experience music together and dance. We explore how music affects memory, mental health, and why shared musical mo...

In this brand new series of Beat Wala we team up with AlphaTheta, the parent company behind the iconic Pioneer DJ brand, known globally for shaping the landscape of electronic music through cutting-edge technology and innovation.  We are back in Ibiza for the next few episodes and today we sit down with one of the most exciting and boundary-pushing DJs to emerge from the underground in recent year...

In this episode of Beat Wala, we dive deep into the sonic journey of Bushwacka!, aka Matthew Benjamin — a true pioneer of the UK underground, previously one half of the legendary duo Layo & Bushwacka!. From his early roots in the acid house explosion of the late ‘80s to becoming a cornerstone of the global tech-house movement in the 2000s, Bushwacka’s path through music is as iconic as it is e...

We head to London to meet Kidnap and talk about the release of his second album, Something Lost, Something Gained. The record chronicles his shift from playing endless shows and constantly touring and releasing music to becoming a dad for the first time and explore feeling all the feels of loss relating to his close knit group of friends. Over the past decade, the UK-based artist made a name for h...

In our last Episode recorded at ADE we hear from NYC born and raised techno Queen Louisa Pilot about her struggles in the music industry and how she is now working with those suffering with mental health issues and to help create a safer dance floor and world where these conversations can be had. Please Support us become a Patreon member: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/BeatWala/membership⁠⁠⁠

Archie Hamilton joins us at the Amsterdam Dance Event to talk us through his remarkable rise through the ranks of the house and techno world and gives us his take on how Ibiza Summer 2024 went down at Paradise, where he played five gigs, headlining the final affair. Archie used lockdown to create a lot of music and talks to us about those moments he felt his career could have taken a nose dive but...

We meet Detroit duo, Octave One, at ADE in the first of three shows recorded at the Andaz Hotel in Amsterdam last month. Brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden made their techno debut on Derrick May´s Transmat label with I Believe in 1989. It was the start of their 35 year career and was included on the compilation Techno 2: The Next Generation. It marked the start of their LIVE performance and shows...

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...