I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee
The music podcast that does music differently. I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, use their instinct, pursue new challenges, take risks, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.
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Episodes
146 episodes
S15 E6: Alicia Hyman & Jed Smith of Jeanines
Nostalgia is something that I ponder a lot as I get older – I’ve got way too much time on my hands. But it’s such a layered emotion of experiences, some vivid, some half-forgotten and some probably embellished. The band you never got to see liv...
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Season 15
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Episode 6
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1:03:59
S15 E5: Dalila Kayros & Danilo Casti
Over the last 10 years, I’ve been undergoing a - for me at least - massive transformation and I’ve been thinking a lot about what identity means – the identity that I present to the public, the identity that I present to my friends and family a...
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Season 15
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Episode 5
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1:14:55
S15 E4: Karl Bielik
So here’s a couple of questions for y'all…how much do you think improvisation, self-consciousness and self-belief are connected? How do you get into that flow state where inhibitions are shed? And can an improv state of mind be a skill that can...
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Season 15
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Episode 4
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1:05:32
S15 E3: Brandon Welchez
It’s fascinating to look back at the catalogue of band like Crocodiles , not that there are too many bands like Crocodiles. There’s the consistency – the tunes, the hooks, the harmonies, the feeling of escapismThere’...
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Season 15
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Episode 3
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59:48
S15 E2: Justin Pearson
The opening paragraph of Justin Pearson’s first book “From The Graveyard of the Arousal Industry” tells a story of how, when his mother had just given birth to him, that another new mother asked if she wanted to swap babies – her Frank for Just...
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Season 15
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Episode 2
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1:23:24
S14 E10: Neeraj Kane
I remember starting an Arts Lab a few years ago – just before Covid started actually - with a group of people here in London, based roughly around the counter-culture arts labs of the 1960’s – Jim Haynes was the main guy behind that movement. T...
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Season 14
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Episode 10
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1:16:25
S14 E9: Paula Lombardo & Dave Lombardo (Venamoris)
Allen Saunders was an American writer and cartoonist who once said “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans”.It was later popularised by John Lennon in his song, Beautiful Boy.Saunders first said this in 1957 ...
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Season 14
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Episode 9
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1:02:27
S14 E8: Gail Ann Dorsey
Whilst conducting my meticulous research for Gail….I was taken back to 1980 - my year of transition that was painful, perplexing, exciting, scary – a tussle between my heavily Top of The Pops Top 40 oriented collection, my classical cello playi...
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Season 14
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Episode 8
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54:03
S14 E7: Sophie Jamieson
Before I started this podcast, I was kinda rudderless. Didn’t know what I was doing with my life. When this idea came up, the feeling was “Who will want to listen to me talking about mindset, about my worldview, blah blah blah”… I was dragged i...
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Season 14
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Episode 7
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1:04:21
S14 E6: Tashi Dorji
Over the last few years, I’ve been heavily influenced by some of the work that my partner has been doing around decolonisation, particularly in the field of yoga. It’s led me to think about how this applies to music and my own rela...
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Season 14
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Episode 6
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55:57
S14 E5: Simonne Jones
When I got into thinking how mindset and, in particular, how an experimental mindset was fundamental to navigating a complex and volatile world, I was intrigued with the way scientists approached their work – for example, not being tied to goal...
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Season 14
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Episode 5
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1:12:34
S14 E4: N8NOFACE
I’m always trying to work out why certain artists hit me as soon as I hear them. There are some that are a mystery as to why the fuck I like them. Like, why am I still in love with Anastasia’s Welcome To My Truth after all these years? Bu...
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Season 14
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Episode 4
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54:28
S14 E3: Jennifer Clavin
I’m really into this notion of music being your friend for life and how certain songs represent a particular point in your life, good or bad. There’s one song that sticks in my mind which represents such a dark time in my life. And now, looking...
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Season 14
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Episode 3
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1:06:13
S14 E2: Leigh Heggarty
One of the pages on Leigh Heggarty's website is called “Me Me Me, it’s all about me”. A cursory look through this and the other pages would most clearly identify someone who has lived a substantial part of his life very much NOT promoting Me Me...
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Season 14
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Episode 2
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1:59:30
S14 E1: Kishi Bashi
As someone who has played the cello in my much more youthful days and is ineffectively trying to resurrect past glory, I fully appreciate Kishi Bashi's love of the violin and the way he uses that instrument in his compositions. You can literall...
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Season 14
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Episode 1
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48:42
S13 E10: Neil Cowley
I’ve long thought about our individual persona or personas and this idea of ever evolving identities …for example, people who have work and non-work personas: the arsehole in work, nice as pie out of work; the surprising competitive aggression ...
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Season 13
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Episode 10
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54:45
S13 E9: Nicolette Vilar
Over the last few years, I’ve been trying to work out why certain things in my life have turned out the way they have. Friendships has been a particular thing that’s been on my mind, in particular why I’ve tended to let some slide. I’ve had occ...
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Season 13
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Episode 9
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52:35
S13 E8: Tara Rez
One of the things that I was looking at about 7-8 years ago was the growth of the term ‘multi-hyphenate’ and how, with us living longer lives (well, that was the case up to 2019, I think Covid has probably affected that a little), more people –...
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Season 13
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Episode 8
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58:56
S13 E7: X-Raided
So, as hopefully my faithful and long suffering subscribers will know after 120 + episodes, the whole idea behind this podcast is about the importance of mindset and specifically how an experimental mindset can help us to navigate the world tod...
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Season 13
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Episode 7
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1:02:52
S13 E6: Stephanie Brooks
I'm gonna keep this one brief.Stress Positions would have been in the list of identity shapers for 14 year old me. No question. They are hands down one of THE most potent and important bands right now. They will pulverise you with their...
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Season 13
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Episode 6
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1:14:11
S13 E5: Marquise Fair
As the devoted fans of this small but perfectly formed podcast will know, I’m a big believer that emotional intelligence is one of THE super powers for navigating the world, especially nowadays with all its complexity, volatility, uncertainty a...
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Season 13
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Episode 5
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1:19:03
S13 E4: Chinese American Bear
A few years ago, after I quit my job and decided to go self employed or freelance or whatever, I fell into the trap of trying to start a bit of a hustle which - I still think was a great idea – but was still with a mindset of doing things in “w...
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Season 13
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Episode 4
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54:55
S13 E3: Jason Kwan
Nostalgia. Such a layered, gamut-running emotion. That experience of having what you lost or never had, of a band that split up before you could see them, of seeing a band in a venue that’s now a bunch of this-could-be-anywhere apartments, of l...
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Season 13
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Episode 3
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58:42
S13 E2: AVR (Anna von Raison)
I’m really intrigued by instinct and the circumstances in which it can really flourish. For example, I’ve been classically trained – admittedly many more years ago than I’d care to mention – and that training can stay with you, or at least the ...
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Season 13
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Episode 2
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59:14
