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
172 episodes
S18 E2: Lars Wolfshield
I recently read a blog post of mine from 2019, not long after I’d quit my job and it was clear that I was riddled with self-doubt, some fear, some excitement at this new liminal space I was going into. And also worrying about what ...
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Season 18
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Episode 2
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1:07:09
S18 E1: Miki Berenyi
I started writing a book during Covid which in a spur of the moment I called A Re-Design for Life. I bet you can’t guess what album I’d been listening to…... The reason for starting, apart from being able to satisfy some boredom and...
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Season 18
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Episode 1
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1:44:43
S17 E10: Atef Aouadhi
Atef and I go way back - almost 6 entire months! We met on a balmy end of summer night at the Shacklewell Arms in London and Crocodiles were playing one of the sweatiest and most perfect gigs I’ve been to. At the end of the night I said “See yo...
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Season 17
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Episode 10
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1:08:26
S17 E9: David Roush
When I was a kid in the 80’s, I used to listen to a local radio show called On The Wire, presented by Steve Barker. Steve and John Peel were single handedly responsible for me finding bands and artists like African Headcharge, Sonic Youth, Tack...
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Season 17
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Episode 9
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1:06:29
S17 E8: Morenike
I’ve really not talked about this too much, but when I first moved to London at the end of 2008, I felt a massive liberation from the anonymity that the city gave me. I hardly knew anybody – and there’s a separate conversation to be had about h...
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Season 17
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Episode 8
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59:45
S17 E7: IDYL
In 1987, the US Army War College coined the acronym of VUCA in 1987 to describe a world that was expected to become more difficult to navigate as the end of the Cold War started to become a reality – VUCA stands for volatile, uncertain, complex...
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Season 17
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Episode 7
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55:26
S17 E6: Dani Larkin
I thought long and hard about what I wanted to say in the introduction today. I’ve felt quite rattled with some of what’s been in the news, especially these last few weeks, let alone years, and it’s kind of taken over my brain. But, I recalled ...
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Season 17
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Episode 6
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52:41
S17 E5: Massimo Pupillo
In the last few 6 or 7 years – and bear with me here - I’ve become much more interested in the nature of the relationship between humans and other species, forces or whatever – animals, birds, trees, plants, the elements… nature, I guess. I thi...
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Season 17
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Episode 5
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1:04:08
S17 E4: Mélanie Pain
One thing I’m aware of in myself and others is a shortening attention span and fierce competition for our attention with the sheer amount of information we have to process. If ever there was “it was never like this in the good old days” moment,...
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Season 17
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Episode 4
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59:23
S17 E3: Halina Rice
The genesis of this podcast was a thesis that I did about 8 years ago around the sort of skills and attributes that we will need for the future. I used a horrible term – human capital - to describe the value that these things give us because th...
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Season 17
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Episode 3
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50:48
S17 E2: Jesse Hartman
New York has always been – bold statement coming up – my favourite music city. No question that it’s connected to my life changing discovery of the Ramones way back when. I still can’t walk past the Guild Hall in my hometown of Preston without ...
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Season 17
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Episode 2
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1:06:00
S17 E1: Charlie Nieland
When I started out with this podcast, one of the things that I was – still am - interested in is the uncertainty of living today and how it takes us into living with liminality. “In the middle of the journey of our life...
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Season 17
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Episode 1
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1:13:12
S16 E10: Jessie Kilguss
I think relatability has become one of those words that has become overused and, as is usual with these things, the importance of what it means to be relatable has tended to become a bit diluted….it’s unfairly become a target for the old eye ro...
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Season 16
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Episode 10
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49:45
S16 E9: Segs Jennings
When Segs and I were messaging trying to organise this podcast, Segs wrote something like “we’ve got lots to talk about…the world is changing what feels like day by day”. Now with my meticulous research – OK, it was just by luck! - I was ...
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Season 16
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Episode 9
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1:27:02
S16 E8: Luca Vergano
One area of my being that I’ve been working on is not feeling the necessity to be ultra-prepared for things. Things like my podcast episodes. I’ve been able to trace this back to when I was a kid – long story which I won’t bore you with. I thin...
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Season 16
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Episode 8
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55:36
S16 E7: Christopher Connelly and Davie Miller of Fini Tribe
I do think of my formative years a lot – and I think this started to happen more when my parents died in 2022. Music started to become huge for me around 1976 when I was 8 and started playing the cello…but I did have some music differences of o...
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Season 16
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Episode 7
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1:11:32
S16 E6: Natalie Hoffmann
As we were recording this episode, Natalie Hoffmann was a week or so away from releasing a third album with her band Optic Sink called Lucky Number and you’re in for a treat. It’s like a modern day film noir on the rainy, lonely st...
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Season 16
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Episode 6
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1:04:31
S16 E5: Iris Gold
Over the years, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about Emotional Intelligence and how it fits in to how many people live their lives now, lives which, for many, are much more multi-hyphenate, multi-stage.With that comes much mor...
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Season 16
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Episode 5
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56:10
S16 E4: Brian Amalfitano
One of my interests that started well before I started this podcast - so we're talking maybe 8/9 years ago - was what sort of characteristics and attributes do we need as people to get stuff done in a world that was becoming more complex, uncer...
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Season 16
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Episode 4
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1:29:36
S16 E3: Rebecca Schiffman
Rebecca Schiffman recently released her 4th album called Before The Future and it starts with a 9 minute song - which is remarkable in its own right especially these day - but, in my opinion, it could have gone for another 9 minutes ...
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Season 16
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Episode 3
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1:05:28
S16 E2: Gobi Longobardi & Marco Martínez of Violencia
The last song on Violencia’s album Viviendo Tiempos Aún Mas Oscuros is called El Exito Es La Droga del Futuro – Success Is The Drug Of The Future. For me, the nerd, this is interesting as I’ve often thought about how the word...
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Season 16
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Episode 2
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1:20:06
S16 E1: Joy Guidry
I’m very excited and deeply honoured to talk to my guest today. Joy Guidry is a classically trained bassoonist - and, the first bassoonist on my podcast – who, with each record released (and there are three now), is showing a level of thinking ...
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Season 16
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Episode 1
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1:20:12
S15 E10: Emma Swift
You know those times when you’re ambling along – disconnected from the real world with your headphones on as is the norm these days – trying to ignore the gazillion things that run through your brain every minute, forgetting to look both ways, ...
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Season 15
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Episode 10
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1:02:44
S15 E9: James Johnston
It’s fascinating to look at the entire creative evolution of an artist - how they started and where they are now. Of course, looking at what’s been going on in their life, can feel quite invasive and voyeuristic, like prying into the inner sanc...
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Season 15
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Episode 9
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58:54
