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
160 episodes
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
S15 E8: Deb Googe
Way back when, maybe 8-9 years ago, I had been researching what sort of skills humans would need for the future, given that we were experiencing big changes in technology, demographics, stuff like that, the sort of things that would affect the ...
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Season 15
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Episode 8
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1:07:16
S15 E7: Scott Osment
I think gravitas is a rare but really important attribute to have, especially when the world is so fucked up, chaotic, volatile, reactionary. Gravitas. Presence. I wanna be around people that have the ability to give off positive energy in this...
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Season 15
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Episode 7
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1:11:44
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
