Beat Around The Music

Portsmouth-based Singer-Songwriter James Tattington is also known as Fugitive Orchestra. His music fuses Beatboxing, Live-Looping and Guitar, in the style of  Jazz/blues hip-hop style. In this episode, we talk about his early-day influences, musical journey, and projects. 

A marketing and advertising veteran with nearly 30 years of industry experience, Stu has worked for some of the world’s most famous ad agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi in London and Ogilvy & Mather in Singapore. His work took him around the world — from England to; Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, and South Korea, and currently residing in Singapore.

In this episode, we talk about his early experiences in art and his journey to founding the Noisy Brain; a community built for people dealing with mental and emotional health issues. It's a creative collaboration of people passionately embracing everything mental health, music, and wellness related.

In this episode, we sat down with London-based session drummer and music producer Chris Castellito from recorddrumsonline.com. Some of his credits include recording drums for projects by McDonalds, Universal Music and Bosch to name a few. I've had the great pleasure of working with him on a couple of my own tracks and really wanted to get him on the podcast. We cover a variety of different topics from Chris' earliest memories of music, his experience at Berklee College of Music to starting his own online business.  

In this episode, we sat down with independent, self-produced singer/songwriter and guitar builder Paul Raymond based in Nashville, TN. We talk about the early days of exploring various creative avenues and his journey in music. Paul has recently released his record, Space Shuttle, which was recorded by Paul in his home studio. Make sure to check out his music! 

MostlyWolf is a greatly entertaining variety streamer on Twitch with a passion for video games, comic books, music, photography and bringing world peace amongst cats (check out his stream for inside jokes). He has his own podcast show called Talking Trek discussing Star Trek episodes and movies with his co-host MrSteJ (also featured on our podcast). In our conversation, MosltyWolf shares his earliest memories growing up with video games and Star Trek, as well as, his various creative ventures.

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Bennett is a young up-and-coming artist/rapper based in Florida, USA and in our conversation with him, he tells us his journey to discovering his passion for music and honing his craft.  

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In this podcast episode, we sat down with musician, YouTuber, Twitch Streamer and all-around creative guru MrSteJ. We talked about their early memories of creative projects, musical projects, their passion for games and building a community and more.   

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Ben Eaton is a professional musician, composer and above all amazing guitarist from Australia! Now living in London, Ben sat down with us to talk about his musical journey, his love for guitar and his live and recording experiences.

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Imaginary Holly is a UK-based variety streamer and professional voice-over actress! In our conversation, we talk about where it all started, her creative journey experience on Twitch and more.   

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Bez Beatz is a Canadian music producer and beat-maker with a diverse creative background. In this podcast session, Alex JL sits down with Bez to discuss his musical journey and creative process in his music-making. Great conversation with a lot of gems!

Last Session for Beat Around The Podcast for the year 2021. Alex and Billy catch up about projects, new music releases and discuss investing in your craft and their mindsets behind what they prioritise.

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In this session of Beat Around The Music,  Alex and Billy talk about their background in music education and discuss a variety of topics that relate to today's relationship between music-makers and education/practice. They also touch upon some of the modern tools that exist for music producers.

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Beat Around The Music is a talk show/podcast live stream on Twitch hosted by music producers, Alex JL and Billy Crabbe. In this first session, Alex and Billy introduce themselves, talk about they got into music and discuss topics like finding your musical path and the ups and downs of creativity.

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