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With Lex On The Decks

The home of intimate, open conversations on creativity and the music industry. Now in its third season, HOT GIRLS, continues to be the space where musicians and creatives have raw conversations about how to create and ov
Latest Episode6/18/2021

What Enya Taught Me About Music

Season 4, Ep. 6
This week I’m looking at an artist who has had an insane and from the outset, probably completely unpredictable level of success. She’s also someone who creates a completely different kind of music to anyone else I’ve looked at this season. I’ve decided to look at Enya, partly because she is one of my favourite artists, but also because of the way her music has been sampled in hip hop.Being an outsider to the worlds who have sampled her, meant Enya almost got cut out of the credit she deserved but instead it ended up making her a huge amount of money and landing her a place in history as one of the most unique composers and artists of a generation. Her incredible legacy and net worth have fascinated people as she hasn’t toured, she does very little press and generally operates in totally different ways to the conventions of her worlds. As one vice reporter put it: Have you ever wondered how a reclusive Irish new age artist outsold Aretha Franklin?This is a lesson in music, by Enya.Lex Handles:IG / Twitter: @lexonthedecks
6/18/2021

What Enya Taught Me About Music

Season 4, Ep. 6
This week I’m looking at an artist who has had an insane and from the outset, probably completely unpredictable level of success. She’s also someone who creates a completely different kind of music to anyone else I’ve looked at this season. I’ve decided to look at Enya, partly because she is one of my favourite artists, but also because of the way her music has been sampled in hip hop.Being an outsider to the worlds who have sampled her, meant Enya almost got cut out of the credit she deserved but instead it ended up making her a huge amount of money and landing her a place in history as one of the most unique composers and artists of a generation. Her incredible legacy and net worth have fascinated people as she hasn’t toured, she does very little press and generally operates in totally different ways to the conventions of her worlds. As one vice reporter put it: Have you ever wondered how a reclusive Irish new age artist outsold Aretha Franklin?This is a lesson in music, by Enya.Lex Handles:IG / Twitter: @lexonthedecks
6/9/2021

A&R, Black Music Coalition, Speaking Up and Career Journeys, with Komali Scott-Jones

Season 4, Ep. 5
This week Lex sits down with Komali, who is an A&R at Parlophone Records, looking after the likes of Hamzaa and Mnelia. She chats us through her career journey, inspirations, juggling and successes in a conversation of inspiration and insight! Komali Handles:@komali_krldnLex Handles:@lexonthedecks
6/2/2021

What Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes Taught Me About Finding Your Space

Season 4, Ep. 4
Growing up, the first time I heard the name “Lisa Left-Eye Lopes" was when she stepped onto the top of the pops stage alongside Sporty Spice to perform the single ‘Never Be The Same Again’. I bought Mel C’s album off the back of that and as a literal child found that song dope. I came to know her later as the MC in TLC but never really realised just quite how successful and dominant TLC were as a group in the 90s.While this episode will centre around Left Eye, I’ll obviously talk about the group’s journey because that was so much a part of her. Fittingly, this episode is going live in a particular season known as GEMINI SEASON and I was thinking when I first started watching Lisa in interviews that something in her reminded me of myself and then saw her be described as a true gemini and thought ahhh that's what it is. We both crazy.But more than crazy, she was a brilliant brilliant MC. So slick and smooth and despite having her life cut short, aged just 30, she delivered so much in the time that she was around.So this is a lesson in finding your space, by Lisa Lopes.Lex Handles:@lexonthedecks
5/26/2021

Creativity, Collaboration and Consistency with Blue Lab Beats

Season 4, Ep. 3
Hello guys and welcome to Hot Girls with me Lex On The Decks. This week I am joined by the very brilliant and focused Blue Lab Beats. A production duo comprised of NK-OK and David aka Mr DM. Having released their first EP in 2016 they’ve gone on to work with talent like Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Kojey Radical and Sampa the Great. I was fascinated in how they’d come together as a duo, and how they’ve approached their careers to be carving out the space they are. Being able too flex their musical abilities across a fusion of genres, they’ve also been proactive in trying to encourage more women to get into production which if you don’t know is one of the biggest gaps when it comes to gender imbalance in the industry.The guys were super open about their journey and what they’re prepping for.Blue Lab Beats Handles:@bluelab_beatsLex On The Decks@lexonthedecks
5/19/2021

What Nina Simone Taught Me About Conflict

Season 4, Ep. 2
Today I’m taking you through the life and musical legacy of Nina Simone. A musician I first heard through her famed and powerful rendition of “Ain’t Got No, I got Life..” I heard it when i was still in primary school and was introduced to it as part of the limited education about the slave trade and impact of racism. I didn’t know anything about the singer herself so now I’m putting that right. A film came out about her recently which is on Netflix so if you’ve watched that you’ll be familiar with some of the many struggles she faced in making sense of the world, her choices, and how she became quite such a brilliant pianist.Nina Simone wasn’t a singer, she was a communicator. And she communicated from passion, frustration, pain and belief.This is a lesson in conflict by Nina SimoneLex Handles:@lexonthedecks
5/12/2021

Grime, Photography and the Energy of Live Shows with Ellie Ramsden

Season 4, Ep. 1
This is the first episode of Season 4 of Hot Girls and Lex catches up with Ellie Ramsden to talk about photography, self-publishing, and the journeys of the many women she's captured and met. The conversation also touches on the responsibility of artists to tell truthful stories and capture history in its breadth and entirety. Ellie Handles: @ellie_ramsdenLex Handles:@lexonthedecks
5/5/2021

Drum and Bass, 1Xtra, Raving and Mentorship with DJ Flight

Season 3, Ep. 17
Hello and welcome to the final episode of season 3 of Hot Girls. Don’t panic, we’re coming back for a forth season and you won’t have to wait long for it, but to round off this season we caught up with the first woman to host a national weekly drum and bass show. One of the pioneers of the genre and a founding voice on BBC 1Xtra flight has also worked proactively to tackle diversity in the musical spaces she operates in through founding EQ50. We talk about all of that and moreee so enjoy guys and don’t forget to subscribe and tell a friend if you think they’d enjoy. DJ Flight on the Hot Girls Podcast.DJ Flight Handles: @DJFlightLex On The Decks:@lexonthedecks