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Curses: Finding Your Authentic Self as an Artist

Ep. 65

In this week’s episode of Playful Podcast, we meet with New Yorker and Berlin based DJ, Producer, Label owner Luca Venezia - better known as Curses.


In this conversation we speak about:

– Finding your own sound in the blur of all the others

– What about Berlin he believe makes people creative

– When he first he thought he made it and what that was like – as well as how he worked his way up to reach that.


And much more.


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Become our Patreon and get to listen to the in-depth conversation where Luca shares:

– His creative process and how he makes the tracks from start

– Where to find inspiration and what to do when feeling uninspired

– How Luca works with goal setting and his view on success


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