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PUTF Podcast
by Pick Up The Flow
The PUTF podcast aims to shed lights on inspiring creatives from the PUTF community & beyond. Guests are invited to talk about their career paths, story and vision. Pick Up The Flow is a NYC based online resource aiming to democratize access to opportunities. https://linktr.ee/pickuptheflow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Josh Cheon (Dark Entries, Curation/Archives, Community)
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 7 featuring Josh Cheon Josh Cheon grew up in northern New Jersey, just outside New York City where he spent his weekends dancing at goth clubs and digging for records. He moved to San Francisco in 2006 and joined gay DJ collective Honey Soundsystem from 2007 to...
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Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele (Love Injection's Evolution, NYC Music & Culture, Parenthood)
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 6 featuring Barbie Bertisch & Paul Raffaele Love Injection is variously known as a publication, a radio show, a DJ partnership, production duo, and a record label. Co-founded by Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele in 2015 as a monthly print fanzine, Love Injection’s...
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Jon Dieringer (Screen Slate, Building an Independent Platform, NYC's Moving Image Culture)
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 5 featuring Jon Dieringer Jon Dieringer is the founder and editor-in-chief of Screen Slate. He has written for BOMB, TIME, n+1, and elsewhere. He has programmed many screenings and series, most notably at Spectacle (2011-2015), Anthology Film Archives, Roxy…
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Bob Bellerue (Music Practice, NYC, Ende Tymes Festival of Noise & Sonic Liberation)
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 4 featuring Bob Bellerue Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and A/V technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 35+ years he has been involved in creating and producing a wide range of sonic activities – experimental...
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Ali Rosa-Salas (Curatorial Practice, Art in NYC, Community, Abrons Arts Center)
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 3 featuring Ali Rosa-Salas Ali Rosa-Salas is a curator who believes that the arts are a public good. Raised by a Nuyorican family in South Brooklyn, she draws creative inspiration from New York City’s cultural ecosystems. Ali is currently the Vice President of...
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Zenat Begum (Playground, Community, Entrepreneurship in NYC)
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 2 featuring Zenat Begum Zenat Begum is a native New Yorker, owner of Playground Coffee Shop, founder of Playground Youth, and an alumni of The New School. Zenat intentionally seeks to center BIPOC, marginalized bodies, the arts, and community engagement in order…
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Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson (Dweller Festival, NYC Culture)
PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 1 featuring Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson is the founder of Dweller Festival, a festival platforming Black artists. Previously, Frankie co-founded Discwoman, an agency focused on representing and promoting women and nonbinary DJ producers...
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Laraaji (Early Life, Creative Process, Spirituality/Intuition, Legacy/Career, Audience Q&A)
The PUTF Podcast: Laraaji Interview at Dripping 2025 This interview was recorded at Dripping Festival in New Jersey in June 2025. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow Laraaji is a seminal figure in ambient and New Age music—a pioneering multi-instrumentalist, composer, and spiritual...
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Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer, Behind The News, Economics, Politics, Journalism)
The PUTF Show - Episode 19 / Doug Henwood Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow Doug Henwood is a journalist and broadcaster based in Brooklyn. From 1986 to 2013 he published Left…
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TYGAPAW (Growing up in Jamaica, Life in NYC, Art & Music Practice, Fake Accent Records)
The PUTF Show - Episode 18 / TYGAPAW Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/ https://putf.substack.com/ TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in Mandeville, Jamaica. Today, the Artist, producer, DJ and label owner resides in Brooklyn, New...
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musclecars (Early Inspirations, NYC, House Music, Community, Coloring Lessons)
The PUTF Show - Episode 17 / musclecars Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow Native to New York City, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo consisting of Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield.…
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Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. (Being a Full Time Artist in NYC, Photography, Community)
Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. is a Dominican-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. His work explores the ways in which diasporic unity and niche musical movements have served in the creation of community and identity in the…
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Dreamcrusher (Music Career, Life in NYC, DIY Art in Late Stage Capitalism, Design)
The PUTF Show - Episode 15 / Dreamcrusher Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow Dreamcrusher is a New York City-based musician and artist, who describes the project as 'nihilist queer...
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Kyle Garner (NYC, Design, Community, Light And Sound Design, Last Saturday Dance)
The PUTF Show - Episode 14 / Kyle Garner Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow Kyle Garner (aka KG) is an artist, designer, curator, DJ, and the visionary behind Light and Sound Design...
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Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Music Career, Organizing Music Festivals: Sustain-Release, Dripping)
Relaxer is the project of Daniel Martin-McCormick, fka Ital, member of Black Eyes & Gaze, ex-Mi Ami, Halal & Relaxer, Sleeper Cell, Interplanetary Prophets, and more. Rooted in the US punk/noise underground of the late '90s and early 2000s, Martin-McCormick's music embodies a sensual, visceral…
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Ruth Saxelby (early 2000’s dance music in UK, Music Journalism, Dummy, The FADER)
Ruth Saxelby is a writer and editor based in Queens, New York, with a background in electronic music journalism. Born and raised in the UK, she got into writing through clubbing in the north of England in the late '90s. She was the clubs editor at The Leeds Guide (2001 -2003), new music editor at...
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Meriem Bennani (Growing up in Morocco, Art Practice, Life on the CAPS, Collaboration)
Watch on: Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/putf-youtube Meriem Bennani (b. 1988 in Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high production aesthetics, she explores the potential of…
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Baby Leo (Touring in “Animosity” as a teenager, Landscape Architecture, DJing, Dripping Festival, Building a House)
Baby Leo is a DJ, designer and builder based in San Francisco, CA. He is a cofounder of the festival and event series Dripping and the former frontman of the pioneering extreme metal band Animosity. https://www.instagram.com/babymfleo https://linktr.ee/djbabyleo Dripping…
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John Barclay (NYC Nightlife, Bossa Nova Civic Club, Paragon, Music Practice, White Label Yerba Mate Soda, The Fight to Repeal the Cabaret Law)
John Barclay is the founder of NYC’s Bossa Nova Civic Club, Paragon, and White Label Yerba Mate Soda. He also makes music under the alias Liquid Soap and was a member of DIY rave supergroup DUST, a since-retired collaboration with audio engineer Michael Sherburn of Earth Boys and visual/noise...
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Eve Essex (NYC’s Experimental Music Scene, Music Career, Software Engineering, Film Scoring)
Eve Essex is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She performs with woodwinds and voice, accompanied by instrumental ensembles, and by electronic arrangements that use synthesizers, drum machines, live processing, and other sounds. Her work slides easily from structured...
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Sam Clarke (Photography & DJ Career, Community, DUST Radio, Censorship)
Sam Clarke is a Brooklyn-based artist, distinguished by his uncompromising style which he translates across various disciplines. Known for his visual work, Clarke has also developed a voice of his own as an organiser and DJ, fusing his affection for noise, industrial, and dark ambient, with...
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James Hoff (Career Path, Art & Music Practices, NYC in 2000's, Primary Information)
Watch on Youtube James Hoff is an artist living and working in New York. His work encompasses a variety of media, including sound, video, painting, and publishing. Hoff’s multidisciplinary approach begins at the user level—the level at which we interact with consumer technologies, media, and…
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Asif Mian (NYC, Identity, Career Shift, Art Practice, Mythology)
Asif Mian’s art practice explores how events are perceived, processed, and passed on. Asif Mian has devoted much of his career—via video, installation, performance, and sculpture—to investigating the tenuous connections between the events that shape one’s life. Informed by science, mythology, and...
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Katyann Gonzalez (Film Editing, NYC, Time Bomb Y2K & Union)
Katyann Gonzalez is a film editor primarily focused on documentary filmmaking and most recently making the jump into the narrative world. A film lover, a rave elder, an at-home chef, a sister, a friend, an advocate, and an adventurous traveler - she's really interested in soaking up everything…
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Hisham Akira Bharoocha (NYC, Immigrant Identity, Music & Visual Art Practices)
Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a Japanese born multimedia artist based in Brooklyn New York . Bharoocha works in various mediums creating large scale mural paintings, drawings, collage, sound, installation work, and performance. He has had solo exhibitions in Japan, New York and The Netherlands, not…
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GENG PTP aka KING VISION ULTRA (Growing up in New York City, PTP, Design, Bootlegging)
GENG PTP is a Manhattan-born, Queens NYC-based sound practitioner (producer, poet/vocalist, sound engineer, DJ), educator, archivist, visual designer, organizer, and physical trainer. With 3+ decades of participatory roots in NYC's underground music/DIY communities, he has been making work…
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Vanessa Li (Mood Ring, NYC, Margarita In Retrograde, Community)
Vanessa Li is the co-founder of Mood Ring, a bar & venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and co-author of Margarita In Retrograde: Cocktails For Every Sign, published in 2022 by Abrams Books. Originally from San Francisco, she now splits her time between New York and Los Angeles working in nightlife and...
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Salome Asega (NYC, NEW INC, Art & Technology, POWRPLNT, Community)
Salome Asega is an artist and Director of NEW INC at the New Museum. Her work invites the playful and absurd to critique the speed in which technology develops and poses new consentful tech futures leveraging the power of collective imagination. Salome is a 2022 United States Fellow and an...
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Dynoman (Karachi and NYC Electronic Music Scenes, Audio Production, Community)
Bio: Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Dynoman is credited as being an instrumental piece in the formation and development of the Karachi underground & Pakistan electronic music scene. He has been producing electronic music under the Dynoman moniker since 2009, and co-founded Forever South, Pakistan’s...
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Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. ( Photography, Music & Arts in NYC, Intuition, Community)
Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. was born and raised in Lynn MA. Graduated from MassArt in 2011. Currently based out of Brooklyn creating work about community and personal connections. Links mentioned: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/guarionex-rodriguez-jr-photography-310321...
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Sienna Fekete (Music & Arts in NYC, Community Cookbook, Chroma, The Kitchen...)
Sienna Fekete is a producer and curator based in New York City with a background in radio, podcasting, and music. She is a co-founder of Chroma, a cultural agency & creative studio centering the work and perspectives of womxn of color. She has worked exclusively with BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra, On Air...
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GENG PTP ( NYC in the 80's/90’s, music industry, PTP...)
GENG PTP is a NYC-born and based sound practitioner (DJ, producer, poet/vocalist), educator, archivist, organizer, writer, sound engineer, visual artist, and physical trainer. Since 2017, he has been making music as King Vision Ultra, as well as partaking in a handful of collaborative projects -...
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nina (Music Industry, nina protocol, Blockchain...)
"Don't click links on discord" Learn more about nina here https://nina.market https://twitter.com/nina_market_ https://discord.com/invite/JSKKcrPUQx Resources mentioned: https://discord.com/invite/JSKKcrPUQx https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unstoppable-podcast/id1538672251 ____________...
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Heidi Sabertooth (Music in NYC, Social Justice, Synth Library NYC...)
Heidi Sabertooth is a NYC-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer. She's been creating her unique brand of electronics since 2012, pushing out beautiful noise, from the delicate to the jarring. She is resident of Brooklyn-based Lost Soul Enterprises, host on The Lot Radio and curator...
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Dev Moore (NFTS, Felt Zine...)
Dev Moore is a net artist, curator, and Creative Director at FELT Zine, a creative studio and internet art collective founded in 2011. His work also incorporates creative strategy for digital artwork, interactive URL & IRL experiences, and underground music culture. His work spans digital &...
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Sanna Almajedi (DJs, Nightlife issues...)
Sanna is a DJ and curator from Baghdad who’s based in NYC. Since 2016, she has been hosting a monthly radio show on The Lot Radio. In 2019, she founded the music platform 3AFAK with Bergsonist. Together, they’ve programmed music events in NYC and released a music compilation of various artists in...
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Ai Lin ( life in NYC, philosophy, zen training..)
Follow AI on social media: https://www.instagram.com/000au.m/ Resource Mentioned: https://youtu.be/z26fjrZpcNE Access Daily Opportunities via PUTF's IG: https://putf.substack.com/ Join the newsletter: https://putf.substack.com/ and follow us on Instagram…
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Bowen Goh ( Mood Ring, entrepreneurship, nightlife in NYC... )
Follow Bowen on social media: https://www.instagram.com/mangopostalservice/ https://www.tiktok.com/@mangopostalservice Mood Ring, Bar/Music Venue in Brooklyn, NY https://www.instagram.com/moodringnyc/ Heaven Or Las Vegas, Bar/Karaoke in Brooklyn, NY https://www.instagram.com/heavenorlasvegasnyc/...
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Spurge Carter (career path, social justice, Eto Ano ...)
Follow Spurge on IG & TW: https://www.instagram.com/itsaliese/ https://twitter.com/_itsaliese Find Spurge's music here: https://etoano.bandcamp.com https://sspurgeee.bandcamp.com Compilation:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The PUTF podcast aims to shed lights on inspiring creatives from the PUTF community & beyond. Guests are invited to talk about their career paths, story and vision. Pick Up The Flow is a NYC based online resource aiming to democratize access to opportunities.
https://linktr.ee/pickuptheflow
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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