ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Export the Sound is a new podcast exploring how the music industry moves music across borders. Driven by interviews with the industry experts behind crossover stars, host Ben Ma sheds light on the tough cultural obstacles facing international music export and the creative strategies that have worked (or not!) to overcome them.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
32 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
12 episodes
since March 17, 2023
episodic
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Huntsville, AL - a.k.a. Rocket City. It's got NASA's Marshall Center, the Army's Redstone Arsenal, and a major FBI operational center. It's got the highest engineering degrees per capita in the whole U.S. And now, it has an administration who wants to build it into a Music City with intentional and…
Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Percy Sledge, Bob Seger, the Rolling Stones, Wilson Pickett, George Michael, Paul Simon... all trekked to the corner of Alabama to record in Muscle Shoals. I traveled to Northern Alabama to find out more about this history, and what the city is trying to do today to car…
My guest today is Ibukun Ademoye, a manager, Artists & Repertoire (or A&R) executive, and all around hustler in the Nigerian music business based in Lagos. Ibukun has been recently setting his sights on going international by arranging a UK tour for an up and coming Afrobeat artist he's man…
Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, the founder of Westside Music, Mattias Tell, joins me to discuss the ins and outs of booking Swedish indie bands in Europe and beyond: through the examples of psychadelic cocktail boogie outfit Boo Boo Bama Orchestra and shoegaze dream band Boy with Apple we learn h…
In this episode, Ken Kobori, founder of Tokyo-based music marketplace SURF Music, joins me to talk about helping Western producers collaborate with East Asian record labels, Japan's unique lead publisher system, the formation of the K-Pop sound thru overseas collaboration, and karaoke, baby!
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In this episode, Diego Maldonado, global head of rights management for ONErpm, joins me to discuss the Latin American streaming market, what it takes to come up in this market as a new artist, Brazil as a musical planet, and why Latin America (or LatAm) needs a big education boost on music rights.
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In today’s episode, I invite Dr. Shain Shapiro of Sound Diplomacy to discuss how music policy can transform a place: how it can make a difference in a place’s economy, tourism, and quality of life. We talk about Belfast and Anguilla as local examples, and a handful of national-level music policies …
In today’s episode, I am joined by Stephen Dowler, head of Asia Pacific at Monstercat. We talk about Monstercat’s distribution approach across the variety of channels in the region, the labels’ community building efforts both online and offline, and the particular case study of Dexter King, a leadi…
My guest today is Foza Fawehinmi, a Lagos based music lawyer, business executive, and talent manager working in the West African music industry for over a decade. She is truly a multifaceted player from both the law and the business side, working licensing deals with international entities like the…
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