PUTF Podcast
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.
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- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 79 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
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.
Laraaji is a seminal figure in ambient and New Age music—a pioneering m…
Doug Henwood (Left Business Observer, Behind The News, Economics, Politics, Journalism)
The PUTF Show - Episode 19 / Doug Henwood
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Doug Henwood is a journalist and broadcaster based in Brook…
TYGAPAW (Growing up in Jamaica, Life in NYC, Art & Music Practice, Fake Accent Records)
The PUTF Show - Episode 18 / TYGAPAW
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in M…
musclecars (Early Inspirations, NYC, House Music, Community, Coloring Lessons)
The PUTF Show - Episode 17 / musclecars
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Native to New York City, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo co…
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 un…
Dreamcrusher (Music Career, Life in NYC, DIY Art in Late Stage Capitalism, Design)
The PUTF Show - Episode 15 / Dreamcrusher
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Dreamcrusher is a New York City-based musician and artist, …
Kyle Garner (NYC, Design, Community, Light And Sound Design, Last Saturday Dance)
The PUTF Show - Episode 14 / Kyle Garner
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflow
Youtube: www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow
Kyle Garner (aka KG) …
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 unde…
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 Engla…
Meriem Bennani (Growing up in Morocco, Art Practice, Life on the CAPS, Collaboration)
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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, p…
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.
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 s…
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 synthesi…
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 ow…
James Hoff (Career Path, Art & Music Practices, NYC in 2000's, Primary Information)
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 beg…
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…
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 frie…
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, installatio…
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…
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 …