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Chal Ravens & Tom Lea Visit website › Music · EN · 75 episodes · latest 2026-10-30 · explicit

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No Tags is a podcast and newsletter from Chal Ravens and Tom Lea chronicling underground music culture. notagspodcast.substack.com

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75: Octo Octa and Eris Drew are better living through alchemy

2026-10-30 · 2 hr 16 min

'The big beat defenders are incoming'. An ominous text message to receive moments before meeting Octo Octa and Eris Drew in the flesh, but a sure sign that this would be a very special No Tags conversation.As DJs and…
74: What does it take to run a clubnight for 20 years?

2026-10-14 · 1 hr 35 min

For 20 years, Mantra and Double O have been running Rupture, the London-based party that’s become guiding light for 160-inclined ravers. As any promoter will tell you, that’s a damn good shift.Next month they celebrate…
73: Dance music has entered its proteinmaxxed era

2026-09-30 · 53 min

We need to talk about this event flyer, and not just because of how Big Beat Cinema-coded it is.Prospa, Josh Baker and Kettama have worked their way into the uppermost stratum of dance music – a rarefied zone which…
72: When is a festival not a festival?

2026-09-10 · 1 hr 40 min

Is this the way they say the future’s meant to feel? Or just 20,000 people milling about at the White Claw gazebo?This summer Tom and Chal attended a LOT of different festivals, which got us thinking about not just what…
71: Second quarter report – the best music of 2026 so far

2026-08-26 · 2 hr 3 min

Closing a hectic summer, we’re back with our regular report on the best music of the last three months.We’re joined as always by No Tags third Beatle and zillennial savant Henry Bruce-Jones to talk us through the more…
70: The true story of real dubstep

2026-07-22 · 1 hr 46 min

“Is this dubstep?”There was a time in the 2010s when approximately 23% of all YouTube comments were a variation of this question. One of the UK’s most influential yet misunderstood dance exports, dubstep is also one of…
69: Your favourite DJ is a psyop

2026-06-04 · 1 hr 29 min

Keep honking, piggies: I’m listening to whatever rockslop the algorithm just sicked up for me!So we’ve been circling a certain topic for a while now – in order to be fashionably off-cycle rather than just late to the…
68: Djrum or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Clang

2026-05-21 · 1 hr 46 min

Why be seamless when you can go KLANGGG? This week’s guest is living proof that doing things wrong, backwards, upside-down or simply not at all can reap creative dividends.We speak, of course, about Djrum. Recorded at…
67: Sheffield, Synth City

2026-04-30 · 1 hr 56 min

Sheffield punches well above its weight when it comes to tunes. From #1 synth-pop hits to underground techno classics, clattering industrial funk to accidental Britpop icons, the Steel City might have produced more…
66: First Quarter Report – the best music of the last three months

2026-04-16 · 1 hr 16 min

The Q1 report is here and the charts are clear: buy underscores. 📈On this episode of No Tags, we talk through our favourite releases of 2026 so far – not to mention some music that we’re more mixed on but felt like it…

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Oldest episode in feed: 11/2023 · over 2 years
Typical length: 1 hr 17 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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