Studio Radicals

Studio Radicals

Studio Radicals is a new podcast series from dCS Audio and journalist Kate Hutchinson, featuring in-depth conversations with some of music’s most innovative minds. It celebrates the individuals who are shaping how music is made and bringing a fresh approach to production, from the composers building distinctive sonic worlds to the engineers helping translate artists’ ideas into sound. Host Kate Hutchinson travels to studios and mixing desks on both sides of the Atlantic – from the sun-dappled coast of California to the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London – to speak with eight creatives about their craft, process and adventures in music. She meets renowned musicians, engineers and composers who are pushing their craft to produce exciting and thought-provoking scores, songs and soundtracks across the genres. For more information and to see photography, videos and playlists, visit dcsaudio.com/studioradicals and follow instagram.com/dcsonlythemusic.

Episodes

8: Cicely Balston

June 4, 2025 • 30 mins
Mastering is the final part of the album-making process – where the songs are fine-tuned and all the elements are shaped into a cohesive whole. Cicely Balston is one of the UK’s breakthrough young talents. They’ve worked across leading London studios like Gearbox, Air and now the legendary Abbey Road, with its iconic zebra crossing out front.

Cicely has a hugely varied list of credits and has put their finishing touch...
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7: Suzanne Ciani

May 28, 2025 • 35 mins
This time we’re heading to the California coast with electronic visionary Suzanne Ciani. Her home studio overlooks a stunning bay, and has inspired many Grammy-nominated albums of meditative analogue synthesizer and neo-classical piano music. In the 1970s, she pioneered electronic music with her trusty Buchla modular synth, envisioning bold new horizons for where the sound could go, and designed inventive sounds for the advert...
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6: Maria Elisa Ayerbe

May 14, 2025 • 34 mins
In this episode of Studio Radicals, host Kate Hutchinson is in Miami, Florida, with Maria Elisa Ayerbe, who Billboard magazine named one of the songwriters, producers and engineers who is “Blazing New Paths for Women in Latin Music”. 

Bogotá-born Maria Elisa relocated to Miami 10 years ago and has been part of the musical productions for some of the best-known singers in Latin pop and rock, including Ricky Martin, Jen...
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5: Ramera Abraham

May 7, 2025 • 27 mins
Ramera Abraham is an award-winning vocal producer, recording engineer and songwriter who really gets great pop music. She has created arrangements and/or engineered for the likes of Victoria Monet, Little Mix, Jade Thirlwall, Arya Starr and Ivy Queen, and has also assisted on songs by Adele, Jess Glynne and Elton John. She won Vocal Producer of the Year at the 2023 MPG Awards and, as well as working with big names, helps up-an...
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4: Hannah Peel

April 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Hannah Peel is a Northern Irish musician, producer, composer and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster based in Yorkshire, England, who blends electronic and classical music across her many film and TV soundtracks and solo albums, including 2021’s Fir Wave, which made the Mercury Music Prize shortlist.

Hannah’s scores are Emmy-nominated and Ivor Novello-winning – in 2023, she became the first woman to win Best Television Score for ...
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3: Ebonie Smith

April 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Ebonie Smith is a Memphis-born, LA-based engineer, producer and artist who The Fader called “one of the most meticulous minds behind the boards.” She has worked on smash-hit albums and theatre soundtracks, including Hamilton: An American Musical, Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy and Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer, and is behind the non-profit organisation Gender Amplified, which aims to help more women and gender-expansive indivi...
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2: Catherine Marks

April 23, 2025 • 27 mins
Catherine Marks is a Grammy-winning music producer, mixer and engineer from Australia who got into studios via a chance meeting with the legendary producer Flood. Since then, Catherine has worked with some of the biggest bands in indie-rock – Wolf Alice, The Killers, Foals and Interpol among them. She produced and mixed Wolf Alice’s Grammy-nominated single Moaning Lisa Smile, mixed St. Vincent’s Grammy Award-winning album MASS...
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1: Marta Salogni

April 23, 2025 • 35 mins
Episode one of Studio Radicals meets Marta Salogni, an Italian-born, award-winning engineer, mixer and producer who is celebrated for her sonic experimentation and creative use of analogue tape machines. She has worked with some of the most exciting names in music, including Björk, Frank Ocean, Bon Iver, FKA twigs, Ela Minus and English Teacher. Marta produced the latter band’s debut album, This Could Be Texas, which won the U...
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Welcome to Studio Radicals - Series One launches on 23 April 2025

April 14, 2025 • 2 mins
Studio Radicals is a brand new podcast series from dCS Audio and journalist Kate Hutchinson, featuring in-depth conversations with some of music’s most innovative minds. It celebrates the individuals who are shaping how music is made and bringing a fresh approach to production, from the composers building distinctive sonic worlds to the engineers helping translate artists’ ideas into sound.

What does it take to create...
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