{"id":6594,"date":"2024-02-22T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/?post_type=interview&#038;p=6594"},"modified":"2024-02-22T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:37:26","slug":"eduardo-lemos","status":"publish","type":"interview","link":"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Lemos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where are you based?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bath, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Where do you work? What do you do?<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eduardolemos.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My work splits into these three music fields:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Curation, as an in-demand music consultant working alongside a team that creates musical identities for brands in Brazil and the UK. I also run a background music service for Brazilian businesses, Solar Music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Journalist and Writer, writing music articles at the Brazilian Union of Composers magazine\/website, at my newsletter Distante and for the Brazilian band Os Paralamas do Sucesso;\u00a0<br>Finally, I&#8217;m a Label Assistant at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/175181-Reel-People-Music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reel People Music,<\/a> an English record label. I also founded my record label in Brazil, where I was born. It&#8217;s called Pequeno Imprevisto, and we&#8217;ve released mainly Brazilian and world music.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What are you listening to?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently listening to many South American contemporary indie pop due to a music curation job for an American luxury brand. I have run into many fantastic artists &#8211; and I&#8217;m just talking about songs that came out in 2023. I&#8217;ve compiled a playlist with 15 gems I discovered during this research and will release it via my newsletter, <a href=\"https:\/\/eduardolemos.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Distante<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How do you discover new music?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of my discoveries come from listening to the radio online. The French radio station FIP is probably my favourite, alongside R\u00e1dio USP in Brazil and many others. I also do Spotify &#8211; I like to find playlists curated by people or labels I like. Bandcamp is a fantastic source, too. Finally, movie soundtracks: the best music discoveries I have made so far came from cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What formats do you usually listen to? LP, CD, Cassette, Digital, Streaming Services? Why?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born in 1985, so first, I learned to listen to music on LP and then got into the CD in the 90s. I used to listen to music via these formats at my Brazilian home before I moved to England in 2020. Now, I go between vinyl and digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-style-plain has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We find music so easily nowadays. But there are consequences. One: so much music is coming out daily &#8211; 100k tracks each 24 hours. It&#8217;s a non-human scale. So, of course, it will lead to frustration for everybody involved, especially artists and their audiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Where do you do most of your music listening?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I listen to music from Monday to Friday, eight hours a day, due to my work as a music curator and label manager. I plug in my vinyl record player on weekends to listen to my favourite artists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I&#8217;m out of home\u2026 well, as a teenager, I used to carry a portable CD player (Sony&#8217;s Discman!) and many batteries so I could listen to music anywhere I was, at any time. I just thought music was the best way to experience life. I hated it when I had an issue with the Discman, and life suddenly had no soundtrack. Now, I do the same thing, except I just need a portable charger and a wired headphone. My favourite place to do my music is on a long bus journey, looking out the window.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How do you find and listen to pre-release music?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mostly, I listen to my record label releases or Reel People&#8217;s. Also, sometimes a friend or an artist is about to release new music and asks me for an opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What are your frustrations with listening to music digitally? Any benefits?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The benefit is the comfort. We find music so easily nowadays. But there are consequences. One: so much music is coming out daily &#8211; the last figure I heard is 100k tracks each 24 hours. It&#8217;s a non-human scale. So, of course, it will lead to frustration for everybody involved, especially artists and their audiences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing is that listening to music digitally is not a collective experience most of the time. I miss listening to music with my friends and family without having to do something else simultaneously (drive, cook, talk, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How do you keep track of everything you are listening to?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I solved this problem by creating a single playlist on Spotify with all the best tracks I discovered there. When the music is not on Spotify, I keep a Word file where I write down names and links. But when a song really gets me, I just keep it in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"byta-callout grid-cell grid--full pad-30 border-grey text-center\"><h3 class=\"blue-dark\"> Byta delivers fast and secure audio sharing<\/h3><p class=\"blue-dark p-regular set-width\">With Byta you are in control of your music. <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/what-is-byta?utm_source=interview-intext&#038;utm_medium=hwl&#038;utm_campaign=signup-promo\" class=\"button_wrapper\"> <span class=\"button bg-melon mar-top-30\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Do you tip other people off to new music? How?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All the time! I&#8217;m that guy who always says to someone, &#8220;You know, I think you gonna like this artist called\u2026&#8221;. But I do this professionally via my newsletter, Distante, by delivering two fresh playlists every month with some of the beauties I run due to my music curation work.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anything you want to \u201cpromote\u201d?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My newsletter Distante! You should sign up for many reasons: you will receive the two monthly playlists I mentioned above + some stories about music and its intersection with immigration, bilingualism and other topics. And it&#8217;s free. And there is more exciting news coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"template":"","tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eduardo Lemos: Interview - #HowWeListen from Byta<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eduardo Lemos shares how they find and enjoy their music in a digital age.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eduardo Lemos: Interview - #HowWeListen from Byta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eduardo Lemos shares how they find and enjoy their music in a digital age.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"#HowWeListen from Byta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/BytaLtd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-22T15:37:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eduardo-lemos-twitter.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@BytaLtd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/\",\"name\":\"Eduardo Lemos: Interview - #HowWeListen from Byta\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-22T15:37:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-22T15:37:26+00:00\",\"description\":\"Eduardo Lemos shares how they find and enjoy their music in a digital age.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interview\/eduardo-lemos\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Interviews\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/interviews\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Eduardo Lemos\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/\",\"name\":\"#HowWeListen from Byta\",\"description\":\"Music Interviews &amp; 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