The Record Club Founder Free Oribhabor on Wormholes & Being a Jack-of-All-Trades (Part 1 of 2)

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Katie Dalebout

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🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

This week is part 1 of a 2-part conversation I had with longtime DJ and music producer, Free Oribhabor. He’s also the founder of The Record Club, an immersive album listening experience he hosts monthly in LA. As the LA Times put it, "He wanted to create a music listening experience that replicated the grandiose feeling of sitting in a theater and watching a film with other fans." As you’ll hear in these conversations (and you’ve felt if you’ve danced while he’s DJ-ing or been in the audience while he unpacks a favorite album) his enthusiasm is palpable. In this we not only talk about the origin of The Record Club but also expanding it in the future while maintaining the intimate vision he had for it early on. In part 1 we talk about wormholes and research, being undervalued in education, making money doing many different things (being a jack-of-all-trades) which can mean that things take longer. And in part 2 we get into how his musical taste has developed, having confidence in taste, allowing taste to change, and he takes questions for friends. Let us know if you listen.

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0:00.0	It's like just kind of reminding people like, it's okay to kind of nerd out.
0:06.0	It's okay to be like deeply passionate about something to a point where you like, it's almost kind of goofy.
0:11.0	Like, that's how you should feel about things.
0:14.0	You should be excited, super excited about everything that you love. Let me let it out.
0:21.6	Let it go out of Hi, Okay, listen up, settle in, what we have here is a two-part episode.
0:58.2	It's two parts because I had a conversation with my friend Free,
1:04.7	a longtime DJ, a music producer, and a dreamer.
1:11.2	We'll call him a dreamer because he dreamed up record club.
1:14.7	He wanted to create an immersive album listening experience that could replicate the grandiose feeling of sitting in a theater and watching a film with other fans. That's a direct quote from
1:30.0	the LA Times piece written about record club and his enthusiasm for music and for this project
1:38.9	and for everything he does is infused in this episode.
1:45.1	So much so that I went over to his house and talked to him for probably four hours,
1:53.1	but we recorded three hours of that.
1:55.7	And you're going to hear every ounce because I loved it.
2:00.0	I loved talking to him.
2:01.9	This conversation covers everything from what record club is, how he came up with the idea.
2:09.3	We talk about his process, we talk about research rabbit holes, we talk about music and taste.
2:16.2	And part two, you'll hear many of our mutual friends submitted questions, friends
2:21.7	of his and I's, friends of ours that you know, like Christine and Maddie.
2:26.2	And there's so much more to come.
2:28.1	But let's get to the episode as quickly as possible.
2:31.3	I'm so grateful that you're here, that you're listening.
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