LEX LUCA

Lex Luca is a London-based DJ, producer, and broadcaster with over a decade producing dance music shows at BBC Radio 1. He's also an award-winning podcast producer and the founder of OpenDAW, home to boutique songwriting camps, artist coaching, and the OpenDAW Talks podcast, named Music Week's Podcast of the Month.

Lex hosts IN TUNE, a weekly house music show on House FM syndicated across Europe and the Americas.

A Beatport #1 artist and AFEM executive board member, Lex brings a rare combination of creative credibility and broadcast experience to the conversation - with releases on VIVa Music, Nervous Records, and Desert Hearts, and support from Pete Tong, Jamie Jones, and Derrick Carter.

Long Play: Building Real Audiences in a Short-Form World

Description: TikTok told us attention spans were dead. Podcasting proved otherwise. In an era of 15-second clips and algorithmic feeds, a growing movement of artists, labels and music media is betting big on long-form - and winning. As music culture fragments across platforms chasing the next scroll, intimate, unfiltered conversation has quietly become one of the most powerful tools for building the kind of trust, community and longevity that no viral moment can replicate. Featuring Anja Schneider's perspective from the heart of Berlin's electronic music scene, the House Culture media insight of Matt Rouse, and the content craft of Christabel Heasman-Cossins and Chris Bailey (The Boy In The Corner) - moderated by broadcaster, producer and OpenDAW founder Lex Luca - this panel gets into the craft, strategy and real talk behind making content that actually matters.