We’re committed to keeping the main series of the show free and available to everyone. However, for those who choose to support our work through a monthly Patreon subscription, we’ve created a large and ever-expanding selection of bonus material by way of thanks. What follows is a list of everything we’ve produced for patrons. To access all this, plus extended versions of our Conversations episodes, head to Patreon.com/LoveMessagePod.

Mini-Series: Walter Gibbons (pts 1 and 2). Tim takes the long view on Walter Gibbons: DJ, remixer, break-juggler, born-again Christian and seminal character in the LITM story. In part one, we hear about Walter's early life, the techniques he developed to extend tracks when DJing, and his early experiments in reel-to-reel editing. Tim also discusses difficulties with disco historiography, misunderstandings about the relationship between Bronx-based Hip Hop and the Downtown party scene, and how connections between the two can be mediated by Walter himself. We hear about developments in DJ technique in both the uptown Bronx and Downtown discotheque party scenes, including nascent approaches to mixing and the many key tracks which crossed over between the two. Tim discusses the break, DJ Kool Herc's 'merry-go-round' spinning style, and the differing musical demands of disco dancers and B-Boys. [December ‘22 - January ‘23]

Mini-series: Music and Marxism (pts 1 and 2). What is historical materialism? What does it mean to apply historical materialist analysis to culture? Jeremy shows how Marxist theory can be - and has been - applied to music from Bach to Jazz, illustrating ways in which we can explain cultural and aesthetic changes with Marxian thinking.Jeremy introduces us to some of the writers whose work can be applied to analysing music: Lukács, Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and members of the Frankfurt School including Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer. We hear about ways of understanding music's autonomous capacity to affect people's bodies and make them feel, desublimation, Structuralism and it's descendents, and vibe. Jeremy touches on the writing of Bloch, Marcuse, Freud, Barthes and Kristeva, as well as staples of the show Deleuze and Guattari. We hear about the 'grain' of the voice, the difference between the meaning and the material aspects of song, and finally return to the big question: what drives historical change? [October - November ‘22]

Mini-series: Heavy Dub Theory (pts 1, 2 and 3). A multi-part exploration of what we're calling Heavy Dub Theory: a deep dive on the aesthetic, musicological and theoretical understandings of dub. We start with a discussion of the materiality of bass as expressed in the concept of Bass Materialism - how bass frequencies behave in space, are felt in our bodies, and how bass music rejected and upset prevailing musical expressions of white heteropatriarchal culture. We also consider how dub composition is organised around subtraction rather than addition - a fact it shares with the contemporaneous school of Minimalism - and make the case that dub is anti-climactic, anti-telos, and ultimately breaks with traditional musical conceptions of time all together. Via a brief refresher on Critical Theory and Continental Philosophy, we explore the tensions between the musical performance and its recording, the power of repetition, and why dub's self-conscious experimentation with studio production makes it the most innovative medium of twentieth century music. We also get a healthy dose of Hauntology,'90s electronica and Socrates to complete the picture. [March - May ‘22]

Mini-series: Afrofuturism (pts 1, 2 and 3). Three episodes on the historical, aesthetic and political components of Afrofuturism. We cover Detroit Techno and the Belleville 3, the 'Golden Age' of Hip Hop, the particular position of Dub in the Afrofuturist imaginary, and the singular insights of Goldie, along with the antagonisms of Gangsta Rap, white libertarian cyberpunk culture and the politics and economics of the early '90s. We talk about Kodwo Eshun's 1998 book More Brilliant Than The Sun, interrogating the thinking of a number of academics and journalists around the Cybernetic Cultural Research Unit and their body of work around cyber theory, and the music of the 'Hardcore Continuum' in the context of '90s intellectual culture. We also look at contemporary iterations of Afrofuturism, including Moor Mother and Janelle Monáe. [November - December ‘21]

Mini-series: Decolonising Disco (pts 1 and 2). Two episodes in which Tim reads from his essay Decolonising Disco—Counterculture, Postindustrial Creativity, the 1970s Dance Floor and Disco, published recently in the collection Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s : Disco Heterotopias, edited by Flora Pitrolo and Marko Zubak. Drawing together arguments from all three of Tim's books covering the party culture of the 1970s and early 1980s, the piece re-historises the so-called 'genre wars' of Disco, Punk and Hip Hop / Rap to better represent the fluidity between these scenes and musics as part of a city-wide music culture.

Tim continues to assert this radical creative potential of the post-Fordist conjuncture in '70s music culture, and concludes by asking: what happened to the influence of music from the Global South on Disco; how did Disco go from the fringes of US culture to becoming a colonializing force itself; and how might we begin decolonialising Disco? [June ‘22]

Mini-Series: The 1975 Schizo-Culture Conference (pts 1, 2 and 3). A mini-series on the 1975 Schizo-Culture Conference, held at Columbia University in NYC and convened by the writer and editor Sylvere Lotringer. Lotringer wanted to bring the ideas of Continental Philosophy to the US, so we hear about the intellectual culture and key thinkers of post-'68 France, including Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze and Guattari. We also discuss the potency of an irreducible multiplicity, S&M, the opportunities and limits of anti-psychology, and ask how much repression is too much repression? We also talk about the composer John Cage and his Zen Buddhist influences, the Mudd Club, the internal pressures the conference faced, and ask whether it could be seen as a success.[March - May ‘23]

Mini-Series: Other 70s Musical Currents (pts 1 and 2). Alongside the goings on at the Loft and its orbit, we consider contemporaneous music cultures of the 1970s, particularly those found in Europe. We discuss The Great Kosmische Musik of Krautrock and the haunted ballrooms of UK Northern Soul as part of an ongoing excavation of these music and dance scenes.

Mini-Series: Glam Rock (pts 1, 2 and 3). We take a deep look at Glam Rock on both sides of the pond, incorporating big names like Bowie, Roxy Music and Marc Bolan alongside cameos from Iggy Pop, Elton John and Alice Cooper. We explore the theory of glamour, 60s Garage Rock, the legacy of the Velvet Underground, torch songs, football terraces and Freddie Mercury.

Interview with Sharon Zukin. We talk about New York City in the 1970s with writer and academic Sharon Zukin. We discuss changing patterns of cooperative housing and loft living in downtown Manhattan, the social and economic circulation within and between these various neighbourhoods, and the problems loft living presented. We also talk about the visual art scenes of the East Village and Soho, the pursuit of professional art careers within these spaces, the role of gender and race in how these opportunities were presented, and the incorporation of the avant-garde into the American establishment. [February ‘23]

Interview with Daphne A Brooks, (pts 1 and 2). We talk to Black Feminist scholar and music critic Daphne A. Brooks about her new book, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio.[January ‘22]

Reading Series: Love Saves the Day. A selection of readings from the early part of Tim’s first book, Love Saves the Day: A History Of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979.

Live Conversations. Recordings from a series of live online seminars we held with patrons in a loose discussion format, with contributions from both us and the guests.

What We’re Listening To, War and Peace Special, October ‘23. Featuring music and reaction to the war in Gaza.

What We’re Listening To, May ‘23. Featuring music from Arturo Sandoval, Pharaoh Saunders and more.

What We’re Listening To, Feb ‘23. Featuring music from Surya Botofasina, Tenderlonious and more.

What We’re Listening To, Christmas ‘22 Special. Featuring festive music from across the globe.

What We’re Listening To, Novemeber ‘22. Featuring music from Kerri Chandler, Jorja Smith and more.

What We’re Listening To, September ‘22. Featuring music from Arushi Jain, Weather Report and more.

What We’re Listening To, June ‘22. Featuring music from Jeff Parker, Don Cherry and more.

What We’re Listening To, March ‘22. Featuring music from Jamie Branch, Desmond Chambers and more.

What We’re Listening To, September ‘21. Featuring music from Floating Points, Miriam Makeba, Phenomenal Handclap Band and more.

What We’re Listening To, August ‘21. Featuring music from Mario Rui Silva, Ash Ra Tempel and more.

What We’re Listening To, July ‘21. Featuring music from Noel Brass Jr, Mary Lattimore and more.

What We’re Listening To, June ‘21. Featuring music from Lokkhi Terra Meets Dele Sosimi and KOKOROKO.