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Nightmares On Wax
20 oktober 2021 · 59 min
Nightmares On Wax, George Evelyn that is, thirty years into his musical journey, had a mortality scare, forced into questioning his existence, and what freedom means to different people, has made the deepest NOW album yet, Shout Out! To Freedom. He spoke with me from his home in Ibiza to talk about being present in the moment, about gratitude, and about his early days at the height of warehouse rave, which included having someonce called Sven Vath as your tour driver. Lees meer
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The new Nightmares On Wax album, Shout Out! To Freedom, is available on Warp Records from October 29th here.
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Lauren Flax
12 oktober 2021 · 54 min
Lauren Flax, boundary-shifting New York artist joins me this week for a conversation that really sums up the virtues of sticking to your guns. Lees meer
Over a long multi-faceted career, starting in the parties of Detroit in the 90s, moving to New York, at one point being half of the project CREƎP with her friend Lauren Dillard, in which they collaborated with singers including Sia and Romy XX, through to making really deep, underground techno, being part of New York’s Bunker crew and her recent transcendentally good Out of Reality project. It feels like she’s reached some kind of crescendo of owning her appoaching to making art.
I loved chatting with Lauren about her journey, connecting on issues around belief and the emotional connection to music.
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Marshall Vincent
5 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 14 min
Marshall Vincent joined me for an in-person conversation to discuss how he uses his sublime alt-R&B to channel confidence, growing up in Chicago, adapting to German mannerisms, the virtues of collaboration and the power of singing in the toilet. His music is so intimate and so sonically expressive at the same time, and in person, he’s suave and witty company, and an inspiringly confident artist. In his own words: “I think when someone’s talking shit, it’s better to embarress them with my talent than in another way, if I can fight my battles on a stage rather than a message board, I’d totally rather do that.” Lees meer
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Marshall Vincent’s new EP, In No Particular Order, is releases October 15, 2021 on SA Recordings. Here’s the Bandcamp.
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Yann Tiersen
28 september 2021 · 36 min
This week, I have an in-person conversation with the visionary Yann Tiersen. Lees meer
We talk about his new album, Kerber, which draws on the geography and atmosphere of the remote island Ushant, where he lives. Plus, he shares reflections on the deeper context of where his music comes from, how a life or death situation gave him an artistic epiphany and also, to be warned, what happens if you expect him to play songs from Amelie. It was lovely to have this conversation, and it took place amongst the synth-fest in a forest that is Berlin’s Superbooth Festival.
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The new Yann Tiersen album, Kerber, is available on Mute here.
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J. Willgoose, Esq. - Public Service Broadcasting
21 september 2021 · 53 min
This week, J. Willgoose, Esq, from Public Service Broadcasting joins me. On the eve of the release of the band’s new LP, Bright Magic, an impressionistic journey through Berlin. So obviously we had to have a chat, right? Lees meer
Enigmatic, immersive, atmospheric, each time PBS emerge, they take on a subject and to me, its like falling into a deep book. From exploring the cold war space race so well that Jodie Whitaker would listen to their LP, The Race For Space, to help her get into the zone to play Doctor Who, to tackling the British coal industry.
Now, J. has made an album about Berlin. It’s got Blixa Bargeld on it, singer EERA the ace German actress Nina Hoss and they recorded it at Hansa, where Bowie recorded Low. J. Turns out to be a charming self-depracating chap and he opens up about the loneliness of being in a new city, talks frankly about finding creative sparks and there’s even a bit of politics too on contemporary Britain.
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The new Public Service Broadcasting album, Bright Magic, is available from September 12th here.
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DJ Fuckoff
14 september 2021 · 46 min
This week, DJ Fuckoff took a break from whipping up storms across parties in Berlin to have a raw, cute and frank in person chat with me. Lees meer
Propulsively mixing techno with juke, psy-trance and warehouse rave so potent you can practically smell the heat from the generator, all with sexually empowering lyrics. We met up for a coffee in Neukölln where she opened up about battling incels, the lingering misogyny in club culture and how she nurtures her own energy. In her own words: “I like to make people get out of their comfort zone and I think its important to be pushing this instead of how society is telling women how they should act. I want to fucking break this, I want to push this, I want to test this and by doing what I do and seeing how people react, I see that that’s happening.”
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Check out DJ Fuckoff’s recent streams and releases through her Linktree here.
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Bob Stanley - Saint Etienne
8 september 2021 · 48 min
This week, I had a chat with Bob Stanley, musician, journalist, author, film producer and one third of the seminal Saint Etienne (the other two thirds being Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs). Lees meer
Saint Etienne’s tenth studio album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, is out this Friday and we spoke about how it questions nostalgia and asks were the ‘90s as optimistic as we now think of them as being? Their sampladelic debut Foxbase Alpha, up front classics like Only Love Will Break Your Heart and Join Our Club arrived like a melancholic dream years before the hazy electronic beats of hypnogogic pop became a thing. We spoke over a Transeuropean cuppa about the appeal of melancholy, ask if nostalgia is an illusion and we even share a couple of Carry On style double entendres.
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The new Saint Etienne album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, is available from September 10th here.
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Daniel Avery
31 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
This week, I spoke with the awesome Daniel Avery. Producer and DJ, author of the transcendetally good Drone Logic and the now equally amazing Together In Static LP. Coincidentally, although we’ve never met, we both grew up as indie noise kids in the same town and we chatted about this, about his early break as a Fabric resident, his friendship with Andrew Weatherall, how phones maybe aren’t the worst thing in clubs and getting lost, or rather, connecting with every person and every atom, in the shared clubspace. Lees meer
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The new Daniel Avery album, Together In static, is available now on Phantasy Sound, listen here.
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Nite Jewel
24 augustus 2021 · 56 min
This week, Ramona Gonzales, aka. Nite Jewel. Producer, singer, musicologist. We spoke about how her transcendentally good new album, No Sun, uses Moog and voice and is a break-up album, made largely whilst living on a friend's couch, but is also part of an investigation into the agency of the female voice through history. As well as this, she reflects on her emergence through the LA scene during the MySpace era and the power of sound making off grid. Lees meer
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The new Nite Jewel album, No Sun, is available from August 27th, listen here.
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Liars
17 augustus 2021 · 49 min
After a summer hiatus, we’re back. I spoke with Angus Andrew, who for over 20 years and now 10 albums, has been Liars. Always utterly fresh, idiosynchratic, intense and channelling something that seems to come from a realm beyond reinvention. We got into a chat about where this comes from, along the way taking in letting go of musical inhibitions, pcibocylin, drums, the Brooklyn scene, living remotely and way more. Lees meer
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The new Liars album, The Apple Drops, is out now on Mute.
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Stian Balducci and Kjetil Jerve
24 juni 2021 · 39 min
This week, we zap over to Norway to catch a conversation with producer Stian Balducci and pianist Kjetil Jerve about collaboration, jazz’s origins as a dancing music and their desire to make an “Improvised music of our age”. Their joint LP, Tokyo Tapes mixes drone, jazz and frequency-pushing sonics and I think its a stunning listen, and before you think that maybe these are some serious dudes, prepare for some surprising music confessions. Lees meer
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Luwten
15 juni 2021 · 37 min
I had a conversation with Amsterdam-based producer, songwriter and musician Tessa Douwstra, who records under the name Luwten and finds a way of blending nu-soul tinged vocals and textured, experimental production. Luwten means ‘Place without wind’ in Dutch and I was interested to ask her about the way her music feels so intimately personal yet sonically expressive. Lees meer
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A Guy Called Gerald and Trevor Miller
9 juni 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
It’s been thirty years since they last met but I had a chat with A Guy Called Gerald and Trevor Miller. Lees meer
Miller’s cult novel Trip City caught the early acid house zeitigest and it was released with an EP made by Gerald, riding high at the time with what are now the classics Voodoo Ray and Pacific State. To celebrate the book’s re-release I caught up with the two for a frank, revealing and at times hilarious chat. It was pretty much two old pals catching up with me somewhere in the middle. Enjoy!
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Jim O'Rourke
2 juni 2021 · 1 uur
We’re back. Today, I spoke with Jim O’Rourke, iconocalstic producer, singer-songwriter, former Wilco and Sonic Youth collaborator, from his home half way up a mountain near Tokyo. Lees meer
The interview was originally recorded to talk about Jim’s film connection for the Lost and Sound - Playtronica collab podcast, Seeing Sound, but the conversation went into different realms and spilled out into this much, much longer version.
Jim goes deep into working with Werner Herzog, his “just do it” mentality to the creative process, his Irish roots and speaking Japanese. It was such a pleasure for me to connect with a musician whose work I love so much and for him to turn out to be such an utterly humble, entertaining and damn well revealing human. Enjoy!
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Lou Hayter
18 mei 2021 · 43 min
Lou Hayter’s on the show today. We spoke about the things and influences that have led up to her Roxy’eque space-disco tinged solo LP Private Sunshine, as well the New Young Pony Club days in the post punk and party mid noughties. Lou is a certified Steely Dan fan and she very kindly gives some advice too, on finding your way into the Dan’s catalogue. Lees meer
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Roman Flügel
11 mei 2021 · 49 min
I met up with Roman Flügel, and boy did it feel good to be doing an in person interview again. And what a guest for that be to with. We did corona tests to be safe and met in his secret studio in Berlin, where he spoke about getting on board the early rave scene in Frankfurt, how electronic music is actual songwriting, the primal nature of dancing and of course, his fantastic new LP Eating Darkness, which evolves the lineage of deep, layered electronica he began with Happiness Is Happening . Lees meer
Roman is a true gentleman of sound. I was wondering if I’d wobble out or something, I'm so not used to being in a space and talking, but it felt like natural.
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Flora Yin-Wong
4 mei 2021 · 55 min
Flora Yin-Wong: producer, DJ, writer, multi-disciplinarian spoke with me from London about the startling work of textural sound that is her debut LP, Holy Palm. Lees meer
Her debut book Liturgy, offers glimpses across travels, traditions and religions and we had a conversation about balancing different jobs (she was digital editor at Dazed for some time and also worked for Berlin's PAN label) as well as the commonalities between music and words, field recordings, growing up with an opera singing Mum and her DJ mixes, most recent of which, a Resident Advisor one that is so utterly not afraid to leave the dance floor.
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King Britt
28 april 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
“Everyone whose listening… go off the grid!” Lees meer
Sage advice from this weeks guest on Lost and Sound - musical polymath King Britt, beaming in from San Diego. Right now, he’s taken a lifetime in DJing, producing, remixing and just being an all round presence in electronic music’s evolution into the realms of education. We had a chat about whitewashing in electronic music and the need to have access to the lesser documented history.
Along the way we took in his roots from 5 year old King DJing at his Dad’s barber shop in Philly, the legendary Silk City in Philadelphia, forming partnerships with Josh Wink and Digable Planets, about his university course Blacktronica: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music - researching and honouring the people of colour, who've pioneered groundbreaking genres within the electronic music and even taking a trip into the future. His advice for future music? Go off the grid! What does that mean? You’ll have to listen to find out. Enjoy!
If you’re listening the week this episode comes out and want to get involved, check out Blacktronika presents Sound for Humanity, a series of performances by six music creative artists, who were asked to think about sound, not only in its sonic definition (noun) but sound as an adjective (sound mind) and verb (sound the alarm), and how their choices will contribute in some way to humanity. Hit the link if you want to join.
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Gruff Rhys
20 april 2021 · 59 min
I spoke with Gruff Rhys, the always inventive artist, frontman of Super Fury Animals, sometomes half of Neon Neon, author, director and all round potential Welsh national treasure. Lees meer
Super Fury Animals, often considered the last great band on Creation Records gave a sense of surreal adventure and a global musical pallet unusual for the Britpop era. They sung sometimes in Welsh, were politically conscious, at one point they had a tank, they mixed in techno, tropicalia and a million other sonic sources and of course there’s that song The Man Don’t Give A Fuck that sampled Steely Dan.
Then at some point, Gruff set out with a solo and collaborative body of work that’s seen his music grow into films, collaborations, such as Neon Neon (with Boom Bip) a book and a rather novel use of power point presentations.
We had a chat about language, about the Velvet Underground, about his film American Interior and about scoring a hit with a song that says “fuck” over 50 times. Enjoy!
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Mark Reeder
14 april 2021 · 1 uur 8 min
Fresh up in Lost and Sound today, legendary Brit in Berlin, Mark Reeder. Lees meer
Musician, record producer, label owner, the man who bought Joy Division to Berlin, who pioneered Trance with his MFS label, he’s been an outlier and creative force in the city from post-punk to now, whose story of arriving in Berlin over 40 years ago is vividly chronicled in the amazing doc B-Movie.
This is a kind of redux. A really rather short version of this interview appeared in one of the very first episodes of Lost and Sound, the idea was always to share a much longer cut, because the story he tells, of arriving in Berlin in the 70s initially just to buy some records, and how he smuggled cassettes across the border into East Berlin, eventually setting up a punk gig under the noses of the Stasi, needs to be heard in full.
Right now, he’s just released SUBVERSIV-DEKADENT, a double album featuring his own tracks, and remixes for the likes of New Order, Yello and Liars. But we recorded this conversation in a cafe on Zossener Strasse, a real cafe with real atmosphere in 2018 on the 1st of May, as the annual street celebrations were kicking off a kilometre away. Get ready to be transported back to the early 80s…
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Hannah Holland
6 april 2021 · 1 uur
I had a chat with Hannah Holland - DJ, producer, composer, promoter, label boss. Hannah’s played a key role in London’s alternative and queer club scene since the mid-noughties, firstly as resident at the legendary night Trailer Trash and then with Batty Bass. She’s played everywhere from Panorama Bar to Fabric. Now, not only composing the music for Channel 4’s Adult Material, she’s debuted the krautrock tinged single Midnight Horizon from her new LP. Lees meer
I know Hannah a little bit from when I was living in east London, but havn’t spoken to her for years. We had a fun, open chat reflecting on the energy and freedom of the party scene in East London during the early naughties, her early experiences being super young and going to Goldie’s Metalheadz nights, building up to a 9 hour set at Panorama Bar and levelling up with new work.
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Chilly Gonzales
24 maart 2021 · 49 min
This week, I had a chat with Chilly Gonzales, the suave all round musical polymath. Lees meer
Where do you start with Chilly? From early rap-infused works where he declared himself the President of the Berlin Underground, to his sublime Solo Piano albums, via collaborating with Daft Punk, Feist and Jarvis Cocker. Then there's running his own music school (The Gonzervtory) to holding the Guinness world record for the longest ever solo performance and of course writing a book about Enya. We got into a flow that took in everything from the hidden genius in Iggy Azalea’s Fancy to the connection between chamber music and bedroom producers. A charming and erudite gent to spend an hour with!
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Ella Zwietnig
16 maart 2021 · 48 min
I had a chat with Ella Zwietnig, film composer, sound designer, performer and songwriter. I’ve only recently discovered the Austrian artist’s music, and I was really captivated by the sonic soundworld she creates and the incredible things she does with vocal arrangements. We spoke about the shocking lack of female composers getting work in films, how making electronic music is a liberating power and lots more. It was a super fun chat to have and I hope you enjoy listening. Lees meer
www.ellazwietnig.com
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Robot Koch
2 maart 2021 · 46 min
I spoke with composer and producer Robot Koch. His music is a real cyborg mix of natural stuff like strings and high tech immersive 3D elements. He made an album that toured planetariums and in a change of pace, scored the music for the new Christiane F remake Wir Kinder Vom Banhof Zoo. We had a really warm talk about the universe and leaving Berlin for LA, amongst other things. Lees meer
https://www.robotsdontsleep.com
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Arab Strap
23 februari 2021 · 46 min
I zoomed across to Scotland to have a chat with the one and only Arab Strap - Aidan Mofat and Malcolm Middleton. Lees meer
About to release their first new album together for over 15 years - As Days Get Dark, I’ve always loved the band’s confessional lyrics, often pre-occupied with sex and hedonism, half sung, half spoken in Aidan’s Falkirk accent, and the atmosphere they conjur up around this. I felt like I was dropping in on two old friends having a good lunchtime natter and I loved it.
https://www.arabstrap.scot
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Büşra Kayıkçı
16 februari 2021 · 41 min
Fresh up on the new Lost and Sound I connected to Istanbul, to chat with the influential pianist and interior architect Büsra Kayıkçı. Her compositions have a unique way of capturing something in the moment and her social media presence, particularly on instagram has become, I think, a really positive beacon in a world where its still perhaps unusual in the west to see a woman wearing a headscarf in a creative role. Lees meer
I love her sound, the space and emotion she conjures up and I was so fascinated to discover more about how she combines all of her different disciplines, this is what happened one snowy Sunday when we had a chat.
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Hania Rani
9 februari 2021 · 44 min
I had a chat with pianist and composer Hania Rani, whose two beautiful albums so far on the Gondwana label - Esja and last year’s Home to me, feel like the perfect listening for these snowy days. Lees meer
I love the atmosphere she’s able to conjure often with little more than piano and we got into a really nice conversation from Berlin to her home in Warsaw about, amongst other things, finding the things that give creative freedom, releasing sheet music, The Hobbit and pianos as objects.
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Stuart Staples
2 februari 2021 · 49 min
I had an intimate and honest chat with Stuart Staples, frontman of Tindersticks, who’ve been carving their unique atmospheric music for over thirty years. Lees meer
When I first heard them, I was immediately drawn to this kind of melancholic romanticism that they seem to tap so well into. I’d listen and in my mind picture a group of gentleman musicians that wear good suits and read old paperbacks. On the eve of the release of new LP, Distractions, we had a conversation from his home in France where we discussed the validity of being pretentious, film scoring, recording in lockdown and what drives his creativity.
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Anna Meredith
26 januari 2021 · 45 min
I had a chat with Anna Meredith, who is the only person I can think of who has been awarded both an MBE and released albums on indie label Moshi Moshi. Lees meer
Mercury nominated Anna has been Composer in Residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and won the 2019 Ivor Novello Composer Award for Innovation. Not only that but was Goldie's mentor on the TV show Classic Goldie and at the same time I find her own LPs bristle with an impossible to define physical voltage . I love her unique approach to music, and we had a revealing and, I think, funny chat that debunks a lot of the romantic perceptions about creativity.
http://www.annameredith.com
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Michael Rother
19 januari 2021 · 1 uur 7 min
In the new episode, or should I say the Neu! episode, I had a chat with Michael Rother, of legendary Krautrock pioneers Neu! and Harmonia and ten solo LPs. Lees meer
I’ve always loved his music, which seemed to birth a kind of radical year zero approach to rock, mixing electronics, experimentation, drones and textures. He was also in a very early line-up of some band called Kraftwerk and we had a really warm chat on a cold morning about his complicated relationship with drummer Klaus Dinger, the new LP Dreaming, which he finished in lockdown and the way in the 70s West German music makers like him made music like nobody had ever heard before.
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KMRU
12 januari 2021 · 40 min
For the first Lost and Sound of the year I had the pleasure of chatting with KMRU aka Joseph Kamaru, one of 2020’s true breakout stars, whose stunning field recordings are helping redefine ambient music. Lees meer
Last year he released two LPs, a cassette and tons of tracks and reached high up in much of the music press’ end of year lists. We had a chat about his move from Nairobi to Berlin, the influence of his grandfather, the Kenyan legendary cultural activist Joseph Kamaru and how he translates what he hears into emotive, beautiful sound. Enjoy!
Lost And Sound, is about meeting music people with real vision and together we delve into the culture that inspires them. New episode every Wednesday.
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NZCA Lines
15 december 2020 · 49 min
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I spoke with NZCA Lines, aka Micheal Lovett, whose neon-hued disco pop has charmed me since the middle of the last decade. He’s also played with Metronomy and Christine And The Queens and is currently living in New York. We had a really loose and easy chat about living in a new country, vulnerability, sandwiches, Beck’s Midnight Vultures, about having to show up for creativity to happen and the creative benefits of setting limitations. Enjoy!
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Zakia Sewell
8 december 2020 · 44 min
I spoke with Zakia Sewell, Broadcaster, DJ and Audio Producer. Her amazing BBC Radio 4 series, My Albion, goes deep into the songs, stories and symbols that make up British national identity and taps into a super inclusive, multicultural and magical look at folklore. Her show every Saturday morning on NTS delves deep into celestial grooves, spiritual jazz, mythical folk and hazy psychedelic sounds and always sets my weekend up in the right way. Lees meer
I really enjoyed chatting with her about taking an inclusive look at the land, the ecosystems of music and balancing the practical with the woo woo.
My Albion on BBC
Questing on NTS
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Robert Henke
1 december 2020 · 34 min
I had a chat with Robert Henke, dare I say it a true electronic music pioneer. Composer, artist, software developer and co-creator of Ableton Live. Founding member of Monolake, who were making techno music in Berlin back when I was most likely bopping to Kula Shaker in the indie disco, not that there’s anything wrong with that of course. But we spoke in person before lockdown, and listening back I feel an extra wistfulness in his wonderful descriptions of clubbing as a space to both lose and find yourself. Enjoy! Lees meer
And also, from today, Lost and Sound goes weekly. In this strange, tough year the word lost has taken on a new unexpected meaning. But music gets me through and I honestly feel inspiration is flourishing more than ever, wether being forced to be creative about how we approach what we do or just hearing a piece of music in a new way. Sometimes talking about it is a pretty good antidote too. Let’s see how it goes. Lost and Sound, every Wednesday!
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Peaches
17 november 2020 · 43 min
I had a chat with the one and only Peaches. Can you believe her seminal work The Teaches of Peaches has just turned 20? We spoke about this, about Daft Punk, about WAP, about her two massive shows last year and not only that, it was the day of the US election, how about that for hyper background ambience! She’s always been someone who I’ve felt to be fearless and totally raw in her work and I was super happy to chat with her. Lees meer
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Thurston Moore
4 november 2020 · 1 uur 9 min
In this episode of Lost and Sound, I spoke with Thurston Moore, founder member of the iconic Sonic Youth, now living in London where he’s inspired by the city’s improv scene. Lees meer
I remember as a kid handing over my pocket cash for a copy of the band’s album Daydream Nation and being blown away by the way they played rock music, suddenly, it seemed there were no rules, and that appealed massively. His latest album, By The Fire is incendiary and was recorded just before lockdown. We spoke in late October and had a really good chat about the dimensions of sound, New York’s post punk scene, improvisation, his thoughts about the future of live performance and the uncannily accurate future predicted in The Simpsons, amongst other things.
A true sonic architect, he was a real gentleman in conversation and I hope you enjoy listening.
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Laetitia Sadier
21 oktober 2020 · 50 min
I met up with Laetitia Sadier. Lees meer
Singer with the hugely influential group Stereolab and solo artist, we got into a deep and frank conversation about creativity and the state of the world. Her music has been there in my life since I was a lanky teen, so I was thrilled to have this conversation and grateful to Laetitia for being so open!
I hope you enjoy listening.
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Featuring excerpts from Laetitia Sadier Source Enseble's Find Me Finding You LP
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Ellen Allien
7 oktober 2020 · 41 min
I met up with iconic DJ, producer and label owner Ellen Allien. Lees meer
Part punk, part cosmic being. She talks about the early days of Berlin techno, being a resident in legendary venues like Tresor right through to dealing with this weird ol’ year, via playing in the town of her favourite spicy Mexican sauce and noticing the bling in nature.
She’s both a world touring techno icon and a uniquely homegrown hero and I hope you enjoy the chat we had.
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Tune-Yards
23 september 2020 · 54 min
I had a chat with Merrill Garbus, who with her long term collaborator and husband Nate Brenner, makes the wonderful sound that is Tune-Yards. Lees meer
The first time I heard Tune-Yards, I think it being on the 4AD label drew me in, I totally fell for the rhythms and harmonies bursting out of the at the time lo-fi production. Ever since then, new Tune-Yards material is always such heaven to my ears, whether its been on big tunes like Water Fountain or scoring the film Sorry To Bother You.
Zapping in from Oakland, California, where the skies were still very much effected by fires. We speak about her long term support for Black Lives Matter, feminism and how that plays a role in her songwriting. In the process, the conversation kind of became an examination of the cultural issues behind Paul Simon’s Graceland.
There’s also a new tune, Nowhere, Man out this week, which takes their sound to realms of squelchy funk.
I hope you enjoy listening.
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Ghostpoet
8 september 2020 · 40 min
For the first face to face interview in ages, I met up with the one and only Ghostpoet. Lees meer
Twice Mercury Prize nominated, genre-defying and also a really nice guy. We went for a tea and had a chat about his recent LP, the massively brooding and krauty I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep, why he decided to move to Berlin during a pandemic and being a musical outsider. It’s definitely one of those interviews that just freewheels and does its thing, I had lots of fun, I hope you do listening.
www.ghostpoet.co.uk
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Tygapaw
17 augustus 2020 · 42 min
In the new episode of Lost and Sound, we go over to Brooklyn to chat with DJ, producer and multi media artist Tygapaw. Lees meer
I love the ferocious, eclectic energy of her mixes. She talks about growing up in Jamaica, going to dancehall seshuns whilst also listening to Nirvana and how she grew in confidence as a DJ in New York and setting up the club night and label, Fake Accent to raise the visibility of black queer artists in New York.
Recently she made the EP, An Ode To Black Trans Lives, in one day during the height of the recent protests. A lot of ground gets covered, I loved chatting with Tygapaw and I hope you enjoy listening.
www.instagram.com/tygapaw/
www.instagram.com/fakeaccentrecords/
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Dancing with Kianí Del Valle
1 juli 2020 · 29 min
In Season 3, I’m setting off to discover how music can connect us all around the world now and in the future. And who better than choreographer and dancer Kianí Del Valle to talk about how music and the body are connected. Lees meer
A true global traveller, her stunningly physical work has appeared in videos for Floating Points, Dirty Projectors, Matthew Dear and Clark, and her troupe The KDV Dance Ensemble recently headlined at Berlin’s legendary music venue Funkhaus.
She talks about how music and physicality played a role in her childhood in Puerto Rico, how creativity in groups can evolve through the crisis and the benefits we can reap from shaking it all up.
Also, you lucky people, Kianí has made a kaleidoscopic playlist of music that’s inspired her, listen here…
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1TNbxUnHlCAUI3zK3z3qK8?si=gibVAA9hTdO9kDHULHkeeg
Title music by ESO
This episode features two tracks from Kiani’s playlist:
Tendril by Lyra Pramuk
Laniakia by Ziúr
Mastered by Kieron Yates
Hosted by Bear Radio
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www.bearradio.org
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Slowing Down with Sinkane
18 mei 2020 · 27 min
Hi and welcome back. In Season 3, I’m setting off to discover how music can connect us all around the world now and in the future. Lees meer
And who better to start with than a true globe trotter, Ahmed Gallab, better known as Sinkane. I’ve always found it totally impossible to listen to his fusion of Afro rock, funk, krautrock and Sudanese pop and without feeling totally energised!
From his home in Brooklyn on a recent Sunday morning, he speaks about the importance of slowing down, and how creativity can shine through this.
A bloody charming chap, just like his music really. And I came away feeling super inspired, and much better in myself about slowing down over the last few months. I hope you enjoy and a little of his vibe rubs off on you too!
https://www.sinkane.com
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Season 2 - Kyiv, Episode 5
16 mei 2020 · 23 min
It’s Friday night. Finally, I actually go clubbing. Kyiv’s top venue for underground music, Closer provides a valued space for the city's creatives to meet and dance. I meet up with the co-op’s PR officer, Alisa Mullen, who talks about how she quit a 9-5 job, like many others in the last few years, on a mission to give creativity, music and dancing a spectacular platform in the city. Lees meer
Music Credits:
Adventure Time by Ghetto Sunrise
Part of Criminal Practice, a Kyiv dj and producer community
Check out more on their Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/ghetto_sunrise
https://soundcloud.com/criminal_practice
Kiss by John Object
https://soundcloud.com/johnobject
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Season 2 - Kyiv, Episode 4
16 mei 2020 · 18 min
Friday afternoon, I met up with Maya and Tanya, two thirds of Tight Magazine - the stylish online zine with an international and erudite approach to music culture. Lees meer
High up on a hill, overlooking the giant Motherland Monument, we talk about how their new post-soviet generation are making the most of the shifting landscape in the city and forging new creative outlets and collaborations.
Check out the magazine here: https://en.tight.media
The music you heard in this episode, chosen by Maya and Tanya is…
Xtal by A-Body
VA Deck by Acid Jordan
Both these tracks released on the compilation ШЩЦ/SHITS 01
A kyiv based record label and experimental events series focussing on innovative and obscure underground music
You can buy the compilation as a Limited Edition DVD or as MP3 via their Bandcamp page.
https://ssshitsss.bandcamp.com/releases
All the music you hear in this series is by Kiev based artists
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Season 2 - Kyiv, Episode 3
16 mei 2020 · 20 min
Timur Dzhafarov records and DJs under the name John Object. He makes sublime, hectic electronic music that reflects the over-saturation of modern life. Lees meer
We met up in Ocean Plaza - the second largest shopping mall in Ukraine. We discuss difficult music, how a creative journey led from The Beatles to playing at Cxema - Kyiv’s most prominent techno party and how KFC is a metaphor for European capitalism. All of this in the coleslaw isle of a supermarket.
Music Credits:
Bellweather by John Object
Available on his Heat EP
Released on the Bio Future Laboratory label
You can buy it digitally by going onto the Bio Future Laboratory Bandcamp
https://soundcloud.com/johnobject
https://soundcloud.com/bio-future-lab
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Season 2 - Kyiv, Episode 2
16 mei 2020 · 15 min
My second day in Kyiv began meeting up with multi-media artist Georgiy Potopalskiy - who records as Ujif_Norfound. His studio is high up on a hill, surrounded by technology old and new, where he is immersed in street art, audio visual tech and has a new LP that is 5 hours long. Georgiy talks poetically about how the landscape around him influences his work. Lees meer
Music Credits:
Process excerpt by Ujif_Notfound (Kvitnu Records)
Car Beat by Ujif_Notfound
http://kvitnu.com
http://www.un2114.com
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Season 2 - Kyiv Episode 1
16 mei 2020 · 17 min
My first day in Kyiv, I met with Igor, Vera and Alex, the collective behind Kyiv party organisers and label, Rhythm Büro. They've created a niche for atmospheric and deep techno. We meet in their bunker-like studio where they talk about their backgrounds and how deep sounds inspire them. Lees meer
Music credits
Log by Na Nich
The Key by Na Nich
And you can find out how to buy digital and 12” vinyl of that from their Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/rhythm-buro
All the music you hear in this series is by Kiev based artists
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Episode Eight - Perera Elsewhere
11 november 2019 · 21 min
I’ve been living in Berlin for nearly two years now, I went to meet fellow Brit, Sasha Perera, aka Perera Elsewhere. Her soulful and experimental electronica feels both London and distinctly Berlin. She moved here at a time the Stadt was off many people’s radar and she talks frankly and with searing wit about cultural identity. Lees meer
Lost and Sound In Berlin is a podcast exploring music and identity in Berlin written and produced by myself, Paul Hanford. Theme music by Tom Giddins
This episode also features Sunk In Motion by Perera Elsewhere Featuring Dis Fig
Check out her website
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Episode Seven - Protest
22 januari 2019 · 32 min
It’s a year full of change, and for the first podcast of the year the theme is Protest. Lees meer
I met up with DJ and film maker Ace of Demons, part of the No Shade crew, who explained to me the way gentrification threatens diversity in Berlin, and what we can do to make conscious decisions.
Then I went to meet Berlin legend and Possibly the suavest man to have been a political prisoner, the leader of an experimental band and a one time housemate of Nick Cave - Christoph Dreher, who recounts the atmosphere and of protest in 1970s West Berlin and the incredible story that led to the birth of his band - Die Haut.
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