Line Noise

Ben Cardew and Johann Wald spoke to Welsh electronic music sensation - and the nicest person in dance music - Kelly Lee Owens about dream states, pop music, synth spotting with Depeche Mode, death bed music and more. This episode of Line Noise was recorded live at Primavera Sound 2025. Line Noise is supported by Cupra. Photo by @leafhopperproject

Our guest on Line Noise this week is Egyptian-born, Montreal-based producer, vocalist, composer, and actor Nadah El Shazly, ahead of her Primavera a la Ciutat gig on Monday June 2. We spoke about Misfits covers, missing Cairo, Egyptian electronics and her gorgeous second album, Laini Tani. Line Noise is sponsored by Cupra

Ben Cardew and Sergi Cuxart bring you their picks of the best electronic music at the 2025 Primavera Sound festival, from Armand to Toumba, to help you plan out your listening. Line Noise is brought to you by Cupra.

On this week’s Line Noise I spoke to returning house heroes Deep Dish, aka Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi, about industrial house, their unique sound, loving drum & bass, Iran, DC, remixes and why getting back together in 2025 feels so right. Their new single Deep Dish x EYNKA feat. Wrabel - Midnight is out now, with more new music to come. Line Noise comes to you with the support of Cupra.

This week on Line Noise my guest is the humble titan that is Mark Pritchard, an English producer who has made everything from jungle to ambient, grime to techno. He has also teamed up with Thom Yorke for a new album, Tall Tales, that will be released on May 9. We talked about the added expectation of creating an album with one of the world’s biggest rock stars and the fascinating creative back and forth of recording Tall Tales; we talked about the bassoon and the cor anglais, Leslie speakers, rock drums and so much more. Line Noise comes to you with the support of Cupra. I hope you enjoy it.

It's another vintage Line Noise episode this week, as I revisit an interview I did with Jean-Benoît Dunckel for Radio Primavera Sound in 2022, around the release of his solo album Carbon. (An excellent record, by the way.) Dunckel is perhaps best known as half of the iconic duo Air - one of my favourite bands ever - but he is also a solo artist and renowned soundtrack composer. We talked about ambiguity, space, Sex UFOs and, of course, Air. 

This week on Line Noise I spoke to Thorsten Quaeschning, the musical director (and longest-standing member) of foundational German band Tangerine Dream, a group whose influence looms over ambient and electronic music. We spoke about black metal, where to start with Tangerine Dream, founder member Edgar Froese’s plans for the band after his death in 2015 and how the current band (in which Quaeschning is joined by Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick) are carrying these out. Line Noise is brought to you by Cupra. The photo is from the band's recent Barcelona concert.

This week it is Mutek Connect in Barcelona and to celebrate, Line Noise spoke to Vincent Lemieux, who has booked artists for the festival since (almost) the very beginning, and weird house hero Guillaume Coutu Dumont, who has played Mutek more than any other artist. We spoke about what makes Mutek different and the mythical White Wale of festival booking. We also talked about their musical output as Flabbergast, sampling bagpipes, remixing Kool Keith and so much more. Line Noise comes with the support of Cupra.

My guest on Line Noise this week is Luke Solomon, a don of the UK’s house scene, Classic Recordings co-founder, Beyoncé collaborator, A&R guru and an excellent producer in his own right. We talked about his new Powerdance album - which is out now - becoming an accidental pop star with The Freaks (and the artistic dangers that entailed), discovering house music, his role on an up-coming off-Broadway musical, the explosion of Honey Dijon and how Beyoncé’s Renaissance changed house music. I hope you enjoy it. Line Noise comes to you with the support of Cupra.

Welcome to Line Noise. And we have another classic interview this week. Back in 2019, the Sprung team of Ben Cardew, Johann Wald and Mark Dix spoke to Steve Rutter and Mike Golding of the legendary electronic outfit B12 - one of the VERY best IDM groups - ahead of their gig at the Mira festival in Barcelona. We bring it back today for no other reason than B12 are brilliant - and what more reason could you want? Line Noise is supported by Cupra.