Lost And Sound
Paul Hanford
Lost and Sound is a podcast exploring the most exciting and innovative voices in underground, electronic, and leftfield music worldwide. Hosted by Berlin-based writer Paul Hanford, each episode features in-depth, free-flowing conversations with artists, producers, and pioneers who push music forward in their own unique way.From legendary innovators to emerging mavericks, Paul dives into the intersection of music, creativity, and life, uncovering deep insights into the artistic process. His relaxed, open-ended approach allows guests to express themselves fully, offering an intimate perspective on the minds shaping contemporary sound.Originally launched with support from Arts Council England, Lost and Sound has featured groundbreaking artists including Suzanne Ciani, Peaches, Laurent Garnier, Chilly Gonzales, Sleaford Mods, Nightmares On Wax, Graham Coxon, Saint Etienne, Ellen Allien, A Guy Called Gerald, Jean Michel Jarre, Liars, Blixa Bargeld, Hania Rani, Roman Flügel, Róisín Murphy, Jim O’Rourke, Yann Tiersen, Thurston Moore, Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family), Caterina Barbieri, Rudy Tambala (A.R. Kane), more eaze, Tesfa Williams, Slikback, NikNak, and Alva Noto.Paul Hanford is a writer, broadcaster, and storyteller whose work bridges music, culture, and human connection. His debut book, Coming to Berlin, is available in all good bookshops. Lost and Sound is for listeners passionate about electronic music, experimental sound, and the people redefining what music can be.
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Nov 8, 2022 • 49min
A Place To Bury Strangers
It’s the 75th episode of Lost and Sound, and to celebrate Oliver Ackermann of Brooklyn trio A Place To Bury Strangers gets into a conversation with Paul about the transgressive beauty of night-time and noise, of playing the long game and delivering his own custom made guitar effects boxes across the landscape of early noughties NY. The group’s seminal 2009 Exploding Head LP has been deluxe reissued on Mute/BMG along with a Death By Audio custom made effects pedal.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Nov 1, 2022 • 45min
Steffi
On the dancefloor and beyond, Steffi is like a swan gliding to her own tune, avoiding superstar DJ trappings, going for quality over quantity. In this week’s Lost and Sound, the Dutch selector and producer has a flowy conversation with Paul where she talks openly about the intuition and creativity that has been a hallmark of her style from her early days DJing in The Netherlands of the 90s to being one of the only DJs equally at home in both Panaroma Bar and Berghain.She’s just released her fourth studio album, The Red Hunter, released on her own Candy Mountain label, her most personal and intricate record yet.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Oct 25, 2022 • 49min
Blancmange
I’m so tall, I’m so tall. This episode is all about the comeback and consistency. It’s incredible to think that since they reactivated, Neil Arthur has recorded 10 albums as Blancmange in just over a decade. Beginning as a duo (with Stephan Luscombe) at the dawn of the eighties, their lo-fi experiment electronic pop inspired Mute Records’ Daniel Miller to call them “The Maiden Aunts of Techno”. Those timeless mega anthems, synonymous with that era like Living On The Ceiling followed, before they called it a day. Then, all of a sudden, 11 years ago, the project materialised again. Paul caught up with Neil, a true eighties survivor on something of a creative roll now.Blancmange’s new album Private Life is available on London Records.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Oct 18, 2022 • 40min
Marie Davidson
Montreal based producer and electronic musician Marie Davidson chats with Paul about her creative processes. Her caustic, often spoken vocals, sung in both English and French, provide a droll, razor sharp counterpoint to the club energy of tunes like Work It and albums Working Class Women and Adieux Au Dancefloor, and recently, her artistic evolution has been leading her music, led by feel, into unexpected sonics. Marie and Paul chat about energy, attitude and instinct in music. This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Oct 11, 2022 • 42min
JD Twitch
No other DJ epitomises the love of music as music in quite the same way as this week’s guest. JD Twitch aka Keith McIvor began the legendary club night (and more recently label) Optimo (Espacio) in Glasgow ’97 with Johnny Wilkes to play the kind of music that they never heard out. Now, recently having celebrated their 25th Anniversary, JD has a bouncy chat with Paul about his free and joyful approaches to selecting music, which often hit a unique sweet spot between cratedigging and classics.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. JD Twitch’s Cease & Desist 002 - Polyphonic Cosmos: Sonic Innovations In Japan (1980 - 86) should be out now!Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Oct 4, 2022 • 47min
Cosey Fanni Tutti
This week, Cosey Fanni Tutti: musician, performance artist, writer, an absolute icon and inspiration, not just with music and art but for anyone who just wasn't born to follow the herd. Her work, from Throbbing Gristle and COUM, to being half of Chris and Cosey, as one third of CarterTuttiVoid and her bestselling memoir Art Sex Music transcend and transgress boundaries. Once a cultural pariah described in the Houses of Parliament as a wrecker of civilisation,she shares reflections with Paul about her new book Re-Sisters, which looks at the lives of three trailblazing women - Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kemp and herself and her new album Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes, about the nature of art and communication and so much more. This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Sep 27, 2022 • 59min
Miki Berenyi
Trailblazing indie icon and now author Miki Berenyi joins Paul for a frank and open chat on the eve of the release of her memoir Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success.In the nineties, her band, Lush, makers of ethereal, jangly yet citrus-sharp pop music signed to 4AD and their albums Gala and Spooky inadvertently perhaps helped define what was just becoming termed by the music press as shoegaze. Their 1996 album, Lovelife, recorded during the height of Britpop moved the band higher into the charts with the caustic hit Ladykillers - a song which basically pre-dates the notion of the softboi by a good twenty years.Miki was the cool as flame-haired frontperson of the sharpest indie gang: a little bolshy, cig in hand, spinning dreampop, yet, as her memoir goes into, music was a way of finding her voice and connecting with people through an eventful, unorthodox upbringing. Miki and Paul chat about finding spaces of social connection within scenes, the perils of music press and so much more.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From SuccessBy Miki Berenyi Published by Nine Eight Books on 29 September in hardback, audio and eBookLost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Sep 20, 2022 • 44min
Clark
Electronic musician Clark is always redefining his own sonic boundries, from signing with Warp Records at a young age, producing over thirteen albums, collaborations, remixing the likes of Depeche Mode and Thom Yorke to recently making his contemporary classical crossover with last year’s Playground In A Lake. Chris and Paul had an early morning, very flowy, frank and caffeinated conversation springboarded from the reissue of the album Body Riddle - initially released to little fanfare 16 years ago and now regarded as something of a classic and cited by producers including Arca, Rustie and Hudson Mohawke. Chris talks about creativity, validation and rushing your face off to 78bpm music. This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show and receive extra stuff, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Sep 16, 2022 • 44min
Editors
Having Mercury nominated, platinum selling indie rockers Editors on Lost And Sound might seem somewhat a curveball, but then so to is the band asking Benjamin John Power, aka electronic composer and Ivor Novello winning Blanck Mass to join as a full time member. Round about the time Editors were setting indie dancefloors alight with their mid noughties anthems, Munich and Blood, Benjamin was setting volumes alight as half of drone-rockers Fuck Buttons. It’s such an usunual pairing and Paul caught up with Benjamin alongside synth player Elliot Williams to talk about how an epic alt band and an experimentally leaning electronic producer came together on their new album, EBM, about 80s pop and industrial and lots more. This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Sep 6, 2022 • 45min
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, a talented composer and synthesist, is celebrated for her unique blend of synthesizers and melodies, deeply influenced by nature and practices like yoga. In this engaging chat, she shares insights into her creative journey, emphasizing the transformative power of embracing one’s voice in music. She discusses the contrast between her inspirations from the Pacific Northwest and Berlin, and reveals the emotional depth she seeks in her electronic compositions. Kaitlyn also reflects on her shift from classical guitar to innovative soundscapes, illustrating her artistic evolution.
