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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Jun 23, 2022 • 51min
Hannah Peel
This week on Lost and Sound, Hannah Peel, Mercury 2021 shortlisted artist, composer, producer and late night broadcaster chats with Paul about creativity, inspiration, the importance of finding a balance, Delia Derbyshire, the theramin ban on her score for the new TV adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos and so much more. The Midwich Cuckoos score is out now via Invada Records. Catch Hannah presenting Night Tracks on BBC Radio 3 .Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity PressLost and Sound title music by ESOwww.lostandsoundpodcast.com
Jun 17, 2022 • 47min
Nik Colk Void and Alexander Tucker (BROOD X CYCLES)
The sublime sound alchemists Nik Colk Void (Factory Floor, Carter Tutti Void) and Alexander Tucker (Microcorps, Grumbling Fur) talk with Paul about collaboration and improvisation and how both these came together on their new project together, the pulsating, electronic BROOD X CYCLES. This chat goes deep and humanises what might often be considered mysterious arts, revealing in a surpisingly warm way processes that have helped them create such deep music.Their collaborative album BROOD X CYCLES - Sleep Nameless Fear is out June 1st on The State 51 Conspiracy.Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity PressLost and Sound title music by ESOwww.lostandsoundpodcast.com
Jun 9, 2022 • 43min
Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson chats with Paul about his memoir, Up Above The City, Down Beneath The Stars, which begins before his birth, hearing Peggy Lee's Fever from inside his mother's womb, before going on to chronicle the first thirty years of his life growing up in 60s and 70s Manchester. Barry and Paul chat about this, the three absolutely seminal groups he joined: Magazine, The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, his solo work, which has been both Mercury nominated and has involved scoring David Lynch's Lost Highway and more.Barry's 1996 LP Oedipus Schmeudipus (which features Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave) is getting the reissue treatment on Mute on July 29th.Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity PressLost and Sound title music by ESOwww.lostandsoundpodcast.com
May 25, 2022 • 41min
Lucrecia Dalt
This week on Lost and Sound, the very great Lucrecia Dalt. Musician, sound artist and now composer for moving image. She speaks with Paul about her creative processes, growing up in Colombia, inhabiting the characters of her beguiling, sometimes otherwordly, sometimes darkly sensual music and how she approached composing for horror the upcoming film The Seed and TV show The Baby.Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity PressLost and Sound title music by ESODonate to the show’s production costs the price of a coffee here.www.lostandsoundpodcast.com
May 9, 2022 • 48min
Rosa Anschütz
Rosa Anschütz, artist , composer, vocalist, talks with Paul about rituals, transmedia art and the hypnotically great debut album, Votive, inwhich her voice combines with synthesizers to create something otherworldly and transcendental and, yes, ritual-like. Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity PressLost and Sound title music by ESODonate to the show’s production costs the price of a coffee here.www.lostandsoundpodcast.com
May 2, 2022 • 58min
Matthew Herbert
Lost and Sound is back and Paul chats with Matthew Herbert, visionary producer, DJ, writer, all round innovator of sound, innovator of what can be done with samples. Be it making a brass band album about Brexit featuring over 100 musicians from across Europe or working with Bjork and Róisín Murphy, Matthew talks about ethical uses of sound and how stories can be told from the most unlikely of surroundings.Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out May 5th on Velocity PressLost and Sound title music by ESODonate to the show’s production costs the price of a coffee here.www.lostandsoundpodcast.com
Oct 20, 2021 • 59min
Nightmares On Wax
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. Title music by ESOThe new Nightmares On Wax album, Shout Out! To Freedom, is available on Warp Records from October 29th here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce.
Oct 12, 2021 • 54min
Lauren Flax
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.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.Title music by ESOLauren Flax on Bandcamp If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce.
Oct 5, 2021 • 1h 14min
Marshall Vincent
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.”Title music by ESOMarshall Vincent’s new EP, In No Particular Order, is releases October 15, 2021 on SA Recordings. Here’s the Bandcamp.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce.
Sep 28, 2021 • 36min
Yann Tiersen
This week, I have an in-person conversation with the visionary Yann Tiersen. 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.Title music by ESOThe new Yann Tiersen album, Kerber, is available on Mute here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce.
