Lost And Sound

Psycho & Plastic found a way to express their deepest feelings through making ambient music. The duo had been playing their brand of underground electronica in Berlin for years until the events of 2020 put a stop to their live energy. Instead of beats, they channelled the raw emotion lurking in quietness, and it’s a sound they’ve cultivated ever since. The duo, Thomas Ticchai and Alexandre Decoupigny have known Paul for years, and together, the three friends talk about authenticity, creativity and the need to hear quiet voices in a world which values who can shout the loudest.Psycho & Plastic’s most recent album, Phantom Bliss is out now, there’s a link in the online podcast description. And their track No End is on the Ambient Layers Vol 2 compilation on the 7K label.Lost and Sound is proudly sponsored by Audio-Technica.Paul’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

Manchester based Iceboy Violet fuses experimental club music with warped pop abstraction, noise and rap, adding vulnerability and a cheeky northern humour to their rhymes. They have a candid conversation with Paul about creativity and authenticity.Since the release of the rapper, producer and performer’s 2018 mixtape MOOK, they’ve been pushing boundaries, along the way collaborating with artists including Loraine James, Blackhaine, Space Afrika, Slikback and aya. They speak with Paul to coincide with the release of their latest project, ‘Not A Dream But A Controlled Explosion’ - a project about the role desire and fantasy plays in our lives.Lost and Sound is proudly 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

Finlay Shakespeare is that rare thing - equally both boffin and poet.  A childhood obsession with his parents’ record collection, then teenage years spent building his own synthesizers led on to a series of works, from improvised home recordings to the lush 80s inspired synth pop of his latest album, Illusion + Memory. He speaks with Paul about the need to leave our comfort zones in order to make good music (or art) and how seemingly meaningless lyics later reveal their true meaning and, of course, that love of the 80s. Finlay Shakespeare’s album Illusion + Memory is out nowon Alter.Lost and Sound is proudly 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

It’s taken James Ellis Ford twenty plus years in the A game to release his debut solo record. In these years he’s become possibly the go to producer for anyone from Blur to Depeche Mode to Kylie to Gorillaz to Foals to Arctic Monkeys. He’s also a Simian Mobile Disco, a Last Shadow Puppet, an Eno protege and inadvertently responsible for the epoch defining mid noughties anthem We Are Your Friends. It would have been easy for him to have made a celeb heavy, zeitgeist grabbing debut, instead, The Hum, released on Warp, is a dense, widescreen ode to pastoral prog, 70s fusion, King Crimson and so much more. James chats with Paul about finding his confidence, the method he absorbed from Eno that go beyond the technical and the enigmatic eccentricity of English music.James Ellis Ford’s album The Hum is available now on Warp Records. Lost and Sound is proudly 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

North London DIY Icon Delilah Holliday once said she writes songs to make people feel less alone. Her band, Skinny Girl Diet, which she founded at the age of 14 with her sister Ursula and their cousin Amelia reignited a much needed Riot Grrl punk spirit, galvanising a community of like minded music lovers back in the early 2010s. Moving more recently into a lo-fi, electronic and soulful sound, developing her production style along with it and collaborating with Neneh Cherry, Vivienne Westwood and former guest of the show, Baxter Dury, she talks with Paul about her creative process, overcoming doubt, finding transformation and ponders what would a song sound like if it was left out in the sun. Delilah Holliday’s new EP ‘Invaluable Vol. 1’, on 7th July on One Little Independent Records.Lost and Sound is proudly 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

Jessy Lanza - producer, singer and DJ, chats with Paul about finding her confidence through eschewing the rigours of a jazz education for making some of the sharpest, brightest and damn well fizzy leftfield pop music of the last ten years. And that’s exactly what it’s been, a decade, since her debut came out on the hugely influential Hyperdub label. Now, with the upcoming release of her new album, Love Hallucination, Jessy, currently in Ontario, talks with Paul about her creative process, how her van became the centre of a revelatory Boiler Room set and finding her own musical voice. Jessy Lanza’s new album Love Hallucination, out via Hyperdub on July 28Lost and Sound is proudly 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

Audio/visual artist Richie Culver first realised he could make art at a rave afterparty when he picked up a book of Nan Golding’s photography. He rose to popular attention in recent years firstly in the art world after a work was featured in the Tate Modern and when the piece Did U Cum Yet, a comment about social media, went viral during the pandemic. His debut album, I Was Born By The Sea, mixes spoken word with experimental electronics and has echoes of his birth city of Hull’s Throbbing Gristle. Richie shares a frank and honest chat with Paul about addiction (Richie himself is 8 years sober) about discovering clubbing, about social media, about being present and his creative process. I Was Born By The Sea (The Remixes) is out on June 23rd on Participant Records. Lost and Sound is proudly 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

Dangermami set up Femme Bass Mafia as a mentoring program for femme, trans and non-binary people, with a focus on bass music and the creation of safer learning spaces. She talks with Paul about gender visibility in club culture and her own ascent as one of the most exciting new DJs to emerge out of post-pandemic Berlin. This episode was recorded live on stage for PodFest.Lost and Sound is proudly sponsored by Audio-TechnicaThanks to Daniel and Josh at PodFest for inviting the show on stage live.Paul’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

Baxter Dury - Musician, world class exponent of sprechtgasung, debonaire racontuer, immently an alternative English national treasure and a man whose travelled a long creative and life path since appearing on the cover of his Dad, Ian Dury’s New Boots And Panties album. “You’ve got to go through your owl turmoil to get somewhere, you can’t be lent turmoil,” he tells Paul at some point of a conversation on a Monday morning where Paul totally lost his questions, veered off from asking him about his new album and it’s distinctive balance of grit and swoon and instead just went with a flow that only a Monday morning could deliver - philosophical, profane and humble all at once. Baxter Dury’s new album, I Thought I Was Better Than You is out on June 2nd on Heavenly Recordings. Pre-order here. Lost and Sound is proudly 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

Gina Birch is a true trailblazer. Co-founder of the all girl post punk band The Raincoats, the music herself and Ana de Silva headed up, which so often hit the soft spot between experimental, choaotic and melodic in the truest Velvets sense, paved the way for decades of music to come and did so much for female visibility in bands. Along the way, the group picked up fans like Kurt Cobain, who invited them on tour. Now, balancing a life of creativity between music, painting and film, Gina talks with Paul about her debut solo LP I Play My Bass Loud and reflects on everything from seeing The Slits to stilletoes to Zoom ettiquette to creativity.Gina Birch’s album I Play My Bass Loud is out now on Third Man Records.Lost and Sound is proudly 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