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 27, 2023 • 55min
Finlay Shakespeare
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
Jun 20, 2023 • 1h 5min
James Ellis Ford
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
Jun 13, 2023 • 47min
Delilah Holliday
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
Jun 6, 2023 • 42min
Jessy Lanza
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
May 30, 2023 • 53min
Richie Culver
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
May 23, 2023 • 1h
Dangermami
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
May 16, 2023 • 53min
Baxter Dury
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
May 9, 2023 • 52min
Gina Birch
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
May 2, 2023 • 53min
Sunroof - Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones
When Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones make music together as Sunroof, they sit either side of a table, adjusting the dials of modular synths and they look like two veteran chess players locked into a very long, perhaps even decades long game. Yet instead of being in competition, it’s like they raise each other’s vibration: one making a sound, the other responding. Both men have changed the way we hear electronic music in the last 40 years. Miller founded Mute Records initially to release his single Warm Leatherette. He met Gareth when they worked on Depeche Mode’s Berlin-connected ‘80s records. The Depeche Mode records we all like. Gareth has produced songs we’ve all danced to many times: Erasure, Wire, Grizzly Bear, Clinic, Interpol. For decades, they’ve been getting together and making these modular improvisations and have finally gotten round to releasing some of the stuff and it’s really good. Paul caught up with the pair to talk about how they work, how they met and what they think. Sunroof’s new album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2 – out now on limited edition white vinyl and digitally, via the Parallel Series of MuteLost 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
Mar 13, 2023 • 30min
Sleaford Mods
Andrew Fearn’s stripped down, austere electro-punk productions and Jason Williamson’s biting yet absurdly humourous lyrics and delivery have been exploring austerity-era Britain, culture, and working class life for over a decade. Collectively as Sleaford Mods, they’ve always done exactly their own thing in their own way but their last album Spare Ribs connected with a wider audience, maybe they’ve even become generational spokespeople in the process too. Add to this, the new album’s title, UK Grim, couldn’t be more apt. Jason and Andrew talk with Paul about their status as spokespeople, humour as a form of resilience, the debilitating effect of the tory government on people and the band's creative process.UK Grim by Sleaford Mods is out now on Rough Trade.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
