Line Noise Podcast

Ben Cardew speaks to Chicago house master (and Daft Punk teacher) DJ Deeon about booty house, street parties, his favourite ever track and working with Dance System.

Ben Cardew talks to India Jordan, 2020's breakthrough producer and 2021's rising star, about trance, Kevin & Perry Go Large and getting into drum and bass via Pendulum's MySpace friends.

Jungle legend DJ Krust opens up about the importance of mistakes, Bristol's unique spirit and why it is very much jungle, not drum and bass, for him.

Ben Cardew meets Romy Madley Croft, guitarist and vocalist with The xx and now a solo artist who has been cheering up our lockdown with the brilliant single Lifetime, to talk life, love and Logic.

Ben Cardew meets "simulation artist" Lawrence Lek to talk world building, AI, sinofuturism and his excellent new album for Hyperdub, AIDOL.

In the special mini Line Noise we travel back to summer 2019 and the Primavera Festival, where Ben Cardew and Mark Dix met legendary British EBM group Nitzer Ebb, in an ultimately doomed attempt to find out if they really are Balearic or not.

Zora Jones returns to Line Noise to talk about her brilliantly emotive debut album Ten Billion Angels, tentacle porn and acoustic guitars.

It's a special, miniature Line Noise, as Ben Cardew, Johann Wald and Mark Dix meet Fractal Fantasy mainstay Xzavier Stone. The interview is from 2019, ahead of Stone's DJ date in Barcelona.

Ben Cardew meets fearless London producer Loraine James to talk math rock, Twitter collaborations, love and lockdown.

Ben Cardew meets Canadian eco-disco goddess Jayda G, to talk whales, her mum's adventures in Berghain and the power of a good piano.

Ben Cardew talks to the divinely talented Welsh producer Kelly Lee Owens about death doulas, disco, John Cale and grandmothers, ahead of the release of her second album Inner Song.

Ben Cardew talks to French House legend Alan Braxe about unreleased Stardust, the sheer perfection of Intro, meeting Daft Punk at Paris raves and his new adventures in modular synths.

Ben Cardew digs deep into the history of So Solid Crew, a pivotal British crew that bridged the gap between UK Garage and grime but never got their due. With music from So Solid, Oxide & Neutrino, Youngstar, King Stitt, The Ragga Twins and Lisa Maffia. (And if you can hear children in the background, welcome to my lockdown.)

Ben Cardew talks Rage, rave and inventing drum and bass with DJ legends Fabio & Grooverider

​Ben Cardew meets Dania Shihab, owner of Barcelona multidisciplinary platform Paralaxe Editions, to talk cassettes, books, doctors and Beatrice Dillon.​

In part two of Line Noise's excursion into hardcore, we go all Iberian, looking into makina, La Ruta and cantaditas, with new (ish) music from ETM, Braqueberry, JMII and several Spanish classics.​

Line Noise Episode 55 is a brief throwback 2019, when we interviewed Dublin DJ and Daft Punk obsessive CK303 - the man responsible for those incredible Daft Punk Teachers mixes and more - about his love for the French duo.

In Part one of our gabber / hardcore revival special, Ben Cardew and Pau Braqueberry consider the enduring appeal of hardcore, with a special guest appearance from Nina Kraviz. We examine the pioneering work of Marc Acardipane, Rotterdam Termination Source and Moby. We ponder: how hard is hard? How fast is fast? And what does hard mean anyway? Tracklist Mescalinum United - We Have Arrived Mescalin...

In Episode 53 Ben Cardew is joined by Mark Dix to talk rave history and TV studios with Graham Massey, of legendary electronic music act 808 State.

​On Line Noise 52 we talk about whistling in house music, electro slap bass, breaking the fourth wall and all those other little musical quirks you love to hate. Features music from Wajatta, Objekt, Kraftwerk, Ferran Palau, Eddie Amador, Classixx and more. Wajatta - Don’t Let Get you Down Claude von Stroke - The Whistler Objekt - Theme from Q Kraftwerk - Sex Object Daft Punk - One More Time Ferran...

Line Noise 51 features an interview with techno legend Juan Atkins and his daughter (and techno artist in her own right) Milan Ariel, from Primavera Sound 2019​​.​​

It is the 50th episode of Line Noise. We started in January 2016: David Bowie had just died, we were all depressed and it took Matmos' washing machine to cheer us up. Over the years we have interviewed everyone from Jlin to to Photek. But for our 50th episode we want to ask: What’s the point of Line Noise? What's the point of music journalism as a whole? Can you talk intelligently about electronic...

In episode 49 of Line Noise (aka episode 24 for Radio Primavera Sound)Braqueberry and Ben Cardew ponder what "rare" means in the digital music world, diving deep into their record collections for their most elusive tracks, including charity shop finds, record store deep dives and at least one song that Discogs doesn't believe exists. Includes music from Stacy Kidd, Policy, Octo Octa, Olde Gods, Bl...

In episode 48 of Line Noise (aka episode 23 for Radio Primavera Sound) Braqueberry and Ben Cardew explore the wonderful world of mouth music, looking at acapella house, beatbox disco, vocal drones and AI choirs. With music from Iz and Diz, Eddie Jefferson, Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh and Holly Herndon. Tracklist: Iz and Diz - Mouth (Brad Peep’s remix for friends) Eddie Jefferson - A Night in Tunis...

In episode 47 of Line Noise - aka episode 22 for Radio Primavera Sound - Ben Cardew talks to drum and bass legend turned film and TV composer, Photek, around the release of the Mosul soundtrack. He reveals his favourite Photek production, talks about the links between drum and bass and soundtrack work and explains how on earth you go about remixing Bob Marley.