Line Noise Podcast

Few albums divide opinion like Human After All, Daft Punk's third long player. Derided on release in 2005, it marked a critical and commercial low for the duo, only to be swiftly rehabilitated when Daft Punk used large segments of HAA on their Alive 2006 / 7 tour. In this special episode of Line Noise Ben Cardew, your regular host and author of Daft Punk's Discovery - The Future Unfurled, speaks t...

This month on Line Noise, we welcome John Beltran, a producer from Lansing Michigan who has been making quality electronic music for more than 30 years now, both under his own name - notably the classic Ten Days of Blue album - and as Placid Angles, whose excellent album Touch The Earth was released earlier this year. We talk about keeping fresh after three decades in the game, children, Paul McCa...

German techno legend Moritz Von Oswald is our very special guest on Line Noise this month, as we celebrate the release of Dissent, the new album by his Moritz von Oswald Trio. He talks about visiting Stockhausen in his studio, working with Tony Allen and Juan Atkins, his history with dub techno and collaborating with Laurel Halo and Heinrich Köbberling on the new album.

In the fourteenth and final in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track 14, Too Long. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the thirteenth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track 13, Face To Face. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the twelfth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track 12, Short Circuit. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the eleventh in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track 11, Veridis Quo. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the tenth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track 10, Voyager. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the ninth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track nine, Something About Us. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the eighth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track eight, High Life. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the seventh in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track seven, Superheroes. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the sixth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track six, Nightvision. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the fifth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track five, Crescendolls. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the fourth in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track four, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

New York house / jungle master AceMo joined us in the Radio Primavera Sound studio for an hour of unreleased music and conversation, taking in everything from the eternal appeal of jungle to playing live.

In the third in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track three, Digital Love. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the second in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track two, Aerodynamic. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

In the first in a series of special miniature podcasts devoted to Daft Punk's Discovery, Ben Cardew examines track one, One More Time. Ben Cardew's book about Discovery, Daft Punk’s Discovery - The Future Unfurled, is available to pre-order now. https://velocitypress.uk/product/daft-punk-discovery-book/

Johann Wald takes the reins of Line Noise for a one-off special looking forward to the release of Daft Punk's Discovery - The Future Unfurled by Line Noise's own Ben Cardew. Ben outlines why Discovery is the most important album of the last 20 years and explains his outlandish theory about Daft Punk's second album being deliberately flawed, while Johann looks back to early 2000s Madrid.

In a bonus from Line Noise's recent Trip City episode, we present the full interview with UK electronic music legend A Guy Called Gerald. Includes a fabulous anecdote about how he re-programmed his entire live set one hour before a gig and basically invented jungle.

This month's Line Noise is a special double edition around the release of Trip City, a novel by Trevor Miller, first released in 1989, and now being re-released by Velocity Press. Trip City is not just a brilliant novel in itself, it also comes with a five-track EP by A Guy Called Gerald, one of the most important producers in British dance music history. For this special edition of Line Noise, Be...

Harold Heath's recent book, Long Relationships: My Incredible Journey From Unknown DJ to Small-time DJ, will tug at the heard strings and tickle the funny bone of anyone who has ever set foot on a dance floor. Ben Cardew interviewed the DJ / producer turned writer to talk the ridiculousness of rave, the tech house identity crisis, ghost producers and the spectre of "downloaded for Richie Hawtin".

Ben Cardew meets producer and DJ Paul Woolford aka Special Request to talk number one hits in Ireland, meditation and the importance of taking the piss.

Murcof, aka Fernando Corona, has produced a genuinely dazzling array of music since his recorded debut in 2002, from glitchy techno to a collaboration with French classical pianist Vanessa Wagner. His latest album, The Alias Sessions, is one of his most ambitious to date, born out of a collaboration with choreographer Guilherme Botelho. Ben Cardew talks to him about Jean-Michel Jarre, Tijuana, pre...

As his new album, Lazy, is released, Ben Cardew catches up with London producer Mr Mitch to talk fatherhood, feeling lazy and Eiffel 65.