Lost And Sound

Nastia   aka - Anastasia Topolskaia is a true techno outlier, the Ukrainian DJ is one of the most in-demand techno DJs travelling internationally yet keeps it real: her sets are hard, deep and come from an intrinsic sense of movement that is tied to her roots as a dancer. Unlike so many DJs, she has for most part not become a producer, rather concentrating on the dancefloor. She is also known for...

Lost and Sound is about sharing conversations with the innovators, the outsiders, the mavericks, artists that do their own unique thing and this week’s guest is certainly all of those. Anton Newcombe .  His musical project, the psychedelic trailblazers The Brian Jonestown Massacre, began in San Francisco in the early nineties. Outspoken and often misunderstood, he is in fact a clever, tenacious an...

Lafawndah ’s The Dawn Of Everything is a song that she says was born between unlearning the past and watching the future unfold and is dedicated to the people of Iran and their bravery in rising up after the murder of Masha Amini. Paul talks with the pan-global, pan-genre artist, herself with Iranian roots, about why it’s important for music to offer solidarity and protest, as she puts it “We have...

Alison Cotton is like a musical painter: using voice, harmonium and viola to create textures that, on her most recent album, The Portrait You Painted Of Me, often hauntingly invoke the landscape of North East England. Paul had a chat with her about how she uses sound and her voice to express herself. This episode is sponsored by Audio-Technica Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys I...

Ambient maestro Gigi Masin describes living in Venice and always being surrounded by water as making you like a sailor. His seminal 1986 LP Wind was almost entirely lost in a flood in this city, but over the years, his music has continued to find new fans, Gigi’s been sampled by everyone from Bjork to Post Malone and counts Oneohtrix Point Never, Devendra Bahanart and Caroline Polachek as supporte...

It’s the 75th episode of Lost and Sound, and to celebrate Oliver Ackermann of Brooklyn trio A Place To Bury Strangers gets into a conversation with Paul about the transgressive beauty of night-time and noise, of playing the long game and delivering his own custom made guitar effects boxes across the landscape of early noughties NY.  The group’s seminal 2009 Exploding Head LP has been deluxe reissu...

On the dancefloor and beyond, Steffi is like a swan gliding to her own tune, avoiding superstar DJ trappings, going for quality over quantity.  In this week’s Lost and Sound, the Dutch selector and producer has a flowy conversation with Paul where she talks openly about the intuition and creativity that has been a hallmark of her style from her early days DJing in The Netherlands of the 90s to bei...

I’m so tall, I’m so tall. This episode is all about the comeback and consistency. It’s incredible to think that since they reactivated, Neil Arthur has recorded 10 albums as Blancmange in just over a decade. Beginning as a duo (with Stephan Luscombe)  at the dawn of the eighties, their lo-fi experiment electronic pop inspired Mute Records’ Daniel Miller to call them “The Maiden Aunts of Techno”. ...

Montreal based producer and electronic musician Marie Davidson chats with Paul about her creative processes. Her caustic, often spoken vocals, sung in both English and French, provide a droll, razor sharp counterpoint to the club energy of tunes like Work It and albums Working Class Women and Adieux Au Dancefloor, and recently, her artistic evolution has been leading her music, led by feel, into u...

No other DJ epitomises the love of music as music in quite the same way as this week’s guest. JD Twitch aka Keith McIvor  began the legendary club night (and more recently label) Optimo (Espacio) in Glasgow ’97 with Johnny Wilkes to play the kind of music that they never heard out. Now, recently having celebrated their 25th Anniversary, JD has a bouncy chat with Paul about his free and joyful appr...

This week, Cosey Fanni Tutti:  musician, performance artist, writer, an absolute icon and inspiration, not just with music and art but for anyone who just wasn't born to follow the herd. Her work, from Throbbing Gristle and COUM,  to being half of Chris and Cosey, as one third of CarterTuttiVoid and her bestselling memoir Art Sex Music transcend and transgress boundaries.  Once a cultural par...

Trailblazing indie icon and now author Miki Berenyi joins Paul for a frank and open chat on the eve of the release of her memoir Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success. In the nineties, her band, Lush, makers of ethereal, jangly yet citrus-sharp pop music signed to 4AD and their albums Gala and Spooky inadvertently perhaps helped define what was just becoming termed by the music press as...

Electronic musician Clark is always redefining his own sonic boundries, from signing with Warp Records at a young age, producing over thirteen albums,  collaborations, remixing the likes of Depeche Mode and Thom Yorke to recently making his contemporary classical crossover with last year’s Playground In A Lake.  Chris and Paul had an early morning, very flowy, frank and caffeinated conversation sp...

Having Mercury nominated, platinum selling indie rockers Editors on Lost And Sound might seem somewhat a curveball, but then so to is the band asking Benjamin John Power, aka electronic composer and Ivor Novello winning Blanck Mass to join as a full time member. Round about the time Editors were setting indie dancefloors alight with their mid noughties anthems, Munich and Blood, Benjamin was setti...

Composer, synthesist, producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith makes music that blends synthesizers with melodies and connects to external processes in her life like yoga, self learning, science and nature. Her 9th studio album Let’s Turn It Into Sound (released on Ghostly ) follows on from acclaimed albums like Ears and The Kid, and her collaboration with electronic music pioner Suzanne Ciani. During the r...

Techno for punks, or punk for techno heads… DJ, artist, label owner Louisahhh makes music that hits the sweet spot between Boiler Room and CBGBs. A native New Yorker now living in France for almost a decade, she chats with your host Paul Hanford about cultural identity, diversity and performative success, the route of her album The Practice Of Freedom , playing great parties and playing not so gre...

How does a rising selector with diverse tastes and a busy busy busy schedule keep sounding so fresh?  And what has changed since clubs have reopened? These are just two things your host Paul Hanford gets into with rising DJ Tash LC in the new Lost and Sound. Fresh and revitalised after a summer break and online now. DJ, label owner, promoter, all round force of musical energy - from her residency...

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 presenti...

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...

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 a...

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 debu...

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 Press Lost and...

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 sur...

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 r...

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 m...