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 rave, which included having someonce called Sven Vath as your tour driver. Title music by ESOThe new Nightmares On Wax album, Shout Out! To Freedom, is available on Warp Records from October 29th here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce. 

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Nightmares On Wax

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 making really deep, underground techno, being part of New York’s Bunker crew and her recent transcendentally good Out of Reality project. It feels like she’s reached some kind of crescendo of owning her appoaching to making art.I loved chatting with Lauren about her journey, connecting on issues around belief and the emotional connection to music.Title music by ESOLauren Flax on Bandcamp If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce. 

Lauren Flax

Marshall Vincent joined me for an in-person conversation to discuss how he uses his sublime alt-R&B to channel confidence, growing up in Chicago, adapting to German mannerisms, the virtues of collaboration and the power of singing in the toilet. His music is so intimate and so sonically expressive at the same time, and in person, he’s suave and witty company, and an inspiringly confident artist. In his own words: “I think when someone’s talking shit, it’s better to embarress them with my talent than in another way, if I can fight my battles on a stage rather than a message board, I’d totally rather do that.”Title music by ESOMarshall Vincent’s new EP, In No Particular Order, is releases October 15, 2021 on SA Recordings. Here’s the Bandcamp.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce. 

Marshall Vincent

This week, I have an in-person conversation with the visionary Yann Tiersen. We talk about his new album, Kerber, which draws on the geography and atmosphere of the remote island Ushant, where he lives. Plus, he shares reflections on the deeper context of where his music comes from, how a life or death situation gave him an artistic epiphany and also, to be warned, what happens if you expect him to play songs from Amelie. It was lovely to have this conversation, and it took place amongst the synth-fest in a forest that is Berlin’s Superbooth Festival.Title music by ESOThe new Yann Tiersen album, Kerber, is available on Mute here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce. 

Yann Tiersen

This week, J. Willgoose, Esq, from Public Service Broadcasting joins me. On the eve of the release of the band’s new LP, Bright Magic, an impressionistic journey through Berlin. So obviously we had to have a chat, right?Enigmatic, immersive, atmospheric, each time PBS emerge, they take on a subject and to me, its like falling into a deep book. From exploring the cold war space race so well that Jodie Whitaker would listen to their LP, The Race For Space, to help her get into the zone to play Doctor Who, to tackling the British coal industry. Now, J. has made an album about Berlin. It’s got Blixa Bargeld on it, singer EERA the ace German actress Nina Hoss and they recorded it at Hansa, where Bowie recorded Low. J. Turns out to be a charming self-depracating chap and he opens up about the loneliness of being in a new city, talks frankly about finding creative sparks and there’s even a bit of politics too on contemporary Britain.Title music by ESOThe new Public Service Broadcasting album, Bright Magic, is available from September 12th here.

J. Willgoose, Esq. - Public Service Broadcasting

This week, DJ Fuckoff took a break from whipping up storms across parties in Berlin to have a raw, cute and frank in person chat with me. Propulsively mixing techno with juke, psy-trance and warehouse rave so potent you can practically smell the heat from the generator, all with sexually empowering lyrics. We met up for a coffee in Neukölln where she opened up about battling incels, the lingering misogyny in club culture and how she nurtures her own energy. In her own words: “I like to make people get out of their comfort zone and I think its important to be pushing this instead of how society is telling women how they should act. I want to fucking break this, I want to push this, I want to test this and by doing what I do and seeing how people react, I see that that’s happening.”Title music by ESOCheck out DJ Fuckoff’s recent streams and releases through her Linktree here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce. 

DJ Fuckoff

This week, I had a chat with Bob Stanley, musician, journalist, author, film producer and one third of the seminal Saint Etienne (the other two thirds being Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs).  Saint Etienne’s tenth studio album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, is out this Friday and we spoke about how it questions nostalgia and asks were the ‘90s as optimistic as we now think of them as being? Their sampladelic debut Foxbase Alpha, up front classics like Only Love Will Break Your Heart and Join Our Club arrived like a melancholic dream years before the hazy electronic beats of hypnogogic pop became a thing. We spoke over a Transeuropean cuppa about the appeal of melancholy, ask if nostalgia is an illusion and  we even share a couple of Carry On style double entendres.Title music by ESOThe new Saint Etienne album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, is available from September 10th here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce. 

Bob Stanley - Saint Etienne

This week, I spoke with the awesome Daniel Avery. Producer and DJ, author of the transcendetally good Drone Logic and the now equally amazing Together In Static LP. Coincidentally, although we’ve never met, we both grew up as indie noise kids in the same town and we chatted about this, about his early break as a Fabric resident, his friendship with Andrew Weatherall, how phones maybe aren’t the worst thing in clubs and getting lost, or rather, connecting with every person and every atom,  in the shared clubspace.Title music by ESOThe new Daniel Avery album, Together In static, is available now on Phantasy Sound, listen here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsouce. 

Daniel Avery

This week, Ramona Gonzales, aka. Nite Jewel. Producer, singer, musicologist. We spoke about how her transcendentally good new album, No Sun, uses Moog and voice and is a break-up album, made largely whilst living on a friend&apos;s couch,  but is also part of an investigation into the agency of the female voice through history. As well as this, she reflects on her emergence through the LA scene during the MySpace era and the power of sound making off grid.Title music by ESOThe new Nite Jewel album, No Sun, is available from August 27th, listen here.If you’d like to help fund Lost and Sound for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsource 

Nite Jewel

After a summer hiatus, we’re back. I spoke with Angus Andrew, who for over 20 years and now 10 albums, has been Liars. Always utterly fresh, idiosynchratic, intense and channelling something that seems to come from a realm beyond reinvention. We got into a chat about where this comes from, along the way taking in letting go of musical inhibitions, pcibocylin, drums, the Brooklyn scene, living remotely and way more.Title music by ESOLiars WebsiteThe new Liars album, The Apple Drops, is out now on Mute.If you’d like to donate to the production costs of making the show for the price of a coffee, head on over to the show’s Ko-Fi crowdsource 

Liars

This week, we zap over to Norway to catch a conversation with producer Stian Balducci and pianist Kjetil Jerve about collaboration, jazz’s origins as a dancing music and their desire to make an “Improvised music of our age”.  Their joint LP, Tokyo Tapes mixes drone, jazz and frequency-pushing sonics and I think its a stunning listen, and before you think that maybe these are some serious dudes, prepare for some surprising music confessions. Title music by ESO  

Stian Balducci and Kjetil Jerve

I had a conversation with Amsterdam-based producer, songwriter and musician Tessa Douwstra, who records under the name Luwten and finds a way of blending nu-soul tinged vocals and textured, experimental production. Luwten means ‘Place without wind’ in Dutch and I was interested to ask her about the way her music feels so intimately personal yet sonically expressive.Theme music by ESO

Luwten

It’s been thirty years since they last met but I had a chat with A Guy Called Gerald and Trevor Miller. Miller’s cult novel Trip City caught the early acid house zeitigest and it was released with an EP made by Gerald, riding high at the time with what are now the classics Voodoo Ray and Pacific State. To celebrate the book’s re-release I caught up with the two for a frank, revealing and at times hilarious chat. It was pretty much two old pals catching up with me somewhere in the middle. Enjoy!Theme music by ESO

A Guy Called Gerald and Trevor Miller

We’re back. Today, I spoke with Jim O’Rourke, iconocalstic producer, singer-songwriter, former Wilco and Sonic Youth collaborator, from his home half way up a mountain near Tokyo. The interview was originally recorded to talk about Jim’s film connection for the Lost and Sound - Playtronica collab podcast, Seeing Sound, but the conversation went into different realms and spilled out into this much, much longer version. Jim goes deep into working with Werner Herzog, his “just do it” mentality to the creative process, his Irish roots and speaking Japanese. It was such a pleasure for me to connect with a musician whose work I love so much and for him to turn out to be such an utterly humble, entertaining and damn well revealing human. Enjoy!Theme music by ESOJim O’Rourke’s BandcampYou can check out Seeing Sound here

Jim O'Rourke

Lou Hayter’s on the show today. We spoke about the things and influences that have led up to her Roxy’eque space-disco tinged solo LP Private Sunshine, as well the New Young Pony Club days in the post punk and party mid noughties. Lou is a certified Steely Dan fan and she very kindly gives some advice too, on finding your way into the Dan’s catalogue.Theme music by ESO

Lou Hayter

DJ and writer Paul Hanford sets out on a journey across Berlin and meets with people whose lives and loves weave in and out of the rich tapestry of music that spans across this incredible city.Along the way, you'll meet former Syrian refugees becoming techno DJs; non-binary artists redefining musical and cultural borders and some of the city's finest menschen recounting tales from the pre-reunification bohemian west and the communist east; you'll be transported from squats to the music tech sector; from clubs to collectives and through this, the podcast aims to show you why Berlin has such a creative energy.The podcast was supported using public funding from the Arts Council Of England.Podcast music by Tom Giddins

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