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Lost And Sound

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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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
49 minutes
Episodes
184
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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Lucinda Chua

Lucinda Chua

South London-based singer/songwriter, producer, and composer Lucinda Chua joins Paul for a conversation on the eve of the release of her debut long player, YIAN, on 4AD Records. In the past better kn…

00:55:35  |   Tue 07 Mar 2023
Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani is a true pioneer. One of the world’s first synth heroes.  “The diva of the diode.”  Ciani began experimenting with electronic music in 1960s California, at a time when to do so wasn’t …

00:49:46  |   Tue 28 Feb 2023
Miss Grit

Miss Grit

This week, Paul meets New York-based, Korean-American musician Margaret Sohn aka Miss Grit. Their upcoming debut LP, Follow The Cyborg finds a personal connection between cyborg theory and her identi…

00:39:28  |   Tue 24 Jan 2023
The Waeve  - Graham Coxon & Rose Elinor Dougall

The Waeve - Graham Coxon & Rose Elinor Dougall

The Waeve is the coming together of two unique musical voices - Graham Coxon & Rose Elinor Dougall who've just come together to make a rather deep and magical record together as The Waeve.

Rose - star…

00:46:42  |   Tue 17 Jan 2023
Mark Jenkin

Mark Jenkin

Lost and Sound is back after a seasonal break, and trying something new: Paul’s first guest of the year is actually a film maker. Isn’t this a music podcast? You might say, but Mark Jenkin’s hands-on…

00:58:30  |   Tue 10 Jan 2023
Nastia

Nastia

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 fr…

00:58:00  |   Tue 13 Dec 2022
Anton Newcombe

Anton Newcombe

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

01:00:53  |   Wed 07 Dec 2022
Lafawndah

Lafawndah

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 af…

00:51:04  |   Tue 29 Nov 2022
Alison Cotton

Alison Cotton

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 N…

00:38:25  |   Tue 22 Nov 2022
Gigi Masin

Gigi Masin

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 …

00:47:18  |   Tue 15 Nov 2022
A Place To Bury Strangers

A Place To Bury Strangers

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 a…

00:49:22  |   Tue 08 Nov 2022
Steffi

Steffi

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 pr…

00:44:34  |   Tue 01 Nov 2022
Blancmange

Blancmange

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…

00:49:03  |   Tue 25 Oct 2022
Marie Davidson

Marie Davidson

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 …

00:40:02  |   Tue 18 Oct 2022
JD Twitch

JD Twitch

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 …

00:41:53  |   Tue 11 Oct 2022
Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti

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, fr…

00:46:34  |   Tue 04 Oct 2022
Miki Berenyi

Miki Berenyi

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 …

00:59:00  |   Tue 27 Sep 2022
Clark

Clark

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 M…

00:43:59  |   Tue 20 Sep 2022
Editors

Editors

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 …

00:43:49  |   Fri 16 Sep 2022
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

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. He…

00:44:37  |   Tue 06 Sep 2022
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