Lost And Sound

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…

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 …

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 bal…

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 …

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 c…

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,  inha…

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 someth…

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 a…

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 th…

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…

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 collabo…

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 liv…

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 t…

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 warehous…

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 Et…

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 nev…

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 …

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 see…

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 “Impr…

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, experimen…