Line Noise Podcast

On this week's Line Noise, Ben Cardew had the great fortune to speak to the disco legend that is Marc Cerrone, a man whose music has been igniting dance floors for 50 years now. We talked about his excellent new album, Cerrone by Cerrone, about Michael Jackson, Jimmy Page, the best parties of the disco era and seduction via music. I hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to Line Noise. Today we have an interview that Ben Cardew did live at the the Curtis Audiophile cafe in Barcelona this October, in which he spoke for an hour to Steve Goodman, aka Kode9, an electronic music artist, DJ and the founder of the excellent Hyperdub label. They spoke about the concept behind his new album Astro Darien, Scottish independence, philosophy, Hyperdub, Rosalía and Burial. Thanks very much to Lapsus, for organising the event.

Listen to Kode9's Escapology here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3SwrGW1XMkphBVkSn9Bpbn?si=nksPluznQJSNqHsn34HL-w

On this week's Line Noise, we caught up with Peru-via-New-York artist Daniela Lalita to talk about her excellent debut EP Trececerotres and we ended up in a deep conversation about life, dancing, lullabies and Buchlas!

Our guest today is Lorenzo Senni, an Italian musician whose beat-less trance shook the electronic music word in the 2010s, and who has worked on film soundtracks for The Challenge, You Will Be With Us in Paradise and, most recently, Atlantide, a brilliant 2021 film about speed boat culture in Venice. We talked about his favourite soundtracks, unfashionable trance, being a gabber voyeur and what comes next. Thanks to the Curtocircuito festival of cinema in Santiago de Compostela for helping with the interview.

Today on Line Noise we welcome Grammy-winning producer, Killing Joke bass player, Paul McCartney collaborator, psychedelic trance innovator and so much more: Youth. We talk about his new album with Gaudi, Stratosphere; punks and electronic music; Alien Sex Fiend; Goa Trance; writing number one hits; Little Fluffy Clouds; the KLF; being in The Fireman with Paul McCartney and so much more.

Line Noise brings you 22 minutes in the company of Sherelle, a London DJ who brought her 160 BPM madness to Primavera LA. We discussed the return of jungle, the art of DJing and becoming big during Covid.

Today on Line Noise, we have a fascinating interview with Cassy, the DJ, producer and Kwench label boss. She talked very honestly about the darker sides of night life, falling out of love with DJing and why being a mum / DJ is so very "fucking difficult". Plus, who does she rate as the best mixers in the game? And what was her summer anthem?

Today on Line Noise we have a very special guest indeed: Karl Bartos. Bartos was a member of the legendary electronic music group, Kraftwerk, from 1974 to 1990, co-writing many of their best-loved hits, including The Robots, Neon Lights and my own favourite The Telephone Call. His autobiography; The Sound of the Machine, My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond, was published in July and it it well worth the read. In our interview we talked about the legend of Kraftwerk, creativity, the problem with Electric Café, Johnny Marr, Florian Schneider and more.

This week on Line Noise we welcome Sasu Ripatti, a Finnish electronic musician of rare calibre and breadth, who has recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Conoco Ripatti and most famously as Vladislav Delay, whose new album Isoviha was released in July. We spoke about 'the great wrath', jazz drumming, Sly and Robbie and rap.

I. Jordan joins Ben Cardew and Mar Vallverdú to talk changing names, changing times and summer anthems. This episode was recorded at the 2022 Primavera Sound festival.