Lost And Sound

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.

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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 supporters.

A philosphical, deeply empathic human in conversation, he talks to Paul about transforming grief into celebration, and how he did this through paying tribute to his late wife on his new album Vahinè. And when someone whose nearly 70 years old looks and sounds barely 50 - then its worth listening as they’re obviously doing something right. 

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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 reissued on Mute/BMG along with a Death By Audio custom made effects pedal.

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Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. 

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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 being one of the only DJs equally at home in both Panaroma Bar and Berghain.

She’s just released her fourth studio album, The Red Hunter, released on her own Candy Mountain label, her most personal and intricate record yet.

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Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. 

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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”.  Those timeless mega anthems, synonymous with that era like Living On The Ceiling followed, before they called it a day. Then, all of a sudden, 11 years ago, the project materialised again. Paul caught up with Neil, a true eighties survivor on something of a creative roll now.

Blancmange’s new album Private Life is available on London Records.

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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 unexpected sonics. Marie and Paul chat about energy, attitude and instinct in music. 

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Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. 

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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 approaches to selecting music, which often hit a unique sweet spot between cratedigging and classics.

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Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. 

JD Twitch’s Cease & Desist 002 - Polyphonic Cosmos: Sonic Innovations In Japan (1980 - 86) should be out now!

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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 pariah described in the Houses of Parliament as a wrecker of civilisation,

she shares reflections with Paul about her new book Re-Sisters, which looks at the lives of three trailblazing women - Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kemp and herself and her new album Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes, about the nature of art and communication and so much more. 

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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 shoegaze. Their 1996 album, Lovelife, recorded during the height of Britpop moved the band higher into the charts with the caustic hit Ladykillers - a song which basically pre-dates the notion of the softboi by a good twenty years.

Miki was the cool as flame-haired frontperson of the sharpest indie gang: a little bolshy, cig in hand, spinning dreampop, yet, as her memoir goes into, music was a way of finding her voice and connecting with people through an eventful, unorthodox upbringing. Miki and Paul chat about finding spaces of social connection within scenes, the perils of music press and so much more.

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Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. 

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By Miki Berenyi 

Published by Nine Eight Books on 29 September in hardback, audio and eBook

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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 springboarded from the reissue of the album Body Riddle - initially released to little fanfare 16 years ago and now regarded as something of a classic and cited by producers including Arca, Rustie and Hudson Mohawke. Chris talks about creativity, validation and rushing your face off to 78bpm music. 

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