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 Ivor Novello winning Blanck Mass to join as a full time member. Round about the time Editors were setting indie dancefloors alight with their mid noughties anthems, Munich and Blood, Benjamin was setting volumes alight as half of drone-rockers Fuck Buttons. It’s such an usunual pairing and Paul caught up with Benjamin alongside synth player Elliot Williams to talk about how an epic alt band and an experimentally leaning electronic producer came together on their new album, EBM, about 80s pop and industrial and lots more. 

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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. Her 9th studio album Let’s Turn It Into Sound (released on Ghostly) follows on from acclaimed albums like Ears and The Kid, and her collaboration with electronic music pioner Suzanne Ciani. During the record of it, she dubbed it her sentimental robot drama. She spoke with Paul via the Pacific Northwest to talk about her approaches to music and life.

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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 decade, she chats with your host Paul Hanford about cultural identity, diversity and performative success, the route of her album The Practice Of Freedom, playing great parties and playing not so great parties, and so much more. 

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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 gets into with rising DJ Tash LC in the new Lost and Sound. Fresh and revitalised after a summer break and online now.

DJ, label owner, promoter, all round force of musical energy - from her residency on NTS, past residencies on Kiss FM, BBC Radio 1Xtra and long standing show on Worldwide FM, Tash LC lives up to her Insta handle “always listenin / dancin / chattin.”  She’s one of the UK’s most exciting DJs, connecting styles and sounds in a way that unites and melts differences. 

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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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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 balance, Delia Derbyshire, the theramin ban on her score for the new TV adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos and so much more. 

The Midwich Cuckoos score is out now via Invada Records. Catch Hannah presenting Night Tracks on BBC Radio 3 .

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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 came together on their new project together, the pulsating, electronic BROOD X CYCLES. This chat goes deep and humanises what might often be considered mysterious arts, revealing in a surpisingly warm way processes that have helped them create such deep music.

Their collaborative album BROOD X CYCLES - Sleep Nameless Fear is out June 1st on The State 51 Conspiracy.

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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 chronicle the first thirty years of his life growing up in 60s and 70s Manchester. Barry and Paul chat about this, the three absolutely seminal groups he joined: Magazine, The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, his solo work, which has been both Mercury nominated and has involved scoring David Lynch's Lost Highway and more.

Barry's 1996 LP Oedipus Schmeudipus (which features Jarvis Cocker and Nick Cave) is getting the reissue treatment on Mute on July 29th.

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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,  inhabiting the characters of her beguiling, sometimes otherwordly, sometimes darkly sensual music and how she approached composing  for horror the upcoming film The Seed and TV show The Baby.

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

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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 something otherworldly and transcendental and, yes, ritual-like. 

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

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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 about Brexit featuring over 100 musicians from across Europe or working with Bjork and Róisín Murphy, Matthew talks about ethical uses of sound and how stories can be told from the most unlikely of surroundings.

Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out May 5th on Velocity Press

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