My guest on Line Noise this week is New York DJ Tedd Patterson, who held down a 13-year residency at Cielo and now spins regularly at Battle Hymn and House Of Yes. He has also released a gorgeous new single, Piece of Me, with Inaya Day. We spoke about his long and storied history with DJing, from Atlanta to New York to London, from Cabaret Voltaire…

Line Noise is taking part in the 30th anniversary celebrations of Barcelona's famed club, Nitsa, including interviews with some of the key players in Nitsa's history. In episode 3, we talk to Erol Alkan, who played his first DJ gig outside the UK at Nitsa and who has returned to the club ever year since. He is also the favourite DJ of Nitsa residen…

My guest on Line Noise this week is DJ / producer extraordinaire Erol Alkan. We spoke about the new remixes of his classic A Hold On Love, euphoric melancholy, the art of remixing and more. Look out for a part two soon, when we discuss Nitsa's 30th anniversary.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

Our guest on Line Noise today is Monty Luke, an LA-via-Detroit-via -Berlin producer of deep dark house and techno. His new album Nightdubbing, which comes out on Rekids on March 29, combines house and dub influences and scorns copycats. We talked about dub, inspiration, Planet E, his Black Catalogue label, the Blessed Madonna and much more.…

Our guest on Line Noise this week is DJ Minx, an acclaimed house and techno DJ and producer from Detroit; the founder of the DJ collective Women on Wax and the associated record label Women on Wax Recordings. We talked about Detroit raves, her classic track A Walk in the Park, Moodymann, Richie Hawtin and so much more. I hope you enjoy it.…

Line Noise participa en las celebraciones del 30 aniversario del famoso club de Barcelona, Nitsa, incluyendo entrevistas con algunos de los jugadores clave en la historia de Nitsa. En este segundo episodio, que cubre el período 1997 - 1999, Ben Cardew y Johann Wald hablaron con DJ Fra sobre el DJ residente , French Touch, la cara cambiante del book…

My guest on Line Noise this week is Kirk Degiorgio, a British producer perhaps better known as As One, who has been in electronic music for more than 30 years, occupying a territory somewhere between Detroit techno, home listening, funk, soul and jazz. We spoke about his classic As One album Reflections, which Barcelona label Lapsus is reissuing, a…

My guest on Line noise this week is the Australian-Icelandic musician, composer, record producer, sound designer and director, Ben Frost. His excellent new album Scope Neglect is released in March and we spoke about that, about making shit music - and why he won't do it - Kurt Cobain’s poetry, silence, Metallica’s Black Album and - because I obviou…

Our guest on Line Noise today is Richard Norris. a man who can claim to have made the UK’s first acid house album, found worldwide chart fame with The Grid and was a creative partner for Joe Strummer, among many other things. His autobiography Strange Things Are Happening, is scheduled to be released on March 21, 2024. We talked about Swamp Thing, …

Today on Line Noise my guest is one of my early idols in electronic music: Dave Clarke, one of the first British producers to really put his stamp on techno music and a DJ of incredible skill. His iconic single Red 2 is now available digitally for the first time to mark its 30th anniversary; and it will be followed by a big box set later this year,…

Line Noise participará en las celebraciones del 30 aniversario del famoso club de Barcelona, Nitsa, incluyendo entrevistas con algunos de los jugadores clave en la historia de Nitsa. En este primer episodio, Ben Cardew, Johann Wald y Sergi Cuxart hablaron con DJ Coco sobre los inicios del club en 1994, mezclando guitarras con electrónica, Aphex Twi…

Our guest on Line Noise today is Crystal Murray, a Paris-born singer, songwriter, producer and more, whose new single Payback is an impressively fierce piece of work that falls somewhere between techno, soul and R&B, with maybe a touch of disco. We spoke ahead of her gig / club night at Nitsa in Barcelona - which sadly has passed by now - about rev…

With the news that Julia Holter has a new album coming out in March 2024, we decided to bring back the interview that we did with Julia at Primavera Sound 2023. We talked about being a pop professor, The Passion of Joan of Arc, strength in collaboration, Call Super, LA music - whatever that is - and more. She really is one of the most fascinating p…

Today our guest on Line Noise is DJ Paulette, a DJ of 30 years standing, Haçienda resident, TV presenter, radio host and now author, of the book Welcome to the Club: the life and lessons of a Black Woman DJ. We talked about whitewashing in dance music, Manchester clubbing, lessons learned from three decades of DJing, the Haçienda, Beyoncé “saving” …

In 2019 we were lucky enough to interview the great Australian-Icelandic musician, composer, record producer, sound designer and director Ben Frost about his soundtrack to Dark - AKA the best series ever put to film. Frost has a new album coming out in March, called Scope Neglect. It is his first studio album in seven years, so it seemed like a tim…

The wonderful Colleen joined us at the Radio Primavera Sound studios this week, ahead of her Barcelona Auditori gig, to talk about the pleasures of wandering around Barcelona, working with Moog, a cat in the studio, ongoing inspiration and her excellent eighth album Le jour et la nuit du réel.PS The interview is also available on YouTube: https://w…

Today’s guest on Line Noise is Muzi, a DJ, singer, songwriter and record producer from Empangeni in South Africa, whose new album uMUZI is out now on A Trak’s Fool’s Gold Records. We talked about getting Chris Martin to sing in Zulu, Daft Punk and connecting generations. Photo by Andile Buka.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

Today's guest on Line Noise is Paul Rose, aka Scuba, label boss DJ, podcaster and so much more, who was there right at the birth of dubstep with his Hotflush label. We talked about life in Mallorca, being in a band with Johnny Borrell, the music that emerged from dubstep, being outspoken and his new mixtape, Digital Underground. Picture by Rui Augu…

Our guests on Line Noise this week are the classic English house duo X-Press 2, who have just released their fifth album, Thee. We talked about New York house, keeping things simple, David Byrne and Kurt Wagner and the slightly disappointing joy of getting to number two in the UK charts.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

This week’s guest on Line Noise is eclectic, enigmatic composer and producer Johnny Jewel, who we spoke to ahead of his gig at Barcelona’s Mira festival this weekend. We spoke about soundtracks, gore, Twin Peaks, remixing The Weeknd, Primavera past and present and his very favourite sound.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

Today on Line Noise we bring you an interview with Flinty Badman, half of the iconic rave duo Ragga Twins, a band who essentially invented ragga jungle alongside their friends in Shut Up And Dance. They are a brilliant, brilliant band and this interview was fascinating for me. We talked about London soundsystems, rave, political commentary, reggae …

Ben Cardew met Lille's finest purveyor of sunshine house, two-time platinum producer Myd, to talk losers, geeks, Theophilus London, the brilliance of Ed Banger, learning to sing live and Fatboy Slim.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

Today on Line Noise we welcome Haitian house artist Francis Mercier, a producer who has worked with and / or remixed everyone from Manu Chao to Black Uhuru, Amadou & Mariam to Rachid Taha in his quest for a truly global house sound. We talked about house music as global force, sampling with respect, growing up in Haiti and maths and music. You can …

Today’s guest on Line Noise is a giant of electronic music: Gez Varley, a member of seminal Bleep techno duo LFO, who later went on to make music as G-Man, producing the huge techno tune Quo Vadis. We talked about breakdancing, about LFO, getting a record deal in a club car park; we talked about musical history, What is House; the OTHER LFO and so …

KILIMANJARO and Junior Simba are two of the UK’s hottest new DJs, playing Afro-inspired house and club music. They are also friends and now collaborators, producing the excellent single Channel Z one hungover afternoon. It has now been released on none other than Diplo’s Higher Ground label, so we invited them into the RPS studio - via Twitch - to …

Today on Line Noise we welcome none other than Roni Size to the microphone, a Bristol producer who has more drum and bass hits than you’ve had awkward breakfasts with your partner’s parents. We talked about jazz, The Wild Bunch, Reprazent, Method Man and more. Thanks to the people at the Hospitality in the Woods festival for setting this up. It tak…

Today on Line Noise our guest is Hubert Blanc-Francard, known to French house fans worldwide as Boombass, a fabulous producer in his own right and also one half of Cassius. We talked about his recent EP, WWWipeout, about the influence of the Playstation, Philippe Zdar, the French Touch, hip hop, MC Solaar and more. Photo by Matthieu Couturier.…

This week our guest on Line Noise is Shawn Reynaldo, radio host, journalist, founder of the influential First Floor newsletter and now author, with the release of First Floor Volume 1 by Velocity Press. We talked about the challenges of electronic music journalism, what he’s learned about music from writing the book, artists as interviewers, public…

Ben Cardew caught up with house legend K'Alexi Shelby to talk about the early days of Chicago house, his incredible mentors and keeping it nice and rough. His recent EP BM11 was released on Bad Manners Records on May 26. Photo by Marie Staggat.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

On this week’s Line Noise, Ben Cardew spoke to Danny Briottet, one of three members of London’s Renegade Soundwave, a hugely influential electronic music group, who combined punk, electro, dub, indie, hip hop and industrial into a splendidly strange mixture that blew up raves, ignited college radio in the US, influenced The Prodigy and even transla…

Ben Cardew welcomes his old Line Noise cohort, Pitchfork contributing editor Philip Sherburne, to look back on the first day of Sónar 2023 and look forward to what is to come at the Barcelona festival, including personal recommendations. Philip also talks about the Balmat label he runs with Albert Salinas and his Futurism Restated newsletter.…

Ben Cardew interviewed Chicago's finest, Jana Rush, at Primavera Sound 2023 to talk footwork, depression, jazz and so much more.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

On today's Line Noise, Johann Wald and Ben Cardew welcome British electronic music wizard James Holden to the RPS studio, ahead of his Barcelona gig. We dig into "trance" versus trance, utopia, playing the hits, Madonna, Max/MSP and more, in a wide-ranging interview.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

Ben Cardew and Johann Wald pick over the best electronic music from the 2023 Primavera Sound line up, from legends to new acts, locals to weirdos. It's all there to help you get ready for the festival.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

On today’s episode I spoke to someone who has truly done it all: Richard West, aka Mr. C, an MC, rapper, DJ, producer, label manager and nightclub owner, who started out in London’s club scene in the early 1980s, got involved in acid house, joined The Shamen and became a pop star, and then went back to the underground, running the Plink Plonk and S…

This is a special miniature edition of Line Noise to celebrate the 10th Anniversary edition of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories. Ben Cardew, author of Daft Punk's Discovery - The Future Unfurled, discusses the new re-edition of RAM, what works, what doesn't and what it tells us about the original album. Plus: what on earth is Prog-Some Access Mem…

On this week’s Line Noise I spoke to masterful French producer Étienne de Crécy, a man who has made not one but two of my favourite house music albums ever, in the form of Motorbass’s Pansoul and his own Superdiscount. I spoke to him at the Nitsa club in Barcelona, just before he DJ-ed, on the Flashback tour, playing only vinyl. We spoke about hip …

Our guest on Line Noise this week Is Eddie Fowlkes: a man whose handprints are cemented on the Detroit Historical Museum's Legends Plaza as a techno music pioneer; a producer whose first record was released in 1986 and who has been DJing since the 1970s. He told Ben Cardew about clubbing with Frankie Knuckles, his role in Juan Atkins's legendary De…

Ben Cardew welcomes dub legend Mad Professor, a man who has worked with everyone from Lee “Scratch” Perry to Sade, onto Line Noise, ahead of his performance at the Jazztronica festival in Barcelona this weekend (April 22, 2023). They talk about the inspirational Scratch, remixing Massive Attack, dub as social commentary, white privilege and the las…

Ben Cardew invited French house hero Folamour to the RPS studio to talk about his love for 1980s indie, Oasis, "that" ABBA moment, playing drums, the House of Love and - above all - his new album Manifesto.על ידי Line Noise Podcast

Often on Line Noise we speak to artists who are in their imperial phases; but we also love new acts too, which is why it was a pleasure to speak to LaMeduza, a vocalist, songwriter, producer and - above all - junglist, based in Geneva. She first came to my attention with her vocals on the Subjective album, The Start of No Regret in 2022; and has ju…

Line Noise typically concerns itself with electronic music. But we couldn’t resist the opportunity to have a word with two genuine musical legends. Noah Lennox, better known as Panda Bear, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founding member of the band Animal Collective; Pete Kember, also known as Sonic Boom, i…

On today’s Line Noise we speak to Nathan Fake, an English electronic music artist of the highest quality. His new album, Crystal Vision, is released on April 7 and it is a fantastic piece of work; we spoke about Crystal Vision, about Norfolk, rave, Autechre, sampling and lasting 20 years in electronic music.…

On this week’s Line Noise Mar Vallverdú and Ben Cardew spoke to Singaporean songwriter and producer yeule, a non-binary cyborg entity who makes sparkling cyber pop. The interview took place at the Primavera Weekender, in yeule’s bungalow, which they had made up to look very yeule indeed. We talked about Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, glitch fe…

This week our guest on Line Noise is Barclay Crenshaw better known as Claude VonStroke, an American music producer, DJ, record label owner and festival organiser, whose kids still aren’t impressed by all his achievements. We talked about his favourite labels, the importance of record labels themselves, Dirtybird’s proudest moment and the one that g…

Today on Line Noise we bring you an interview with someone who has been making music for almost 40 years: Sean Spencer aka DJ Spen, a king of soulful and gospel house - although as we will discover later, he doesn’t particularly like to talk in terms of musical genre. We talked about remixing Diana Ross, joining the Basement Boys, working with Crys…

Welcome to a special festive episode of Line Noise. It’s been a long year and it is time to relax with some Christmas house music. And who better to bring it than Finn, the Manchester producer and DJ, who has capped a fantastic year with the release of No More Coal - ‘A Christmas Dance Record’, a full on festive house music rave up. I spoke to him …

From producing Warm Leatherette, to founding Mute Records, few people have done more for electronic music than Daniel Miller, a genuinely legendary figure in modern British music. His improvisational electronic duo, Sunroof, have a new album out in February and he was playing live and DJing at the recent Ombra festival in Barcelona, which is where …

Ben Cardew met electronic pop sensation Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul at the Primavera Weekender to talk instant chemistry, humour, working with your mum and the reaction to their incredible debut album Topical Dancer. Oh and Charlotte laughs EXACTLY as she did on record.על ידי 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 …