Line Noise

Jersey Club Queen UNIIQU3 joined Ben Cardew in the RPS studio to talk microdosing her love, blowing up Jersey Club, the bed squeak sound and lockdown creativity.

Today on Line Noise we are joined by the enigmatic figure who is The Secret DJ, a DJ, journalist and author, who is now onto his third book: Tales from the Booth, in which dozens of DJs from around the world relate their own true stories of DJ life. Our interview touches on everything from the dance music bust of 1999 to the serious problems in the club world, giving a fascinating insight into someone who has been there and done it all.

On today’s show we are joined by Nicolette, who is one of the very best vocalists in electronic music and a brilliant producer and lyricist to boot. Her debut album, Now Is Early, was one of the first jungle albums, combining hardcore with jazz, soul and so much more; she recorded vocals for two Massive Attack songs on their second album Protection; and her second solo album Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head is an utter lost classic. She has a new album, The Infinitive, coming out soon. And she joined us to talk torch songs, jungle, anarchy and so much more.

Today we have an exceptionally distinguished guest on Line Noise in the form of Wolfgang Flür, a German musician who was LITERALLY in Kraftwerk. He has a fantastic new solo album coming out on March 4, called Magazine 1, and he talked to us about recording with Juan Atkins, his parents’ views on Kraftwerk, acting and singing; Magazine 2 and a whole load more. And he ends with a lovely and very moving story about an unexpected meeting with Florian Schneider in a Düsseldorf cafe in 2016. Enjoy what we humbly think is a very special episode of Line Noise.

Danny L Harle returns to Line Noise, in a show recorded live at the Primavera Weekender. Ben Cardew is joined by Johann Wald, Mar Vallverdú and their hardcore idol, Danny L Harle, to talk Harlecore, makina and being the man of the moment.

This month our guest on Line Noise is one of the founders of techno music, a house music pop star and ceaseless innovator: Kevin Saunderson, aka E-Dancer, Inner City et al. Ben Cardew spoke to him to mark the release of a new E-Dancer record, Re:Generate, which sees a new generation of techno artists take on his work. Naturally, we ended up talking about Detroit, Wee Papa Girl Rappers and Idris Elba. Plus: would Larry Levan play E-Dancer?

Marie Davidson returns to Line Noise, in this special episode recorded live at the Primavera Weekender, where she played with l’Oeil Nu. Ben Cardew asks her about left turns, Montreal DIY and making music with a sly sense of humour.

Manchester ambassadors Space Afrika (aka Joshua Inyang and Joshua Reid) join Ben Cardew on Line Noise to talk UK energy, Honest Labour and love.

Few albums divide opinion like Human After All, Daft Punk's third long player. Derided on release in 2005, it marked a critical and commercial low for the duo, only to be swiftly rehabilitated when Daft Punk used large segments of HAA on their Alive 2006 / 7 tour. In this special episode of Line Noise Ben Cardew, your regular host and author of Daft Punk's Discovery - The Future Unfurled, speaks to CK303, the DJ behind the brilliant Teachers mixes, about Human After All. Is it a 'bad' album? Was it a necessary one? Is it the anti-Discovery? Or did Daft Punk just mess up? Includes CK303's special Human After All / Marquee Moon mix.

This month on Line Noise, we welcome John Beltran, a producer from Lansing Michigan who has been making quality electronic music for more than 30 years now, both under his own name - notably the classic Ten Days of Blue album - and as Placid Angles, whose excellent album Touch The Earth was released earlier this year. We talk about keeping fresh after three decades in the game, children, Paul McCartney and making music for Oprah.