Line Noise podcast is 200 episodes old

AKA the post that celebrates itself

Philip Sherburne and I after recording a podcast in 2018 (ish). I swear I don’t always look this tired. Picture by Philip Sherburne. Thank you!

Philip Sherburne and I started the Line Noise podcast back in January 2016. The idea was, if I recall rightly, to do something like the New York Times Popcast, which we both enjoyed, but for electronic music. We decided to give it a go - you can hear the first episode here, in which we talk Bowie and Matmos - and if we didn’t get 400 listens we would knock it on the head.

Nine years and countless microphone adventures on, today I published the 200th episode of the Line Noise podcast, which features an interview with Wolfgang Voigt about GAS, a fitting subject for a landmark episode.

I say 200th episode. It’s actually the 225th, as I have also done a series of podcasts to support my Daft Punk book and another series to celebrate Nitsa’s 30th anniversary. Much as I like these series, they are offshoots so Wolfgang Voigt’s episode is the 200th. And no one else is going to celebrate it, so I hope you will excuse this post.

Below are some of my favourite Line Noise interviews. Please do check them out. I like to think there is something for everyone. But, really, there is lots for me. And below that, I have a little bit of Line Noise history for you. I’ve linked to the episodes on Soundcloud. We’re also on Spotify, if you like. And I will, obviously, be looking at the listening statistics today so please don’t make me cry at my own party.

Detroit Masters

Line Noise 187 (Jeff Mills, Prabhu Edouard, Jean-Phi Dary)

Line Noise Episode 157 (DJ Minx)

Line Noise Episode 127 (Eddie Fowlkes)

Line Noise Episode 85 (Kevin Saunderson)

Line Noise Episode 51 (Juan Atkins and Milan Ariel)

Jungle pioneers

Line Noise Episode 143 (Ragga Twins with Flinty Badman)

Line Noise Episode 138 (Roni Size)

Line Noise Episode 110 (Sherelle)

Line Noise Episode 103 (Nia Archives)

Line Noise Episode 95 (Goldie)

Line Noise Episode 69 (Krust)

Line Noise Episode 58 (Fabio And Grooverider) (although the recording is a little bit scratchy, to say the least)

Line Noise Episode 47 (Photek)

House dons

Line Noise Episode 194 (Ron Trent)

Line Noise Episode 177 (Mike Dunn)

Line Noise Episode 135 (K'Alexi Shelby)

Line Noise Episode 104 (Sofia Kourtesis)

Line Noise Episode 91 (Roy Davis Jr.)

Line Noise Episode 71 (DJ Deeon)

Line Noise Episode 41 (Louie Vega)

Techno adventurers

Line Noise Episode 153 (Dave Clarke)

Line Noise Episode 140 (Gez Varley - LFO / G-Man)

Line Noise Episode 99 (Richie Hawtin)

Electronic explorers

Line Noise 197 (Bruce)

Line Noise Episode 169 (A.G. Cook and Sega Bodega)

Line Noise Episode 167 (Hyperdub special with Kode9, Ikonika, DJ Haram and Heavee)

Line Noise Episode 161 (Speed Dealer Moms, John Frusciante, Venetian Snares)

Line Noise Episode 148 (Colleen)

Line Noise Episode 132 (Jana Rush at Primavera Sound 2023)

Line Noise Episode 131 (James Holden)

Line Noise Episode 102 (Caterina Barbieri)

Line Noise Episode 90 (UNIIQU3)

Line Noise Episode 88 (Nicolette)

Line Noise Episode 63 (Loraine James)

Line Noise Episode 61 (Kelly Lee Owens)

Line Noise Episode 42 (Danny L Harle)

Line Noise Episode 05 (Jlin and Zora Jones)

German meisters

Line Noise Episode 175 (DJ Hell)

Line Noise Episode 108 (Karl Bartos)

Line Noise Episode 87 (Wolfgang Flür)

Line Noise Episode 80 (Moritz Von Oswald)

French élite

Line Noise Episode 137 (Boombass)

Line Noise Episode 128 (Étienne De Crécy)

Line Noise Episode 60 (Alan Braxe)

Rock excursions

Line Noise Episode 176 (Simon Raymonde, Cocteau Twins, Bella Union)

Line Noise Episode 168 (Laetitia Sadier)

Line Noise Episode 162 (ML Buch)

Jazz gods

Line Noise Episode 195 (Shabaka)

Philip episode

Line Noise Episode 07 (Olga Bell, Colundi Sequence And How We Got Into Electronic Music)

Braqueberry episode

Line Noise Episode 52 (Whistling, The Cuica Howl And Other Musical Curses)

A brief history

Philip Sherburne left Line Noise in 2017 to go and live in Menorca and do lots of wonderful things (including the excellent Lapsus radio show with Albert Salinas, although he has been back a few times.)

I joined Radio Primavera Sound in 2018 and Line Noise has existed under the RPS wing since then. For a year or so, the very talented Barcelona producer Braqueberry was my co-host - but the last few years I have been going it alone, as Line Noise has become basically an interview podcast. (Although shout out to Johann Wald, Mark Dix and Mar Vallverdú, who have all helped out with Line Noise interviews.)

Since 2024, Line Noise also has a sponsor, in the shape of Cupra, so thanks to them.

I don’t want to go overboard but Line Noise has given me the opportunity to interview some of my very favourite artists over the years and I want to thank each and every one of them. We’ve had one complaint over the 200 episodes and that was about the cover art. So I think we are doing OK.

Obviously, some dream interviews remain - Aphex Twin, Björk, Ralf Hütter, Burial (who I actually did try for and Hyperdub were nice enough to at least pretend to take the request seriously), Todd Edwards, Fever Ray, Carl Craig, Thomas Bangalter, 4 Hero, Pepe Bradock, Norma Jean Bell, Kate Bush, Deep Dish and more - so if anyone can hook me up with any of them, I would be much obliged.

(Actually one of them is close to confirmed. But I will leave that up to your imagination.)