Yu Su

Episode 200 calls for a guest who thinks towards the future. DJ and musician Yu Su has a composer’s ear for detail and a chef’s instinct for serving up textured sonic platters. We talk about sound as material, about burning and melting ideas down, then reshaping them into something new, and about why minimal arrangements can feel more dynamic when every layer has room to breathe. Along the way we get into dancefloor culture as a sensory ritual, the strange power of rules and instructions, and Yu Su’s “polyphonic eating” dinners where silence becomes part of the experience. Yu Su’s story stretches from Kaifeng to Vancouver to London, with early years of classical piano and a lasting love for Debussy that later makes sense as a bridge to ambient, dub techno, minimal tech house, and leftfield club music. She explains why certain styles only click with the right context, how an early electronic music experience at a Floating Points night rewired her ears, and how she learned production by reverse engineering beats until the logic revealed itself. If you enjoy Lost and Sound and want to help keep it thriving, the best way to support is simple:

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Yu Su is an episode from Lost And Sound by Paul Hanford.

This episode is 50:11 long.

This episode was published on Mar 18, 2026.

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