Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your pleasure commodity of music news.

I'm your host Ben Ratliff.

Lemonade, le leleine leonade.

Leleleleleleleine. Lemonade, le, le le, le lemmonade.

Lemonade, lelele lemmonade.

Le monsade, lele, le l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l mnade And that's lemonade by the mysterious Sophie whom John Parellis interviewed recently. Indeed. Isn't that right? What doors do you have to open to talk to Sophie who will not reveal his name?

Doesn't perform live too much?

He does do DJ gigs.

Often?

Yeah, every few months.

He played output.

He has appeared.

But not a lot of interviews.

Not a lot of interviews.

Which is funny because he's a really articulate guy.

So what was the setup?

What were the restrictions?

Were you in a room?

We were in a soundproof an echoic chamber.

No, we were actually in a hipster bar in New York, in a hotel in New York. He rolled in a roller bag that had a synthesizer in it.

But we were surrounded by people. It wasn't it wasn't clandestine at all because he's done a pretty good job

though not a perfect job, of keeping his face out of the picture.

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