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April 10 2008 update: this podcast has been nominated for the The Sony Radio Academy Awards

The talented producer extraordinaire catches up with Pete Paphides after a heavy night on the tequila. He talks about a packed 2007, making a jaunty cover of Radiohead and growing up in Manhatten.

"Kids used to call me Commie, but I loved New York as soon as I got there. We'd take the school bus to track meets and football games, and everyone would sing De La Soul lyrics from Three Feet High and Rising. That was New York, it was hip hop. It was weird, a bunch of precocious, Upper West Side private school boys singing Stetsasonic's Talking All That Jazz."

"People know Amy and Lily won't come to every show, or even any show. I made this record because I wanted to tour it, and I just thought I'll get my friends to sing on it, and it doesn't matter if they're not there, because they're unknowns anyway. And then Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen have the Year of Life, and that whole thing goes out of the window. But it's a really exciting, dynamic show: you won't miss Lily like you'd miss her if you went to a Lily show and she wasn't there."

"The Only One I Know [with Robbie Williams] is just not very good. I really didn't help the situation because Robbie's vocals are mixed really low, it almost makes it a tiny bit underwhelming. I wanted to do a bizarre 1960s thing where you bury the vocals under the track, but it makes it sound like he doesn't care. I take full credit and responsibility for the song being underwhelming."

Plus listen to Valerie with Amy Winehouse, Oh My God with Lily Allen, and I Suck with Rivers Cuomo (from Ronson's first album).