The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium. Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks. But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia. This time, the impossible assignment…
Tag: electronica
Program Highlights
Akara – Music from Other Worlds.
“There are other worlds they have not told you about. They wish to speak to you.” -Sun Ra Hear Akara Interviewed On Echoes Tonight The band called Akara has returned from another trip to other dimensions with a new CD The World Beyond. Their previous CD, Extradimensional Ethnography, was an Echoes CD of the Month…
CD of the Month
Darshan Ambient’s Little Things
Darshan Ambient’s Little Things – The Echoes CD of the Month for September Hear it featured Labor Day Evening on Echoes In the days before YouTube, iTunes and most other on-line music sources, Darshan Ambient was a minor star at mp3.com, the renowned legal music download site. He released his music there and garnered nearly…
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Echoes Interview: Northcape’s Spacescapes
Hear an interview with English electronic artist Northcape tonight Back in the early 1960s, Bell Laboratory’s inventor, Max Mathews created a lot of the early synthesizer and computer music technology. His program called Music was one of the first for making music on computers. He predicted that in the future, anyone, musicians and non-musicians alike, …
CD of the Month
Surf The Wave’s of Melorman’s CD of the Month
Hear A Podcast Review of Melorman’s Waves The Echoes CD of the Month for August If you thought the only electronic-based music coming out of Greece was from Yanni and Vangelis, then you haven’t been keeping up on a wave of electronic artists who are more plugged in to Boards of Canada’s textural melancholy than…
Interview Podcast
Bedroom Electronics with Northcape.
Now in the Echoes Podcast: Interview with English electronic artist Northcape Back in the early 1960s, Bell Laboratory’s inventor, Max Mathews created a lot of the early synthesizer and computer music technology. His program called Music was one of the first for making music on computers. He predicted that in the future, anyone, musicians and…
Program Highlights
Bedroom Electronics with Northcape.
Hear an interview with English electronic artist Northcape tonight Back in the early 1960s, Bell Laboratory’s inventor, Max Mathews created a lot of the early synthesizer and computer music technology. His program called Music was one of the first for making music on computers. He predicted that in the future, anyone, musicians and non-musicians alike, …
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New Music: Austra & Dead Beat Project
Tonight on Echoes, Austra & Dead Beat Project. New music from Austra, the Canadian band fronted by the powerful voice of Katie Stelmanis, from their new album Olympia, I love her voice. So many singers we love on Echoes barely project beyond the microphone, but I always feel like you could hear Katie Stelmanis shouting…
Best Of
Best of Echoes 2013…So Far.
Ambient Chamber Music leads The Best of Echoes 2013 ….So Far At the halfway point of the year, I look back on some of the albums that rise above the crowd. And this year it’s been harder than most to narrow it down to the 25 CDs you’ll see below, let alone picking a number…
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New Music: Stephen DeRuby and Daft Punk
Tonight on Echoes, new music from world flute player Stephen DeRuby, whose new album is called Awakening. DeRuby plays all kinds of world flutes and sets them in dreamy landscapes. We’ll also hear from Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. It’s a dance album but even dancers have to chill and we’ll hear one of the…