Lewis Scaife grew up on Hip-Hop, but when he started recording as Nym, he found a gentler, more trippy and surreal sound, mixing environmental samples and his own electronic sounds.
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Playlists
Monday, July 10th, 2017-Echoes Program 1728A
Lewis Scaife grew up on Hip-Hop, but when he started recording as Nym, he found a gentler, more trippy and surreal sound, mixing environmental samples and his own electronic sounds.
Program Highlights
Tricky Unveils New Track “The Only Way”
Bristol Native and trip hop pioneer Tricky releases a new, impassioned single, “The Only Way,” that pays homage to his debut album, Marxinquaye, which was released in 1995.
Playlists
Thursday, October 20th, 2016-Echoes Program 1642D
New music from Springtime Carnivores Midnight Room and Wax Tailor’s latest sampling serenade, By Any Beats Necessary.
Interview Podcast
Wax Tailor in Echoes Podcast
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Wax Tailor discusses his origins as a DJ and the expansive themes of his music.
CD of the Month
Wax Tailor’s Trip-Hop Symphony
For most people, the lineage of DJ scratching begins about 1982 with artists like hip-hop DJ’s Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. Those are the roots of French DJ/Producer Wax Tailor. But he’s also part of a much longer DJ tradition that goes back to fellow Frenchmen, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer. In the 1940s they…