Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf: The Echoes Interview
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf, drummer for Klaus Schulze and Ashra. Ian grew up traveling the spaceways of Ash Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Harald Grosskopf was the drummer for Klaus Schulze and Ashra back then before turning to electronic music.
Harald Grosskopf: When I heard the first time a sequencer, I was completely out of my mind. I had goosebumps and the groove was so intense. I remember that was in the basement of the house of Klaus Schulze in the early 70s. he started the sequencer and it blew my mind.
Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf talk about their new album, Doppelganger. I have them together talking about that and the golden age of German electronic music today on Echoes.
In the second hour of today’s show, we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Rubycon. It’s number two on my list of Ten Tangerine Dream Albums to Blow Your Mind. Phaedra is number one but they are really equal. This is what I wrote about it:
The classic trio of Edgar Froese, Christoph Franke and Peter Baumann found the secret of rubber band sequencer patterns discovered by Tonto’s Expanding Headband two years earlier. The Dream bound them in interlocking patterns, mellotron chords and synthesizer textures. Phaedra was transitional, retaining some of the avant-garde Ligeti-esque texturalism from an earlier album, Zeit, on the mellotron-drenched “Mysterious Semblance at the Strands of Nightmare.” But the title track and Rubycon, an album length composition, were definitive journeys into inner space.
We’ll hear all of “Rubycon Part 1”. So get on board. I promise we won’t strand you in space for 286 days, but you may want to be.
See Ten Tangerine Dream Albums to Blow Your Mind
Link to Doppelganger
Link to Rubycon