Sasha's Da Vinci - Genius, The Echoes Interview
On the next Echoes, the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci transformed into electronic sound by DJ and producer Sasha. Da Vinci Genius is an immersive exhibit on the life of the Renaissance polymath. Sasha created a score that ranges from orchestrally cinematic to electronically grooving. You won’t find the Renaissance music of Da Vinci’s era here.
Sasha: We did try taking kind of our modern instruments, our modern melodies and putting them onto kind of medieval instruments, but it ended up sounding like a bit of a pastiche, you know? The show itself is very technological and future-facing.
So is the music.
Sasha is a renowned DJ and record producer. He began his career in the late 1980s, playing acid house music, and rose to prominence in the 1990s through his partnership with fellow DJ John Digweed. Together, they produced influential mix albums like “Renaissance: The Mix Collection” and the “Northern Exposure” series, significantly shaping the progressive house and trance genres. As a solo artist, Sasha has released notable albums, including “Airdrawndagger” (2002) and “Scene Delete” (2016). He has also remixed tracks for artists such as Madonna, Moby, and The Chemical Brothers. He was voted World No. 1 DJ in 2000 by DJ Magazine and receiving a Grammy nomination for his remix of Felix da Housecat’s “Watching Cars Go By.” He released a beautiful ambient compilation, The EmFire Collection, that included his score to the surfing movie, “New Emissions of Light and Sound.”
Sasha talks about sculpting a soundtrack that finds Da Vinci in the future he helped create. Join John Diliberto with Sasha on Echoes from PRX.
| Echoes Monday, April 21, 2025, Program 25-16A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time | Group Name | Song Name | Album Name |
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Tom Caufield | A Cleansing Rain | It Happens To Eve |
| 0:06;00 | Dubblestandart | Electrical Dub | Bass 4 A Nervous Planet |
| 0:12:40 | MIEN | Silent Golden | MIIEN |
| 0:16:48 | Marconi Union | Eight Miles High Alone | The Fear of Never Landing |
| 0:24:13 | Swomp | Star Map | Legend of the Runestone |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview: Sasha | ||
| 0:42:50 | Sasha | Super Hero (with Sentre) | Da Vinci Genius |
| 0:46:36 | Ruth Radelet/Nat Walker/Adam Miller | Without a Trace | The Lost Records: Bloom and Rage |
| 0:50:46 | David Helpling & Eric the Taylor | The Space Between Atoms | The Precious Dark |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Tim Story & Hans-Joachim Roedelius | As It Were | Inlandish |
| 1:06:00 | AeTopus | Probe | iota |
| 1:11:48 | Daneshevskaya | Scrooge | Scrooge (single) |
| 1:14:54 | Inal Bilsel | Our Time Together | Once Upon a Cloudtop Meadow |
| 1:20:02 | Michael Grigoni & Pan•American | Black River Song | New World Lonely Ride |
| 1:23:40 | Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe | Suddenly | Luminal |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | KLAUS SCHULZE | Moulin Bleu | Bon Voyage (Live Audimax Hamburg 1981) |
| 1:47:05 | break | ||
| 1:47:47 | Ludovico Einaudi | Pathos | The Summer Portraits |
| 1:54:42 | C37 | Close to Losing Everything | Into Thin Air |
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