Weekend, May 10-11, 2025 – Programs 2518A & 2518B

The Precious Dark by David Helpling and Eric "The" Taylor - Echoes May CD of the Month

The Echoes May CD of the Month is a deep trip into melodic ambience with The Precious Dark by David Helpling and Eric “The” Taylor. Weaving synthesizer moods, ambient guitar and sometimes epic sonic architecture it’s an album that takes you on a journey. John Diliberto enters The Precious Dark on the next Echoes from PRX.

Weekend, May 10-11, 2025 – Echoes Program 2518A As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases
Start Time	Group Name	Song Name	Album Name
First Half Hour
0:01:00	Ludovico Einaudi	In Memory of a  Dream	The Summer Portraits
0:06:00	David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor	The Space Between Atoms	The Precious Dark
0:15:08	Lana Del Rey	The Blackest Day	Honeymoon
0:21:02	Kinobe	Golden Dreams	Out of the Blue
0:25:07	Peter Gregson	Vision	Peter Gregson
Second Half Hour
0:30:00	David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor	The Precious Dark	The Precious Dark
0:39:23	Ruth Radelet/Nat Walker/Adam Miller	Without a Trace	The Lost Records: Bloom and Rage
0:43:46	break
0:44:24	Yppah	Autumn Phase (feat. Ali Coyle)	Sunset in the Deep End
0:48:40	David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor	Cavernous Heart	The Precious Dark
Third Half Hour
1:01:00	Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble	Distant Green Valley	Silk Road Journeys:   Beyond The Horizon
1:06:00	David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor	The Ice Has Dreams	The Precious Dark
1:13:31	Co.LeGa	Absence of Doubts	Nobody Goes to Heaven
1:16:42	Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein	Stranger Things  (extended)	Stranger Things Vol. 2
1:21:24	Aeseaes	Horror Vacui	Opia
1:25:08	Observatori	The Horizon Beckons	The Empire of Light
Fourth Half Hour
1:30:00	David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor	Her Endless Cold Embrace	The Precious Dark
1:38:53	Beirut	Ghost Train	A Study of Losses
1:42:30	break
1:42:58	David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor	For Those In Shadow	The Precious Dark
1:49:10	Uh	Nostos	Pleroma

It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf.  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.

Weekend, May 10-11, 2025 – Echoes Program 2518B As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases
Start Time	Group Name	Song Name	Album Name
First Half Hour
0:01:00	Arooj Aftab	Whiskey	Night Reign
0:06:00	Michael Brook	Lightstar II	BellCurve
0:11:30	David Helpling &  Eric the Taylor	The Precious Dark	The Precious Dark
0:20:16	9 Theory and Torii Wolf	Statis (feat. xii)	Soft Realms
0:24:17	Liminal Shade	In Heaven	In Heaven (single)
Second Half Hour
0:30:00	Interview: Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf
0:42:55	Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf	Doppelgänger	Doppelgänger
0:50:22	Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf	Dubnium	Doppelgänger
Third Half Hour
1:06:00	Sillkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens	Rainy Day (with Wu Man)	American Railroad
1:13:10	Anoushka Shankar	We Burn So Brightly	Chapoter III_ We Return to Light
1:16:38	Ane Brun	Crumbs	After the Great Storm
1:21:39	ODESZA	Severance: Music to Refine 2	Severance: Music to Refine
Fourth Half Hour
1:30:00	AeTopus	Why Not Now	iota
1:35:17	HAAi & Tom VR	Can’t Stand To Lose (hard soft rework)	Can’t Stand To Lose
1:39:29	Dieter Spears	error202.0	The Signal
1:43:15	break
1:43:55	Ancient Future	Spirit of Nirvana	Purple Nirvana
1:49:10	Kitaro	Lotus Mountain	Sacred Journey of Ku Kai Volume 4

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