Before synthesizers and computers in pop music there was Silver Apples, a duo that that used surplus electronics and tribal drums to create a psychedelic electronic pop in 1968. Moby cites them as the first electronic pop group.
Yoga Records label owner Douglas McGowan has set out to re-examine New Age music from its Indie, experimental roots. He talks about his compilations I Am the Center and The Microcosm on Echoes.
Singer Julianna Barwick creates gothic choirs and modern day chants, layering her voice live in vocal loops. She comes in to pay live on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music by guitar synthesist Mark Dwane and former Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger and his score to Halt and Catch Fire.
New music from Springtime Carnivores Midnight Room and Wax Tailor’s latest sampling serenade, By Any Beats Necessary.
Natalie Merring records as Weyes Blood and she’s released a gorgeous album of dream pop called Front Row Seat to Earth. John Diliberto brings us that and music by Sin Fang, an Icelandic musician who hangs with Sigur Ros.
Danish singer Agnes Obel’s third album, Citizen of Glass is a conceptual work that takes the fragile singer into new musical terrain, from muted pianos to choirs. She talks about it on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.
In the early days of Trip-Hop, right alongside Massive Attack, was the trio Morcheeba with Skye Edwards on vocals over the trippy, seductive grooves and moods of the Godfrey brothers.