This was one of the hardest lists ever to compile. It’s different from 25 Essential Echoes CDs of 2013, which is our picks of the best music played on Echoes. And it’s also different from The Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll results. These are my picks from all the music I heard in what…
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Echoes Top 25 for December 2013
Here’s the last Top 25 list for 2013. And like our 25 Essential Echoes CDs and The Best of Echoes Listener Poll, it reveals just what a great year 2013 was. There are seven Echoes CD of the Month picks on it including December’s selection, David Helpling & Jon Jenkins’ Found. That’s unusual, but that’s…
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Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll
What do you get when you take a contemporary avant-garde composer, psychedelic folkies, Indian sitarists and Japanese electronic musicians. Apparently you get the soundscape of Echoes or at least the music listeners thought was the best aspect of that soundscape. Listeners have voted and today we’ll hear the results of the Best of Echoes 2013.…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2013
Some years are better than others and 2013 was much better than most. Right now, you can Vote in the Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll. But, this list is different. This is compiled by the brain trust of Echoes. These are the CDs we played on the show in 2013 that we thought represented…
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Echoes November Top 25
Moby’s not that innocent, but Innocents leads the Echoes Top 25 for November. Haven’t voted in the Best of Echoes 2013 Poll yet? You could do worse than any 10 CDs from November’s Top 25. Of course, Moby’s CD of the Month, Innocents leads the way, and just 3 away from the top is December’s…
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Best of Echoes 2013 Poll Opens
Best of Echoes 2013 Poll Is Open. Vote in a poll where you can really have an impact. We’ve launched the Best of Echoes 2013 Poll. You can win some great prizes including, One Year Membership to the Echoes CD of the Month Club A One Year Subscription to Echoes On-Line so you can hear Echoes…
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Akara Enters the World of Echoes Top 25 for October
The band who creates music from The World Beyond, tops the world of the Echoes Top 25 for October. Akara’s The World Beyond was the Echoes CD of the Month and I’m increasingly impressed by the sophistication and meticulous detail of this CD, all the while edited to some throbbing grooves. I would love to…
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Echoes September Top 25
Darshan Ambient Leads Echoes Top 25 for September Little Things does big things on Echoes Top 25 as Darshan Ambient’s CD of the Month rises to the head of the pack in September. Azam Ali & Loga R. Torkian aren’t far behind with the Lamentation of Swans, an album that is still revealing itself after…
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Greatest Songs of the 21st Century… So Far: An Idiosyncratic List.
The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium. Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks. But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia. This time, the impossible assignment…
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M & M’s Lead Echoes Top 25 for August
Ambient Music from Greece and Dreampop from North Jersey Melorman, Mree and Marconi Union hold the one , two and three positions for most played albums in August on Echoes. Melorman’s Waves was the Echoes August CD of the Month. Mree’s Winterwell is the impressive sophomore album from the 19-year old Taiwanese-Bulgarian-American singer from northern…